Max's Custom LARB Scripts (McLARBS)

McLarbs is a personalised version of Luke Smith's Auto-Rice Bootstrapping Scripts (LARBS)

Installation:

On an Arch-based distribution as root, run the following:

curl -LO maxfleming.xyz/McLarbs.sh
sh McLarbs.sh

Custom DWM build
Custom Max-imised Voidrice dot files, including:
- spreadsheet and word doc file previews
- extensions for librewolf and codium
- integration of the below programs...

Programs:

Neovim: Better than emacs ;)
- Luke's defaults for vim-surround, nerdtree, goyo, vimagit, vimwiki, airline, commentary, css-color.
- vimtex: use with :VimtexCompile, set to read %! TeX program = lualatex headers for tikz-feynman and related.
VSCodium + extensions: VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing
- General Enhancements:
  - file-icons: File-specific icons in the editor.
  - obsidian-dark: Dark theme for VSCodium.
  - markdown-all-in-one: All-in-one Markdown support.
  - code-spell-checker: Spell checker for code.
- Python: Assorted extensions including jupyter support
- LaTeX:
  - latex-snippets-jeff: LaTeX snippets for faster coding.
  - latex-workshop: Comprehensive LaTeX support.
- Other Languages:
  - octaveexecution: Octave language support.
Thunderbird: Libre email client ...or you could always wrestle with Mutt ;)
Obsidian: Knowledge management working on top of local Markdown files ...NON-LIBRE!!!
LibreOffice-Fresh: Libre office suite.
Syncthing: For cross-pc file syncing
Transmission-cli: lightweight CLI torrent client.
Rclone: CLI program to manage traditional cloud storage.

Smaller Packages:

neofetch: Displays system information in a visually appealing way.
vrms-arch-git: Reports non-free packages installed on Arch Linux.
gotop: A terminal-based graphical activity monitor writen in go.
zathura-djvu: A DjVu plugin for the Zathura document viewer.
djvulibre: A software suite for creating and viewing DjVu documents.
gnome-epub-thumbnailer: Generates thumbnails for EPUB files.
imagemagick: A software suite for creating, editing, and converting images.
odt2txt: Converts OpenDocument texts to plain texts.
rsync: A fast file copying and synchronization tool.
oath-toolkit: Provides tools for OATH-based two-factor authentication.
networkmanager: Manages network connections.

Video: for NVIDIA laptops likely needs xorg install (as opposed to minimal) with proprietary Nvidia drivers.
Audio: may need to play with pulsemixer and the sb-volume script... (pulseaudio?)
Brightness: play with the sb-brightness script...
Bluetooth: use bluetoothctl...

systemctl --user enable syncthing.service
systemctl --user start syncthing.service

sudo systemctl enable cronie
sudo systemctl start cronie