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+* [Arch Linux](https://www.archlinux.org/),
+  the no-nonsense Linux distribution. It's not perfect,
+  but it has the best reward-to-effort ratio for me.
+  Mainly its spectacular wealth of available packages
+  (11000 main + 53000 AUR!) make it the king.
+* [Alpine Linux](https://alpinelinux.org/),
+  the featherlight distribution powering this server.
+* [Void Linux](https://voidlinux.org/),
+  another nice lightweight distribution. It has
+  a great package management system with good 
+  support for both binary packages and 
+  [Gentoo](https://gentoo.org/)-style
+  customizable source builds.
+* [i3](https://i3wm.org/), a mature, lightweight,
+  responsive tiling window manager without all the fuss.
+  I'll move to its successor-in-progress
+  [Sway](https://swaywm.org/) as soon as I find it mature enough.
+* [Neovim](https://neovim.io/), which I use instead of its
+  venerable ancestor [Vim](https://www.vim.org/) because
+  it's faster, cleaner, and more future-facing
+  ([source](https://geoff.greer.fm/2015/01/15/why-neovim-is-better-than-vim/)).
+  With plugins, of course:
+	+ [vim-plug](https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug)
+	  for simple and effective plugin management.
+	+ [terminus](https://github.com/wincent/terminus)
+	  to noticeably improve integration with the window manager.
+	+ [onedark.vim](https://github.com/joshdick/onedark.vim),
+	  because it looks great and is easy on the eyes.
+	+ [lightline.vim](https://github.com/itchyny/lightline.vim)
+	  for no real reason. Just eye candy I guess.
+	+ [vim-polyglot](https://github.com/sheerun/vim-polyglot),
+	  because its syntax definitions are much better.
+	+ [vim-sneak](https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak)
+	  to make movement less of a hassle.
+* [Alacritty](https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty) as terminal emulator,
+  for its speed, minimalism, ease to configure, and native Wayland support.
+  I used to use [st](https://st.suckless.org/),
+  but it was too annoying to reconfigure.
+* [imv](https://github.com/eXeC64/imv),
+  a command-line image viewer that I've found to be
+  much simpler and snappier than its more popular cousin
+  [feh](https://feh.finalrewind.org/).
+* [zathura](https://git.pwmt.org/pwmt/zathura),
+  a fantastic modular viewer for PDFs and similar formats.
+  It remembers your position in a document after closing or reloading,
+  which is great when using LaTeX, and the main reason
+  I prefer it over [MuPDF](https://mupdf.com/).
+* [mpv](https://mpv.io/), a great terminal-friendly media player.
+  If you have [youtube-dl](https://youtube-dl.org/) installed
+  you can watch videos you would otherwise need a web browser for.
+* [nginx](https://nginx.org/),
+  the most popular HTTP server in the world.
+  And for good reason: it's lightweight, fast, secure,
+  flexible and straightforward to configure.
+* [Zola](https://www.getzola.org/) to generate static webpages,
+  including the one you're reading right now.
+* [QEMU](https://www.qemu.org/),
+  the Swiss army knife of emulation, and a damn fast one at that,
+  albeit with absolutely terrible documentation.
+  My old Windows launch script is [here](../winvm.sh).
+* The [musl](https://www.musl-libc.org/) C standard library,
+  the only one that remembers it's supposed to stick to the
+  official specification rather than pursuing every crazy idea.
+* [BusyBox](https://busybox.net/) bundles the
+  most important Unix tools into one portable ELF.
+* [s6](https://skarnet.org/software/s6/),
+  a nice Unix service manager and init system.
+  I used it in my now long-abandoned
+  [LFS](http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/index.html) installation.
+* [doas](https://man.openbsd.org/doas),
+  sudo for the 21st century, this time actually configurable.