OS
- Debian
- The universal operating system
Window manager
- Sway
- A tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11
- dwm
- A minimalistic dynamic window manager for X
- Qtile
- A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python
Terminal emulator
- Foot
- A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
- Alacritty
- A modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but allows for extensive configuration
Browser
- Firefox-esr
- Open source web browser
Browser extensions
- uBlock Origin
- An efficient wide-spectrum content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.
- Vimmium
- The Hacker's Browser. Vimium provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of Vim.
Office suite
- LaTeX
- A document preparation system
- LaTeX beamer
- A LaTeX class for producing presentations
Text editor
- neovim
- Hyperextensible Vim-based text editor
File manager
- lf
- Terminal file manager
- thunar
- A modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment
PDF viewer
- zathura
- A highly customizable and functional document viewer
- okular
- Multi-platform, fast and packed with features, allows you to read PDF documents, comics and EPub books, browse images, visualize Markdown documents, and much more
Image viewer
- imv
- A command line image viewer intended for use with tiling window managers
Image editor
- GIMP
- GNU image manipulation programme
- ImageMagick
- A software suite, used for editing and manipulating digital images
Video/Music player
- mpv
- A free, open source, and cross-platform media player
Video editor
- Kdenlive
- KDE Non-Linear Video Editor
- FFmpeg
- A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video
Calendar
- lcal
- A simple TUI calendar app with timezone support, event/todo management and no dependencies outside of python standard library
Calculator
- python
- Sympy and scipy is all you need, check out this blog post for more details
eBook reader
- Foliate
- A simple and easy to use eBook reader
Password manager
- Pass
- The standard unix password manager
- Newsboat
- An RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console
Static site generator
- Hugo
- The world’s fastest framework for building websites