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0:00–0:19If you've known me for a little bit, you probably have seen me make fun of Arch Linux, you know, maybe like once or twice on Twitter. I still have no idea what is happening here. And now look at me. I'm I'm actually using Arch Linux. Okay, I'm using it. And you're probably asking yourself, why why did you change?
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If you've known me for a little bit, you probably have seen me make fun of Arch Linux, you know, maybe like once or twice on Twitter. I still have no idea what is happening here. And now look at me. I'm I'm actually using Arch Linux. Okay, I'm using it. And you're probably asking yourself, why why did you change? Why did you leave your wife and kids and reclaim your virginity? Well, the thing is is it's not because of the anime waifuss, okay? That didn't that that did not convince me. It's not because Yay is the greatest package manager of all time. No, it's because of Peudes. That's right, PewDiePie. This man right here, the man who taught me that Ninja died of Ligma. He shamed me. Shamed me into using Arch Linux. But before I tell you what has changed, what my desktop experience is like, what why my developer experience is truly better than yours. I first want to tell you why I make my changes. Because if I don't, I'm going to have 100 comments like Kitty is better. wisdom is better. Why don't you use this? Why don't you use that? I don't honestly care about your opinion. So, please stop leaving that comment. Okay. Thank you. By the way, this wasn't some sort of reverse psychology. I really I don't care. Please don't tell me kitty is better. Okay. Is is this what you want? That's what you want. You want this kind of kitty experience? I don't want that.
Watch from 0:00Okay. Okay. So, my philosophy of rice is really really simple. Okay. I ask myself, what is the tilos of rice? The tilos for me is developer experience, not looks. what I use and how I use it is because I want a faster and better developer experience. This means it doesn't bother me that I use T-Mox and not Ze. To me, it's just commands on a CLI. All I want is a terminal multiplexer that works consistently that I know how to use. They're all the same to me, okay? Session, Windows, PES, I don't care. I just want sessions and windows. I don't even like PES, okay? It they're a pain in the ass. And my TLOS is from a day back at Netflix when my co-worker showed me his setup. He used Emacs, the Lord's operating system. And my goodness, it was so fast. It was so smooth. It made my little Better Touch Tools Mac OSX experience look like the base of a mountain comparatively to his. He was at the tippity top. I was at the base. And I hated it. I wanted to be better. I wanted to be faster. I wanted to be smoother. I wanted to be covered in that sweet, sweet coconut oil. But I was not. So my tilos of rice is very very simple. It comes in four steps. One, try not to stray from defaults cuz the more things you have to configure, the more times you'll have to open up some like crappy UI or something and kind of like set up some extra layers of config and all that. It's just I I want nothing to do with it. Okay. Second, never search with your eyes if possible. Meaning, I want to press one button and go to where I
Watch from 1:16want to go. If I can't do that, I want to fuzzy find to where I want to go. And if then I can't do it, I then will accept searching with my eyeballs or like typing and doing something super slow to get to where I want to go. Oh no, I knew this was gonna happen. I knew this was gonna happen. My my microphone stand finally broke. Oh my gosh. The single worst developer experience of all time has to be the Mac OSX like explode feature. You know, when people go like and then they search just for that for what they Oh my gosh. When I see someone use that, I actually just genuinely think it's a crime against developers. It is the worst single feature of all time. Like, how do you how did you get here? How did you manage to to start living this life? Third thing is don't switch to something because it's newer. That's not that's not a reason to use something. There has to be a real reason to use it. Four, create tools that make your experience better. Don't create tools to save like a keystroke. So, obviously, the biggest change I've made is this. There's no more screen tearing. I know. Eight years of quality content and it's gone. I no longer have screen tearing. It's kind of a sad day. Poor one out for screen tearing. I now use Hyperland as my window manager. Look at these rounded quarters. Look at the gap. Look at this nice blue window outline. I know I I I I have said that I would not want to use gaps, but guess what? I'm a new boy. I'm going to give it a shot. Okay. I think
Watch from 2:47that you should always do that. Try just give it a shot. Just see how it feels. And if you don't like the gaps, get rid of the gaps. So far, I'm I'm still on the fence. And also, by the way, also just I just want you to know this. Absolutely not. No animations. Okay. So, you see this? You see these animations? No. They're dead. They're gone. I want a quick instant no transition because if there's a transition, I just sit there and I just look at the transition. I just salivate over the transition. You know why? I have too much ADHD or something. I don't know what happens. I can't help but to just look at it be transfixed by the slow motion. If you make a transition five seconds long, I'm like stun locked. I'm like, Speaking of fast transitions, here's a word from our sponsor. Whether you are a vibe coder or an artisally freerange neoim user, you still need CI to build your binaries, run tests, and publish your releases. That's where Blacksmith comes in. It takes your GitHub actions and with a oneline change makes them faster and cheaper. Get your CI running on high performance CPUs instead of GitHub's old servers. We're happy to have them as a sponsor for this episode because just like us, this one is truly a no-brainer. Sign up and enjoy faster GitHub action workflows at a much lower price. Blacksmith, twice the speed and half the cost. Check them out at blacksmith.sh.
