Recommended software

Base system

Operating system

• Arch Linux
• OpenBSD
• Debian is good for servers

Shell

• zsh

Window managers

• i3

Status bars

• i3bar-icons

Internet

Web browsing

• Firefox with pentadactyl

Mail clients

• mutt
• Thunderbird

File sharing

• Transmission
• Dtella

Chat

XMPP client

• xmpp-client
• Gibberbot on Android

IRC clients

• weechat

Productivity

Programming

• Eclipse
• Clang Complete

Text editors

• vim

Terminal stuff

• Screen
• zsh
• Tmux

Word processing

• LaTeX

Note-taking

• Keepnote
• BasKet
• vimwiki

To-do list

• taskwarrior

Document viewing

• evince

Ebooks

• Calibre

Audio

Music players

• mpd

MPD clients

• ncmpcpp

Audio recording

• arecord

Virtualization

• qemu (with KVM)
• virt-manager
• SPICE