Desperate times call for the best Linux experience possible… And in my experience so far, the Debian distribution with the Xfce desktop environment or with the even lighter alternative i3 tiling window manager makes for a very smooth ride.

To make the most of Dropbox, it can make sense to backup the files you care the most about and skip the ones that simply take too long to upload and eat up all your space. Such candidates could be hidden .git/ folders and node_modules/, but how do you exclude them locally? Let’s find out.

If remembering dozens of keyboard shortcuts isn’t your forte, let dmenu come to the rescue! With this awesome tool, you will be able to create menus from plain text files swiftly and effortlessly (almost).

Meet Black, a superb Python code formatter that will automatically reformat your code in accordance to PEP-8 standards.

Search and, most importantly, finally find what you are looking for on your machine. If you rely on the terminal a lot, fzf may well be capable of speeding up your productivity!