[meta]: (Software that I use) [meta]: <subtitle> (Desktop software, server software, phone apps, everything) [meta]: <author> (Loek) [meta]: <date> (April 13 2021) [meta]: <tags> (software, open source, server, phone) [meta]: <cover> (/img/software.png) ## PC software All of the software on this page is cool and I think you should try it. I also use all of this software, and will update this page when I find new, *even cooler* software to use instead. Most if not all of my configuration files (dotfiles) are on my [github](https://github.com/lonkaars/dotfiles). You can clone these and edit them to fit your needs, or you can use them as a reference for when you can't figure out how to configure something. ### Regular software - **Email client**: [neomutt](https://neomutt.org/). It's fast and simple, though configuring it was a pain in the ass. I'm currently using it in combination with mbsync and imapnotify to get notifications for new emails, and sync my mailbox for fast email viewing. - **Music player**: [mpd](https://www.musicpd.org/) with [ncmpcpp](https://github.com/ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp). This is the best music setup I've ever used. I download all my music in .flac format and mpd *just works*. Since mpd has a server-client structure, I could also use this to set up multiple devices that can add music to a central queue at a party or something, but I just use it to launch [an fzf mpc wrapper](https://github.com/DanielFGray/fzf-scripts/blob/master/fzmp) to quickly add music while I'm doing something else. - **Text editor**: [nvim](https://neovim.io/). It's vim. If you don't like vim, you should try using it longer. If you still don't like vim, you can use [code oss](https://appimage.github.io/Code_OSS/) which is visual studio code but without Microsoft's creepy telemetry features. - **PDF viewer**: [zathura](https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/). It's a pdf viewer with vim bindings, and it works with my TeX editing setup's live reload thingy. - **Image viewer**: [sxiv](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv). It's like zathura but for images, but it also does a bunch of other stuff that I don't use very often. - **Browser**: [brave](https://brave.com/). It's a normie-friendly chromium fork with extra privacy features! I of course use brave (or any chromium-based browser) with [tampermonkey](https://www.tampermonkey.net/), [ublock origin](https://ublockorigin.com/), [stylus](https://github.com/openstyles/stylus) and [dark reader](https://darkreader.org/). - **Terminal**: [st](https://st.suckless.org/). It's fast and simple, nothing to complain about. I have my [own st fork](https://github.com/lonkaars/st), with a bunch of patches that make me happy. - **Password manager**: [bitwarden](https://bitwarden.com/). Open source password manager that you can host yourself. It also has public servers which are mostly free, but some features like time-based one-time passwords are paid. All the clients are also open source. - **Document typesetting**: [LaTeX](https://www.latex-project.org/) (using [latexmk](https://personal.psu.edu/~jcc8/software/latexmk/) with the [XeTeX](http://xetex.sourceforge.net/) compiler). - **File browser**: [ranger](https://github.com/ranger/ranger). It's kind of slow, but I use the bulkrename feature very often, and I haven't gotten used to the perl `rename` script yet. - [unar](https://github.com/MacPaw/XADMaster). I like running `unar [archive]` instead of using `7z`, `tar`, `unzip`, etc. It creates a new folder to unpack to automatically so it does exactly what I need. ### OS stuff - **Window manager**: [i3-gaps](https://github.com/Airblader/i3). I tried it once and didn't switch back so this is a winner I guess. I've also heard good things about [dwm](https://dwm.suckless.org/), though I haven't used it myself. Most people complain about i3's limited configurability, but I haven't ran into something that it doesn't do for me. - **Application launcher**: [rofi](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi). I've been using rofi since I started using linux, and haven't switched to anything else because it's *very* configurable, and has a dmenu mode for using it instead of dmenu with other scripts. I use it primarily as my application launcher, but I also have a hotkey setup to launch `bwmenu` which is a script that fills in bitwarden passwords using rofi. - **Shell**: [zsh](https://www.zsh.org/) with [oh-my-zsh](https://ohmyz.sh/). It's zsh, all the cool kids use it already. I do have `/usr/bin/sh` `ln -s`'d to `/usr/bin/bash`, but I'd like to change that to `/usr/bin/dash`. Eh, I'll get around to it someday. - **Status Bar**: [polybar](https://github.com/polybar/polybar). Simple bar, gets the job done, the configuration files make me go insane though. It took me a good half year of ricing to understand the polybar configuration files, and I'm still not sure if I do. - **Notification daemon**: [dunst](https://dunst-project.org/). I used to use deadd-notification-center, but that has waaaay too many haskell dependencies on arch, so I don't use that anymore. - **Global keybinds**: [xbindkeys](https://www.nongnu.org/xbindkeys/xbindkeys.html). Simple configuration, works flawlessly, 10/10. - **Compositor**: [picom](https://github.com/yshui/picom). It's a simple compositor. I use it to enable vsync for desktop windows, and I have it set up to only show a drop shadow on floating i3 windows. ### Closed source - [discord](https://discord.com/). Gamer. The only reason this is listed here is because I use discord with [betterdiscord](https://github.com/rauenzi/BetterDiscordApp) (which *is* open-source). Betterdiscord allows you to use custom css themes, custom plugins and a whole bunch of other cool stuff that regular discord doesn't do. It's technically against TOS, but I don't really care as I only use quality of life improvement plugins. - [figma](https://figma.com). It's the designing software that I use to create user interface or website mockups. It's easily accessible though a browser, and it uses webassembly so it's also decently fast. It's free for personal use. ## Server software This is the software