Software I use

This is a list of (some of) the software I use. Some of these are also in the list of my git repositories.

Basic

Linux distribution

Artix with runit

Artix is a fork of Arch where systemd is replaced with OpenRC, runit or s6.

Window manager

Custom build of dwm

Info page

Also see dmenu

Info page

Terminal emulator

Custom build of st

Info page

Shell for interactive use

Zsh

Shell for scripting

Dash

I don't have bash or zsh linked to /bin/sh, because dash is narrowly POSIX-compliant and much faster.

Password manager

Pass

"The standard unix password manager". It's small, simple, stores all passwords locally and works well with dmenu.

Text editor

Vim

Media

Document viewer

Zathura

A plugin-based document viewer. It can't actually display any documents by default. For PDFs I use the mupdf plugin.

Image viewer

Custom build of sxiv

Github page

Media player

Mpv

Internet

Mail client

Neomutt

A fork of mutt, a terminal-ui based email client.

Web browser

Tor browser

LibreWolf

w3m

I use the Tor browser for general web browsing, and LibreWolf for sites that don't allow Tor connections and for logging in to online accounts.

I have also recently started using w3m, a browser in the terminal, for quick web searches. It has the advantage of loading pages extremely quickly and having vim keybindings for mouseless navigation. However, this comes at the cost of not supporting graphical content and JavaScript (though you can view images with a separate program).

Gopher/Gemini browser

Bombadillo