A complete list of softwares that helped me being productive

These are the softwares I daily drive for being productive

Operating System

There are many Operating Systems out there but my choice is clear

• GNU/Linux (I use Arch BTW)

Shell

• Fish
• Bash

Terminal Emulator

• Alacritty
• Kitty
• Ghostty or Wezterm are also great

Window Manager

• Hyprland

Web Browser

I use 3-4 web browsers each for a differnt task

• LibreWolf
• Zen Browser
• Tor Browser

File Manager

Simple and functional just gets the job done without much headache

• Thunar

Integrated Development Enviornment/Text Editor

• Neovim
• Kate by KDE (good GUI alternative if you don’t like neovim)
• Gedit for basic files edit

Image Viewer and Editor

• GIMP
• Feh (only image viewer)

Office Suite

• LibreOffice
• Zathura PDF Viewer
• Okular is also a great document viewer, I always have it installed, it can be bloated though as it requires a lot of KDE and qt dependencies

Credentials Manager

• KeePassXC
• Cyptomator

Media Player

• VLC
• FreeTube

Network Traffic Analyser

• WireShark

Version Control

• Git
• Also trying jj since recently

Containerization

• Podman
• Kubernetes

Virtualization

• KVM (I use Whonix VM)

Terminal Utilities

• Fzf
• cURL
• Nix
• Tmux