My favorite (preferred/used) applications
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
- HexChat - for IRC
- Convos - for cloud IRC
- Element - for Matrix.org chat
- Telegram - for large groups
- Gajim - for XMPP 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
- Inkscape - for vector images
Utilities
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vim - you know, but at the same time I like Emacs and VS Code too.
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Intellij Idea for Java/Android projects
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zed editor for editing
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Night Light in KDE for color management
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r-quick-share for Android Quick Share to work with Linux
Shell
- ZSH (but bash is fine)
Documents
- Calibre - for epub and everything!