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mpv is just the perfect video player. In conjunction with youtube-dl it can play a lot of web videos simply like:
mpv "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0"
I use it in conjunction with Qutebrowser for watching Youtube videos, with my script `pop` for streaming films via torrents, for watching locally-networkly stored films and tv over sshfs and NFS. It does all the things I want a video player to do and nothing more.
It has a very minimal interface, an abundance of key-bindings, and is extremely configurable.
nnn is a terminal file manager. It's the only file manager I use. It's light, fast, simple and extensible.
Qutebrowser is a keyboard-centric web browser with vim-like key bindings. It helps make the web tolerable. It uses QtWebEngine which some might object to since it's based on Chromium, and I am of course sympathetic to that objection.
But it's designed from the ground up to be keyboard driven and very configurable, and it just *works better* than trying to shoehorn that behaviour into a normal web browser.
Also the main developer is just *lovely* and tirelessy helps people and answers their questions.
Mutt (Neomutt in my case) is the perfect email client. *Eventually*. By which I mean it takes a *lot* of setting up. It's one of those old-ass unixy tools that can do *anything*. But figuring out how to make it do a *particular thing* is a lot of work.
It's perfect *if* you can be arsed to set it up.
And, as with many such tools, the real value is in configuring it perfectly *for you*. Don't use someone else's config, decide what would be perfect for *you* and make it do that. Your config will be refined over years as you learn and your needs change, and that's *cool*.
My Neomut config. But *don't use this ‒ make your own!*
dwm is the closest I can find to a perfect window manager for me. It's a list-based tiler with master-stack layout and monocle mode, which is all I really want.
I'm writing this in vim (Neovim, specifically) *RIGHT NOW*. Everyone's heard of vim. Everyone's heard people endlessly banging on about how great vim is. They're right though; it is. If you've always intended to give vim a go but never gotten around to it ‒ give it a go! Run vimtutor and get going.
A TUI Gemini browser. It's really good! Works how I'd want it to work, has cool things like subscriptions and tabs and favicons. For me it's the best Gemini browser.