Watch from 4:17I've been working on my transitions. Anyways, back to the video. I'm also trying to drive my experience more through my window manager because before I used to do a lot through the terminal. Now I'm trying to move it up uplevel it into the window manager. So if I just simply go mods, I have a screenshot. I can grab a little screenshot. That's super duper handy. Goes right into my clipboard. If I want to refresh any of my developer tools, all I have to do super shift D. Yeah, that's right. Give it the super shifty. And then if I want to update my way bar, restart it and add whatever new icons I have. Mod W. So it actually kind of feels nice because I have everything kind of set up. And speaking of way bar, look at this way bar. Okay, I want to start right here. Zoom it. Zoom it in. If you look right here, what you're going to see. Yeah, that's right. That's my server. I have my little server status up here. I know if OBS is connected. I know if my admin panel is connected. If it's not up, it says down. Right. That makes sense. Next over is how many, you know, workspaces I have on this monitor. Pretty dang useful. What workspace am I on? Actually, honestly, I don't even need this. I actually don't even know why I have this here to tell you the complete truth. I already know how I use my stuff. I use it one way 100% of the time. I don't have to search. There's no searching. Okay. Next, I have the time in the middle. And I've always been curious about this. Why not just the day of the month and the time? Like, why do you have what month it is? Why do you have what year it is in your time? Like, don't you know this? Yes, you know this.
Watch from 5:34You don't need to know it's Thursday. You know it's Thursday. Okay, I don't even have a full-time real job and I know it's Thursday. You don't have an excuse. Okay, I understand that every day is a standup day and every day you have to hear about Bill's dog and you don't want to hear about it. So, you try to forget every single day by drowning yourself in C code. But that's not me. I just simply remembered. Okay. And of course, there's my volume of my speakers, how many battery life units I have, if I'm plugged into the Ethernets, there's my CPU humming along. There's how much memory I'm using. You're probably asking yourself, "Hey, Prime, how are you using that many gigabytes?" Well, this fun thing called the browser. Okay, apparently you can't have more than just a handful of tabs open without using just gigawatts memory. Also, look at this locked screen. I don't even know what I'm going to do with the locked screen. I've literally never locked my screen in my lifetime. Look at it, though. Oh, it's so beautiful. I can just Oh my gosh, it's so pretty. But the most painful moment of me becoming an arch boy was actually an optin feature. See, the thing is is that remember the first point of my tilos of change, which is always use defaults. I used to be an alt boy. Okay, I'd use alt as my kind of my window manager key. But by using alt, so many other programs use alt and they would render all those shortcuts useless. So, I've switched over to super, which is on the other hand, which means that every single time I want to change workspaces or all that, I have like eight years of muscle memory going, "It's alt, brother." But it's not alt.
