Software I Use

Posted: 2022-08-22 #software #linux
2 minute read.

When people discover that I am a computer nerd, almost always they make a comment on something. This is my the software that I actually use. There’s some genericisim (is that even a word?) in this list, but I’m bored and need to write something. Thus begins the uninteresting list.

Window Manager

Awesomewm

Awesome is the second window manager I have used. It will most likely be the last one I’ll will use. Awesome is a really old fork of dwm, evolved into a completely different project now. The main reason I wanted to check it out is that it has an entire lua api for configuring it, with built in batteries with a widget library for the dedicated hacker. Along with that, the community is really great (not like dwm’s elitists) and my opinion is definitely not biased in any way at all¹.

Editor

neovim and others.

To be frank, my main editor is neovim. I got it the way I want and it works in the way that I need it to work. However, I have been using both Emacs and Kakoune quite a lot in recent days. All 3 are great editors with solid core feature sets that all work to make text editing a breeze.

Terminal

urxvt

The only terminal that has not been literally awful at glyph rendering with xresources support. Plus, who needs emojis on the terminal? No one. Nobody should ever have a need for them. Period.

Other Honorable Mentions

lf

Really nice terminal file manager. Its actually very nice to have a keyboard-operable file manager for a nicer view of the filesystem at times. Configured in good ol’ shell, so its comfy and familiar.
ncmpcpp + mpd

Literally the only way humans should listen to music. Client is clean and simple, daemon is simple and works every time. Mpd supports pretty much any audio format you can think of.