software.rst

Operating system installation

Author:	meisterluk
base-system:	xubuntu 20.04
lastchange:	2020-08-15

Internet

Browser:

• Mozilla Firefox #installed or Waterfox #app, with addons
  • Privacy badger #addon
  • ghostery #addon
  • uBlock Origin #addon
• Google Chromium #apt
• Torbrowser #apt
• Beaker browser #app

SFTP:

• Filezilla #apt

Network analysis:

• nmap #apt
• simple, concise shell interface for interacting with REST services
• HTTPie is a command line HTTP client #apt
• Wireshark
• gnupg2
• KeePassX
• curl
• Network manager
  • network-manager-openconnect-gnome
  • network-manager-pptp-gnome
  • network-manager-vpnc
• nmap

Communication:

• pidgin
  • IRC
  • Jabber with OTR
• Signal
• mumble

Shell

• elvish #apt
• yash #apt

Many tools to consider:

• alternatives for coreutils
  • find: fd is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find
  • grep: the silver searcher
  • grep: ack is a grep-like source code search tool
  • grep: ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern
  • ssh: bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the ssh without root access and system installations
  • diff: icdiff #apt
  • ls: A modern version of ‘ls’
  • ls: lsp lists files, like ls command, but it does not attempt to meet that archaic POSIX specification <https://github.com/dborzov/lsp>
  • cat: A cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration
  • cat: ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting.
  • cd: directory jumping (based on frequency)
    • z: jump around
    • A command line tool which helps you navigate faster by learning your habits
    • A faster way to navigate your filesystem
• find CLI commands / handle shell history
  • navi
  • fuzzy finder
    • fzf: interactive Unix filter for command-line that can be used with any list
    • shell plugin that seamlessly adds fuzzy search to tab completion of z
• selector: percol
• blocking:
  • Simple, native and efficient local advertising blocker
  • Improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains
• up:
  • up: Stop typing ../../.. endlessly
  • Quickly go back to a specific parent directory in bash instead of typing "cd ../../.." redundantly
• information lookup
  • CLI commands
    • how2: stackoverflow from the terminal
    • has: check presence of various command line tools on the PATH and reports their installed version
    • A fully-functional POSIX shell client for tldr.
  • curl wttr.in
• zsh specific:
  • oh-my-zsh: I like the rjk, linuxonly, and trapd00r themes
  • git-extra-commands is a ZSH plugin that packages some extra git helper scripts I've found

Version control

• Little git extras
• tiny CLI script that generates a .gitignore file for your projects

Process control, power management, memory

• htop #apt
• Coreutils Progress Viewer
• Atop is an ASCII full-screen performance monitor for Linux that is capable of reporting the activity of all processes, daily logging of system and process activity for long-term analysis, highlighting overloaded system resources by using colors, etc
• PowerTOP is a Linux* tool used to diagnose issues with power consumption and power management
• ncdu #apt

Virtualization

• VirtualBox #apt
• Docker
• vagrant

Backups

• restic #apt
• dupfiles #app

Software development

• cloc counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages
• meld

Text editors / IDEs:

• geany
• eclipse / Netbeans
• WingIDE
• Sublime Text
• vim

Compilers:

• C → llvm/clang
• C → gcc
• C# → MonoDevelop
• go → go
• Java → JRE, SunJDK java or openJDK
• python3
  • pypy
  • (optional) ipython
  • (optional) glade
  • python packages:
    • pylint
    • pep8
    • numpy
    • pygments
    • lxml
• perl
• clojure → leiningen
• io
• Haskell → ghc [Glasgow Haskell Compiler]
• Pascal → fpc [free pascal compiler]
• ruby → ruby and irb
• scala
• Algol → a68g [algol68g]
• lua → lua5.3 and löve

Device management

• btrfs
• gparted

Presentations

• impressive
• arandr
• pdfpc
• inkscapeslide

File formats

• xsv is a command line program for indexing, slicing, analyzing, splitting and joining CSV files
• jq #apt
• bcal (Byte CALculator) is a REPL CLI utility for storage expression evaluation, unit conversion and address calculation
• pandoc

Office

• PDF
  • Adobe Reader
  • xournal
  • pdftk
  • qpdf
• texlive
• LuaTeX, ConTeXt
• LibreOffice

Multimedia

• Quick and simple image processing at the command line using imagemagick and advanced selectors
• youtube-dl to download videos

Music

• Audacity
• VLC Media Player

Images and Animation

• GIMP, Photoshop, krita, Pencil2D
• Pencil [prototyping], Dia Diagram Editor
• Inkscape
• Agave [color combinations]
• FontForge
• Scribus
• Blender
• xia: Convert svg to html5 interactive pictures #apt

Video

• OpenShot
• kdenlive

Mathematics

• GeoGebra
• sagemath
• Mathematica

Games

Linux

• Frozen Bubble
• Tetris
• Chess
• Mines
• Armagetron Advanced
• jvgs
• starpusher
• gbrainy
• SuperTux 2
• Teeworlds

Windows

• C&C Generals Zero Hour
• Black Hawk Down
• Unreal Tournament
• Minesweeper

Checklist

Browser

• Quick Search set up?
• Browser does not close tabs
• Browser forgets privacy-relevant data
• If required, hate yourself for installing a Flash plugin

Devices

• USB sticks are detected
• internet setup is stable?
• Audio input/output works?

Keyboard setup

You can switch between the following keyboard layouts:

• Austrian
• Neo2
• Japanese

Security model

• Always lock your screen before leaving your computer
• Sensible data must only be stored encrypted (also backups!)
• Your passwords are stored in a password manager - in case of emergency, your most trustworthy friend can access it
• Enable other people to communicate over a secure channel with you
• Always keep your software stack up to date