Essentials
This is the 2024 edition (updated for 2025-). Here we go.
hardware
software (2025-)
- foot – a fast, and minimalistic terminal emulator
- pngquant – lossy PNG image compression
- thonny – python IDE for beginners [and pros alike]
- zellij – terminal workspace with batteries included
plus everything from the list below.
software (2024)
- Raspberry Pi OS Desktop + bundled software
- anacron – run commands periodically
- bat – a cat(1) clone
- chisel – static site generator
- detox – tames problematic filenames
- entr – to run arbitrary commands when files change
- fd – a simple, fast, user-friendly alternative to find
- fish – a smart and user-friendly command line shell
- fzf – a command line fuzzy finder
- gimp – GNU image manipulation program
- git – distributed version control system
- gparted – disk partition manager
- gpg – GNU privacy guard
- hl.js – The syntax highlighter for the web
- Inkscape – Vector graphics editor
- KaTeX – The fast math typesetting for the web
- neovim – Vim fork with Lua plug-ins and good defaults
- auto-pairs – insert brackets, parens, quotes in pair
- latex-snippets-vim – LaTeX snippets
- lightline – a light and configurable status-line
- typst-snippets-vim – Typst snippets
- typst.vim – Typst language syntax
- ultisnips – snippets engine
- vim-monokai-tasty – a theme
- vim-plug – plug-in manager for Vim and Neovim
- vim-sensible – sensible defaults
- vim-surround – add surroundings in pairs
- nginx – http web server
- pass – the standard unix password manager
- python – programming language
- rename – perl rename script
- ripgrep – recursive search tool
- rsync – utility for incremental file transfer
- typst – modern typesetting system
- ufw – uncomplicated firewall