My awesome software list

This is a list my software, aka toolkit. Some of them described in more details in separate notes.

Check also My shell scripts and dotfiles.

To understand custom bullet list types check my notation note.

• ⬛ dotfiles, personal NixOS, scripts and software configuration.

Development Tools

• dotfiles

• GCC - GNU Compiler Collection

• GNU Debugger - Multi-language debugger

• Pycharm - Python IDE

• Docker - Container platform

• virt-manager

• QEMU - Virtualization/emulation

• quickemu - QEMU frontend

• wine - Windows compatibility layer

• entr - File change monitoring

• GNU Utilities - Basic development tools

• leetcode-cli - LeetCode CLI

• indent - Code formatter

• TeX Live packages - LaTex system

• ghostscript - PostScript interpreter

• imgui - GUI library

• Create text-based diagrams with Mermaid - YouTube

• Rsync tutorial, rsync(1) manpage and examples

• T3 chat - Web wrapper around models

• ChatGPT - AI language model

• GitLab - Git repository management

• GitHub - Code hosting platform

Text Processing & Search

• fzf - Command-line fuzzy finder

• cloc - Code line counter

• jq - JSON processor

• ripgrep - Regex search tool

• ripgrep-all - Enhanced ripgrep

• Neovim - Text editor, my PDE

• GNU Sed

• VisiData

• ➖ Emacs - Lisp-based editor

For programming

• ipython - interactive python command shell
• jupyter - interactive computing across all programming languages

Version Control

• Git - Distributed version control system
• fugutive.vim - Vim Git wrapper
• github-cli - GitHub CLI
• glab - GitLab CLI
• patch - Apply diff files

Shell & Terminal

• Bash - Unix shell

• Zsh - Unix shell

• tmux - Terminal multiplexer

• PathPicker

• ➖ Alacritty - GPU-accelerated terminal

• ➖ kitty - Terminal emulator

Time and Date

• libfaketime

Web & Internet

• Firefox - Web browser

• Brave - Chromium-based browser

• Miniflux - RSS reader

• lynx - Text browser

• Chrome DevTools

• Firefox DevTools

• ➖ Newsboat - CLI RSS reader

• ➖ w3m - Terminal-based web browser.

• ➖ AdGuardHome - Ad blocking

• ➖ Surfingkeys - Keyboard navigation for browsers

Communication & Messaging

• Slack - Instant messaging and collaboration

• Telegram - Instant Messaging app

• BitlBee - Multiprotocol IRC gateway server

• Thunderbird - Email client

• ➖ neomutt - Message user agent (MUA)

Databases

• SQLite - Full-featured, SQL database engine
• MySQL - Relational database management system
• PostgreSQL - Object-relational database management system

File Management

• 7z - High compression file archiver
• fd - Simple, fast alternative to find
• NNN - Terminal file manager
• ncdu - Disk usage analyzer
• file - File type identifier
• detox - Filename cleaner
• fdupes - Duplicate file finder
• Btrfs - Filesystem

System & Security

• linux - Unix-like operating system kernel, Linux

• gio - Desktop/server application library

• Ventoy - Bootable USB creator

• progress - Progress viewer

• libfaketime - System time modifier

• systemd-ihibit - Execute a program with an inhibition lock taken systemd-inhibit wodim foobar.iso This burns the ISO image foobar.iso on a CD using wodim(1), and inhibits system sleeping, shutdown and idle while doing so.

• ldd - Print shared library dependencies, useful for debugging and find required libraries.

• parallel - Parallel command execution

• pass - Password manager

• GPG - Encryption tools

• Borg - Backup system

• List of anti-detect and humanizing tools

• StarVPN - VPN service

• Awesome Privacy

• ➖ firejail - Security sandbox

Hardware & Electronics

• htop - Process viewer
• dmidecode - Hardware information sudo dmidecode -t 2 - get motherboard name
• lshw - Hardware lister
• [geekbench] - System benchmarking
• [bench] - Performance testing
• IMLCGui - Memory latency testing
• qmk - Keyboard firmware
• Qucs-S - Circuit simulator
• Fritzing - Electronics prototyping
• KiCad - EDA suite
• Arduino - Electronics platform

