K.Mandla and Inconsolation were my inspiration sources. I still use a minimalist setup since mid-late 2000's, and it's amazing. No distractions, pure music from

K.Mandla and Inconsolation were my inspiration sources. I still use a minimalist setup since mid-late 2000's, and it's amazing. No distractions, pure music from Jamendo/Magnatune, no notifications, no nothing. Mails, RSS' and news are fetched automatically via Cron, and read in text mode. And OFC as I played text adventures thru retroemulation since ~2002, I play IF and Roguelikes as my main gaming sources. For the rest, libre gaming. My setup it's an Atom n270 netbook with 1GB of RAM + 1GB of ZRAM acting like 2GB, but currently I'm following Solene's challenge on low resources, so I have 512MB of physical RAM limited by a Syslinux boot flag and a single core: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-06-04-old-computer-challenge-v3.html https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-06-04-old-computer-challe... Once you use Groff+MuPDF, sc-im, mutt, AWK, and a few of C (Unix low-level knowledge) and Scheme (global CS terms), your skills skyrocket with very few resources and lower electricity bills. I could even chat with some nice people from Mastodon at https://brutaldon.org https://brutaldon.org and using Lynx and by calling sxiv/mpv externally for image and media links.