Ranger and/or vifm as file managers. Can’t live without them

ffmpeg

alsamixer

And on a more devops front k9s https://k9scli.io/

i use kibi as a text editor

i also have terminal client called alacritty

also doas instead of sudo

I personally like bat, fd, rsync, btm, btop, rg, and nix. Nix is a package manager tho, so that’s a whole bag of worms.

I have mostly replaced all command line stuff with Emacs, but there are still a few CLI utilities that I continue to use, whether I am in the CLI directly or whether I am using Emacs:

• tmux or screen (terminal multiplexing)
• bash (shell scripting)
• grep, sed (filtering, formatting)
• ps, pgrep, pkill (process control)
• ls, find, du (filesystem search)
• ssh, nc, rsync, sshfs, sftp (remote access, file transfer)
• tee, dd (pipe control)
• less, emacs, diff, patch, pandoc (text editing)
• man, apropos (manual)
• tar, gzip, bzip2, xz (archiving)
• hexdump, base64, basenc, sha256sum (data encoding, checksums)
• wget, curl, (HTTP client)
• dpkg, apt-get, guix (package management)
• mpv (media player)
• ldd, objdump, readelf (inspecting binary files)
• zfs (maintaining my backup filesystem)

They might have specific uses that most users might not need and there may be better alternatives but some of the ones I’ve been using are:

CISO - A command line tool for making compressed ISO files that can be used in emulators and some video game consoles running custom firmware.

RAR - The Linux version of WinRAR, which doesn’t have a UI like the Windows version does.

Flatpak - Probably well known but in case a newer Linux user sees this, it’s used to download and install flatpaks from Flathub.

I really like entr - “Run arbitrary commands when files change”

http://eradman.com/entrproject/

yt-dlp

Ncdu is a really useful little utility that shows you what directories are using the most space on whichever drive/directory you select. Really useful little piece of software.

hdparm is another neato one that let’s you test the read speeds of your drives, though it’s more so something ya use once and forget exists.

Also, though Neovim is more popular, Helix deserves some recognition. It’s a rust based, vim inspired text editor which removes the need to configure it, making it easier for people trying to get into terminal text editors.

Edit: Jerboa removed the first name, my bad.

fzf for quickly matching file names especially deep in the directory hierarchy

ripgrep for quickly searching for text content within files

dtrx for handling the right extractions of different archive types

• gcalcli : helps accessing google calendar using calendar api
• neix : rss reader
• I don’t know if it counts but : fish shell

I basically live in nvim. Being able to configure my editor in an actual programming language makes it so much more useful to me than vim could ever be.