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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