Liam's Arch Linux Dotfiles 🏄🏽

It's not flashy, and it's not the prettiest thing ever, but its very productive and there are no distractions.

1. No flashy Waybar displaying my RAM usage and other useless things. I open btop in less than a second if I need to see usage.
2. More frequent keybinds are placed in easy-to-press locations
   1. Switching desktops uses w,e,a,s,d which is much faster than using numbers. Alternatively, I can just click on the left eww sidebar.
   2. 99% of the time I'm just using the terminal and browser, so I've given them Super+Enter, and Super+Backspace which are easy to press.
3. Fast navigation:
   1. Aliases to move to common directories (ex. c -> ~/Sync/Code)
   2. ZOxide for non hard-coded locations (ex. current projects)
   3. Yazi + Vim keybinds to move to other locations

Using Syncthing, this config is automatically synced between all my computers.

Setup

• Niri: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. I used to use Hyprland, but switched because it would break all the time. Niri has been nothing but a dream to use. I was initially skeptical of the scrolling aspect, but it makes for such an amazing user experience.
• Helix: I used Neovim for quite a while, but it just breaks too much and requires too much configuring to get right. Helix takes a bit of an adjustment period but is very worthwhile. It is such a great experience.
• Yazi: Absolutely amazing and fast TUI file manager. I could not imagine not having this.
• Fish Shell: Great features and easy to use. I tried Nushell for a while, but it was just a pain. Fish has been a great experience. No need to deal with Zsh package managers or anything.
• eww: A little hard to configure, but I like how flexible it is. I have liked it more than Waybar.
• Ghostty: Not much to say about it. In my opinion its pretty equal to Kitty.
• Zen Browser: Really nice experience over pure Firefox. Horizontal tabs save on-screen space and distractions.