Watch from 7:01Okay, I found myself struggling a little bit, but I'm happy I've made the change because now I can do cool things like this. And then I can just press alt one and I go to Twitch. I can press alt two, I go to Discord, I can press alt three, and I can go to Twitter. Okay, that's pretty nice. I like that. I'm happy about that experience. And that's right. I also use Zen if you can't tell. I think Zen is honestly just the the the whole like tab experience and the essentials. It's by far the best way to use a browser. It's fantastic. Absolutely like it. It's just better than whatever that vertical business or that horizontal business up on top is. Okay. And lastly, organizing your workspaces is just so important. Listen to me. Okay. Workspace one, that's my browser. You can see that. Workspace 2, Twitch chat. Workspace 3, that's where I do all my testing. Workspace 4, that's where I do all my coding. Workspace 5, this is where I do all my prompting of the AI to write my CSS because I never want to write CSS ever in my entire lifetime. And workspace 6 is where I make beautiful drawings. That's right, just one key press. I go to the program I want to go to. I don't have to scroll. I don't have to play that game of going like this. Command tab, command tab, command tab, command tab. I don't have to like search through a list. I don't have to use my eyeballs. I know when I press super one, I go to my browser. There's no questions in my brain. I set it up the same way every single time. But honestly, it's not about the looks for me, okay? It's about what's on the inside, the powering of the developer experience. And that's why I just simply use Ghosty Plus T-Mox, okay? And yes, I don't have Fast Fetch. I don't need you to tell me what operating system I'm using. I don't need you to tell me my
Watch from 8:32local IP. I don't need you to tell me my battery life. I have literally no idea why people use FastFetch. I actually don't get it at all. And fast fetch is only slightly confusing as compared to Yazy. Why would you use a file manager? What is a terminal file manager for? What are you? I don't even get it. I don't even get it. Okay, cuz when I work I work in BIM. I use netrw. I shift things around and use all my sweet hotkeys to get things done. Why? What? What are you doing? If I need to delete a directory, I just use RM. Remove the French. Oh, did did I hurt your feelings just then, making fun of Fast Fetch and Yazy? Are you going to have to snuggle up next to your little full body anime waifu pillow and just endure these trials and tribulations? Yes, I still use T-Mox. Yes, I understand it's not as new as Zelage Zelage or Zelig or however you're supposed to say it. Okay, Zelage. And guess what? Look at these two commands. One's T-Mux, one's Zelig. They both create a detach session and they both start at a specific directory. It's the same thing. This is like 80% of my T-Mux commands. After that, I just open up Windows. I just literally prefix C. That's it. I swear if one person suggests using Zelage.
Watch from 10:04Also, T-M Sessionizer is incredible. As you can see, look at all these like directories I can fuzzy find, jump to exactly where I want to go. And that means with T-Mux, I can do the whole previous session thing or I can fuzzy find to where I want to be. It is more than I want and it's super fast. And the best part is is that I use Vim, by the way, if in case you didn't know. I'm a big Vim boy. Okay. Hey, I use Vim by the way. It's right there. Can you see that? Look at that. Yeah. Yeah. Can you see it? Now with Vim and T-M. It's fantastic. Now, right now, my Neo Vim kind of experience, I don't use the old AI as they call it. Okay. But I am open to checking out Avante and Super Maven. I just haven't yet. I'm I'm planning on doing that in July. Little live on Twitch. But deep down, the reason why I don't have AI is well, you know why, and you know it, too. So, here's my obvious setup. LSP navigation. Okay. If I want to jump to definition, use a little GD for jump to definition. If I want to know what's going on in this function, shift K. If I want to get a quick fix list of all these references, boom, little leader Dr. RR for find references. About 80% of all my navigation is with an LSP. And when I'm not doing that, I'm using Harpoon. Look at Harpoon. I can jump to the files that I want to be in as fast as possible.
Watch from 11:25Single key navigation. A lot like my window manager. Oh my goodness. It's almost like my window manager and Harpoon have some things in common. It's almost like Sessionizer, Harpoon, I3, which is now Hyperland. I just forgot for a second. All have a lot of similar navigation. And when I can't figure that out, I just simply use Telescope. Yes, Telescope's awesome. I hear that Faulky. Yes, my B FY, my boy Faulky is writing his own version of Telescope. Apparently, I'm just going to use that when he uses it and it's awesome. Probably it's going to be it's going to be the best cuz he's just the best. And then lastly, Undutyree. Look at it. Look how great Undut is. People forget that undoing is not linear. It's a tree. There's branching. And guess what? You want to hear something kind of that's going to blow your mind? Are you ready for this one? Git is just undo history. Now, you'll probably notice that everything I said here that I love about my setup is all about navigation. And the reason is very, very simple. Most of editing is finding where you need to be. And so, I've optimized that process. I want to be where I need to be in as few keystrokes as possible. So notice that none of my stuff is like I changed get status to GS. I'm a hacker. No, you're not a hacker. You've just saved a couple keystrokes in a meaningless way. Now all you have is a bunch of code you have to maintain to make you have a couple extra shortcuts. Oh man, that's super duper.
