My Perfect Workspace

    Y'know, I've realized something recently that's kinda weird to me. The only setups that have ever got me working on something willingly is an all white setup. I just installed Slackware 2 days ago and it's made my Thinkpad into the funnest computer I've ever used. Maybe this is because I haven't used anything truly new since I installed openSUSE for the first time last year, or maybe it's because of what I wanted to do along with it.

    I installed Slackware for a reason. A reason that turned out not to be true? Yes. A reason nonetheless? Also yes. I installed it because I figured it didn't have any package manager whatsoever. I only realized it when my friend ended up calling me out on my ignorance and let me know that Slackware does infact have a package manager. I also installed it with the motivation to create a package manager that was exactly what I wanted: offline, source-code driven (like portage is), and not boring. I'm also using this project to learn Fortran (along-side a side-project to scroll text across your screen like those comments on Niconico). I'd go more into detail, but that isn't the main point of the article, so I'll digress for now.

    I've also realized another thing recently. There seems to be one workspace that actually works for me: a pure white setup, and ambient music (especially at night). I honestly don't know how it works for me, but it just does. A theory my friend came up with while I was telling him about this was that dark mode makes colors stand out, making me more attracted to them; meanwhile, white is brighter than every color, making them less appealing. I'd back this theory up, but I'm too tired to research anything right now; plus, this isn't anything I'm doing for school, so I have no need to anyways. Adding another thing onto the last sentence of the first paragraph, another possible reason for me to love using my Thinkpad is because of how I set it up. It's just a bare-bones XFCE setup. It's a white setup, with a panel at the top-left corner that auto-hides showing open windows, and Emacs running on startup (I'm also learning Emacs). It genuinely helps me work.

    Even though I have a near-perfect setup on my laptop, I still have fantasies of more. I've lived in a maximalist household all my life. Although it's cool finding an SNES randomly while looking for old games, it means that we have almost no room. Due to that, my room is never not crowded. If I could, though, I would work in a pure white cube. Anything that can cause me to lose all my attention will, online and offline, so working in a blank white cube wouldn't give me any distractions. That's really just me though.

Peace!