Essential Software

In this section we will enumerate all of the software packages you should have installed on your computer. There are some items that can be considered optional, but you should be aware of all of these tools and install them when and as the need arises.

In addition to essential software, there are many useful packages that you should be aware of that can be occassionally used to improve your productivity. Tim maintains a list of these declaratively in his Nix Config Repo.

Graphical Applications

QGIS

URL: Purpose: Notes:

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URL: https://flameshot.org/ Purpose: Taking annotated screenshots efficiently Notes: I map Ctrl-4 to the tool in gnome like this:

LibreOffice

URL: libreoffice.org/ Purpose: Office productivity suite. Notes:

Services

Postgresql

URL: www.postgresql.org Purpose: Relational database management system with GIS support. Notes:

Console applications

These are applications used from the command line.

Asciinema 🎞️

URL: https://asciinema.org/ Purpose: Terminal session screen recorder Notes:

Nixos packages: * asciinema * asciinema-agg * asciinema-scenario

bat 🔧

bat is a modern alternative to 'cat'. It lists the contents of a file on stdout.

Nixos packages: bat

btop

btop : A modern alternative to top - list the running processes on your system |🔧

Nixos packages: btop

byobu

byobu | Terminal multiplexer |🔧 comma # handy "nix-shell -p" shortcut - just do ", programmename" and it does rather "nix-shell -p programmename" cowsay | Useful tool to say stuff with the persona of a cow |🔧 exa |Modern alternative to ls - lists files |🔧 fd | Modern alternative to find - finds files |🔧 ffmpeg_5-full | Free MPEG encoder |🎞️ figlet | Make ASCII text titles |🔧 git | Version control management tools |🔧 gotop | go based top - list the running processes on your system |🩺 iftop | list the network traffic on a network interface|🩺 imagemagickBig | command line based image manipulation |✏️ lazydocker | helpful docker command line docker ui |🔧 lazygit | helful git command line ui|🔧 mc | console based file manager |📁 ncdu | disk usage reporting too | 🖴 neofetch | show useful system info (I have it show whenever I open a terminal) |🔧 nethogs | show which processes are consuming bandwidth on your machine |🔧 nix-direnv | Automatically set up your dev env when you enter a directory. |🔧 pgcli | More modern postgres terminal client |🔧 wget | Fetch files from the internet in your console |🔧 dua | better du command |🔧 exa | better ls command |🔧 fish | fish shell like bash but with lots of goodies |🔧 gping | a better ping implementation |🔧 kitty | nicer terminal emulator with a lot of cool features |🔧 lftp | for remote backups |🔧 ranger | console file manager |📁 powertop | swee what apps use the most power on your machine |🔧 restic | for local backups |🔧 unzip | unzip stuff |🔧 usbutils | lsusb etc |🔧

Git & GitHub Account

URL: github.org Purpose: Version control of digital assets Notes: Although GitHub is not Git, you need to be set up to work on github.

Auxilliary applications:

Gui apps