Hello everyone! Recently I was forced to switch to Windows for work 😷 so I started searching ways of making myself more comfortable using Microsoft’s operating system after years of using GNU/Linux only.

Installing Winget

You can get Winget from the Microsoft Store, no need to go to any other sources. Search for an app called App Installer

Using Winget

Using winget is kinda similar to using apt-get or other GNU/Linux based package managers, if you want to see all the features it offers you can execute this in a CMD:

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Have you ever noticed how when you try to install some pip dependencies using a modern linux distro, it will show you this error message?

That happened to me while using Debian, also happened while using Archlinux, so I searched online and found a solution, or maybe you can call it a workaround. Since I always find myself googling for the solution again and again, I decided to just use my website to save this solution and also share it with you guys, just in case it’s useful for someone else.

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In this little article, I just wanted to talk about nerd fonts, how to install them and the one I like.

Nerd fonts?

Nerd fonts are, as the name implies, fonts that we can add to our system to make it look prettier. The majority of them also include ligatures and tons of icons (they’re useful if you’re using something like DWM or i3 and want to display certain icons in your bar).

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On this post I just wanted to talk about conky, this is a system monitor that you can customize and extend however you like, you have all the power of lua at your fingertips (I’m not a lua programmer tho).

My system information is pretty bare bones and simple, it’s only one file. To install my configuration you can clone it from my GitHub page and move the conky.conf file to ~/.config/conky/.

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This is a small guide on how to add the branch name to your bash prompt.

First you’ll need to open up the bash configuration file, usually that’s ~/.bashrc.

Then create the following function inside that file:

function getGitBranch {
  [ -d .git ] && git name-rev --name-only @
}

And then the only thing you need to do is execute that function inside of your bash prompt, this is how I do it: