Chuck Carroll


Desktop Programs I Use in 2024

Published: 2024-07-26

Today I wanted to share the programs I use. This seems to change every few years and I thought it'd be fun to track it and look back at the tools I used at a later time. For this list, I'm obviously not going to include every little package and utility I have installed like 'ls' or 'man' - that would be insane. I also won't list the programs I use for work (ie Teams, Chromium, etc), or the tools I have installed for the network technologies program I'm in (ie PacketTracer, Wireshark, etc).

I use the GNOME Desktop Environment and also won't include all the GNOME utilities like Document Scanner or GNOME Screenshot. Currently, I'm using the Arch-based distribution EndeavourOS as my operating system.

As you can see, I rely mostly on terminal-based applications for my non-work related computing tasks. The benefit of terminal applications is that they're typically faster, more powerful, more configurable than GUI applications, and generally more fun to use.

Thanks for reading. Feel free to send comments, questions, or recommendations to hey@chuck.is.