What softwares do you recommend to a daily use BSD system?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/BSD

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  • neovim

    Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  • Editors: * VS Code editors/vscode * Spacemacs editors/emacs * neovim editors/neovim Email: * Mozilla Thunderbird mail/thunderbird * neomutt mail/neomutt Browser: * Mozilla Firefox www/firefox (I use Tridactyl, uBlock Origin and uMatrix + a handfull more addons) * qutebrowser www/qutebrowser * w3m www/w3m PDF/Pictures: * feh graphics/feh * mupdf graphics/mupdf Audio/Video: * mpv multimedia/mpv (I rarely use a BSD machine for audio or video, but when I do, mpv has sufficed) X: * i3 x11wm/i3 * i3status x11/i3status * dmenu x11/dmenu Terminal utilities: * urxvt x11/rxvt-unicode * mosh net/mosh * fish shells/fish (for interactive use) * ksh shells/ksh93-devel (for scripts) * exa sysutils/exa replacement for ls written in Rust * fd sysutils/fd replacement for find written in Rust * htop sysutils/htop * ranger sysutils/py-ranger * tmux sysutils/tmux * bat textproc/bat ~replacement for~ complement to cat written in Rust * rg textproc/ripgrep fast grep like tool written in Rust

  • mupdf

    mirrored from git://git.ghostscript.com/mupdf.git (by ccxvii)

  • Editors: * VS Code editors/vscode * Spacemacs editors/emacs * neovim editors/neovim Email: * Mozilla Thunderbird mail/thunderbird * neomutt mail/neomutt Browser: * Mozilla Firefox www/firefox (I use Tridactyl, uBlock Origin and uMatrix + a handfull more addons) * qutebrowser www/qutebrowser * w3m www/w3m PDF/Pictures: * feh graphics/feh * mupdf graphics/mupdf Audio/Video: * mpv multimedia/mpv (I rarely use a BSD machine for audio or video, but when I do, mpv has sufficed) X: * i3 x11wm/i3 * i3status x11/i3status * dmenu x11/dmenu Terminal utilities: * urxvt x11/rxvt-unicode * mosh net/mosh * fish shells/fish (for interactive use) * ksh shells/ksh93-devel (for scripts) * exa sysutils/exa replacement for ls written in Rust * fd sysutils/fd replacement for find written in Rust * htop sysutils/htop * ranger sysutils/py-ranger * tmux sysutils/tmux * bat textproc/bat ~replacement for~ complement to cat written in Rust * rg textproc/ripgrep fast grep like tool written in Rust

  • WorkOS

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  • mpv

    🎥 Command line video player

  • Editors: * VS Code editors/vscode * Spacemacs editors/emacs * neovim editors/neovim Email: * Mozilla Thunderbird mail/thunderbird * neomutt mail/neomutt Browser: * Mozilla Firefox www/firefox (I use Tridactyl, uBlock Origin and uMatrix + a handfull more addons) * qutebrowser www/qutebrowser * w3m www/w3m PDF/Pictures: * feh graphics/feh * mupdf graphics/mupdf Audio/Video: * mpv multimedia/mpv (I rarely use a BSD machine for audio or video, but when I do, mpv has sufficed) X: * i3 x11wm/i3 * i3status x11/i3status * dmenu x11/dmenu Terminal utilities: * urxvt x11/rxvt-unicode * mosh net/mosh * fish shells/fish (for interactive use) * ksh shells/ksh93-devel (for scripts) * exa sysutils/exa replacement for ls written in Rust * fd sysutils/fd replacement for find written in Rust * htop sysutils/htop * ranger sysutils/py-ranger * tmux sysutils/tmux * bat textproc/bat ~replacement for~ complement to cat written in Rust * rg textproc/ripgrep fast grep like tool written in Rust

  • feh

    a fast and light image viewer

  • Editors: * VS Code editors/vscode * Spacemacs editors/emacs * neovim editors/neovim Email: * Mozilla Thunderbird mail/thunderbird * neomutt mail/neomutt Browser: * Mozilla Firefox www/firefox (I use Tridactyl, uBlock Origin and uMatrix + a handfull more addons) * qutebrowser www/qutebrowser * w3m www/w3m PDF/Pictures: * feh graphics/feh * mupdf graphics/mupdf Audio/Video: * mpv multimedia/mpv (I rarely use a BSD machine for audio or video, but when I do, mpv has sufficed) X: * i3 x11wm/i3 * i3status x11/i3status * dmenu x11/dmenu Terminal utilities: * urxvt x11/rxvt-unicode * mosh net/mosh * fish shells/fish (for interactive use) * ksh shells/ksh93-devel (for scripts) * exa sysutils/exa replacement for ls written in Rust * fd sysutils/fd replacement for find written in Rust * htop sysutils/htop * ranger sysutils/py-ranger * tmux sysutils/tmux * bat textproc/bat ~replacement for~ complement to cat written in Rust * rg textproc/ripgrep fast grep like tool written in Rust

  • herbstluftwm

    A manual tiling window manager for X11

  • The nicities that I pull would be the file browser from ROX, and a tiling window manager such as herbstluftwm. I could do everything I do today without these, such as with a terminal or OpenBSD's 'cwm', but I really enjoy using them!

  • compilers-targeting-c

    A list of compilers that can generate C code

  • I still use llvm80 (8.0.1_7) (mainly as the Nim / V / Chicken / etc backend), because it's the last Copyfree version, before the switch to Apache license.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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