Watch from 12:46But to be completely fair, I used to do the exact same thing. I've long since stopped. I just use things the way God intended. Okay. actually well in this case the way that the creator of the tool intended. I stopped trying to make my own shortcuts because when you make your own shortcuts, guess what ends up happening? Something changes and then you're just like stuck in this horrible place of having to update all your scripts or not knowing why they're breaking. Every line of configuration you add is liability. It's almost never a competitive mode. Even get integration in the editor, like this is super useful. It's super cool that in Vim I can just select which chunk I want added to the git history and which chunk I could remove or I could undo. But at the end of the day, this only saves a small amount of time. I almost never do these operations. It's almost always just simply like get add dot get commit some dumb message get push origin master. Like there's nothing to it. And that's 99% of yours as well. I know there's a lot of people that come up with a lot of different reasons why they need to do all this stuff, but really it's all about navigation. Okay, you should have your windows set up in such a way that you can go to which program you want. Inside the program, you should be able to go to which subp part of the program you want as fast as possible. Inside your editor, you should be able to go to the file that you want as fast as possible. When you need the delete code, this deletion should be as fast as possible. All of it should take nobrain effort. Now, this is the reason why I tell everyone they should learn how to
Watch from 14:13type. It's the same thing. It's not about saving that small amount of milliseconds, okay? It's not like, "Oh my gosh, I'm getting faster." And then you go to the bathroom and ruin all your savings. No, it's not about that. What it is, it's about saving mental cycles. Cuz at the end of the day, we can only do so much. when you have to do the same operation and it takes actual focus to find your program that you need to be in and you have to do that a thousand times a day. There's like this wearing slow amount of just like anxiousness that will build in you and by the end of the day you're like I don't want to work at all. That's because you keep on doing all these like zone breaking activities if you don't know how to type and you literally have to look down at your keyboard and hunt for the letters. Like that is just valuable brain power you could be using to solve the problem instead of just sitting there painfully thinking through every keystroke. Like that's crazy thing to do. Like remove the easy stuff. remove the things that make life repetitive so you can actually do the fun parts, which is the building part, which is creating the super cool software, which is spending time mastering your DPI configuration so you can have animate white foos. Okay, and there you go. I'm an arch boy now. Okay, I'm an arch boy. Sure, maybe I bricked my system once or twice along the process. Okay, maybe I couldn't figure out why certain things didn't work. I tried to get sway on yubuntu to work.
Watch from 15:44That didn't work. It doesn't really matter. Arch Arch install super easy. It was a lot of fun. I suggest you give it a try. And ultimately, at the end of the day, what I really hope you take away from this isn't that Arch is the pinnacle of development. I hope what you take away is making a good personalized development experience for you and removing the repetitive annoying parts of development and making those clean and easy is truly the biggest life hack as a developer. The name This is the archen. You can like and subscribe now. Just so you know, you can press those buttons. They're free. They're actually free. You can just press them and like almost nobody will know. So, just do it. Okay.
