Arch Linux,
+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,
+the featherlight distribution powering this server.
+
Void Linux,
+another nice lightweight distribution. It has
+a great package management system with good
+support for both binary packages and
+Gentoo-style
+customizable source builds.
+
i3, a mature, lightweight,
+responsive tiling window manager without all the fuss.
+I'll move to its successor-in-progress
+Sway as soon as I find it mature enough.
+
Neovim, which I use instead of its
+venerable ancestor Vim because
+it's faster, cleaner, and more future-facing
+(source).
+With plugins, of course:
+
+
vim-plug
+for simple and effective plugin management.
+
terminus
+to noticeably improve integration with the window manager.
+
onedark.vim,
+because it looks great and is easy on the eyes.
+
lightline.vim
+for no real reason. Just eye candy I guess.
+
vim-polyglot,
+because its syntax definitions are much better.
Alacritty as terminal emulator,
+for its speed, minimalism, ease to configure, and native Wayland support.
+I used to use st,
+but it was too annoying to reconfigure.
+
imv,
+a command-line image viewer that I've found to be
+much simpler and snappier than its more popular cousin
+feh.
+
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.
+
mpv, a great terminal-friendly media player.
+If you have youtube-dl installed
+you can watch videos you would otherwise need a web browser for.
+
nginx,
+the most popular HTTP server in the world.
+And for good reason: it's lightweight, fast, secure,
+flexible and straightforward to configure.
+
Zola to generate static webpages,
+including the one you're reading right now.
+
QEMU,
+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.
+
The musl C standard library,
+the only one that remembers it's supposed to stick to the
+official specification rather than pursuing every crazy idea.
+
BusyBox bundles the
+most important Unix tools into one portable ELF.
+
s6,
+a nice Unix service manager and init system.
+I used it in my now long-abandoned
+LFS installation.
+
doas,
+sudo for the 21st century, this time actually configurable.