Last Updated or created 2026-06-08

My much used set of tools (old draft I edited)

File managers

• Midnight Commander
• Thunar
• Nautilus
• nnn
• Dolphin

Generic tools

• rsync
• dcfldd – an enhanced version of dd
• screen/tmux
• fdupes
• ghex / xxd

Connecting/networking tools

• mosh – roaming, faster, using ssh
• sshfs – mount remote filesystems over ssh (see ssh tricks)
• wavemon – wifi info
• GNS3 – Graphical Network Simulator-3
• Wireshark
• PHPIpam
• Homelable

Encryption

• Luks
• ecryptfs

Graphical/Photo

• Gimp
• Eog
• rawtherapee
• Inkscape
• Darktable
• PureRef
• digiKam
• Krita
• Hugin
• ImageMagick

Documents/Notekeeping

• Vim
• Joplin
• Paperless-ngx
• DrawIO – For network drawings
• LibreOffice/OnlyOffice -> EuroOffice
• Scribus

3D Print/Lasercutting

• Cura
• Orcaslicer
• Bambuddy
• LightBurn
• Model editors: Blender and OpenScad, Meshroom, Sketchup

Coding

• Mostly CLI
• PlatformIO
• Arduino IDE
• VSCodium (stripped Visual Studio)

Electronics

• Fritzing
• Kicad
• Logic

Ebook / Comic readers

• Calibre
• FBReader

GFX/Video

• Blender
• kdenlive
• OBS Studio
• Shotwell
• Handbrake
• ffmpeg
• VLC
• Kodi/Libreelec

Music

• CLI abc tools
• Musescore
• Bagpipe Music Player
• Audacity (after removing all bad things be-ing added in 2021)
• LMMS
• Ardour

Virtualisation/Emulation

• proxmox
• libvirt
• ovirt
• guestfish
• dosbox
• pcem
• Martypc

Password management

• Keepass / KeepassXC

API

• Postman
• Flask (Python) see ledserver

Beamer

• Mapmap
• LPMT
• Qprompt

Brewing

• Brouwhulp
• Brewfather (web)

Web/App alternatives for bad companies (Mostly own hosted)

• Gmail – Hosted elsewhere – Thunderbird + web
• Google Drive – Nextcloud
• Spotify – Navidrome
• Google Photos (I never used this, i used Gallery2/3/Wipigo ) – Immich
• Youtube – Jellyfin for own movies
• Whatsapp/Google Chat – My own mattermost server, signal and IRC
• Teams – Ownhosted jitsi
• Teamviewer – Rustdesk
• Google Timeline – Dawarich

Server generic

• Databases : mariadb/mongodb/influxdb/sqlite
• Grafana
• NodeRed
• HomeAssistant
• Librenms
• Check_mk (i’ve started with Netsaint (1999), Nagios,Icinga,
• Mosquitto

Unsorted stuff

• vimperator (old)
• links/curl/dsniff/urlsnarf
• Databases (mariadb/mongodb/influxdb/sqlite)
• Metabase
• Adminder
• Scrot (snapshot tool)
• Luminace-hdr
• GDlib
• Dia (old)
• Blackmagic Fusion
• gcalcli
• Gcalcron
• Domoticz
• MQTT-Explorer
• Android studio
• Nextion IDE
• Irssi
• Mutt
• Mailcow
• Tinymediamanager
• Cacti (old)
• Winbox (Mikrotik)
• iptraf
• ntopng
• Twiki/Foswiki (old)
• Digikam
• My own photo manager
• Cewe Photobooks
• qdlsrdashboard
• gphoto2
• Ktechlab
• Ardour5
• Puredata
• Cadence
• Natron
• yt-downloader
• 4k downloader
• Taggers
• Mp3tag
• Tinymediamanager
• MusicBrainz Picard
• Beets
• Music players
• MOC
• SoftSqueeze
• Clementine
• My Badly Designed Sound Machine
• Server stuff
• Namazu2
• Netdata
• Ntopng
• Snort/Snortsam
• Virtualisation

Window managers (See other post)

• Xmonad (current)
• Gnome (current)
• Enlightenment (old)
• Compiz (old)
• Fluxbox (old)
• Ratpoison (tried)
• Twm (tried)
• Xfce (old)
• Window Maker(old)
• Sawfish (old)
• Kde (old)
• i3 (old)
• IceWM (old)
• Motif (old)
• Flwm (old)
• Fvwm (old)
• Ximian desktop (bought) (old)

• Home Drawing
  • Sweethome3D
  • Blender
  • Sketchup
  • Drawio
• Old but cool
  • Mainactor
  • Appleshake
  • Zbruch
  • Povray
  • Lightzone

Other tools:

Git, tig, xdotool, nmon, ntop, iotop, etc etc (lijstje genereren)