I haven't used a USB stick for anything other than OS installs in many years... ditto playing music on a desktop, a thing of the past.
I do need my emacs. (edited to add, and my vnc and rdesktop clients to access other machines)
And I personally chromium although I can respect the firefox choice.
When I read desktop I thought physical desktop as opposed to laptop, but laptop users need wifi... I've personally found that setting up a wifi gui is harder than just manually editing simple and straightforward config files.
And even if you are a "coffee shop person" - or simply use your laptop at work/college/parents house/friends house -, you can write a wpa_supplicant.conf file with multiple networks, and it'll connect to the one it can see.
`urxvt` does not even provide a Tektronix emulation. How can it be anything "old-school" without such an important feature? Seriously, things like gnuplot and PAW look much more authentic with it.
I like the idea of wicd, but it has given me a lot of pain when in less-than-stable WiFi environments. It also doesn't (or didn't, at least) support multiple simultaneous connections, like wired + wireless, which are occasionally useful.
Also xmonad beats icewm.
I haven't used a USB stick for anything other than OS installs in many years... ditto playing music on a desktop, a thing of the past.
I do need my emacs. (edited to add, and my vnc and rdesktop clients to access other machines)
And I personally chromium although I can respect the firefox choice.
When I read desktop I thought physical desktop as opposed to laptop, but laptop users need wifi... I've personally found that setting up a wifi gui is harder than just manually editing simple and straightforward config files.
https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#WPA-PSK_and_WPA2-PSK
You probably only set up one wifi network, unless you're one of those coffee shop people.