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Software	What Federated CoreDesktop installs: pacman packages, AUR packages, 48 Flatpaks, Ruby and Rails with mise, and a full set of development tools.	type compact eyebrow title subhead tiles ctas hero true pacman · AUR · Flathub · mise The software you'd install anyway. CoreDesktop installs a lot of useful software, mostly for work at Federated Computer, but you may find it useful too. Missing something? Suggest it, or send in a PR. neovim Firefox Element label url style Suggest a title /contribute/ primary type kicker headline lede headers rows table Four sources Where the software comes from. Each source has its own list in the repository, so you can see exactly what's installed. Source What it installs Where it's listed pacman [Arch's own packages](https://archlinux.org/packages/): neovim, tmux, Go, Rust, Docker, Tailscale, Element, LibreOffice and more [packages.conf](https://gitea.federated.computer/Federated_Computer/coredesktop/src/branch/main/packages.conf) AUR Community packages, built and kept up to date with yay: Helium Browser, Winboat and more [packages.conf](https://gitea.federated.computer/Federated_Computer/coredesktop/src/branch/main/packages.conf) Flathub 48 desktop apps in their own sandboxes [install-flatpaks.sh](https://gitea.federated.computer/Federated_Computer/coredesktop/src/branch/main/install-flatpaks.sh) mise Ruby and Rails [install-mise-ruby-rails.sh](https://gitea.federated.computer/Federated_Computer/coredesktop/src/branch/main/install-mise-ruby-rails.sh) type kicker headline lede columns items cards From Flathub 48 desktop apps, ready on first login. Want more? Visit [flathub.org](https://flathub.org). 3 label title body Browsers Every browser you test against Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Brave, Zen and Vivaldi, plus Helium from the AUR as the default. Pick another in Settings › Apps › Default Apps. label title body Messaging Talk to anyone Signal, Telegram, Discord, Revolt and FluffyChat, Element from pacman, and Zoom for meetings. label title body Email & notes Write it down Thunderbird and Evolution for email; Obsidian, Logseq and Xournal++ for notes; Apostrophe for Markdown writing. label title body Media Make and play media Kdenlive for video editing, OBS for recording, Audacity for audio, Inkscape for vector graphics, Scribus for page layout, Spotify and Jellyfin. label title body Developers Code and data VS Code and VSCodium (VS Code without the Microsoft telemetry), Postman, DBeaver and Beekeeper Studio. label title body Local AI Models on your own machine Alpaca and LM Studio run language models locally, with nothing leaving your computer. label title body Remote Reach other machines Remmina and RustDesk for remote desktops, LocalSend to send files to nearby devices, and Trayscale for Tailscale. label title body Utilities The useful little things Boxes for virtual machines, Impression to write ISOs to USB sticks, Warehouse to manage Flatpaks, Extension Manager for [GNOME](https://www.gnome.org), and Helvum for audio routing. label title body And more Downtime included qBittorrent, RetroArch and others. See [install-flatpaks.sh](https://gitea.federated.computer/Federated_Computer/coredesktop/src/branch/main/install-flatpaks.sh) for the full list. type kicker headline lede columns split Development tools A full toolchain, out of the box. Everything you need to build, run and ship, including three terminals: the GNOME console, kitty and ghostty. title items Languages & runtimes Go, Rust, Python, Node.js, npm and Bun Ruby and Rails, through mise Hugo and Dart Sass for websites Docker, Docker Compose and lazydocker pandoc and TeX Live for documents title items In the terminal neovim (with kickstart.nvim), vim and tmux (with tpm) herdr, lazygit and difftastic ripgrep, fd, fzf, bat, eza, zoxide and yazi btop, htop, fastfetch and hyperfine nmap, mtr, sniffnet and whois type kicker headline items checklist On the desktop Also from pacman and the AUR. **LibreOffice** for documents, spreadsheets and slides **Bitwarden** for passwords **Element** for Matrix chat **GIMP**, **Flameshot** and **ImageMagick** for images **VLC** and **mpv** for video **Winboat** to run Windows apps **Cline Desktop**, in the AI sandbox **GNOME Tweaks** and the extra GNOME apps type headline body ctas final-cta Something missing? Tell us which titles or services you'd add, or send in a pull request. label url style How to contribute /contribute/ primary label url style packages.conf https://gitea.federated.computer/Federated_Computer/coredesktop/src/branch/main/packages.conf ghost