My sleek and modern Linux development machine in 2021

• zsh-autosuggestions

  136 29,731 2.1 Shell

  Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

  

Shell: This is one of the most important for a developer. I use ZSH along with the awesome Starship prompt as my shell. I tried to switch to Fish, but it was quite annoying due to its difference with bash/ZSH, and I gave up on it. I went with the default theme and settings from Starship as it was very close to my earlier setup with Oh My ZSH. I also use zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting plugins for ZSH and fzf for search.

• zsh-syntax-highlighting

  73 19,130 5.9 Shell

  Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.

  

Shell: This is one of the most important for a developer. I use ZSH along with the awesome Starship prompt as my shell. I tried to switch to Fish, but it was quite annoying due to its difference with bash/ZSH, and I gave up on it. I went with the default theme and settings from Starship as it was very close to my earlier setup with Oh My ZSH. I also use zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting plugins for ZSH and fzf for search.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• fzf

  407 60,111 9.6 Go

  :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

Shell: This is one of the most important for a developer. I use ZSH along with the awesome Starship prompt as my shell. I tried to switch to Fish, but it was quite annoying due to its difference with bash/ZSH, and I gave up on it. I went with the default theme and settings from Starship as it was very close to my earlier setup with Oh My ZSH. I also use zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting plugins for ZSH and fzf for search.

• nvm

  314 75,882 7.5 Shell

  Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions

  

Other notable development tools I use are GitKraken for Git repo management, Beyond Compare for code comparisons, VirtualBox, NVM for Node.js version management and SDKMan for JDK version management.

• zsh

  73 3,462 8.5 C

  Mirror of the Z shell source code repository.

  

Shell: This is one of the most important for a developer. I use ZSH along with the awesome Starship prompt as my shell. I tried to switch to Fish, but it was quite annoying due to its difference with bash/ZSH, and I gave up on it. I went with the default theme and settings from Starship as it was very close to my earlier setup with Oh My ZSH. I also use zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting plugins for ZSH and fzf for search.

• peek

  48 10,080 7.5 Vala

  Simple animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface

Screen capture: I use this nifty tool called Peek for screen recording and Flameshot for screenshots.

• LibreOffice

  584 2,468 10.0

  Read-only LibreOffice core repo - no pull request (use gerrit instead https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/) - don't download zip, use https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bundles/ instead (by LibreOffice)

  

Office suite: I mostly use Google Docs, but when I have to work on something on my desktop I use LibreOffice, which is a good office suite and even handles Microsoft Office & Keynote formats.

• SaaSHub

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• flameshot

  233 23,272 7.8 C++

  Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:

  

Screen capture: I use this nifty tool called Peek for screen recording and Flameshot for screenshots.

• intellij-plugins

  168 2,073 9.9 Java

  Open-source plugins included in the distribution of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and other IDEs based on the IntelliJ Platform

  

IDE: Visual Studio Code - My go-to editor. I love it. I use VSCode for web development, Rust, Go, JS development, DevOps, and everything other than JVM languages. A VSCode setup is never complete without some good plugins. Here are the plugins that I'm using. You can run the script to install those. For Java development, I use IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate.

• TimeShift

  142 4,441 4.7 Vala

  Discontinued System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is running or from Live CD/USB.

There are many other small and nifty utilities that I use; most are command-line utilities. There are some notable mentions like Timeshift, which is nice for backing up your machine.

• starship

  299 40,933 9.7 Rust

  ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

  

Shell: This is one of the most important for a developer. I use ZSH along with the awesome Starship prompt as my shell. I tried to switch to Fish, but it was quite annoying due to its difference with bash/ZSH, and I gave up on it. I went with the default theme and settings from Starship as it was very close to my earlier setup with Oh My ZSH. I also use zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting plugins for ZSH and fzf for search.

• howdy

  78 5,425 6.8 Python

  🛡️ Windows Hello™ style facial authentication for Linux

Biometrics is a bit tricky in Linux. The built-in fingerprint sensor doesn't have a proper driver for Fedora yet, there is one for Ubuntu, and I probably can get it working. For face recognition, there is Howdy, but for some reason, I couldn't get it working and hence probably need to do some digging.

• SDKMan

  160 5,873 4.3 Gherkin

  The SDKMAN! Command Line Interface

  

Other notable development tools I use are GitKraken for Git repo management, Beyond Compare for code comparisons, VirtualBox, NVM for Node.js version management and SDKMan for JDK version management.

• obs-studio

  2,362 55,868 9.8 C

  OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording

  

Streaming: I think OBS Studio is the default choice here and is one of the best options for streaming and screen recording.

• Mailspring

  68 15,118 7.9 C

  :love_letter: A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux.

  

E-mail: I use Mailspring as my e-mail client. It's a fairly decent mail client with nice themes and a simple UI.

• fish-shell

  320 24,664 9.9 Rust

  The user-friendly command line shell.

  

Shell: This is one of the most important for a developer. I use ZSH along with the awesome Starship prompt as my shell. I tried to switch to Fish, but it was quite annoying due to its difference with bash/ZSH, and I gave up on it. I went with the default theme and settings from Starship as it was very close to my earlier setup with Oh My ZSH. I also use zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting plugins for ZSH and fzf for search.

• Visual Studio Code

  2,852 158,564 10.0 TypeScript

  Visual Studio Code

  

IDE: Visual Studio Code - My go-to editor. I love it. I use VSCode for web development, Rust, Go, JS development, DevOps, and everything other than JVM languages. A VSCode setup is never complete without some good plugins. Here are the plugins that I'm using. You can run the script to install those. For Java development, I use IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate.

• Bitwarden

  1,057 14,401 9.8 C#

  The core infrastructure backend (API, database, Docker, etc). (by bitwarden)

  

Browser: Google Chrome is my primary browser. I also use Firefox sometimes. I use the Bitwarden plugin for password management.

• SaaSHub

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