There seems to be a bit of a hype going currently amongst bloggers where people post what their so-called "default apps" or mostly used applications are, apparently prompted by this podcast and Robb Knight's list .

I see most of the participants posting a variety of often Apple-based proprietary software. I thought I'd join in on the fun from a purely FOSS (Free Open Source Software) perspective. I have a strong preference for minimalistic local-first software following the UNIX philosophy (do one thing only, do it well, and interconnect), and often prefer terminal-based interfaces. I want to show that you can perfectly use FOSS tools for all your everyday needs!

• 📮 Mail Client: aerc
• 🌐 Web Browser: Firefox
• 🧮 Code/Text Editor: neovim
• 📜 Word Processing: LaTeX (but more often via Markdown + pandoc)
• 📊 Presentations: LaTeX with beamer (more often via Markdown + pandoc)
• 📜 PDF viewer: zathura
• 🎥 Media Player: mpv
• 🎵 Music: ncmpcpp (client) + mpd + snapcast
• 📝 Notes: neovim and markdown files in a git repo
• ✅ To-Do: todo.txt with my own todo.txt-more extension.
• 📆 Calendar: todo.txt-more
• 🗞️ RSS Client: newsboat
• 🎤 Podcasts: podboat (comes with newsboat)
• ⌨️ Launcher: bemenu
• 🌅 Photo viewer: imv
• 🌅 Photo editing: gimp
• 🌅 Image editing (vector): inkscape
• 📹 Video editing: kdenlive
• 💬 Chat: senpai + soju (IRC), bitlbee (XMPP), gomuks (Matrix), Telegram (or tg)
• 🔖 Bookmarks: buku + bemenu script
• 🔐 Password Management: pass
• 🤦 Social Media: Mastodon (sometimes via tut)

Geek Bonus:

• 🐧 OS: I use Arch Linux btw (on my desktop and laptop)
  • I use postmarketOS on my phone (based on Alpine linux), with SXMO
  • On my server I use Ubuntu Linux as host system, with Alpine Linux containers via podman for various self-hosted services, I posted about it on lemmy.
• Terminal: foot
• Terminal multiplexer: tmux
• 🐚 Shell: zsh
• Compositor/Window Manager: Hyprland on desktop/laptop, sway as part of SXMO on phone
• Dotfiles