Tutorials
Quickshell Tutorial - Build Your Own Bar
December 3, 2025
This is a quick and painless tutorial on how to build a custom status bar using Quickshell, a powerful Qt/QML based shell framework for Wayland.
The Last Honest X11 Window Manager: Xmonad
November 26, 2025
This is a quick and painless guide on how to install and configure XMonad, written in Haskell. An honest X11 window manager written in an honest functional programming language.
Tmux with Zero Plugins
November 13, 2025
This is a quick and painless guide on how to configure tmux with zero plugins. Heavily inspired by Henry Misc's via negativa philosophy on removing things to solve problems, rather than adding them.
Niri, btw
November 5, 2025
This is a quick and painless tutorial on how to setup Niri on Arch/NixOS/Gentoo. It is a wonderful wayland compositor masquerading as a window manager.
Linux From Scratch
October 22, 2025
This is a slow, and painful tutorial on how to install linux from scratch in 2026. We go over the entire lfs book, from 0 to booting into our LFS system. A challenging, but educational and rewarding process.
MangoWC Installation + Customization Guide
October 15, 2025
This is a quick and painless guide on how to install and customize MangoWC, which is a non-suckless alternative to DWL, without the friction!
Hyprland on NixOS (w/ UWSM)
October 8, 2025
This is a quick and painless tutorial on how to setup Hyprland on NixOS using flakes + home manager, and optionally using UWSM (the Universal Wayland Session Manager)
How to Customize Vim in 2026
October 1, 2025
This is a quick and painless tutorial on how to get vanilla vim up and running.
How to Install and Customize DWL | Wayland Minimalism Endgame?
September 22, 2025
This is a quick and painless guide on how to install and customize DWL, which is a DWM port to wayland, more or less. Is it the end game of desktop minimalism?
How to Install Suckless Programs on NixOS | Dwm, Dmenu, St
September 14, 2025
This is the 5th installment of the NixOS Tutorials. We discuss dev shells and how to implement suckless utilities in NixOS, such as dwm, dmenu, and st.