I still use Mate, but switched the window manager to i3.
Nothing wrong, if don’t spend daily hours editing text (or code).
I use one called Dark Background and Light Text.
so ditch this nonsense and use a better distro?
Before Void I was using Debian (then Devuan), and I used aliases for the package manager commands there too.
Anyway, I think the “the program name is too long” argument is even worse.
Why make the effort to switch to Firefox, if the browser that came installed with your device works?
Or, more realistically, people don’t even grok the concept of a web browser.
xbps felt like a million characters to type which I hated
Ever heard of alias
?
For me it’s alias pks=xbps-query -Rs
and alias pki=xbps-install
(package search and package install).
but arch wiki is the best resource to troubleshoot linux and learn how to make things work