Watch from 17:09Full transcript
- 0:00
If you've known me for a little bit, you probably have seen me make fun of Arch Linux, you know, maybe like once or twice on Twitter. I still have no idea what is happening here. And now look at me. I'm I'm actually using Arch Linux. Okay, I'm using it. And you're probably asking yourself, why why did you change? Why did you leave your wife and kids and
- 0:21
reclaim your virginity? Well, the thing is is it's not because of the anime waifuss, okay? That didn't that that did not convince me. It's not because Yay is the greatest package manager of all time. No, it's because of Peudes. That's right, PewDiePie. This man right here, the man who taught me that Ninja died of Ligma. He shamed me. Shamed me into
- 0:42
using Arch Linux. But before I tell you what has changed, what my desktop experience is like, what why my developer experience is truly better than yours. I first want to tell you why I make my changes. Because if I don't, I'm going to have 100 comments like Kitty is better. wisdom is better. Why don't you use this? Why don't you use that? I don't honestly care about your
- 1:03
opinion. So, please stop leaving that comment. Okay. Thank you. By the way, this wasn't some sort of reverse psychology. I really I don't care. Please don't tell me kitty is better. Okay. Is is this what you want? That's what you want. You want this kind of kitty experience? I don't want that. Okay. Okay. So, my philosophy of rice is really really simple. Okay. I ask myself, what is the tilos of rice? The tilos for me is developer experience,
- 1:25
not looks. what I use and how I use it is because I want a faster and better developer experience. This means it doesn't bother me that I use T-Mox and not Ze. To me, it's just commands on a CLI. All I want is a terminal multiplexer that works consistently that I know how to use.
- 1:45
They're all the same to me, okay? Session, Windows, PES, I don't care. I just want sessions and windows. I don't even like PES, okay? It they're a pain in the ass. And my TLOS is from a day back at Netflix when my co-worker showed me his setup. He used Emacs, the Lord's operating system. And my goodness, it was so fast. It was so smooth. It made
- 2:06
my little Better Touch Tools Mac OSX experience look like the base of a mountain comparatively to his. He was at the tippity top. I was at the base. And I hated it. I wanted to be better. I wanted to be faster. I wanted to be smoother. I wanted to be covered in that sweet, sweet coconut oil. But I was not. So my tilos of rice is very very simple.
- 2:27
It comes in four steps. One, try not to stray from defaults cuz the more things you have to configure, the more times you'll have to open up some like crappy UI or something and kind of like set up some extra layers of config and all that. It's just I I want nothing to do with it. Okay. Second, never search with your eyes if possible. Meaning, I want to press one button and go to where I
- 2:47
want to go. If I can't do that, I want to fuzzy find to where I want to go. And if then I can't do it, I then will accept searching with my eyeballs or like typing and doing something super slow to get to where I want to go. Oh no, I knew this was gonna happen. I knew this was gonna happen. My my microphone stand finally broke. Oh my gosh. The single worst developer experience of all time has to be the Mac OSX like explode
- 3:09
feature. You know, when people go like and then they search just for that for what they Oh my gosh. When I see someone use that, I actually just genuinely think it's a crime against developers. It is the worst single feature of all time. Like, how do you how did you get here? How did you manage to to start living this life? Third thing is don't
- 3:31
switch to something because it's newer. That's not that's not a reason to use something. There has to be a real reason to use it. Four, create tools that make your experience better. Don't create tools to save like a keystroke. So, obviously, the biggest change I've made is this. There's no more screen tearing. I know. Eight years of quality content
- 3:54
and it's gone. I no longer have screen tearing. It's kind of a sad day. Poor one out for screen tearing. I now use Hyperland as my window manager. Look at these rounded quarters. Look at the gap. Look at this nice blue window outline. I know I I I I have said that I would not want to use gaps, but guess what? I'm a new boy. I'm
- 4:16
going to give it a shot. Okay. I think that you should always do that. Try just give it a shot. Just see how it feels. And if you don't like the gaps, get rid of the gaps. So far, I'm I'm still on the fence. And also, by the way, also just I just want you to know this. Absolutely not. No animations. Okay. So, you see this? You see these animations? No. They're dead. They're gone. I want a quick instant no transition because if
- 4:37
there's a transition, I just sit there and I just look at the transition. I just salivate over the transition. You know why? I have too much ADHD or something. I don't know what happens. I can't help but to just look at it be transfixed by the slow motion. If you make a transition five seconds long, I'm like stun locked. I'm like, Speaking of fast transitions, here's a
- 4:58
word from our sponsor. Whether you are a vibe coder or an artisally freerange neoim user, you still need CI to build your binaries, run tests, and publish your releases. That's where Blacksmith comes in. It takes your GitHub actions and with a oneline change makes them faster and cheaper. Get your CI running on high performance CPUs instead of GitHub's old servers. We're happy to
- 5:19
