Note
Configurations for things that I am no longer using can be found in the archive branch.
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Documentation
Essential
- git - Distributed revision control system.
- nodejs - JavaScript runtime.
- python3-pip - A tool for installing and managing Python3 packages.
- remove-retired-packages - Remove retired distribution's packages.
Web Browsers
Customization
- Nerd Fonts - Iconic font aggregator, collection, and patcher.
- Nerd Font used: FiraCode Nerd Font
- Embellish - An application for managing Nerd Fonts.
- Oh My Posh - A prompt theme engine for any shell.
Text Editors & IDEs
- helix - A post-modern modal text editor written in Rust.
- Text Editor - Text editor for the GNOME desktop environment.
- VSCode - An integrated development environment developed by Microsoft.
System Monitoring and Information
- fastfetch - A neofetch like system information tool.
- htop - An interactive process viewer.
- nmon - A systems administrator, tuner, benchmark tool, which provides information about CPU, disks, network, etc.
- lm_sensors - A collection of modules for general SMBus access and hardware monitoring.
- collectl - A utility to collect Linux performance data.
- smartmontools - a set of utility programs to control and monitor computer storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology system built into most modernATA, Serial ATA, SCSI/SAS and NVMe hard drives.
- nvme-cli - Provides NVM-Express user space tooling for Linux.
- macchanger - A utility to viewing & manipulating the MAC address of network interfaces.
Optimization
- profile-sync-daemon - Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers.
Security
- firewalld - A firewall service daemon that provides a dynamic customizable firewall with a D-Bus interface.
- firewall-config - Firewall configuration application provides an configuration interface for firewalld.
- clamav - An open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats.
- chkrootkit - A tool to locally check for signs of a rootkit.
- lynis - An auditing and hardening tool for Unix/Linux. Performs many individual security control checks. Detects security issues and provides suggestions to improve the security defense of the system.
- rkhunter - Rootkit Hunter, security monitoring and analyzing tool.
- fail2ban - Scans log files and bans IP addresses that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address. These rules can be defined by the user.
- firejail - A SUID sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces.
Other
- Logseq - A free and open-source, personal knowledge base and note-taking application
- mediawriter - A tool to write images of Fedora media to portable drives.
- gparted - A graphical partition manager.
- Warehouse - A UI to manage Flatpaks.
- Gear Lever - A utility to manage AppImages.
- KeePassXC - A secure free and open source cross-platform password manager.
- Syncthing - Free and open source peer-to-peer file synchronization application.
- Seahorse/Passwords and Keys - Manage encryption keys. A keyring manager.
- Authenticator - Am application for generating Two-Factor Authentication Codes.
- gnome-keyring - A daemon for managings passwords and other types of secrets for the user, storing them encrypted with a main password. Applications can use the gnome-keyring library to integrate with the keyring.
- Thunderbird - Free and open source email client.
- LibreOffice - Free and Open Source office suite.
- VLC - A free and open source cross-platform multimedia player.
Essential
- alacritty - Terminal emulator.
- thunar - File manager.
- blueman - A tool to use Bluetooth devices.
- cups - Print manager for Linux.
- imv - Image viewer for X11 and Wayland.
- autotiling - Script for sway and i3 to automatically switch the horizontal & vertical window split orientation.
- NetworkManager - NetworkManager is a system service that manages network interfaces and connections.
- nm-connection-editor - A network connection configuration editor for NetworkManager.
- network-manager-applet - Network control and status notification area applet for use with NetworkManager.
- pipewire - A multimedia server for Linux and other Unix like operating systems.
- pipewire-alsa - An ALSA plugin for the PipeWire media server.
- ffmpeg-free - A multimedia framework to record, convert and stream audio and video.
- waybar - Status bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.
- swaylock - Lockscreen for Wayland compositors.
- swaybg - Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors.
- light - Light is a program to control backlight.
- fuzzel - Wayland-native application launcher and fuzzy finder, inspired by rofi and dmenu.
bemenu - Dynamic menu inspired by dmenu.- wlogout - A wayland based logout menu.
- wdisplays - A graphical application for configuring displays in Wayland compositors.
- wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library.
- wf-recorder - Screen recording utility for of wlroots-based compositors that support wlr-screencopy-v1 and xdg-output.
- grim - Command-line tool to grab images from Sway.
- grimshot - Screenshot utility for sway.
- slurp - Command-line tool that allows you to select a region on the screen and prints it to the standard output.
- wl-clipboard - Command-line Wayland clipboard utilities,
wl-copyandwl-paste. - swaync - A notification daemon for SwayWM.
- copyq - Graphical clipboard manager.
- NetworkManager-tui - NetworkManager-tui provides a text-based user interface for managing network connections in a non-graphical environment.
- tuned - A dynamic adaptive system tuning daemon.
- tuned-ppd - power-profiles-daemon compatibility daemon.
Customization
- Nerd Fonts - Iconic font aggregator, collection, and patcher.
- Nerd Font used: FiraCode Nerd Font
Note: Nerd Font icons are used.
- Oh My Posh nordtron theme
- adwaita-icon-theme - Icon set for GNOME core apps.
- adw-gtk3-theme - The theme from libadwaita ported to GTK-3.
adw-gtk3 repository- Install adw-gtk3 from Flatpak
Stylize Flatpak applications (Doesn't work with non-libadwaita GTK4 apps):flatpak install org.gtk.Gtk3theme.adw-gtk3 org.gtk.Gtk3theme.adw-gtk3-dark
- Install adw-gtk3 from Flatpak