Software

List of software I use.

Android

• CalyxOS

  Custom android rom focused on privacy. Mostly supports Google Pixel phones and 1 Xiaomi one.

• F-Droid

  FOSS Play Store alternative

• KISS Launcher

  Minimal app launcher

• LineageOS

  A stock android rom with less Google. Has support for more devices but CalyxOS would be preferable

• Scrambled Exif

  Scramble metadata from images

Defaults

• Another notes app

  Notes app

• Arcticons

  Icon pack

• Clock

  AOSP Clock fork

• File Manager

  File manager

• Open Camera

  Camera

• Simple Calendar

  Calendar

• Simple Gallery

  Image viewing

• Simple Keyboard

  Keyboard

Multimedia

• Auxio

  Music player (I now just mostly use mpv)

• MuPDF Viewer

  PDF (and others) reader

• Newpipe

  YouTube alternative

• VLC

  When mpv-android can't play certain files

• mpv-android

  Android version of mpv

UNIX/Linux

• Artix Linux

  Arch but without SystemD (I use runit)

  • Arch's Mirrorlist

    Because Artix made Arch's repository optional a while ago, which I guess is a good thing

• Busybox

  Tiny toolbox of a buncha utilities

• OpenDoas

  Simpler alternative to sudo, Because sudo is "insecure bloat"

• cproc

  Small, well written, and mostly comprehensive C11 compiler. Authored by Michael Forney, who also made oasis linux

• maim

  For taking screenshots

• mandoc

  The mandoc UNIX manpage compiler toolset

• neocities-cli

  Because opening my bloated browser, logging in, and manually copy pasting files is a pain

• neomutt

  Email client for the terminal

• newsboat

  Terminal RSS/Atom feed reader

• oasis linux

  A small, 100% statically linked linux distro. Favors simpler alternatives for tools (e.g. sbase instead of GNU coreutils)

• sbase

  Suckless base utilities

• tcc

  Tiny C Compiler

• vimiv

  Vim-based image viewer (for larger images)

• vis

  A text editor that combines vi's modal editing with an implementation of Rob Pike's "Structural Regex" as seen in sam

• waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan

  AI Image Upscaler

• yay

  AUR Helper

Browsers

• Badwolf

  Nice, simple and privacy-oriented webkit browser

• Dillo

  For testing purposes

• LibreWolf

  Firefox but better

• Netsurf

  Well-written and independent web browser. With it's own layout engine and all

• w3m

  When I'm too lazy to open LibreWolf

Fonts

• FiraCode

  Nice monospaced font with ligatures

• Liberation

  Mostly for mimicking default fonts like Arial

Multimedia

• ImageMagick

  For basic image operations like crop, rotate, etc. Mostly use for cropping art to album covers

• Krita

  Probably the most viable FOSS alternative to proprietary painting programs

• FFmpeg

  For basic video operations like cutting, transcoding, etc. Sometimes used for tagging and inserting album art to MP3 files

• Olive

  Shockingly good FOSS video editor, it's still in alpha stages though so bugs should be expected

• PipeWire

  PulseAudio alternative

• ncmpcpp

  NCurses client for MPD

• ncmpcpp-ueberzug

  Wrapper that enables cover art via Ueberzug

• mpd

  Music Player Daemon

• mpv

  Best media player, period.

• pngquant

  Lossy PNG compression, almost consistently cuts down to halfsize

• youtube-dl

  Mainly a video downloader

• ytfzf

  Browse YouTube videos in the terminal and watch them in MPV

• zathura

  Minimal and extensible document viewer

Network

• LXPolkit

  Polkit for RiseupVPN

• aria2

  Terminal downloader. Also supports FTP, Bittorrent, and Metalink

Scripts

• ani-cli

  A script for streaming anime in the terminal with fzf and mpv!

• mutt-wizard

  DISCLAIMER: You should be able to understand gpg, pass, and be able to make a simple mutt/neomutt config with isync (See is1, is2) before using this script, it will save you a lot of headache

• tmpmail

  Temporary Email accounts in the terminal

Shells

• dash (http)

  Symlink for /bin/sh

• mksh

  MirBSD's portable korn shell

• oksh

  OpenBSD's (unofficial) portable korn shell

  • loksh

    Linux port of oksh

• zsh

  Z(oomer) Shell

Xorg

• xorg

  Might go with Wayland someday, but for now I'll have to rely on good ol'.. old, old, X.

• Redshift

  Because blue light is yuck

• dmenu

  Generic X menu

• dwm

  Dynamic X window manager

• grabc

  X Colorpicker that outputs to stdout

• picom-git

  To get epic transparency :^)

• slock

  Simple X display locker

• st

  Simple X terminal

• sxiv

  Simple X image viewer

• unclutter

  X program for hiding the mouse when it's not in use

• xclip

  X clipboard

• xwallpaper

  X wallpaper setter

Windows

Exclusively for drawing.

• Scoop

  Package Manager

• neovim

  A clean-up of vim

Multimedia

• Clip Studio Paint

  Proprietary drawing program, but I really like it :-(

• Emulsion

  Image Viewer

• PureRef

  For viewing reference images (proprietary)

• ShareX

  Screenshot Tool

VPN

• CalyxVPN

  FOSS VPN made by the Calyx Institute. Based on Bitmask

• RiseupVPN

  FOSS VPN made by the Riseup Organization. Based on Bitmask