have them as a sponsor for this episode because just like us, this one is truly a no-brainer. Sign up and enjoy faster GitHub action workflows at a much lower price. Blacksmith, twice the speed and half the cost. Check them out at blacksmith.sh. I've been working on my transitions. Anyways, back to the video. I'm also trying to drive my experience more
- 5:40
through my window manager because before I used to do a lot through the terminal. Now I'm trying to move it up uplevel it into the window manager. So if I just simply go mods, I have a screenshot. I can grab a little screenshot. That's super duper handy. Goes right into my clipboard. If I want to refresh any of my developer tools, all I have to do super shift D. Yeah, that's right. Give
- 6:02
it the super shifty. And then if I want to update my way bar, restart it and add whatever new icons I have. Mod W. So it actually kind of feels nice because I have everything kind of set up. And speaking of way bar, look at this way bar. Okay, I want to start right here. Zoom it. Zoom it in. If you look right here, what you're going to see. Yeah, that's right. That's my server. I
- 6:23
have my little server status up here. I know if OBS is connected. I know if my admin panel is connected. If it's not up, it says down. Right. That makes sense. Next over is how many, you know, workspaces I have on this monitor. Pretty dang useful. What workspace am I on? Actually, honestly, I don't even need this. I actually don't even know why I have this here to tell you the complete truth. I already know how I use my stuff. I use it one way 100% of the
- 6:44
time. I don't have to search. There's no searching. Okay. Next, I have the time in the middle. And I've always been curious about this. Why not just the day of the month and the time? Like, why do you have what month it is? Why do you have what year it is in your time? Like, don't you know this? Yes, you know this. You don't need to know it's Thursday. You know it's Thursday. Okay, I don't even have a full-time real job and I
- 7:07
know it's Thursday. You don't have an excuse. Okay, I understand that every day is a standup day and every day you have to hear about Bill's dog and you don't want to hear about it. So, you try to forget every single day by drowning yourself in C code. But that's not me. I just simply remembered. Okay. And of course, there's my volume of my speakers, how many battery life units I
- 7:28
have, if I'm plugged into the Ethernets, there's my CPU humming along. There's how much memory I'm using. You're probably asking yourself, "Hey, Prime, how are you using that many gigabytes?" Well, this fun thing called the browser. Okay, apparently you can't have more than just a handful of tabs open without using just gigawatts memory. Also, look at this locked screen. I don't even know
- 7:48
what I'm going to do with the locked screen. I've literally never locked my screen in my lifetime. Look at it, though. Oh, it's so beautiful. I can just Oh my gosh, it's so pretty. But the most painful moment of me becoming an arch boy was actually an optin feature. See, the thing is is that remember the first point of my tilos of change, which is always use defaults. I used to be an alt
- 8:10
boy. Okay, I'd use alt as my kind of my window manager key. But by using alt, so many other programs use alt and they would render all those shortcuts useless. So, I've switched over to super, which is on the other hand, which means that every single time I want to change workspaces or all that, I have like eight years of muscle memory going, "It's alt, brother." But it's not alt.
- 8:32
Okay, I found myself struggling a little bit, but I'm happy I've made the change because now I can do cool things like this. And then I can just press alt one and I go to Twitch. I can press alt two, I go to Discord, I can press alt three, and I can go to Twitter. Okay, that's pretty nice. I like that. I'm happy about that experience. And that's right. I also use Zen if you can't tell. I think Zen is honestly just the the the
- 8:53
whole like tab experience and the essentials. It's by far the best way to use a browser. It's fantastic. Absolutely like it. It's just better than whatever that vertical business or that horizontal business up on top is. Okay. And lastly, organizing your workspaces is just so important. Listen to me. Okay. Workspace one, that's my browser. You can see that. Workspace 2,
- 9:14
Twitch chat. Workspace 3, that's where I do all my testing. Workspace 4, that's where I do all my coding. Workspace 5, this is where I do all my prompting of the AI to write my CSS because I never want to write CSS ever in my entire lifetime. And workspace 6 is where I make beautiful drawings. That's right, just one key press. I go to the program I want to go to. I don't have to scroll. I don't have to play that game of going
- 9:34
like this. Command tab, command tab, command tab, command tab. I don't have to like search through a list. I don't have to use my eyeballs. I know when I press super one, I go to my browser. There's no questions in my brain. I set it up the same way every single time. But honestly, it's not about the looks for me, okay? It's about what's on the inside, the powering of the developer experience. And that's why I just simply use Ghosty Plus T-Mox, okay? And yes, I
- 9:57
don't have Fast Fetch. I don't need you to tell me what operating system I'm using. I don't need you to tell me my local IP. I don't need you to tell me my battery life. I have literally no idea why people use FastFetch. I actually don't get it at all. And fast fetch is only slightly confusing as compared to Yazy. Why would you use a file manager?
