My Software Stack
By chimo on (updated on )This is a blog post similar to My Android Stack, except for my daily-driver machine: a Dell XPS laptop running Alpine Linux. Most of those tools run in their own Incus container, because why not.
- aerc + opensmtpd + mbsync
- aerc is a terminal email client. I use opensmtpd to send emails and mbsync to synchronize with my mail infrastructure.
- bemenu + bemoji
- bmenu is a menu library, bemoji is an emoji picker that integrates with bemenu.
- foot
- Terminal emulator for wayland.
- grim + slurp
- slurp lets you select a screen region, grim takes screenshots
- imv
- CLI image viewer.
- irssi
- Terminal IRC Client
- khal + khard + vdirsyncer
- Calendar and Contacts managers for the terminal. vdirsyncer takes care of synchronizing data between my machine and my nextcloud instance.
- nextcloudcmd
- Nextcloud CLI client. I use it with my nextcloud instance.
- newsboat
- Terminal RSS Reader. I use it with my FreshRSS instance.
- mpv
- Media player (local media, YouTube, Twitch, etc.)
- qutebrowser
- Keyboard-focused web browser.
- rbw
- Bitwarden CLI client. I use it with my vaultwarden instance.
- tmux
- Terminal multiplexer.
- sway + swayidle + swaylock-effects
- Tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager.
- tut
- Terminal mastodon client.
- vim
- Text editor. More info about my vim setup here.
- wl-clipboard
- Clipboard for wayland.
- zathura
- Document viewer (ex: PDF).