plsdo
All the shell scripts I use to complement my "bare-bones" Linux setup, rewritten in Rust. WIP
USAGE:
plsdo <SUBCOMMAND>
OPTIONS:
-h, --help Print help information
-V, --version Print version information
SUBCOMMANDS:
font_family Change the font family
font_size Change the font size
game Launch a game through Lutris
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
keyboard_layout Change the keyboard layout
playerctl Control media players
power Shut down, reboot or suspend the machine
(... and hopefully many more to come!)
But... why?
- I like customizability. I want to configure my setup to be exactly the way I want it to
look and function like. I do not want to clutter my setup with functionality that I never use.
I feel like the approach of starting out with a minimal setup and extending it with the stuff
you want is a lot less difficult and messy than stripping down a fully fledged OS like Windows,
or a DE like Gnome.
- During the past few years, I've gradually transitioned into a mostly keyboard-driven workflow.
Most of what I do (aside from gaming, and drooling over myself while binging Youtube) involves
text manipulation. Why should I take my hand off the keyboard, grab the mouse, and navigate
around in awkwardly constructed GUIs to achieve something, when I could configure a keyboard
shortcut to
plsdo to perform the exact same action in a fraction of the time?
- I like the concept of shell scripting, but I hate the weirdness of the syntax and all the
various esoteric details you have to keep in mind. Any script over 100 lines becomes
unmanageable in my experience.
- Using a more general-purpose language would make it easier to abstract over functionality,
simplifying the process of adding new scripts (at least, this is my hypothesis). I chose Rust
because it's performant (not that it matters too much in this case), and because I like writing
Rust and I wish to get better at it.