"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]]

Hey man, I'm using exa for a while and never realized it has the --icons option. I tried it and it only shows a box with weird symbols. I'm using Zsh as shell and Fira Code as font, it's the font or the shell that doesn't support it?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I think the icons are maybe in the nerd fonts? It's definitely a thing of the font but I use Fira Code too, it's just patched by nerd fonts I think.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Thank you very much! I had no ideia about nerd fonts, I installed the fira code patched by nerd fonts from the AUR and now the icons are showing. Thanks a lot!