🚀 My Tools

Last Updated: 2025-09-15

This document catalogs my personal collection of essential tools and software across different platforms. It’s used for quick environment setups and as a personal reference.

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• 🐧 - Linux
• 🪟 - Windows
• 🤖 - Android
• 🌐 - Web/Cross-Platform

🐧 System Deployment & Maintenance

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• Arch Linux Install Script - 🐧 The official archinstall script, which greatly simplifies the initial setup process.
• reinstall.sh - 🐧 A popular one-click script to reinstall (or “DD”) a VPS with a clean Arch Linux image.
• Reflector - 🐧 Automatically fetches and ranks the fastest pacman mirrors, a crucial first step after installation.

virtualization & Subsystems

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Tools for managing virtual environments, containers, and core OS components.

• Rolling LTS Kernel for WSL2 - 🪟 Provides a rolling-release LTS kernel for WSL2 to get the latest features and performance optimizations.
• Podman - 🐧 A daemonless alternative to Docker that is more secure, lightweight, and can run containers as a regular user.

⌨️ Terminal & Shell Environment

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• Nushell - 🐧🪟 My primary shell, which treats everything as structured data for powerful pipelines.
• Oh My Zsh - 🐧 The ultimate configuration framework for Zsh, with an unparalleled ecosystem of plugins and themes.
• Konsole - 🐧 My go-to terminal emulator in the KDE Plasma environment; powerful and highly configurable.
• Windows Terminal - 🪟 The modern, feature-rich terminal application for Windows.
• Termux - 🤖 Provides a powerful Linux terminal environment on Android, an essential tool for geeks.

🎨 Customization & Theming

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Tools and resources for beautifying my work environment.

• Oh My Posh - 🐧🪟🌐 A cross-platform prompt theme engine for a unified, beautiful prompt across all shells.
• Windows Terminal Themes - 🌐 A website dedicated to providing beautiful color schemes for Windows Terminal.
• Catppuccin for Fcitx5 - 🐧 The popular Catppuccin color scheme applied to the Fcitx5 input method framework.

🛠️ Core Command-Line Tools

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• Paru - 🐧 An AUR helper for Arch Linux and the spiritual successor to yay.
• Bat - 🐧🪟 A modern replacement for cat with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
• Bottom - 🐧🪟 A graphical system monitor and a modern replacement for top/htop.
• Aria2 - 🐧🪟 A command-line download powerhouse that supports multi-connection and BitTorrent, often run as a background service.
• dust - 🐧 A more intuitive version of du in rust.

🌐 Browser Extensions & Userscripts

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Core plugins that enhance the browsing experience.

• Violentmonkey - 🌐 An open-source userscript manager for running custom JavaScript on web pages.
• Kiss Translator - 🌐 An immersive web page translation extension that is simple, efficient, and supports multiple translation engines.
• ZeroOmega - 🌐 Likely a fork of or similar to SwitchyOmega, used for easily managing and switching browser proxy settings.

📝 Text, Notes & Development

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• Helix - 🐧🪟 A modern, Vim-like text editor written in Rust with out-of-the-box LSP support.
• Acode editor - 🤖 A lightweight yet powerful code editor for Android, great for quick edits on the go.
• NoteGen - 🤖 A clean and simple note-taking app with a Material Design 3 interface.
• Hugo - 🐧🪟🌐 A blazing-fast static site generator for building blogs and documentation from Markdown files.

🖼️ Media Processing & Capture

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• Haruna Video Player - 🐧 An excellent mpv-based video player for the KDE ecosystem.
• MPV-KT - 🤖 A clean, mpv-based video player for Android with powerful decoding capabilities.
• ShareX - 🪟 An incredibly powerful screenshot, screen recording, and workflow automation tool for Windows.
• Seal - 🤖 A video and audio downloader for Android, powered by yt-dlp.

📦 Self-Hosting & NAS

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Services that I run on my own server or NAS.

• Immich - 🐧🌐 A self-hosted alternative to Google Photos for backing up and managing personal photos and videos.
• Aria2NG - 🐧🌐 A beautiful and easy-to-use Web UI for remotely managing Aria2 download tasks.

🌐 Networking Tools

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• GUI for Sing-box - 🪟 A graphical client for the Sing-box core, providing a convenient way to manage proxy rules.

📖 Reading

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• Legado (阅读) - 🤖 An open-source e-reader app for novels, supporting custom content sources.

⌨️ Input Methods

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• Fcitx5 - 🐧 My primary input method framework on Linux; modular, stable, and modern.
• Rime-ice - 🐧 A popular configuration scheme for the Rime input method engine, providing a powerful Pinyin input experience.
• Gboard - 🤖 Google’s keyboard; stable, smooth, and feature-rich.

✨ System Enhancement & Automation

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• GKD (搞快点) - 🤖 An accessibility service-based tool for automatically skipping ads in apps.
• Shizuku - 🤖 A bridge that allows regular apps to easily use system-level APIs, acting as a foundation for many power-user tools.
• Hail (雹) - 🤖 Uses Shizuku or root to freeze apps, preventing them from running in the background to save battery.

🎓 Education & Learning

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• z2h字帖 - 🌐 z2h calligraphy copybook.