cowmonk's random blogs

It was a simple suggestion from someone on the LearnixTV server when I completed one of the hardest challenges of my linux journey, achieving 30mib idle with dwm running on a modern 64 bit system: “why don’t you make a blog post about this?”, or something along those lines. It really stuck with me, and it was further strengthened by kirwano’s blogs and TronNerd’s blogs; reading them gave me a lot of inspiration in what I could write about and get down into. The idea of writing and documenting what I did and writing guides for other enthusiasts like myself intrigued me. But when I do write, hopefully I won’t bore anyone with what I have to say and people can gain insight from these blogs.

More about me

For the unaware, I am known as cowmonk, a crazy linux lunatic if the intro didn’t tell you otherwise. My first daily driver was arch, being the only reason for using it (being a life long windows user back then) was for a challenge. Hence, it was a no-brainer for me to move to gentoo as I naturally sought more ways to inconvenience myself whilst using my computer. My time on gentoo was simply put: “a tinker’s dream”, I gradually became a huge suckless shill and loved the minimalist approach. This brought me down a massive rabbit hole and I began to aim for the most bloatless system, with the least possible amount of ram used. And so, began the long journey to 30mib and “debloating” my system. It was then however, after acheiving such a massive goal, I realized that there was truly nothing left for me to do, and finally my switch to LFS as my final distro and daily driver.

During this time of my linux journey, I also somehow became the founder of LearnixOS, which started out as a joke. In fact, the distro was supposed to be a spin off of Linux Mint, and just be another Hannah Montana joke distro. It went through many ideas and iterations of what it could be. How I would love to continue on about the history of LearnixOS, but that’ll be for a future blog post. Long story short, LearnixOS is now LFS based, and as of writing there are already multiple people working on it and its own custom package manager.

Plans

I plan to continue these blogs as frequent as possible, a partial reason being to help me get better at writing in english. If your cup of tea is to listen to a nerd do nerdy things, I hope that by the end of every blog post from me you are able to replicate my actions or learn something. There might be a few rants/papers coming up, but also on the process on some insane projects I did in the past; There are also plans for guides, such as tips and tricks for custom kernels if anyone is interested in that. These plans aren’t fully set in stone and it would be interesting to dive into other things, such as updates on LearnixOS or anything of the like.

Contact

If you want to contact me, my public contact exists on discord primarily: cowmonk (duh)

I don’t really use anything else, unless I really want to doxx myself.