- 10:20
What is a terminal file manager for? What are you? I don't even get it. I don't even get it. Okay, cuz when I work I work in BIM. I use netrw. I shift things around and use all my sweet hotkeys to get things done. Why? What? What are you doing? If I need to delete a directory, I just use RM. Remove the French. Oh, did did I hurt your feelings
- 10:41
just then, making fun of Fast Fetch and Yazy? Are you going to have to snuggle up next to your little full body anime waifu pillow and just endure these trials and tribulations? Yes, I still use T-Mox. Yes, I understand it's not as new as Zelage Zelage or Zelig or however you're supposed to say it. Okay, Zelage.
- 11:01
And guess what? Look at these two commands. One's T-Mux, one's Zelig. They both create a detach session and they both start at a specific directory. It's the same thing. This is like 80% of my T-Mux commands. After that, I just open up Windows. I just literally prefix C. That's it. I swear if one person
- 11:22
suggests using Zelage. Also, T-M Sessionizer is incredible. As you can see, look at all these like directories I can fuzzy find, jump to exactly where I want to go. And that means with T-Mux, I can do the whole previous session thing or I can fuzzy find to where I want to be. It is more than I want and it's super fast. And the best part is is that I use Vim, by the
- 11:43
way, if in case you didn't know. I'm a big Vim boy. Okay. Hey, I use Vim by the way. It's right there. Can you see that? Look at that. Yeah. Yeah. Can you see it? Now with Vim and T-M. It's fantastic. Now, right now, my Neo Vim kind of experience, I don't use the old AI as they call it. Okay. But I am open to checking out Avante and Super Maven. I just haven't yet. I'm I'm planning on
- 12:04
doing that in July. Little live on Twitch. But deep down, the reason why I don't have AI is well, you know why, and you know it, too. So, here's my obvious setup. LSP navigation. Okay. If I want to jump to definition, use a little GD for jump to definition.
- 12:25
If I want to know what's going on in this function, shift K. If I want to get a quick fix list of all these references, boom, little leader Dr. RR for find references. About 80% of all my navigation is with an LSP. And when I'm not doing that, I'm using Harpoon. Look at Harpoon. I can jump to the files that I want to be in as fast as possible.
- 12:46
Single key navigation. A lot like my window manager. Oh my goodness. It's almost like my window manager and Harpoon have some things in common. It's almost like Sessionizer, Harpoon, I3, which is now Hyperland. I just forgot for a second. All have a lot of similar navigation. And when I can't figure that
- 13:07
out, I just simply use Telescope. Yes, Telescope's awesome. I hear that Faulky. Yes, my B FY, my boy Faulky is writing his own version of Telescope. Apparently, I'm just going to use that when he uses it and it's awesome. Probably it's going to be it's going to be the best cuz he's just the best. And then lastly, Undutyree. Look at it. Look how great Undut is. People forget that undoing is not linear. It's a tree.
- 13:27
There's branching. And guess what? You want to hear something kind of that's going to blow your mind? Are you ready for this one? Git is just undo history. Now, you'll probably notice that everything I said here that I love about my setup is all about navigation. And the reason is very, very simple. Most of editing is finding where you need to be.
