My setup

How I use my computers. The “current” items are listed roughly by how much I use them, items in “history” roughly in the order I started really using them. Items may be listed in “history” several times. It means I took a break from using them or my use of them changed.

  • OS
    • Current
      • Ubuntu LTS (desktop)
      • Debian GNU/Linux (servers, containers)
      • Alpine Linux (containers for building static binaries)
    • History
      • System 7
      • Windows 95 OSR2
      • MS-DOS
      • Windows 98 SE
      • Red Hat Linux
      • SuSE Linux and other distributions and live CDs
      • Windows XP
      • Mac OS X “Tiger” and “Leopard”
      • Debian GNU/Linux (PowerPC)
      • Windows 7
      • Linux Mint
      • FreeBSD (servers)
      • Windows 8
      • Debian GNU/Linux (servers)
      • Ubuntu
      • Alpine Linux (containers)
      • NetBSD (SDF, VM)
      • OpenBSD (tilde.institute, VM)
  • Interactive shell
  • Scripting language
    • Current
    • History
      • intricate batch files
      • Perl
      • Bash
      • Python 2
      • POSIX shell
      • Tcl
      • Jim Tcl
      • Python 3
  • Linux filesystem
    • Current
      • ZFS (everything but boot and root)
      • Btrfs (root)
      • ext4
    • History
      • ext2–4
      • Btrfs (for everything)
      • ZFS
      • Btrfs (root)
  • *nix desktop environment or window manager
  • Text editor
    • Current
      • Vim
    • History
      • Notepad2
      • Geany
      • ne
      • Sublime Text
      • Vim
      • Visual Studio Code
      • vis
      • Neovim
      • Vim
  • File manager
    • Current
    • History
      • Norton Commander
      • Volkov Commander
      • Far
      • ForkLift
      • Total Commander
      • Midnight Commander
      • Double Commander
  • Remote interactive shell
    • Current
      • Mosh (when possible)
      • SSH
    • History
      • SSH (everywhere)