Software I use

In general I want to use my software rather then being used by the software. It must behave the way I configured it and do no more or less then it's supposed to do.

Root

Operating System/Distribution

• Desktop: Void Linux
• Server: Debian GNU/Linux
• Mobil: Arch-ARM / SXMO

Terminal emulator

• Alacritty - I like RXVT as well but it lacks of nativ scaling.

Shell

• Fish - Not POSIX compliant but I just love its features.

Window Manager

• i3wm - My favourit window manager. Inplace reload config and restart wm.
• spectrwm - Another window manager I like. Inplace reload config and restart wm.

Hotkey daemon

• sxhkd - along with the window manager to keep things modular.

Editor

• Vim - A powerful editor which I use for quick scripting.
• Emacs - I am in the church of Emacs on the dark side with evil. An awesome piece of software.

Web browser

• Vivaldi - I can configure this browser to the max.
• Torbrowser - ocationally.
• Firefox - ocationally.

Backup

• Borg - for home
• Timeshift - for system

Utilities

File manager

• Ranger - TUI FM with vim-keys
• PcmanFM - GUI FM

Mail client

• Vivaldi - I like to have Mail, RSS, Calendar, Contacts in one place.

RSS

• Vivaldi - I like to have Mail, RSS, Calendar, Contacts in one place.
• Newsboat - Ocationally for terminal

Calendar

• Vivaldi - I like to have Mail, RSS, Calendar, Contacts in one place.

Contacts

• Vivaldi - I like to have Mail, RSS, Calendar, Contacts in one place.

Radio player

• Curseradio - Terminal based Webradio

Video player

• mpv - Nice Video player

Office

• I don't have an office suite installed as I write mostly in markdown. If I do need it I open Onlyoffice from my selfhosted Nextcloud instance.

Image editing

• Gimp - Easy, powerful

Server

1

• Debian - Dedicated purely to host my Nextcloud instance

2

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

Mobil

• LineageOS - I refused to use a "smartphone" till 2019, with this OS I fond somewhat a compromise.
• Pinephone - To play around a bit. Someday might be my daily driver but I don't like the form factor as I prefer smaller devices which don't fill my whole pocket.

rauldux, 2022