Arch Wiki has a huge list of applications for most things. This is probably a subset of that.
Internet
General
Communication
- Thunderbird - Desktop
- FairMail - Android
Chat
Multimedia
- GIMP - for photo editing
- ImageMagick - for command line image manipulation (
convert something.png something.jpg) - Clementine - music player
- VLC - video player
- Audacity - audio editing
- Kdenlive - for simple video editing
Utilities
- vim - you know, but at the same time I like Emacs and VS Code too.
- Intellij Idea for Java/Android projects
- Redshift - color adjustment
Shell
- ZSH
Documents
- Calibre - for epub and everything!