Software I Use

Desktop

Operating System: Fedora and Windows 10 LTSC.

Linux Desktop Environment: They all suck, for different reasons. I like the design principles of KDE even though it needs and deserves more testing and a lot more bug fixes.

Shell: Zsh, mostly for oh-my-zsh and autocompletion.

Text Editing: Vim when in terminal, Sublime text or VSCodium for larger projects.

Web Browser: Ungoogled chromium and Zen browser. The extensions I cannot use internet without are:

• uBlock origin
• I still don’t care about cookies
• Bypass Paywalls
• Linkding (for bookmarks, see below)

I don’t browse youtube often, but when I must, I need:

• Clickbait Remover for Youtube
• SponsorBlock for YouTube
• Unhook

I’m pleased that there are no decent and reliable ways to watch youtube on mobile operating systems (lately YouTube is cutting access to the API many frontends like invidious are using) because the repulsion from the dreadful mobile experience keeps me from wasting my time on this service.

Self-hosted services

When practical, I prefer to keeps data local on one machine only, both for security and simplicity. However, there are many cases where being able to sync data automatically across devices (both mobile and desktop) is indisputable.

Password manager: Vaultwarden.

Bookmark manager: Linkding. A fast and very lightweight bookmark manager with well-made browser extensions and mobile apps.

RSS feed reader: FreshRSS with NetNewsWire.

Calendar and Contacts: Radicale with iOS syncronization

Personal finance: Actual budget. I’ve started using it only recently but it does what I need without imposing paradigms and methodologies. Before, I kept expenses and incomes in a spreadsheet.

No mobile app, unfortunately.

Notes: Memos. Lightweight, easy to use and setup. Good mobile apps.

File sharing: None. I’ve tried multiple alternatives (NextCloud, rsync manually, …) but none satisfies me.