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title: "Software I Use"
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# Here are the programs I use on a daily basis

These are some great (mostly free) and open source apps/programs that I use (and you should too!)

## Desktop Programs:

- ### Operating System:

    I use [Arch](https://archlinux.org) btw

- ### Web Browser: 

    [librewolf](https://librewolf.net)

- ### Terminal Emulator: 

    [Alacritty.](https://alacritty.org/) best terminal.

- ### Image Editor: 

    [GIMP.](https://gimp.org) This is a no-adobe household.

- ### Video Editor: 

    [Kdenlive](https://kdenlive.org) is pretty crashy but eh shotcut won't even work. 
    Also it's gotten much better since 2020 (when I first started using it)

- ### Screen Recorder:

    Do I even need to say it? [OBS](https://obsproject.com).
    I use [this]() AUR package, because I need the OBS Browser plugin.
    It's a bit annoying to compile OBS at every update but I just keep it running while I sleep.

- ### Text Editor: 
    
    [Recently](/blog/2022/i-switched-to-emacs) switched to [Doom Emacs](https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs), before that it was[NeoVim](https://neovim.io).

- ### Email Client:

    [Thunderbird](https://thunderbird.net) is actually pretty dope. It's GUI though. Maybe I'll try out any CLI options later.

- ### File Manager:

    I have both [lf](https://github.com/gokcehan/lf) and pcmanfm on my system but those are for noobs. `cd`, `rm`, `mv`, `cp` are the best things.

- ### Shell:

    [Fish](https://fishshell.com/) but I might go back to zsh idk

- ### Window Manager:

    [XMonad](https://xmonad.org/) is the best window manager and you can't prove me otherwise.
    If you want to see my config files (along with polybar and stuff) see my [dots repo](https://github.com/MikunoNaka/dots)

- ### RSS Feed Reader:

    [newsboat](https://newsboat.org/)

- ### MyAnimeList Client:

    Btw, I use [macli](/docs/macli)

- ### Password Manager:

    [KeepassXC](https://keepassxc.org/) is dope

## Mobile Programs:

All of these apps are on <https://f-droid.org>

- ### Operating System:

    Stock Android (Nothing OS) just because my phone has an intact warranty.

- ### Camera:

    Either the default camera on Nothing OS or  [OpenCamera](https://f-droid.org/packages/net.sourceforge.opencamera/).

- ### YouTube Client:

    [Newpipe](https://newpipe.net/) is beautiful.

- ### Web Browser:

    Nowadays I use vivaldi. I would like to use a non-chromium browser but it's just not good enough on mobile.
    Firefox is disappointing on android, though [Firefox Focus](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/mobile/focus/) 
    is actually really good. I usually use that as my second browser.

- ### TOTP App:

    [FreeOTP+](https://freeotp.github.io/) is great but nowadays I just use KeePassXC on my laptop.

- ### Contacts Sync App:

    [Radicale](https://radicale.org/v3.html) with [DAVx5](https://www.davx5.com/) for mobile.
    [This is how you can host your own instance!](https://landchad.net/radicale/)

- ### RSS Feed Reader:

    [Feeder](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/) but I don't really use RSS on phone.

- ### Reddit Client:

    No longer use Reddit but [RedReader](https://f-droid.org/packages/org.quantumbadger.redreader/) supremacy!

- ### Email Client:

    [K-9 Mail](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fsck.k9/) is a really good email client on F-Droid!

## Other:

(i.e work on both platforms ig)

- ### Cloud Storage, etc:

    [Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com/) devs marry me!