- 13:49
And so, I've optimized that process. I want to be where I need to be in as few keystrokes as possible. So notice that none of my stuff is like I changed get status to GS. I'm a hacker. No, you're not a hacker. You've just saved a couple keystrokes in a meaningless way. Now all you have is a bunch of code you have to
- 14:09
maintain to make you have a couple extra shortcuts. Oh man, that's super duper. But to be completely fair, I used to do the exact same thing. I've long since stopped. I just use things the way God intended. Okay. actually well in this case the way that the creator of the tool intended. I stopped trying to make my own shortcuts because when you make your own shortcuts, guess what ends up happening? Something changes and then
- 14:30
you're just like stuck in this horrible place of having to update all your scripts or not knowing why they're breaking. Every line of configuration you add is liability. It's almost never a competitive mode. Even get integration in the editor, like this is super useful. It's super cool that in Vim I can just select which chunk I want added
- 14:52
to the git history and which chunk I could remove or I could undo. But at the end of the day, this only saves a small amount of time. I almost never do these operations. It's almost always just simply like get add dot get commit some dumb message get push origin master. Like there's nothing to it. And that's 99% of yours as well. I know there's a
- 15:14
lot of people that come up with a lot of different reasons why they need to do all this stuff, but really it's all about navigation. Okay, you should have your windows set up in such a way that you can go to which program you want. Inside the program, you should be able to go to which subp part of the program you want as fast as possible. Inside your editor, you should be able to go to the file that you want as fast as possible. When you need the delete code,
- 15:36
this deletion should be as fast as possible. All of it should take nobrain effort. Now, this is the reason why I tell everyone they should learn how to type. It's the same thing. It's not about saving that small amount of milliseconds, okay? It's not like, "Oh my gosh, I'm getting faster." And then you go to the bathroom and ruin all your savings. No, it's not about that. What
- 15:56
it is, it's about saving mental cycles. Cuz at the end of the day, we can only do so much. when you have to do the same operation and it takes actual focus to find your program that you need to be in and you have to do that a thousand times a day. There's like this wearing slow amount of just like anxiousness that will build in you and by the end of the day you're like I don't want to work at
- 16:16
all. That's because you keep on doing all these like zone breaking activities if you don't know how to type and you literally have to look down at your keyboard and hunt for the letters. Like that is just valuable brain power you could be using to solve the problem instead of just sitting there painfully thinking through every keystroke. Like that's crazy thing to do. Like remove
- 16:39
the easy stuff. remove the things that make life repetitive so you can actually do the fun parts, which is the building part, which is creating the super cool software, which is spending time mastering your DPI configuration so you can have animate white foos. Okay, and there you go. I'm an arch boy now. Okay,
- 16:59
I'm an arch boy. Sure, maybe I bricked my system once or twice along the process. Okay, maybe I couldn't figure out why certain things didn't work. I tried to get sway on yubuntu to work. That didn't work. It doesn't really matter. Arch Arch install super easy. It was a lot of fun. I suggest you give it a try. And ultimately, at the end of the day, what I really hope you take away from this isn't that Arch is the
- 17:21
pinnacle of development. I hope what you take away is making a good personalized development experience for you and removing the repetitive annoying parts of development and making those clean and easy is truly the biggest life hack as a developer. The name This is the archen. You can like and subscribe now. Just so you know, you can
- 17:41
press those buttons. They're free. They're actually free. You can just press them and like almost nobody will know. So, just do it. Okay.
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📌 Chapters:
00:00:00 - Prime's Confession
00:01:20 - Prime's Philosophy
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00:05:38 - Managing Windows
00:06:47 - Why Prime is late to everything
00:07:58 - It's hard being an Arch Boy
00:09:05 - Organizing Workspaces
00:10:54 - Never Abandon TMUX
00:11:43 - I use vim btw
00:13:20 - undotree is underrated
00:15:23 - Navigation is key
00:17:00 - I use arch btw
📕 Content
Why PewDiePie unintentionally convinced me to use Arch
How I built a clean, fast developer workflow on Linux
My minimalist “rice” philosophy focused on speed over style
The real reason I still use tmux and Vim
Why fast navigation is more important than saving keystrokes
How I replaced annoying workflows with efficient tools
My Hyperland setup with no animations and no bloat
The importance of workspaces, consistent window management, and reducing friction
Why flashy configs are a distraction from good dev experience
Tips to cut mental overhead and stay in the zone
