Linux

Basic but the nemo file manager

Just feels right to use for me

Emacs. Need I say more?

I literally live inside the combo of

• #Firefox
• #Evolution
• #Emacs
• #Alacritty
• #GIMP

And very rarely leave the comfort of my cozy habitat 😁

At work, I'm "forced" to use a Mac but thanks to #FOSS I've got the whole combo setup on my work laptop too except Evolution sadly.

The Caja file manager. Hell the MATE desktop environment in general is just perfect for me. Xfce is acceptable too, though the inclusion of CSD in recent Xfce releases has made me a bit more wary of it when it comes to theming.

I also use Waterfox as my browser. A Firefox fork that has the option to put tabs below address bar (where they belong imo) out of the box without needing to muck around with the userChrome.css file.

• Newsboat Lightweight, custom rich, with very cool look on terminal.
• Doom Emacs Very hard to use. But once you got it, nothin can beat its multi-function note!
• Freeplane Must have software to mapping everything you want perfectly and very lightweight brain-mapping.

Been really liking hyprland recently. Also I couldn't live without syncthing. Neovim has a special place in my heart also but not just for desktop.

I'd say the terminal, although its not linux exclusive and kind of a cheat answer. Flameshot is also a staple for me, I use it everywhere.

MPV comes to mind, although its also available in windows.

Kasts for podcasts, since it sync with Gpoddersync on my nextcloud.

Spectacle always makes me smile with how easy and featureful it is for a screenshot app.

Okular is a better PDF viewer than any proprietary app I've used.

Easy Effects is such a great program. Very good for doing all sorts of effects on audio. Great for filters and EQ.

Carla and QJackCTL for me. So much easier than having to haul around all my amps, pedals, etc.

I can't decide which one is my favourite. But thanks for the tipp, flameshot seems really amazing!

Whenever I use gnome I install the material-shell extension. I love the tiling.

• Firefox
• Jellyfin
• (when I get it to work) KDE connect
• krita
• aMule
• riced xfce
• riced kde plasma

Does Hyprland count? It's so effortlessly slick

Micro. It's a terminal text/code editor that shares keybindings with modern text editors.

Reaper, OBS, and Davinci Resolve.

Off the top of my head, currently it's WezTerm. https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/

I guess it's probably also available for servers but the most innovative and interesting peace of software I used in years is Distrobox, I like the AUR and love Debian and Fedora so that's a bridge I have been waiting for!

Neovim.

• vim / neovim
• Signal desktop
• thunderbird & evolution
• firefox & vivaldi
• VL frickin C!
• qbittorrent
• docker
• axel
• zsh & bash
• vscode
• wireshark
• Konsole / Terminator
• Standard notes
• xed or geany

I really like Setzer. It does everything I need from a latex editor and looks much nicer than other editors I have used on windows imo

Nothing Linux only but:

• Firefox
• OnlyOffice
• mpv
• DoubleCommander

Telegram Desktop is pretty good.

Bottles. Makes getting stuff working on WINE 10x easier.

Well, the permanently open applications on my system are: claws-mail, Pale Moon (browser forked from Firefox), konqueror (TDE file manager), konsole (TDE terminal), and Aqualung (music player). Other good friends include kate, Inkscape, and OpenSCAD (despite its flakiness). And I get a lot of mileage out of DOSBox.

If the OP hadn't specified desktop software, I'd also name Portage.

Pinta. It's like paint.net but works on Linux. Quick and simple way to edit images on Linux.

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