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-#+title: Rebooting My Love Affair with Linux
-#+date: 2022-06-24
-#+description: A retrospective on moving from macOS to Linux.
-#+filetags: :linux:
-
-* Leaving macOS
-As I noted [[../foss-macos-apps][in a recent post]], I have been
-planning on migrating from macOS back to a Linux-based OS. I am happy to
-say that I have finally completed my migration and am now stuck in the
-wonderful world of Linux again.
-
-My decision to leave macOS really came down to just a few important
-things:
-
-- Apple Security (Gatekeeper) restricting me from running any software I
-  want. Even if you disable Gatekeeper and allow software to bypass the
-  rest of the device installation security, you still have to repeat
-  that process every time the allowed software is updated.
-- macOS sends out nearly constant connections, pings, telemetry, etc. to
-  a myriad of mysterious Apple services. I'm not even going to dive into
-  how many macOS apps have constant telemetry on, as well.
-- Lastly, I just /really/ missed the customization and freedom that
-  comes with Linux. Being able to switch to entirely new kernel, OS, or
-  desktop within minutes is a freedom I took for granted when I switched
-  to macOS.
-
-Now that I've covered macOS, I'm going to move on to more exciting
-topics: my personal choice of OS, DE, and various customizations I'm
-using.
-
-* Fedora
-After trying a ton of distros (I think I booted and tested around 20-25
-distros), I finally landed on [[https://getfedora.org/][Fedora Linux]].
-I have quite a bit of experience with Fedora and enjoy the =dnf= package
-manager. Fedora allows me to keep up-to-date with recent software (I'm
-looking at you, Debian), but still provides a level of stability you
-don't find in every distro.
-
-In a very close second place was Arch Linux, as well as its spin-off:
-Garuda Linux (Garuda w/ sway is /beautiful/). Arch is great for
-compatibility and the massive community it has, but I have just never
-had the time to properly sit down and learn the methodology behind their
-packaging systems.
-
-Basically, everything else I tested was unacceptable in at least one way
-or another. Void (=glibc=) was great, but doesn't support all the
-software I need. Slackware worked well as a tui, but I wasn't skilled
-enough to get a tiling window manager (WM) working on it.
-
-** i3
-One of the reasons I settled on Fedora is that it comes with an official
-i3 spin. Being able to use a tiling WM, such as i3 or sway, is one of
-the biggest things I wanted to do as soon as I adopted Linux again.
-
-I will probably set up a dotfile repository soon, so that I don't lose
-any of my configurations, but nothing big has been configured thus far.
-
-The two main things I have updated in i3wm are natural scrolling and
-binding my brightness keys to the =brightnessctl= program.
-
-1. Natural Scrolling
-
-   You can enable natural scrolling by opening the following file:
-
-   #+begin_src sh
-   sudo nano /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf
-   #+end_src
-
-   Within the =40-libinput.conf= file, find the following input sections
-   and enable the natural scrolling option.
-
-   This is the =pointer= section:
-
-   #+begin_src conf
-   Section "InputClass"
-           Identifier "libinput pointer catchall"
-           MatchIsPointer "on"
-           MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
-           Driver "libinput"
-           Option "NaturalScrolling" "True"
-   EndSection
-   #+end_src
-
-   This is the =touchpad= section:
-
-   #+begin_src conf
-   Section "InputClass"
-           Identifier "libinput touchpad catchall"
-           MatchIsTouchpad "on"
-           MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
-           Driver "libinput"
-           Option "NaturalScrolling" "True"
-   EndSection
-   #+end_src
-
-2. Enabling Brightness Keys
-
-   Likewise, enabling brightness key functionality is as simple as
-   binding the keys to the =brightnessctl= program.
-
-   To do this, open up your i3 config file. Mine is located here:
-
-   #+begin_src sh
-   nano /home/<my-user>/.config/i3/config
-   #+end_src
-
-   #+begin_src conf
-   # Use brightnessctl to adjust brightness.
-   bindsym XF86MonBrightnessDown exec --no-startup-id brightnessctl --min-val=2 -q set 3%-
-   bindsym XF86MonBrightnessUp exec --no-startup-id brightnessctl -q set 3%+
-   #+end_src
-
-3. =polybar=
-
-   Instead of using the default =i3status= bar, I have opted to use
-   =polybar= instead (as you can also see in the screenshot above).
-
-   My config for this menu bar is basically just the default settings
-   with modified colors and an added battery block to quickly show me
-   the machine's battery info.
-
-4. =alacritty=
-
-   Not much to say on this part yet, as I haven't configured it much,
-   but I installed =alacritty= as my default terminal, and I am using
-   =zsh= and the shell.
-
-* Software Choices
-Again, I'm not going to say much that I haven't said yet in other blog
-posts, so I'll just do a quick rundown of the apps I installed
-immediately after I set up the environment.
-
-Flatpak Apps:
-
-- Cryptomator
-- pCloud
-- Signal
-
-Fedora Packages:
-
-- gomuks
-- neomutt
-- neofetch
-- Firefox
-  - uBlock Origin
-  - Bitwarden
-  - Stylus
-  - Privacy Redirect
-
-Other:
-
-- exiftool