This is just for discovering new software. I created mine so I don’t forget the programs I use when setting up a new machine. You can skip the obvious ones. Here, I’ll start:
# System
Distro: Arch Linux
Window Manager: i3
Shell: Zsh (OMZ)
Terminal: Kitty
Terminal Multiplexer: Tmux
Application Launcher: Rofi
Notification: Dunst
Compositor: Picom
Panel: Polybar
Audio: Pipewire
# The Web
Web Browser: Librewolf, Helium
Chat: Discord, Element
Mesh VPN: Zerotier
DPI Bypass: B4
# File Management
File Browser: Thunar, Yazi
File Sharing: LocalSend
Torrent: qBitTorrent
Git CLI: Lazygit
# File Creation/Modification
Text Editor: Micro
Code Editor: Helix, Zed
LaTeX Editor: Gummi
Image Editor: GIMP, Krita
Video Editor: Kdenlive, Blender
Audio Editor: Audacity
Modelling: Blender
Document Editor: LibreOffice, Xournal++
Image Upscaler: Upscayl
# File Viewing
Music Player: Strawberry
Media Player: MPV
Image Viewer: Ristretto
Document Viewer: Papers
# Utility
Screenshotter: Flameshot
Pipewire Graph: QPWGraph
Video Recorder: OBS
Color Picker: XColor
Default Apps: Selectdefaultapplication
Clipboard History: greenclip
Dotfile Manager: yadm
Network TUI: impala, nmtui
Bluetooth TUI: bluetui
Volume TUI: wiremix
Disk Analyzer: ncdu
Wallpaper: xwallpaper
Chooser: choose
Markdown Renderer: glow
# Gaming
Game Launcher: Steam, Faugus, Prism, Sober
Proton Manager: ProtonUp-QT
# Productivity
Flashcard: Anki
Whiteboard: Drawy
fastfetch | grep ackag
Packages: 3582 (dpkg), 17 (flatpak)I don’t think we have the time
EDIT : I use debian btw. Yes I’m old, male and a father.
This looks like a CVE recipe list once somebody has your IP address from lemmy
Emac
s is for system.
fair enough LOL
Default Apps: Selectdefaultapplication
What is this?
C’mon the only reason you made this post just so you can say you use Arch. :D It’s the very first item in your list. I won’t give an extensive list, but do a few recommendations for discoverability.
YouTube (watch): FreeTube YouTube (download): yt-dlp + my script yt-dlp-lemon VPN: Proton VPN Linux Client (GUI) Virtual Machines: virt-manager (QEMU/KVM) Emulators: RetroArch, Xemu, RPCS3, Cemu, yuzu Offline Library: Kiwiks (for Wikipedia, Stack Overflow and more) GE Proton: geprotondl (my own script)I also use
fzffor my custom scripts to create menus in terminal. I don’t see it listed in your listing, and don’t know what category it would be. So I mention it here. For my Zsh friends, I can recommend following extensions, especially zsh-abbr:zsh-abbr zsh-autosuggestions zsh-completions zsh-history-substring-search zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-vi-modeAnd… I use Rust, BTW.
Trust me I have no reason to mention I Arch, it isnt a thing that is seen as hard to install anymore anyway. Plus I just used the archinstall script because I couldnt be bothered at the time :D. I just made this post because people enjoy talking about what they use and so do I, also I may discover new programs such as Kiwiks now. As for FZF, I do use it but only for this.
alias e='fd -H | fzf --height 99% --preview-window right:50% --preview "bat {}" | xargs -r $EDITOR'
Each part of my system must do one thing and do it well.
Terminal: st
Shell: bash
Wm: DWM
Launcher: dmenu
Image viewer: sxiv
Browser: surf
Irc: weechat
RSS reader: newsraft
Messaging: signal
Password manager: pass
Video game: SuperTuxKart
Cad: blender
Text editor: vim
GNU/Linux distro: gentoo
File manager: GNU coreutils
What do you use for notes and file/note syncing?
Also backups?
I use Helix + Markdown + Zettelkasten + Git + Codeberg for notes. I just wrote a script whenever I type ns to the terminal I go to the Notes directory and it creates a process that git pulls in the background. I also add a half a second delay to opening Helix so HOPEFULLY by the time I write to the notes they are updated. As for backups, I was using Timeshift but it just uses too much space so I just got rid of it. I am just being careful when deleting files and directories.
I also love Zettelkasten+Markdown. When I switched from Vim to Neovim, Zettelkasten was no longer compatible. Later I found Telekasten, which is basically the same and my notes directory is still named zettelkasten. :-) I got a bit lazy and stopped doing much notes and recently tried to get into the habit again. A local Git repository makes a lot of sense to save versions of the notes, but I never got into that. An online Git repository makes sense if you want have your notes on different machines, I just never needed that.
As for your script with Git in background and a delay hoping everything is synced up… I understand why this is done, but there has to be a better way.
I honestly only recently started writing notes and I did notice it does help me be more productive a little bit. That is only because I have terrible memory. That is why I need synced notes, if I am outside I need something for me to immediately write my thoughts down just in case I forget em.
As for your script with Git in background and a delay hoping everything is synced up… I understand why this is done, but there has to be a better way.
I agree but I couldn’t find one yet.
if I am outside I need something for me to immediately write my thoughts down just in case I forget em.
Me too. But how does this work with Git? At least for me the only thing that would with me is my (old) phone, and even that is has no internet access for the most part. For me the only thing left is just use any generic notes tool (and camera) on phone and later at home transfer the notes to my PC by rewriting them in Vim again… I’m still working on that.
For the Git script, how about autostart it once when you log into your system, and each time after the notes editing is done instead just before? If you want to be sure its always synced up before starting the edits, then yes it makes sense to run Git before you start editing. But in that case it shouldn’t be in the background, otherwise it defeats the purpose to me. You already use a delay, so the background process makes less sense. In that case just use Git command and wait until its finished.
This is just me thinking without using it, and I have no idea how this works out in real world usage. I have no better idea. If it works for you, then keep using it. This really bugs me right now. :D
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