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Favorite Programs

The list is comprised of open-source software organized in alphabetical order.

1) Audio / Music

2) Image / Video

3) Communication / News

4) Personal planning

5) Security

6) Knowledge Management / Document preparation

7) General

8) Scripts

9) Games

1) Audio / Music

Cava - audio visualizer.

Cmus - music player (alternative: Moc).

FFmpeg - tools for transcoding, streaming and playing of multimedia files.

FLAC - lossless audio coding format.

LilyPond - music notation.

Pulsemixer - mixer for PulseAudio.

Ogg Vorbis - lossy audio coding format.

Opus - lossy audio coding format (preference: 128-160 VBR).

2) Image / Video

Feh - image viewer.

Mpv - video player.

Webp - image format (replacement for JPEG, PNG, GIF).

3) Communication / News

Abook - addressbook.

Dino - XMPP client.

Mutt Wizard - email client (alternative: Aerc).

Newsboat - rss/atom feed reader.

Wttr.in - weather check.

4) Personal planning

Calcurse - text-based calendar and todo manager (alternatives: Remind, Khal, When).

GNU Pem - personal expense manager (alternative: Ledger).

Taskwarrior - to-do manager (alternative: Task).

5) Security

Pass - password manager (alternative: Keepass XC).

Veracrypt - data encryption (alternative: Cryptomator).

6) Knowledge Management / Document preparation

BibTeX - lists of references (works well with LaTeX).

Groff - document preparation system (alternative: LaTeX).

Libreoffice - office productivity suite.

Logseq - knowledge base.

Mdp - markdown presentation tool.

Neovim - text editor (alternative: Nano).

NovelWritter - text editor for writing novels and larger projects.

SC-im - spreadsheet program.

Wordgrinder - word processor.

Xapers - personal document indexing system, geared towards academic journal articles.

Zathura - document viewer.

Zotero - research assistant.

7) General

Bc - GNU bc arbitrary precision calculator language.

Cht.sh - cheat sheets repositories.

Cmatrix - screensaver (alternative: Asciiquarium).

Dvtm - terminal multiplexer.

Filezilla - FTP solution.

NNN - file manager.

Redshift - night light.

Rofi - window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement.

Tty-clock - clock.

Xwallpaper - set wallpaper.

8) Scripts

Diary

Schedule

Shopping list

To-do

8) Games

Freesweep - minesweeper.

Nsnake - snake game.

Petris - tetris.