Uses
The software that I use on a daily basis
Laptop
I use Fedora Workstation with the GNOME desktop environment on my ThinkPad L14 as my daily driver. It is simple, elegant, stable, and a joy to use.
Previously, I ran Arch Linux (btw) on my ThinkPad P1 with hyprland, a beautiful tiling window compositor for Wayland. I love using tiling window managers. Their customizability and efficiency is streets ahead compared to floating window managers. Even more previously, I have used the tiling window managers XMonad, herbsluftwm, and awesomewm. However, I had to switch as these do not support Wayland.
Text Editor
I use Neovim to edit my text files. Neovim is easily my favourite text editor. The learning curve was steep and I spent some time configuring and tinkering with it to my liking. But now that that’s done, I cannot use any other editor, definitely not VS****.
Browser
I use Firefox with these extensions:
- uBlock Origin to block those pesky ads
- Stylus to customise the appearance on various websites using CSS
- Enhancer for YouTube for additional customisations on YouTube
- SponsorBlock to skip over sponsored segments in videos on YouTube
- Dark Reader so I don’t blind myself with bright websites at night
- Bitwarden to generate and remember all my passwords
- Netflux to force Netflix to stream in 1080p on Linux
Some other interesting extensions that I have used in the past.
- SteamDB to display additional pricing info on Steam pages
- Tridactyl for those sweet vim keybindings
- Firenvim to convert every text box into an instance of Neovim.
- Tree Style Tab
- Gesturefy
Terminal emulator
- Kitty
Reading
- Evince
- Zathura
- Foliate
- Calibre
Note taking
- Joplin
- Xournalpp
- Rnote
Art
- Inkscape
- Krita
- LibreSprite
Photo editing
- RawTherapee
- GIMP
Watching Videos
- MPV
Music
- PyRadio
- Shortwave
- Amberol
Video editing
- Kdenlive
GNOME extensions
- AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support
- Battery time
- Blur my Shell
- Gnome 4x UI improvements
- Net speed Simplified
- Night Theme Switcher
Other miscellaneous applications
Phone
I am using an Android phone. Some notable apps:
- Aegis Authenticator
- AntennaPod
- AnkiDroid
- arXiv eXplorer
- Audio Spectrum Analyzer
- Auxio
- Aves Libre
- Barcode Scanner
- Bitwarden
- Capy Reader
- Compass
- Dropsync
- FitoTrack
- Habits
- KOReader
- Librera Reader
- Luftlinie
- Markor
- mpv-android
- MJ PDF
- NiceFeed
- Open Camera
- Organic Maps
- Pie Launcher
- PlantNet
- PTO
- QDict
- Read You
- Shader Editor
- Signal
- Simple Time Tracker
- Stellarium
- Survival Manual
- Termux
- Thunderbird
- Tracker Control
- Tiddloid
- Trail Sense
- Tuner
- URLCheck
- URL Radio