Software I use

Table of Contents

Workstation

Operating Systems

Void Linux

  • Minimal and lightweight linux distribution which uses the runit init system instead of systemd

Terminal emulator

Alacritty

  • A customizable terminal emulator

Shell

Fish

  • Not POSIX compliant but but some good features out of the box.

Window Manager

i3wm

  • A very customizable window manager. Inplace reload config and restart wm.*** spectrwm

spectrwm

  • Another window manager I like.

TODO Hotkey daemon

sxhkd

  • Along with the window manager to keep things modular.

Editor

Emacs

  • I am a member in the church of Emacs on the dark side with evil. First Program I start and last to close. An awesome piece of software. Is there anything Emacs can’t do?

Vim

  • A powerful editor whenever emacs is not available.

Web browser

Vivaldi

  • A very customizable browser, rss-client, mail-client, calendar and contacts

Torbrowser

  • ocationally

Firefox

  • ocationally

Backup

Borg

  • encrypted off side backups

Rsync

  • saves you headaches if you’re stuck with an unbootable system

File manager

Dired

  • Emacs’ file manager

Ranger

  • TUI FM with vim-keys

PcmanFM

  • GUI FM

RSS

Vivaldi

  • A very customizable browser, rss-client, mail-client, calendar and contacts

Newsboat

  • Ocationally

Office

Org-Mode

  • Nice Emacs mode

Markdown

  • I don’t have a office suite installed as I write mostly in org or markdown. If I do need it I open Onlyoffice Nextcloud Office from my selfhosted Nextcloud instance.

Calendar

  • Vivaldi
    • A very customizable browser, rss-client, mail-client, calendar and contacts
      • synced from Nextcloud

Contacts

  • Vivaldi
    • A very customizable browser, rss-client, mail-client, calendar and contacts
      • synced from Nextcloud

Mail client

  • Vivaldi
    • A very customizable browser, rss-client, mail-client, calendar and contacts
  • Thunderbird
    • Mozilla mail client

Multimedia

Radio player

  • Curseradio
    • Terminal based webradio

Video player

  • mpv
    • Minimal video player

Image editing

Gimp

  • Easy, powerful

Inkscape

  • Vektorgraphics

Chat

IRC

  • Hexchat
    • Simple GUI client

Matrix

  • Nheko
    • Simple Matrix client

Nextcloud Talk

  • Family

Jitsi

  • Video meetings

Password Manager

KeepassXC

  • a password manager which I use for polkit as well

Server

Server 1

Debian

  • Dedicated purely to host my Nextcloud instance.

Server 2

Dietpi

  • Raspberry to serve VPN, DNS + Ad-Blocker for all devices in my network.

Mobil

LineageOS

I refused to carry a “smartphone” untill 2019. With this OS I fond somewhat a compromise. I use it without mobil data and without g-apps mostly to make and recieve calls.

Apps

  • Communication
    • FairEmail
    • Element
    • DeltaChat
    • Nextcloud Talk

Pinephone

  • To play around a bit. Some day might be my daily driver but I don’t like the form factor as I prefer smaller devices which don’t fill the whole pocket.

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Author: madam