February 14th, 2014 (orig) May 9th, 2023 (last updated)
List of Favorite Tools
These a list of my favorite tools that I've come across over the years.
Server/Dev Operating System
Devuan (Freia)
Debian without a lot of the cancer infesting the base-distro.
Daily Driver
OpenMandriva
Trying to pick between GhostBSD, Omarchy, Vendefoul Wolf, OpenMandriva, and Devuan. Mainly prefer X11 systems without systemd or wayland trash foundations.
VI
neoVIM
Windows Text Editor
Brackets (replaced Notepad++)
Code Editor
VSCodium (replaced Atom)
Coding Font
Hack »→
VI / VIM Colorscheme
neoVIM Colorscheme
cyberpunk
Resource Monitor
C/C++ Compiler
GCC
Memory Leak Catcher
C/C++ Debugger
KDbg
Command Line Sysinfo
neofetch
Command Line Resource Monitor
BpyTop / btop++ / btop
Directory Listing
exa
Filesystem
btrfs
USB Boot Tool
Ventoy
USB ISO Burner
UNetBootin
Stress Tester
s-tui
For some inexplicable reason, they dropped NTFS support in later versions, preferring FAT32. It just doesn't make any sense. The simple hack is to simply preformat as FAT32 to select the USB drive, and then reformat as NTFS before resuming with the burn.
Windows USB ISO Burner
Rufus
Windows SSH Client
PuTTY
Windows SFTP
WinSCP
Music Player
Audacious (Classic Winamp Skin »→)
Shell
ZSH ; (Previously KSH)
While I don't mind BASH just for regular quick simple usage, ZSH has really grown on me. I still have nostalgia for KornShell, but its just deprecated at this point.
Team / Project Communication
Discord ; (Previously slack)
MUD
CircleMUD
CircleMUD will always be my favorite, however, its likely better to simply use its successor (tbaMUD).
Image Viewer
xviewer (originally xv)
DeepFake
Icon Theme
Reverse Engineering Tools
Packet Sniffer
Wireshark
Markdown File Viewer
mdv (by Gunther Klessinger)
ASCII Tools
jp2a
Web Browser
FireDragon
Start Page
URL Shortener
CreepyLink.com
YouTube Browser
ytfzf
YouTube Downloader
youtube-dl
Torrent Client
deluge