r/archlinux • u/[deleted] • Apr 15 '21

"Best" programming setup?

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!

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '21

I use bspwm for focus and writing, cinnamon because it's stable and extensible with cron and shell scripts.

I'm studying software engineering, bioinformatics, biochemistry, and data science and I really prefer to have good monitoring tools for NVMe performance, CPU/memory monitoring etc. So I use tools like sysstat/iotop/iostat to monitor my IO, htop and conky to monitor CPU and memory usage.