Hemish

Tools I use

Desktop environment

I primarily use Wayland.

  • Generally, I use GNOME because I love its simplicity and design.
  • I used to use Sway and Hyprland; wlroots is a cool project.

Text editors

  • I use neovim for quick editing in terminal,
  • but I use VS Code for projects spanning multiple files and actually coding something.
  • Casually GNOME Text Editor (or simply Text Editor) for quick things.

Music Players

  • I use Youtube Music (because of its vast library).
  • I tried the 'keeping offline music' thing with mpd, syncthings and stuff, but was not viable for me.

Archive manager

  • Generally Nautilus (GNOME Files) just works fine with normal archives.
  • File Roller (or Archive Manager) when using GUI, for complext archives and others not supported by Nautilus.

Notes

I prefer to just use markdown for notes, but I also do want the sync functionality. I use:

I sync their write directories either through Syncthing or MEGA cloud storage, and they work beautifully.

Todo app

I use todo.txt format to take notes. I use:

Video player

Imagine not using MPV

Screen Recording

  • For quick recordings - Kooha
  • For high quality long recordings - OBS

Document Reader

Evince (generic name: Document Viewer)

Fediverse

I currently only use Mastodon primarily, though I also have a pixelfed account. The clients I use are:

Browser

I tried to switch to Firefox and ungoogled-chromium. But, I am back at plain old Google Chrome.

Office tools

One and only LibreOffice

Torrent client

I used to use QBitTorrent, and it worked great. But, now I use Deluge just because of my affection for GTK.

RSS and Atom Feeds

I use the miniflux instance of my friend. The clients I use for it:

Image viewer

  • Loupe (The new GNOME Image viewer)

Backup software

I use Pika Backup to backup my stuff to two places: BorgBase and my external hard disk. (Pika Backup is a frontend to Borg Backup)

Matrix Clients

Video Editor

I keep both Kdenlive and OpenShot handy.

Other miscalleneous tools