The software i use and recommend Link to heading
This post will be divided up into three sections. The software i use on my personal computer, the software i use on my phone, and the software i host on my servers.
PC Link to heading
Operating System Link to heading
- Arch linux: I have not really used any distributions. I am very happy with arch, and as of now have no reason to change.
Desktop Environment Link to heading
- Hyprland: the window manager i use
- waybar: status bar i use for hyprland
- Gruvbox: the theme i use for everything
- jetbrains mono nerd font: the font i use
- wofi Program launcher
- rofimoji Emoji picker compatible with wofi.
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- Ghostty: The terminal emulator i have been using
- zsh: the shell i use
- zsh vi mode: vim in your shell
- Neovim: The best editor there is.
- kickstart: The best beginner config there is for neovim
- tmux: its basically the window and session manager of my terminal
- sessionx: the session manager i use for tmux
- gruvbox: the theme i use for tmux
- tmux continuum
- tmux resurrect
- tmux yank
- tmux sensible
- tmux fzf
- tmux fzf url
- atuin: the shell history manager i use
- pass: terminal password manager
- darkman: darkmode management tool
- btop monitor system resources
- qalc calculator for your terminal
- zoxide Smarter cd command (highly recommended)
- fzf-tab fzf based autocomplete for zsh
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- librewolf: the browser i use
- unhook: extension remove recommended videos and other distracting features from youtube
- unhook for reddit
- Video speed controller
- vimium: vim in your browser
- libredirect
Organization Link to heading
- KOrganizer: After testing out a lot of calendar clients this is by far the most usable out of all, especially on hyprland.
- task warrior: I use the task warrior cli, i used to use vit as a wrapper but it felt like unnecessary abstraction so now i stick with the cli.
- taskopen: taskwarrior script that lets you add notes to tasks and edit them in your $EDITOR
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- aerc: the email client i use
- dino: the xmpp client i use on linux desktop and the only one i have found with any ok call and video support
- signal: Currently i am mostly using signal for most of my communication.
- Element matrix client i use (desktop version)
Media Link to heading
- cmus music player for your terminal
- liferea rss reader
- zathura pdf viewer
- gthumb view large folders images
- mpv video player
- nsxiv image viewer
Other Link to heading
- keyd: keyd is a keyboard remapper for linux that i have been using to get homerow mods and optimizing my keyboard layout
- EurKey The keyboard layout i use together with keyd which lets me have norwegian characther (øåæ) support at the same time i use us-layout
- usbguard: manage access to usb ports
- scrcpy: lets you control and view your phone over adb. Very helpful for screensharing your phone.
- Bottles Tool to run windows software on linux, used to run enterprise architect for university.
- krita
- gimp
- OBS video recording software
- Borg Powerfull software for backups
- Borgmatic Makes borg easier to use
Phone Link to heading
Operating System Link to heading
- Graphene os: i use graphene os on a pixel 8 it was very easy to install and has not given me any issue which i would care about, i however thinking of switching to lineage os just for checking it out.
Web Link to heading
- Iceraven Browser
Organization Link to heading
- Etar: the calendar client i have been using on my phone. I mostly use it for notifications and viewing not so much planning, for that i use KOrganizer.
Communications Link to heading
- thunderbird: the main client i use on my phone
- conversations: the xmpp client i use on my phone
- signal: Currently i am mostly using signal for most of my communication.
- element x matrix client
Security Link to heading
- Aegis: two factor auth
Media Link to heading
- Tempus music player
- CapyReader rss reader
- AntennaPod podcasts
Other Link to heading
Servers Link to heading
- mailcow dockerized: the email server i use
- Prosody: the xmpp server i am currently using
- Netbird
- Miniflux rss server
- Navidrome music server
- Searxng metasearch engine
- Immich image server
- Caddy reverse proxy
- ntfy notification server
- tuwunel matrix server
Links to other pages with interesting software Link to heading
- modern unix
- luke smiths recommended software: where i found most of the software to use when first starting out with open source and linux
- awesome self hosted: A large overview of the self hostable alternatives to proprietary software