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a BIOS boot partition\n - an EFI system partition, which contains the kernel and the initramfs (also used for BIOS booting)\n - a Btrfs filesystem\n\nThe Btrfs filesystem is where all the fun resides, since it has the following subvolumes:\n - *airootfs*, which contains the system in read-only\n - *swap*\n - *data*, which stores persistent data\n - *persistfs*, which stores manually committed files (through a custom tool named `persistfs`) such as edited configuration files without having to rebuild the image\n - *snapshots*, of the airootfs, to revert in case of failed updates\n\nA custom mkinitcpio hook resizes the btrfs filesystem on first boot.\n\nOn every boot, this hook mounts `/` as an `overlayfs` of:\n - airootfs/copytoram\n - persistfs\n - a tmpfs (cowspace)\n\n**Which lets me have a read-only system where every file I create is deleted on reboot, except the ones in /data, and the ones I manually make persistent.**\n\nComplementary to that, I wrote my own AwesomeWM configuration in Lua. It features:\n - A dock\n - A panel (with its widgets)\n - An overview\n - An emoji picker\n - A small screen locker\n - Custom terminal tabs\n\nWhich provides a very comfy experience.\n\nAlso written in Lua is my [small Neovim configuration](airootfs/etc/skel/.config/nvim).\nIt has basic auto-completion, and [a few other plugins](nvim_packages) that don't get too much in my way.\n\nAnother very pimped application in demolinux is Firefox.\nIt comes with addons such as uBlock Origin, Dark Reader, CanvasBlocker, or even VimFx (which uses [legacyfox](https://gir.st/blog/legacyfox.htm)),\nand a custom [user.js](airootfs/etc/skel/.mozilla/firefox/default.profile/user.js).\n\nAll this and many other additions which make a very pleasant use of my desktop, after many months of work and hundreds of commits.\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fdemostanis%2Fdemolinux","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fdemostanis%2Fdemolinux","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fdemostanis%2Fdemolinux/lists"}