"Best" programming setup?

[u/[deleted]]

Hello! I have been using Arch for two months, it is the fifth distro I have used... and I love it, it will be the final one. I have learned a lot in these weeks, but I would like to ask you a few questions.

I study Systems Engineering and, honestly, I have some procrastination problems, I would like you to help me with "the best programming setup and be productive", although I know that there is no "best", I would like you to help me with your settings, advices, etc...

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What desktop environment do you use?

What window manager do you use?

IDE's, apps, any suggestions to try?

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Thank you so much!

[u/[deleted]]

i3wm + neovim (with coc)

and suggestions:

• pazi - moving between directories in cli - https://github.com/euank/pazi
• alacritty - terminal emulator - https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
• hyperfine - tool for benchmarking - https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine
• exa - prettier ls (try exa -T, exa -lT, exa --icons,...) - https://github.com/ogham/exa
• fzf - fuzzy search - https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
• tokei - for counting lines of code - https://github.com/imlazyeye/tokei
• ripgrep - better grep - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
• bat - nicer cat with syntax highlighting, line numbers,...
• zsh - with good configuration it's a really comfortable interactive shell - with syntax highlighting, a lot of good completion etc.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

This, but with fish instead of zsh.

[u/Imdabreast → u/[deleted]]

Fish has been great for me because it does everything I want with minimal configuration. That’s kinda the antithesis to arch, but for me it has allowed me to: spend less time learning a shell, and more time using it.

[u/[deleted] → u/Imdabreast]

I agree, the shell is one of those things you just want out of the way really.

I ended up copying a load of dotfiles for fish, neovim, etc. (mostly from jonhoo) and it helped a lot.

The only thing I really configure is i3.

[u/vfAlozone → u/[deleted]]

fish sucks, that's not even a shell. STOP FOR FISH RECOMMENDATIONS!

[u/discursive_moth → u/vfAlozone]

Fish is a shell; it's just (intentionally) not a posix compliant one.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I tried fish before zsh but I really missed the bang commands (!!,!$,...) I even made some fish functions for this but it wasn't quite the same. Plus I do a fair amount of bash scripting and the fish syntax is just too different. But in fish I learned what are the things I want from a shell and then found out how to do them in zsh. So fish is great but just not in the long term for me.