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: VSCode / Kate / Micro
Diff: VSCode / KDiff3
File manager: Dolphin
Image viewer: Gwenview / feh
Music player: VLC Media Player / Audacious / 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: None (Previously Quassel IRC, previously HexChat…)
Content blocker: uBlock Origin
Performance overlay: MangoHud
Gaming: Steam, Luanti, Principia
Console gaming (emulation): Dolphin, Azahar, PCSX2, melonDS, mGBA etc.

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.

Code - OSS extensions

(TODO: This section is outdated, need to update it sometime…)

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
Fossify Gallery (replacing Google Photos)
Markor - Text editor
Material Files - File manager
Obsqr - QR reader
Open Camera
SchildiChat - Matrix client
Stanley - Android app analyser
Termux
Tusky - Mastodon client
Vädret - Weather app (sourcing data from Swedish SMHI)

I used to use Firefox on my Android phone to get a subset of extensions, but had to switch back to Chrome for Android due to Firefox for Android’s performance and stability degrading to the point of unusability on my phone.

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