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## how i set everything up
so, you know when you got no computer? so, suddenly you got one. okay, cool. also, somehow you got vacation time. yay! it's great to play with computer lol
so you do that.
i'm currently playing with mine, so that's how i've been setting it up:
## how i got it back
actually, this computer (which is the only one i own) has been on my friend's house. since i do not have a car (teens, yikes) and he lives kinda far away (i take about 40-50 mins to get there), i was not using it that much. i had backups anyway, and he was really really wanting to install windows on it, so i let him.
some stuff happened and i got it back. it was running windows, i did not have a void linux (os reveal time :O) usb stick lying around, just a windows one. for convenience, i did install a fresh windows on it. i was so dumb...
i started playing some games and it was really affecting my work. when i realized it, i stopped. started fiddling around with a nice thing: emacs. emacs doesn't work as intended on windows tho. so i had to switch up!
i first tried running arch. i tried in many ways, with many installers, but somehow it just won't. always got frozen in the grub screen. so i gave up, and decided to go back to the old and good void linux i've always used.
also, as always, i did the musl install. i installed with the live installer, which has a very convenient TUI installer. it's great! after installed, i got my wm of choice: qtile. i know, i know, it's python and it's not mainstream and it's not what you run on void, but it is the one i like (apart from dwm, which is kinda too bare sometimes).
when i started hacking around, i was just trying to set up alacritty to work. later that day i was creating the layout icon so that it matches the colorscheme of choice, which is gruvbox. nice! i have a cool looking setup. but it doesn't really work if it isn't productive lol
again, got somewhat stuck, but when i was at work i felt bored, so i thought i would list out stuff that i have to fix. anyways, i listed it out, i was thinking about creating my bash scripts again and reconstruct my old workflow. i did just that, now it's available to you.
## that's basically it
yeah i did waste your time, sorry
this was more of a test article to get this to work. i might do elaborate this article in the future
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