although I’m not a TWM user I like to just press super and type the first letters of the program I’m looking for to open it.
It will never stop to amaze me how many people don’t know it’s a feature in every major DE and every Windows starting from Vista.
Even on Windows 10/11, just tap windows key and start typing without clicking anywhere.
My list of FOSS I use everywhere (these work in Win and Linux):
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Open Tablet Driver - if you’ve got the drawing tablet it probably supports it. You can customize everything and has even built-in plugin manager.
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Krita - GIMP alternative with non-destructive editing capabilities.
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yt-dlp - download videos from almost any video sharing service, even TikTok, Instagram etc.
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neovim - for quick file edits
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vscode/vscodium with vim plugin - my IDE for everything
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ffmpeg - forget handbrake - you can do even basic video editing here. Join two videos together? Done. Add audio to video? Done. Crop part of the video without reencoding it? Done. Loop a video to 10 hours without reencoding it? Done in matters of seconds.
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kdenlive - an actual video editor that is 100% FOSS, doesn’t suck and works on Windows and Linux.
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imagemagick - ffmpeg for images
I used to, but I need to get my job done, not play with configuring it for hours just to achieve what VSCode does out of the box. Plus settings sync is great.