JustAGuyLinux Wiki

Documentation and guides for everyday Linux users — written by someone learning alongside you. Clear, honest, and tested.

Regular on The Linux Cast podcast and Discord. Proton Ambassador at proton.me/justaguylinux.

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Start here

• My Setup — what I actually run
• Glossary — Linux terms in plain English
• Common Issues — fixes for problems you'll hit
• Site Map — every page, by category

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Featured

Distro

• Butterbian — Debian 13 with BTRFS, Timeshift, and grub-btrfs preconfigured. XFCE or butterknife (TUI installer) editions.
• butterrepo — community APT repository: Ghostty, Neovim, rofi 2.0, Zen Browser, more. Works on Butterbian and Debian 12+.

Self-hosting

• Host — the single Debian box that runs the public services (forum, git, file drops, landing pages)
• Homelab Plex — Plex Media Server on Debian
• Migrate to Codeberg — moving your repos off GitHub

Window managers

• DWM Setup ↗ — minimal suckless dwm for Debian: 18 patches, scratchpads, themed bar, tab support via reparenting. Has its own dedicated wiki.

Editors

• Micro Editor — terminal editor between nano and vim
• Geany — lightweight IDE I actually use

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Recent thoughts

• Codeberg — why I left GitHub
• Rolling release — rolling vs fixed
• Kernel — when updates matter
• ProtonMail — encrypted email in practice

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"Not an expert. Just A Guy."