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Tips on Arch Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. Manjaro is a good Arch Linux based distribution.

  2. You can use pacman to manage packages on Arch Linux.

Use pacman to Manage Packages on Arch Linux

Install a package.

pacman -S …

Tips on Linux Mint

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

News from the Linux Mint development team

  1. The Mint-X theme is a good one. Themes downloaded from internet might cause panel not working right.

  2. For input method related issues, check the …

Tips on Blender

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

References

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/

https://www.blender.org/support/

IntelliJ IDEA Tips

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Installation in Ubuntu

https://itsfoss.com/install-intellij-ubuntu-linux/

You can use ubuntu-make to install IntelliJ IDEA in Docker.

Install Plugins from Command-line

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24044513/intellij-idea-install-plugins-from-command-line

General Tips

  1. It is …

The Escape Key in Vim

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. CTRL + C as an alternative

  2. Map CapsLock to Escape (preferred)

cons: no caps key, generally speaking I type lower case and then convert letters to upper case as needed u/U …