Toward a Independant Desktop

ince I built my PC on July 9th, 2022 I have been running a heavily customized version of the gov. build of windows, and a archlinux system using larbs to install suckless utilities with a couple alterations like changing librewolf to thorium, and installing tor, irc, ect. Larbs has seemingly worked perfectly for me through the years. It is simple, fast, and efficient. However since larbs (dwm) proved to be quite inadacquite for what i expected of it with a 4 monitor setup.

I decided to make a change. I would switch to gentoo once and for all (not my first time.). The goal is a more fine grained system, with a default install script similar to larbs.xyz(for anyone to use), and a private script to install custom settings, directory structure, and download things from private repos. Another goal of this is better control, and automation of my new server from hetzner via [], and subsequently my storage box. This also gives me the ability to loose all sense and automate just about everything. However at heart the goals for a "Independant Desktop" are focused on Privacy, Focus, Intention, and Security. The goal is for this to be a system that allows for easy hyperfocus over a extended period of time. Minimizing distractions, blocking depraved content, and having robust privacy/security.

The goals of a free desktop although greatly benefitting the frugal are not about price. They are about rights. Fundamental Humans Rights of privacy, security, and free will that are stripped away from people by corporations (and proprietary software) for corporate gain. As with anything going against the grain this causes a lot of pain, stress, and discomfort. This is because naturally the more autonomous one becomes the more things you must understand, maintain, and fix. Drastically decreasing convenience.

Philosophy

Requirements

Software

Password Manager (KeypassXC)

The next step is a reliable password manager. My Requirements for this section weren't to heavy. It needs to have the ability to store, generate, and hold passwords. Along with the ability to store secure notes used for recovery tokens. It needed to have 2FA built in for the sites that require it's use, and it needed to be desktop available. It also needed to have the capability of being constantly backed up, and exported to a file.

Numi (Calculator)

Numi is a cmd line tool for basic calculations to be done by describing them in natural language. For ex.

is how something may be described.

SageMath

SageMath is a free & open-source cas system designed specifically to compete with Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and Matlab. Seeing as it is a FOSS alternative I will be trying my hand at using this as my long-term CAS system.

Gaming

I don't spend much time gaming these days but this is a solution I intend on solving for those of you who are planning on using the script in the future. The plans right now include Steam, and OSU!.

Hardware

The Guide

The Script (kristoo.sh)

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  title   = "Kristoo",
  author  = "Yotam, Kris",
  journal = "krisyotam.com",
  year    = "2025",
  month   = "Jun",
  url     = "https://krisyotam.com/notes/technology/kristoo"
}