tealdeer takes up 3.7MB on my system. It’s a rust implementation of tldr - simplified man pages with practical examples. If I want to do some common thing with a program I don’t use very often, chances are I can type (e.g.) tldr kill and it’ll tell me what I need to know.

jq for parsing/formatting/manipulating JSON, and its yq wrapper for YAML. Holy shit you can do powerful queries with them.

gnumeric runs great on any old linux machine - it isn’t as sophisticated as Libreoffice Calc but for basic spreadsheeting, it’s very fast and lightweight.

gnucash is an alternative to quickbooks for accounting - it’s been around so long that it will run on anything and it does the job without sharing your data or bombarding you with ads.

you can always run nmap in the terminal and have some fun with that.

yt-dl for videos

and gallery-dl for pictures good stuff

vitetris! 🎮🧱💻

mldonkey for p2p file sharing, syncthing, tor bridge.

cool-retro-term for all your old-school CRT needs. 1.8M executable.

I like axel (CLI) - it’s been my main downloader for some years now.

nnn - the fastest terminal file manager which supports plugins

gthumb - a simple picture editor/retouching tool

Vim, but specifically the built in file browser. I use it all the time. It can view the contents of compressed files too.

entr to run arbitrary commands when files change. For example, I use it in makefiles like this (see the watch target):

TARGET=report.pdf
SOURCE=report.md

$(TARGET): $(SOURCE)
	pandoc --citeproc -o $(TARGET) $(SOURCE)

watch:
	echo $(SOURCE) | entr make $(TARGET)

clean:
	rm -f $(TARGET)

.PHONY: clean watch

• Dialect for translation. Flathub link
• Image Roll for viewing images. It’s faster than most image viewers, especially on slow devices. Flathub link
• Quick Lookup for finding the meaning of a word on Wiktionary. Flathub link

GNU Parallel

Unlock the power of multiple cores in your command lines!

My two favorites are recently:

• nnn for managing files
• miller for all my CSV needs
• rg for searching in files
• navi for my cheatsheet needs
• nb for my jotting needs
• ledger because I love to know about my money