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This is just for discovering new software. I created mine so I don't forget the programs I use when setting up a new machine. You can skip the obvious ones. Here, I'll start:

# System
Distro: Arch Linux
Window Manager: i3
Shell: Zsh (OMZ)
Terminal: Kitty
Terminal Multiplexer: Tmux
Application Launcher: Rofi
Notification: Dunst
Compositor: Picom
Panel: Polybar
Audio: Pipewire

# The Web
Web Browser: Librewolf, Helium
Chat: Discord, Element
Mesh VPN: Zerotier
DPI Bypass: B4

# File Management
File Browser: Thunar, Yazi
File Sharing: LocalSend
Torrent: qBitTorrent
Git CLI: Lazygit

# File Creation/Modification
Text Editor: Micro
Code Editor: Helix, Zed
LaTeX Editor: Gummi
Image Editor: GIMP, Krita
Video Editor: Kdenlive, Blender
Audio Editor: Audacity
Modelling: Blender
Document Editor: LibreOffice, Xournal++
Image Upscaler: Upscayl

# File Viewing
Music Player: Strawberry
Media Player: MPV
Image Viewer: Ristretto
Document Viewer: Papers

# Utility
Screenshotter: Flameshot
Pipewire Graph: QPWGraph
Video Recorder: OBS
Color Picker: XColor
Default Apps: Selectdefaultapplication
Clipboard History: greenclip
Dotfile Manager: yadm
Network TUI: impala, nmtui
Bluetooth TUI: bluetui
Volume TUI: wiremix
Disk Analyzer: ncdu
Wallpaper: xwallpaper
Chooser: choose
Markdown Renderer: glow

# Gaming
Game Launcher: Steam, Faugus, Prism, Sober
Proton Manager: ProtonUp-QT

# Productivity
Flashcard: Anki
Whiteboard: Drawy
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[–] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Grepping "ackag" is super cursed

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

why? if I do Package/package/packages/Packages it's likely not to hit if it doesn't match the letter case correctly or if I added the s when it shouldn't be there.

it's definitely going to hit ackag , and I don't have to write as much.

[–] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It definitely will work and is efficient, it just feels cursed

I'd to just run <command> | grep -i "package", feels more intuitive for me.

But again, nothing wrong with how you did it, just feels unnatural to me

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

-i, --ignore-case Ignore case distinctions in patterns and input data, so that characters that differ only in case match each other.

Oh , would you look at that. Great. What's the quotes do?

[–] BetterDev@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

Nothing in this case, but allows for spaces and shell expansion so a lot of people (including myself most of the time) add them by default from muscle memory

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

That's kinda fun