Tags: TeknolojiI am only putting programs I have tested in the long-run here.
## Priorities
I like moving fast on my computer.
I prefer terminal apps for the sake of efficiency and simplicity. That being said I will not use a program just to be cool (cmatrix is an exception).
I will only use FOSS software.
The software must work on my preferred operating system.
## Core
- Operating System
Artix Linux is a systemd-free fork of Arch Linux. Arch and their derivatives are quite minimal and come only with the base.Edit: Gentoo is a highly flexible, source-based Linux distribution.
- Terminal
st (simple terminal) is a suckless tool and it is one of the most minimal terminal emulators out there. It is also highly customizable but I stick to the defaults as I don’t need much from a terminal emulator other than to emulate the terminal.
Edit: I no longer use X11 and try to do stuff on the native linux tty, so I do not use any terminal emulators.
Edit 2: I now use Wayland and am using foot as a terminal emulator.- Shell
I didn’t make-my-mind up on which shell to use yet, therefore I will update this page when I choose one.- GUI
dwm is a suckless window manager. Together with being minimal and fast it is a tiling window manager. If you never tried a tiling window manager before, you should.
dmenu is a little suckless tool that… is hard to explain… but if you can use it right it can do miracles.
Edit: I no longer use X for graphics and I use kms/drm and the Linux Framebuffer for graphics. For some applications such as Firefox I use Weston.
Edit 2: Using the framebuffer is a pain because of lack of application support and a clipboard. Now I am using the Wayland compositor river.- Text Editor
vim: “Less of a text editor and more of a lifestyle.Edit: I now use vis instead of vim, the above quote is still relevant. The advantages of vis is that it is less bloat and has a very nice feature called structural regular expression.
- Web Browser
Vieb is the Vim Inspired Electron Browser. Although I am not sure if I will stick with it, it is fine for now.Edit: I don’t use Vieb anymore, I generally try to use lynx, and for graphic heavy websites I just stick to default Firefox.
## Utilities
- File Manager
I don’t use file managers, but you can use PCManFM if you want a GUI file manager.- Mail Client
mutt is a efficient mail client.I also sync my mail to offline using isync.Edit: I no longer sync my mail using isync, but I may go back to that.
- Media Player
mpv. It is the best, don’t bother with anything else.- RSS Reader
newsboat is a RSS reader.Edit 2: newsraft is inspired by newsboat and tries to be its lighter counterpart.
Edit: snownews is a RSS reader.
If you don’t use RSS, you are wrong. You can also subscribe to social media accounts and open them with mpv. See this.- Password Manager
pass is a password manager.I also used KeePassXC before which is also good.
Edit: I now use tpm.
## Production
- Video and Audio
ffmpeg is the swiss army knife of video and audio, there is nothing you can’t do with it: streaming, editing, rendering, converting, and much more.
Olive & Shotcut are fine if you need to do some fancy editing ( as it is hard to do with only writing ffmpeg commands ), though I do encourage you to think if you need to edit a video or not.- Writing Documents
LaTeX is a good solution for making documents, though it is not a very minimal choice ( anything is more minimal than MS Word if you are thinking about it ),I also want to try groff/troff which I heard is a minimal typeset.Edit: I have tried groff and it is awesome, use when possible!
- Presentations
sent is a suckless tool which allows you to make a presentation instantly from a plain text file. Needless to say, it is very fast and cool.- PDF Viewer
zathura is a pdf viewer. I used to use mupdf but I wanted to use poppler as I can also use its tools.- .doc/.docx Editor
abiword is a document Editor for the MS Word document format. I don’t use this for my own documents, I only open the Word docs other people send to me.- Image Modification
GIMP is a Photoshop alternative.
graphicsmagick is a collection of tools for small & repetitive image modification tasks.- Download Manager
aria2 is a download manager. I didn’t use many download managers so I don’t know if it is the best, but I use it.youtube-dl is a tool to download content from various sites, such as Youtube, Bandcamp, and other.
## You can probably find the program you are looking for below:
Suckless list of programs that rock
musl-libc alternatives (not alternatives to musl)
Gradient list of minimalist programs.
Gentoo’s list of recommended software
