IceVAN

Thunar and: sudo apt install gvfs gvfs-mtp

Good F#$%^ riddance.

Textadept!.

Bash. It has enabled me to automatize a lot of sh*t I wouldn’t do just because it would take me a lot of time/efford to do. There’s a LOT you can do with a few simple scripts, a few examples:

• Remove files I don’t need (images, rip/conversion logs, empty folders…).
• Compress and optimize folders of photos recursively.
• Apply watermarks to photos recursively.
• Convert filetypes (flac2mp3, pdf2cbr, webm2mp3,web2jpg…).
• Configure input devices (keyboards, mouse, graphic tablets).
• Autorename files (spaces to _, . to _, _ to spaces…).
• Remove audio from videos recursively.
• Remove audio/subtitle tracks from videos.
• Download images/videos/audio from websites.
• Update appimages automatically.
• Update/cleanup system/repos.
• Use different theming for different applications.
• Mount iso/bin… images.
• Extract zip|rar|tar.gz|… files automatically.
• Modify pdfs.
• Get the weather for my location.
• Get stats from my PCs to be shown in panel applet.
• Alias program names to ones of my choosing.
• Open CUPS config in firefox.
• Refresh font caches and other management tools I don’t care to remember.
• Fix permissions.
• Make a backup.
• Restore a backup.
• Copy files safely (rsync).
• Change volume level.
• Install all the packages and configs I need to make the OS/apps behave/look the way I like.

…you name it…

…in most cases just by typing one word in the terminal. It was kind of a mindblow coming from the crappy window$ crappysystem eons ago.

Practice.

I’ve been using openbox only for the last 20 years or so and I loved it. For the last 3-4 months I moved to labwc…and again, I’m loving it. I’ve never felt the need for a full desktop.