Learning & Reference

• KOReader - E-book reader

• Calibre - E-book management

• Obsidian - Knowledge base

• pandoc - Document converter

• ttyper

• tldr

• Klavaro - Typing tutor

• surfraw - CLI web search

• Anki - Spaced repetition flashcards

• cheat.sh Cheat sheets

• caniuse - Web compatibility

• crontab guru - Cron expression editor

• healthchecks - Cron monitoring

• ➖ Zotero - Research Assistant

• ➖ Papis - CLI bibliography manager

Media & Entertainment

• cmus - Music player

• mpv - Media player

• Davinci Resolve - Video editor

• Audacity - Audio editor

• Piper - Text to speech system

• pavucontrol - Volume control

• ffmpeg - Media converter

• yt-dlp - Video downloader

• MusicBrainz Picard - Music tagger

• REAPER - Digital audio workstation.

• HandBrake - Video transcoder.

• flacon - Audio file encoder. Extracts audio tracks from an audio CD image to separate tracks.

• Twitch - Live streaming platform

• YouTube - Video sharing platform

• IMDb - Movie/TV database

• ➖ Kdenlive - Video editor

Graphics & Design

• Inkscape - Vector graphics
• darktable - Photo workflow
• Krita - Digital painting
• GIMP - Image editor
• Blender - 3D graphics
• SolveSpace - CAD software
• PureRef - Reference manager
• jp2a - Image to ASCII converter
• qView - Image viewer
• ImageMagick - Image manipulation
• maim - Screenshot tool
• Topaz Labs - AI image/video editing
• Gentube - Generative AI platform

Window Management

• Hyprland - Wayland compositor

• Rofi - Application launcher

• dunst - Notification daemon

• swaylock

• hypridle

• xclip - Clipboard manager

• xdotool - X11 automation

• wmctrl - Window manager control

• quark - Web server

• sent - Presentation tool

• tabbed - Tab manager

• ➖ barrier - KVM software

• ➖ dmenu

• ➖ slock - Screen locker

• ➖ DWM - Window manager

Gaming & Entertainment

• Godot - Game engine

• RetroArch - Emulation frontend

• Steam - Game platform

• MangoHud - Performance overlay

• gamescope - Gaming compositor

• Epic Games - Epic Games Store is a digital video game storefront for PC and Mac (game store)

• ➖ Lutris - Game manager

Text Processing & Productivity

• Taskwarrior - TODO manager
• Timewarrior
• termdown - Timer and stopwatch
• ledger - Accounting
• sc-im - Spreadsheet
• libreoffice - Office suite
• xsv - CSV processor
• tesseract - OCR engine
• Pix2Text (P2T) - Math OCR tool
• Pix2Text - recognizing LaTeX
• sdcv - Dictionary
• translate-shell - Translator
• figlet - ASCII art text generator
• pdftk - PDF toolkit
• Time Converter and World Clock - Time zone converter

Network & Infrastructure

• wireguard - VPN

• wireshark - Network analyzer

• nmap - Network scanner

• curl - Data transfer tool

• rclone - Cloud storage manager

• rsync - File copying tool

• nethogs - Network monitor

• nfs-utils - Network filesystem tools

• locust - Load testing

• aria2c - Download utility

• wget - Download utility

• samba - File sharing

• BIND - DNS server

• net-tools - Network utilities

• mitmproxy - HTTPS proxy

• lsyncd - File synchronization

• Archive.org-Downloader - Book downloader

• qbittorent-nox - BitTorrent client

• remmina - Remote desktop client

• ipcalc - IP calculator

• ➖ Syncthing - Continuous file synchronization

• Internet Archive - Digital library

• Scrapfly - Web Scraping API

Mobile & Tablet

• xodo - PDF annotations
• Tachiyomi - Manga reader
• termux - Android terminal
• scrcpy - Android control
• Nomad Sculpt - Mobile sculpting
• xodo - PDF annotations
• [network cell] - Mobile network tool
• Neo-Backup - Android backup

Awesome software

• sindresorhus/awesome - Awesome lists
• StanForever/awesome-websites - Website collection
• ArchWiki List of Applications
• Awesome-Linux-Software
• Awesome-nix
• modern-unix
• awesome-tuis
• Awesome command-line