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System utilities

Package managers

Windows

Windows 10 and 11 come with WinGet, the Windows package manager. Using a package manager gives you the benefit of being able to download and install a lot of software via commands rather than having to navigate to a website, download it and run an installer. If you don't want to use the Microsoft Store, take a look at Chocolatey or Scoop.

For an all-at-once installation to install all of your favourite software in one go (useful on a fresh install of Windows), check out winutil.

Unix

Nix

Nix is the reliable and reproducible package manager, available for both macOS & Linux. Nix has quite a steep learning curve owing to it's unique syntax and methodology but once you get the hang of it, you will never have to deal with dependency hell ever again. Using Nix also grants you access to Nixpkgs, the world's largest and most up-to-date package repository.

Brew

Homebrew is the "missing package manager for macOS (and Linux)". Packages are installed in containers called "casks".

For an all-at-once installation to install all of your favourite software in one go (useful on a fresh install of Linux), try linutil.

Terminal emulator

Alacritty

Alacrittyis a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but allows for extensive configuration. By integrating with other applications, rather than reimplementing their functionality, it manages to provide a flexible set of features with high performance. The supported platforms currently consist of BSD, Linux, macOS and Windows.

Ptyxis - Linux

Ptyxis is a user-friendly GTK4 terminal app that faciliates quick switching between virtualised containers. It supports every major containerisation platform (Toolbx, Podman & Distrobox) and is the default terminal emulator in Fedora Atomic.

File:Icon Guake.png Guake & Yakuake - Linux

Guake (for GTK) and Yakuake (for Qt) are drop down terminal emulators whose design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again.

iTerm 2 - macOS

iTerm 2 is a replacement for the default macOS Terminal and the successor to iTerm. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.

st - macOS & Linux

st is a minimalist terminal emulator with the aim of having as little code as possible, the idea of this terminal emulator is to patch in the features you want keeping the file size as low as possible, it is much favoured among ricers as it is very easy to edit anything as the config file is written in C and is easily changeable.

urxvt - macOS & Linux

rxvt-unicode (also known as urxvt) is a fast and lightweight terminal emulator with Xft and Unicode support.

Multiplexers

• tmux

File managers

File:Icon Krusader.pngKrusader Krusader is an Orthodox file manager, similar to Midnight Commander. It supports all of the features of your desktop environment's default file manager, and then some.

Internet

File Sharing

BitTorrent

===File Transfer Protocol (FTP)