Uses

This page contains a list of the software I use.

Software

Distribution: Arch Linux
Kernel: Linux
Coreutils: GNU Coreutils
C runtime: glibc
Bootloader: GRUB
Display Manager: ly
DE: KDE Plasma 6
Display server: Wayland (Xorg as backup)
Audio: Pipewire-pulse
Terminal: kitty
Shell: zsh (with my own config)
Version control: Git / gitui
Compiler: GCC / Clang / MinGW-w64
Code/text editor: Code - OSS / Kate / Micro
Diff: Code - OSS / KDiff3
File manager: Dolphin
Image viewer: Gwenview / feh
Music player: VLC Media Player / openmpt123
Video player: VLC Media Player / mpv
PDF Reader: Okular
Office Suite: LibreOffice (but I usually use a text editor & Markdown when I can)
BitTorrent client: qBittorrent
Browser: Firefox / NetSurf (& Chromium for site testing)
Image editing: GIMP
Audio editing: Audacity
Video editing: Kdenlive
Vector image editor: Inkscape
Hex editor: GHex / hexcurse
Writing maths: Rnote
Disk space analyser: Filelight / QDirStat / dust
Archiver: Ark / 7z[!]
Virtualisation: virt-manager (QEMU/KVM) / quickemu
Screenshotter: Spectacle
Screen recording: OBS Studio
Image optimisation: optipng / guetzli / pngquant
Multimedia conversion: ffmpeg
TOTP authenticator: oathtool / totp.voxelmanip.se
Filesystem search: find & grep
Bragging: hyfetch
System resource monitor: btop
System infodumping: inxi
Access log visualisation: goaccess / logstalgia
Git history visualisation: gource
Phone screen mirroring: scrcpy
Calculator: KCalc / Python REPL / Lua REPL
XMPP client: Gajim
Matrix client: Element Web
IRC client: Quassel IRC (formerly HexChat but GTK2 isn’t getting any newer…)
Content blocker: µBlock Origin
Performance overlay: MangoHud
Gaming: Steam[!], Luanti, Principia
Console gaming (emulation): Dolphin, MelonDS, Citra, mGBA, PCSX2 etc.

([!] denotes software that is proprietary)

I version control the list of packages I have on my desktop, so you can also see a full list of what packages I have installed at the moment here. Only explicitly installed packages are listed.

Browser extensions

For Firefox I use various browser extensions to make the modern web a bit more bearable.

Ones marked with asterisks I also use on my phone with Firefox for Android.

Code - OSS extensions

Code - OSS (aka the open source upstream of VSCode) is my primary code editor, and I have various extensions to improve the experience when working with various languages.

clangd - C/C++ code completion & more using clangd
Cmake - CMake language support
CodeLLDB - LLDB debugger integration for debugging C/C++
Lua (sumneko) - Lua language server
Markdown Table - Helpful extension for editing Markdown tables
Material Icon Theme - Nice icon theme with a lot of icons for particular filetypes and folder names
Seti-Monokai - Nice dark Monokai-like theme

Links are to OpenVSX which most open source distributions (Code - OSS, VSCodium) use but all should also be available on the VSCode extension marketplace.

Phone

This is just a selection of some of the apps I have installed on my phone - you are likely not very interested in all the Google apps that are preinstalled and such.

Calculator++
Conversations - XMPP Client
F-Droid
Feeder - RSS client
Firefox (the… technically not Free official build)
Fossify Gallery (replacing Google Photos)
Markor - Text editor
Obsqr - QR reader
Revolution IRC - IRC client
SchildiChat - Matrix client
Stanley - Android app analyser
Termux
Tusky - Mastodon client
Vädret - Weather app (sourcing data from Swedish SMHI)

For my launcher and icon theme I use Nova Launcher and Delta icons which are… proprietary and non-free respectively. :(