Software I Use

Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Operating System

Arch Linux with BSPWM Tiling Window Manager.

zsh: I use zsh as a shell, because of features like plugins, spelling correction, and approximate completion. I don’t mind using other shells though, as on my server I use bash.

I only use vanilla zsh, with my configs. I don’t use oh my zsh because it is slow and has unnecessary stuff which I don’t need.

vim/Neovim: vim is a incredibly powerful and efficient text editor. The amount of stuff I’ve done in record time using vim is staggering.

Ungoogled Chromium: Chromium based web browser with google components and blobs removed. I use it with extensions like uBlock Origin, Vimium etc.

ranger: A highly configurable file manager, with vi key bindings and other cool stuff.

sxiv: A hacker-friendly scriptable image viewer. It also supports animated GIFs, thumbnails, and slideshows.

zathura: zathura is a minimal yet highly customizable plugin-based document viewer. If you want to make it read pdf, you’ll need a plugin for that and the same goes for other types of doucments like ps, epub etc.

Previously I used to use xreader, but now I’ve switched to zathura, because it just works the way I want it to be.

mpv: Neat and simple interface video player which works perfectly with a wide variety of video formats and has all the customizations I need.

rtorrent: BitTorrent client.
aria2: All-in-one downloading tool.
ffmpeg: General purpose command-line tool for video and audio recording, and conversion. I mainly use it for adding subs to video files, concatenation, and cropping.
ImageMagick: I use it to edit, convert, resize or rotate images.
rclone: Command line program for managing files over cloud storage. Yes, a Swiss army knife of cloud storage.
youtube-dl: CLI tool for downloading youtube videos. Can download youtube playlists or even an entire youtube channel. It also supports downloading from many other websites. Technically, I use yt-dlp these days, because it has some additional features and it also fixes problems like buffering with mpv that I face with regular ytdl.