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Programs I Use

  • On Debian (desktop):

    • i3 (window manager)
    • i3status-rust (desktop status line)
    • nitrogen (x background setter)
    • rofi (on-screen menu)
    • dolphin (file manager)
    • konsole (terminal emulator)
    • firefox (browser)
    • gvim/neovim (editor)
    • bash (shell)
    • xmms2 (music player)
    • pavucontrol (audio volumes and input switching)

  • Remote:

    • tmux (terminal multiplexer)

  • On Mac (for work):

    • iTerm2 (terminal emulator)
    • Hex Fiend (hex editor)
    • LICEcap (screen recorder for demos)

  • Fonts:

  • Additional Tools:

    • kicad (schematic and PCB editor)
    • okteta (hex editor)
    • tigervnc-standalone-server (vnc/remote gui)
    • tigervnc-viewer
    • deluge (torrents)
    • vlc (video player)
    • wireshark (network analyzer)
    • xmms2 (music player)

Some Handy Installation Commands

On Debian

apt-get install i3 i3status rofi dolphin konsole vim-gtk3 vim-scripts neovim neovim-qt nitrogen net-tools netcat python3-serial tmux gxmms2 xmms2 jq
apt-get install gcc-m68k-linux-gnu gcc-arm-none-eabi gdb-multiarch ocaml opam openocd
apt-get install kicad kicad-libraries iverilog yosys nextpnr-generic nextpnr-ice40-qt gtkwave
apt-get install fontconfig fonts-agave fonts-ancient-scripts fonts-anonymous-pro fonts-courier-prime fonts-dejavu fonts-dejavu-extra fonts-elusive-icons fonts-ferrite-core fonts-font-awesome fonts-fork-awesome fonts-glasstty fonts-hack fonts-hermit fonts-ibm-plex fonts-inconsolata fonts-lato fonts-lobster fonts-lyx fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont fonts-monofur fonts-monoid fonts-noto fonts-noto-cjk fonts-noto-cjk-extra fonts-noto-color-emoji fonts-noto-core fonts-noto-extra fonts-noto-hinted fonts-noto-mono fonts-noto-ui-core fonts-noto-ui-extra fonts-noto-unhinted fonts-opensymbol fonts-powerline fonts-proggy fonts-quicksand fonts-sil-gentium fonts-spleen fonts-staypuft fonts-symbola fonts-terminus

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
rustup component add rust-analyzer-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
cargo install i3status-rs
  • install rust and rust-analyzer from rustup: curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
  • manually install Firefox and Signal binaries

On Mac

brew install bash bash-completion@2
brew install binutils nvm ocaml opam
brew install --cask iterm2 hex-fiend licecap macvim
brew install --cask tigervnc-viewer wireshark
brew install --cask font-azeret-mono font-b612-mono font-cousine font-incosolata

Alternate Programs To Try

  • Terminal Emulators:

    • konsole (current default)
      • lots of good features without being too heavy feeling
      • it doesn't run on MacOS, which I use for work
    • alactritty
    • wezterm
    • kitty
      • no scroll bars, and developer has no interest in implementing them
    • stterm
      • it doesn't support scrollback without a patch, and that's a critical feature for me, but is otherwise really lightweight
    • warp
      • no linux support

  • Shells:

    • bash (current default)
    • nushell
      • still in early development, but impressive
    • zsh
      • I don't like the double tab autofill behaviour and haven't tried configuring it differently
    • fish
      • it tries to do too much for me and can be distracting

  • Editors:

    • vim (current default, but trying out neovim)
    • neovim
      • fonts don't display the same, but that's partly because they're broken in vim
      • no prompt as soon as file changed on disk (fixed with noautoread and autocmd whenever focus changes)
      • nvim-qt as frontend doesn't have as many little features as gvim
        • guioptions=a which automatically yanks text selected with the mouse to the '*' register
        • mouse cursor doesn't change shape when hovering over interactive ui elements like in gvim (vertical bar cursor in text area, up/down arrow cursor over status bars that can be moved)

  • Window Managers:

    • i3 (current default)
    • sway for Wayland
      • last time I tried to run Wayland/Sway, it wouldn't start, likely because I'm also using the nvidia drivers, which apparently don't play well with sway, but I'm happy with X11/Xorg, so I'll stick with i3 for now

  • Terminal Multiplexers:

    • tmux (current default)
      • at first I didn't like the status bar (even though it can be turned off) but I used to use a multiplexer mostly through my phone when out of the house and on poor internet connections, but now that at work, I have to do all my coding and building on a remote machine through SSH, I prefer the extra features it has, especially the status bar
    • zellij
    • screen
      • I used to use it but switched to tmux, for the extra features

Additional Resources