desktop.md

🖥️ Desktop

This is the list of apps I use for my desktop setup. Many of them were installed via pacman or the AUR on Arch Linux.

🌐 Browsers

• Brave
• Firefox
• LibreWolf
• qutebrowser
• ungoogled-chromium

✨ Terminals

• Alacritty
• kitty
• Ghostty
• tmux

📂 File managers

• yazi (terminal-based, previously used ranger)
• Nemo
• Dolphin

📝 Text editors & Office

• Neovim (using kickstart)
• ONLYOFFICE for my Office suite
• Joplin: Great note taking app (markdown-based + support for vim motions). Can be setup to cloud-sync. Works very well with Syncthing.

🖼️ Images

• Drawing: Krita
• Editing: Gimp
• Viewing:
  • vimiv (on Wayland)
  • nsxiv (on X11)
  • feh (on X11)
• Screenshots:
  • Flameshot (mostly X11)
  • Hyprshot (Hyprland, wayland)
  • ShareX (MS Windows only)
• Wallpaper setters:
  • feh (on X11)
  • swww (on Wayland)

🎬 Videos

• Recording: OBS
• Editing:
  • Kdenlive
  • OpenShot
• Viewing:
  • mpv
  • vlc
• YouTube client: FreeTube (goes against Invidious)

💬 Social & communication

• Messaging app: Signal
• Matrix client: element
• Discord client: Webcord

🧰 Utils

• App launcher: Rofi
• Password manager: KeePassXC
• Network analyzer: Wireshark
• SyncThing: Awesome service to synchronize files between devices. It's all local but can be configured to work remotely. I could not live without it.
• Gaming mice app: Piper
• API dev & debug: Insomnia
• PDF viewer: zathura
• Torrent: qBittorrent
• Keyboard customization: VIAL