Laptop

Distribution(s)

• Debian
  Free, open source, stable.

Desktop Environment

• KDE Plasma
  Lightweight and snappy.

Office

• Kate
  Text editing but with some extra power.

• Calibre
  Manages ebooks. I like ebooks, shoot me!

• LibreOffice
  General purpose office suite for word processing, spreadsheets, etc.

• zathura
  A document viewer that saves screen space.

• Xournal++
  Hand note-taking software. Useful for annotating PDF files.

Internet

• Claws Mail
  Tiny, simple, maintained, plaintext, bottom posting; it has all you need! It works with different email providers and focuses on email. That means that it is lacking a true calendar function and importing and syncing contacts is not always straightforward. You will get over this once you have things looking and working the way you like.
  Read about it on my blog here.
  Remember to use plain text

• Syncthing
  P2P file synchronization between devices on a local network, or between remote devices over the Internet. I use it just for notes and photos but it can do lots more. This has replaced Dropbox and Google Drive for me.

Browsers

• qutebrowser
  Keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI.
  Some configurations here on Codebeg

• Librewolf
  An independent fork of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy, security and user freedom

• Amfora
  A great looking Gemini client.

Piracy

• Nicotine+
  Free and Open Source (FOSS) alternative to the official Soulseek client.

Images and Graphics

• Flameshot
  Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software.

• Inkscape
  Sometimes I need to make a pretty graphic to wow my students.

Audio and Video

• Audacity
  This is just the most straightforward way to record audio. It works and it works well.

• mpv
  If I am going to watch a video on my computer, whether local or via YouTube, I use mpv. It does audio as well and there are plugins and extensions that allow for different functions.

Music

• beets
  The music geek’s album organiser.
  My beets configuration

• Strawberry Music Player
  Music player and music collection organizer.

• cmus A small, fast and powerful console music player. I use this over other options (like mpd) because it is so damn easy!

Command Line Tools

• ditaa
  Turns ASCII art into diagrams.

• Pandoc
  A universal document converter. I use this to make 95% of my documents for work.

• gramma
  Commend-line grammar checker

• ImageMagick
  Convert, edit, work with images.

• pdfannots
  A script that extracts annotations from a PDF file.

• PDFtk A very simple tool that can do lots of things with PDF files. This is a necessity for my job and it has saved me and made me the hero of my department on many occasions.

• scrcpy An application that provides display and control of Android devices connected on USB (or over TCP/IP).

• youtube-dl
  The (in)famous open-source download manager for video and audio content from video hosting websites.

• yt-dlp
  A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

• Ytfzf
  A script that helps you find Youtube videos (without API) and opens/downloads them using mpv/youtube-dl

Android

• universal-android-debloater
  Use ADB to debloat rooted and non-rooted android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device.

Launcher

• KISS
  Lightning fast, open-source, Android Launcher

• Delta Icons

• Arcticons
  A monotone line-based icon pack for Android

App Stores

• Droid-ify
  Free and Open Source Android App Repository

• Aurora Store
  Aurora Store is an alternate to Google’s Play Store, with an elegant design

Main Apps

• FairEmail
  Fully featured, open source, privacy friendly email app for Android

• NewPipe
  A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android

• qksms
  The most beautiful SMS messenger for Android

• Etar Calendar
  Android open source calendar

• Privacy Browser Android
  Privacy Browser is an open source Android web browser focused on user privacy

• Mull
  Privacy oriented and deblobbed web browser based on Mozilla technology

• Total Commander
  Two-paned file manager

PineTime

• Infini Time
  Open Source firmware

Other

Tools, Hosting, Git

• Markdown
• Codeberg