Desktop & Ricer General -

[He Who Points And Laughs]

The Linux environment & tools ~ why Windows and Mac don't appeal.

Shells :
Bash & Zsh. Zsh is generally a more fun shell, but some scripts don't run properly in it. So bash is still my goto shell.

Window Manager/Desktop Environment :
i3-gaps or just i3wm. i3 is like having your entire X session function like tmux.

Application Launcher :
rofi. Rofi is just a beautiful thing to use. Tied to mod D, just type a couple letters until you see the app you wish to launch :

File Manager :
Ranger. It is a file manager run from your console, and it is entirely flexible. You adjust the configurations as needed. It even has image previews in the terminal :

Office Suite :
LibreOffice It's free and works beautifully. For pdf, Latex

Graphics & 3D :
GIMP, the all around general purpose "photoshop" like tool.
Blender, for 3D modeling
Krita & Inkscape, for drawing & "painting"

Music & Video Players :
Pragha for music. It is a very simple GTK based music player that maintains the file structure of your music collection.
VLC for video.

Video Production :
kdenlive for video editing, and OBS-studio for streaming.

Eye Candy for when you have to hold on to the floor for fear of falling :
electricsheep

CD/DVD Ripping and Burning :
k3b for music ripping & CD/DVD burning
Handbrake for DVD ripping

### Pentesting Tools ###

nmap for TCP/UDP scans.
wireshark for monitoring network packets
netcat for general networking utilities
dirsearch & gobuster for directory enumeration on a webserver
Burpsuite for data tampering
jad & jd-gui for java decompiling
binwalk, steghide, exiftool, and audacity for stegonography (audacity for audio files)
Metasploit (msfconsole, msfvenom, msf-pattern_create/offset) for an all around suite
Empire for powershell tricks
gdb & Ghidra for reverse engineering
sqlmap for SQLi
snmpwalk for watching the slow drool of snmp data.
smbmap & smbclient for SMB (obviously)
enum4linux is also for SMB, but it is getting really dated... and rarely works as it used to.
nfsshell, for NFS shares
john & hashcat for hash cracking (obviously)
wpscan for wordpress sites (don't forget to grab your api token)
JoomScan for Joomla pages

### And finally, the number one most flexible tool for any annoying task ###
python

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Isn't there a way to switch shells on the fly? There's also ohmyzsh for Zsh users. Also, the NSA does release some good shit for computers, such as Ghidra and Femto.

 

[CrunkLord420]

Hijacking your thread instead of merging it into recommended software. This is now a desktop screenshot and ricer general.

 

[Vecr]

Well, I think that's mostly good, but `mpv` is undeniably more Unix-y than Vlc, because of how it's configured through command line arguments and a config file.

Also, as a personal preference, I like the UI better.

 

[He Who Points And Laughs]

Isn't there a way to switch shells on the fly? There's also ohmyzsh for Zsh users. Also, the NSA does release some good shit for computers, such as Ghidra and Femto.

ohmyzsh is nice, the varieties of prompt themes are quite impressive. But zsh still has some issues with some bash scripts, for that reason alone, I still default to bash

{EDIT}

chsh is the standard way to switch between shells... aside from just running /bin/zsh, /bin/sh, /bin/bash, /bin/csh, etc.

 

[CrunkLord420]

I rename it to desktop screenshot thread and you remove the screenshot of your desktop

 

[He Who Points And Laughs]

I rename it to desktop screenshot thread and you remove the screenshot of your desktop

I was in the middle of editing when you moved it. There was a thumbnail on the bottom I was removing,

I will re-add the rofi shot now.

Now it's fixed.

Well, I think that's mostly good, but `mpv` is undeniably more Unix-y than Vlc, because of how it's configured through command line arguments and a config file.



Also, as a personal preference, I like the UI better.

VLC, historically, just grabbed all of the codex for me. So being very lazy, I just default to it.