How suckless changes my life

In the last years, I tried get more efficient by removing bloated software on my machine. Some of you may know that I am running Arch Linux, which builds the basis for my daily activities. On top of it, the terminal is my main working area. Last year I switched from traditional window managers to the tiling window manager dwm. Tiling window managers have the advantage that your screen is not messed up with floating windows which need to be moved, resized using the mouse. This is how my environment looks like as of writing this blog:

I tried to build a table of preferred software programs which serve a certain purpose. I addition to the programs, I also have a set of config files (dotfiles) configuring my working environment.

Basic

Security

Remote storage

Emails, Calendars, Contacts, Internet

Content creation

Tools

Images

Programming