Category: FOSS (page 2 of 3)

What is this vim talk all about?

Oh no! Another vim post! Well... yes. I have seen a lot of people criticizing vim before even trying it, so I am going to try and explain my history with it and what I like about it. If you aren't aware, vim is a text editor that is normally... Read more

My journey through desktop environments

My first experience with GNU/Linux was with KDE. It is the desktop environment used on my college computers, and it was more or less the only experience I had with the GNU/Linux operative system, so it was the desktop environment I installed at home (at that point I don't think... Read more

File synchronization software: Syncthing

Syncthing is a file synchronization program. It allows you to sync files between computers over LAN or the Internet. It is a very simple program that just gets the job done. I use it to synchronize files between two computers and my phone. When synchronizing two computers, I find it... Read more

A new world of software

As I have said before, I was a big user of big tech companies' services. I also used macOS (and Windows before that) and proprietary software for mostly everything. I didn't really know what free1 software was and, if I was running any, it was by coincidence. At college, I... Read more

Designing a composing interface

To write my blog posts, I use Markdown, a useful language to write simple fragments of text. The text is then "compiled" into HTML, which is then served as a webpage. Since Markdown files are plain text files, I mostly have used plain text editors in the past to write... Read more