Tutorials

This is a quick and painless tutorial on how to build a custom status bar using Quickshell, a powerful Qt/QML based shell framework for Wayland.

This is a quick and painless guide on how to install and configure XMonad, written in Haskell. An honest X11 window manager written in an honest functional programming language.

This is a quick and painless guide on how to configure tmux with zero plugins. Heavily inspired by Henry Misc’s via negativa philosophy on removing things to solve problems, rather than adding them.

This is a quick and painless tutorial on how to setup Niri on Arch/NixOS/Gentoo. It is a wonderful wayland compositor masquerading as a window manager.

This is a slow, and painful tutorial on how to install linux from scratch in 2026. We go over the entire lfs book, from 0 to booting into our LFS system. A challenging, but educational and rewarding process.

This is a quick and painless guide on how to install and customize MangoWC, which is a non-suckless alternative to DWL, without the friction!

This is a quick and painless tutorial on how to setup Hyprland on NixOS using flakes + home manager, and optionally using UWSM (the Universal Wayland Session Manager)

This is a quick and painless tutorial on how to get vanilla vim up and running.

This is a quick and painless guide on how to install and customize DWL, which is a DWM port to wayland, more or less. Is it the end game of desktop minimalism?

This is the 5th installment of the NixOS Tutorials. We discuss dev shells and how to implement suckless utilities in NixOS, such as dwm, dmenu, and st.

This is the 4th installment of the NixOS Tutorials. It emphasizes going from Zero to Hero and starting out with flakes and home manager before running nixos-install.

A zero to hero Hyprland setup, which if you follow along, will help you produce a rice thats truly yours.

A quick and painless guide on installing and configuring Neovim, and how to use it as your full daily driver IDE, btw.

A complete DWM setup on Arch Linux with minimal patches, autostart, custom bar, and keybinds.