dotfiles

My dotfiles (Fedora 43 Cosmic Spin).

CLI apps that I use:

• eza - replaces ls command - COPR repo
• fish - replaces bash
• tealdeer - replaces man & tldr
• bat - replaces cat
• fzf - fuzzy search
• radioactive - listen to online radio stations via the cli
• git - it's well, git 'innit?
• chezmoi - dotfile manager
• ufw - replaces firewalld
• thefuck - replaces my bad typing
• kitty - terminal
• btop - fancy resource monitoring
• micro - editor
• fastfetch - replaces neofetch
• trash-cli - because rm -r still makes me sweat a little!
• onefetch - like fastfetch but for git repos on my laptop
• toot - send mastodon posts from the cli
• logid - can control my logitech mouse
• piper - visually control logitech mouse
• google-fonts-roboto - closest match to Helvetica I can find.
• mosh - for unstable ssh connections
• doas - replaces sudo

sudo dnf copr enable terjeros/eza

sudo dnf install eza fish tealdeer bat fzf radioactive git chezmoi ufw thefuck kitty htop micro fastfetch trash-cli onefetch toot logid piper akmod-intel-ipu6 ipu6-camera-bins ipu6-camera-hal kmod-intel-ipu6 mosh google-fonts-roboto alsa-lib-devel clang-devel clang-libs systemd-devel doas

System downloads

• install RPM repos

sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

• alsa-lib-devel clang-devel clang-libs systemd-devel - needed for blightmud to compile
• akmod-intel-ipu6 ipu6-camera-bins ipu6-camera-hal kmod-intel-ipu6 - all required to recognise my ThhinkPad X1 webcam in discord/teams
• ffmpeg-libs libva libva-utils - ffmpeg codecs
• openh264 gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 mozilla-openh264 - more codecs

sudo dnf install alsa-lib-devel clang-devel clang-libs systemd-devel akmod-intel-ipu6 ipu6-camera-bins ipu6-camera-hal kmod-intel-ipu6 ffmpeg-libs libva libva-utils openh264 gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 mozilla-openh264

Flatpaks that I use

These are installed directly using Cosmic Store; nb. enable flathub repo in cosmic store settings!

• Discord - chat
• Ente - 2FA manager
• Proton VPN - VPN
• Proton Mail - Mail
• Proton Pass - Password Manager
• Flatseal - flatpak permissions editor
• Zen - Browser
• Chrome - because sometimes it's needed
• Halloy - IRC client
• Obsidian - Note-taking
• OnlyOffice - office Suite
• Apostrophe - markdown editor with multiple 'save as' formats
• Signal - messaging
• Teams for Linux - Teams client
• Newsflash - RSS reader
• Zoom - meetings

sudo flatpak remote-delete fedora - remove the fedora flatpak repo, as they tend to be outdated

sudo flatpak remote-modify --no-filter --enable flathub - I prefer to get flatpak's direct from flathub

Other Installs

• Atuin - https://atuin.sh - shell history manager including automatic offline backup
• SuperFile - https://superfile.dev/ - CLI filemanager
• Rust - https://rust-lang.org/ - coding language, but I only need & want cargo!
• Ghostty - https://ghostty.org/ - terminal
• Filen.io - https://filen.io/ - encrypted online storage for mac, and linux.
• Tailscale - https://tailscale.com/ - mesh-VPN
• Bonjourr - https://bonjourr.fr/ - fancy search screen for browsers
• Maple Mono Font - https://github.com/subframe7536/maple-font - beautiful monospace font
• Bunny-cli - https://github.com/jlarmstrongiv/bunny-sdk-cli.git - access bunny storage
• Cider - https://cider.sh - Apple Music Client
• upcli - https://upcloudltd.github.io/upcloud-cli/ - access basic stats for upcloud vps

Cargo installs

• blightmud - mud client written in Rust
• md2gemtext - takes markdown files and saves them as gemini files
• meshchat - for my meshcore comms
• cargo-update - needed to check if apps installed via cargo are upto date
• starship - https://starship.rs/ - makes the CLI pretty
• du-dust - a cli disk util
• topgrade - for upgrading many of your different linux repos e.g pipx, cargo, flatpak via a single command
• tealdeer - replaces man pages with common sense help files

cargo install blightmud meshchat starship cargo-update md2gemtext du-dust topgrade tealdeer

Stuff I uninstall from base Fedora

• Firefox - Replaced by zen browser
• LibreOffice - Replaced by OnlyOffice
• Rhythmbox - Never use it
• firewalld - replaced by UFW

sudo dnf remove firefox libreoffice rhythmbox firewalld

Firefox extensions - used by Zen Browser

• Proton Pass
• Kagi Search for Firefox
• Bonjourr - Lovely customisable search screen for browsers firefox/chrome etc.

Online services (www)

• omg.lol - https://omg.lol - amazing online community
• tilde.town - https://tilde.town - great online community
• pico.sh - https://pico.sh - SSH FTW! :)
• private.coffee - https://private.coffee

SysAdmin tasks

Allows me to flash meshcore fw via chrome

• sudo groupadd -a -G dialout james

• sudo groupadd -a -G uucp james