that runs on my home server. ### Email I used [Luke Smith's](http://lukesmith.xyz/) [emailwiz](https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/emailwiz) to set up my email server. The script installs and configures an email setup with [postfix](http://www.postfix.org/), [dovecot](https://www.dovecot.org/), [spamassassin](https://spamassassin.apache.org/) and [opendkim](http://www.opendkim.org/). ### Etesync I run my own [etesync](https://www.etesync.com/) server for synchronizing my to-do lists, calendar and contacts. It's relatively easy to set up, and has a web interface that you can use with your own self-hosted instance. ### Bitwarden I also run my own [bitwarden](https://github.com/bitwarden/server) server. It uses docker with docker-compose, which are two things that I'm supposed to know about, but I don't. I'm working on a connect 4 website myself, and I'm planning on learning to use docker with docker-compose to make it easier to run the seperate parts that are needed to host the project. ### Git I have a [cgit](https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/) server to host my git repositories on <https://git.pipeframe.xyz>, and I use [gitolite](https://gitolite.com/gitolite/) for ssh git push access. Cgit is very easy to set up, and I like it very much. Gitolite on the other hand is a pain in the ass to set up, because the documentation is not that great. If you're planning on using gitolite on your own server, set the umask in `~/.gitolite.rc` of your server's git account to `0022`. ### SFTP I have two semi-public sftp accounts set up on my server: `media` and `sftp`. `sftp` is for generic file sharing, and `media` is for my media. Both accounts have tty login disabled and are chroot-jailed to /var/media and /var/sftp. ## Phone apps These are the apps that I use on my phone. I recently upgraded my 2017 Nokia 6 to a Google Pixel 4a (sunfish). It's a great phone! You can root it or flash custom rom's very easily, and it gave me new appreciation for the basic features of a smartphone. The Pixel 4a has really good haptics. They're almost iPhone level, though I won't be using iPhones any time soon. I flashed [CalyxOS](https://calyxos.org/) as soon as it was 5 minutes out of the box, but ended up not liking it because of it's nonexistant root support. I'm currently using [LineageOS](https://lineageos.org/) 18.1, rooted using [magisk](https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk). ### Open source - **One-time password generator**: [andotp](https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP) - **App store**: [aurora store](https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore). This app works better when you're rooted, but it's way better than the google play store. - **App store**: [aurora f-droid](https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/auroradroid) - **Password manager**: [bitwarden](https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile) - **Browser**: [bromite](https://www.bromite.org/). This is basically ungoogled chromium but for mobile. - **Calendar**: [etar](https://github.com/Etar-Group/Etar-Calendar) - [etesync](https://github.com/etesync/android) - **File browser**: [material files](https://github.com/zhanghai/MaterialFiles). It looks sexy, it's free, it's awesome. - **Email client**: [k-9](https://k9mail.app/). - **Maps**: [osmand](https://osmand.net/). - **Music player**: [shuttle](https://www.shuttlemusicplayer.com/). It looks sexy, it's free, it's awesome. - **Instant messenger**: [signal](https://signal.org/). [papa musk said it](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1347165127036977153). - **Manga reader**: [tachiyomi](https://tachiyomi.org/) - **To-do lists**: [tasks.org](https://tasks.org/). This is easily the best to-do app I've ever used, and it integrated very well with etesync. If you're cheap (like me), you can get 'free' pro by downloading this app through f-droid instead of the play store. It's still nice to donate. - **Smart home control**: [home assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/). [the whole spiel](/post/homeauto). - **Notes**: [leaflet](https://github.com/PotatoProject/Leaflet). It's basically Google Keep but open source and without Google. It's part of the PotatoProject which is a custom Android rom, and there were plans for an open source notes sync server that you could host yourself, but I haven't seen that pop up yet. The app is written in Flutter, and did have choppy scrolling animations on my old phone. I'm not sure if that was a bug or my old phone just being underpowered, but it's something I want to mention anyways. - **Weather**: [geometric weather](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/wangdaye.com.geometricweather/). It's really good. Good animations, live wallpaper, fast, etc. - **RSS Reader**: [tiny tiny rss](https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fox.tttrss/). This app requires that you host your own tiny tiny rss server, but I do and the app works great! - **Myanimelist client**: [moelist](https://github.com/axiel7/MoeList). I don't know how I found this app but it's a real gem. If you use MAL you should download this app. - **PDF reader**: [pdf viewer plus](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.gsnathan.pdfviewer/). This is the only one that's actually decent. Good UI, good UX, pretty fast rendering. 9/10 ### Requires root - **Ad-blocker**: [adaway](https://adaway.org/). It does have a rootless mode, though the app warns you that it's slower and impacts your battery life negatively. - **Theme engine**: [substratum](https://github.com/substratum/substratum). Substratum requires root on android 9+, unless you're on stock samsung (one ui). Android 8 and under users can buy [andromeda](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=projekt.andromeda). Samsung users can buy [synergy](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=projekt.samsung.theme.compiler). They're both developed by the same people behind substratum, but they're not open source. ### Closed source - **Reddit client**: [sync](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.laurencedawson.reddit_sync)