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What Federated CoreDesktop installs: pacman packages, AUR packages, 48 Flatpaks, Ruby and Rails with mise, and a full set of development tools. |
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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. |
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Four sources |
Where the software comes from. |
Each source has its own list in the repository, so you can see exactly what's installed. |
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From Flathub |
48 desktop apps, ready on first login. |
Want more? Visit [flathub.org](https://flathub.org). |
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| 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. |
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| Messaging |
Talk to anyone |
Signal, Telegram, Discord, Revolt and FluffyChat, Element from pacman, and Zoom for meetings. |
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| Email & notes |
Write it down |
Thunderbird and Evolution for email; Obsidian, Logseq and Xournal++ for notes; Apostrophe for Markdown writing. |
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| 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. |
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| Developers |
Code and data |
VS Code and VSCodium (VS Code without the Microsoft telemetry), Postman, DBeaver and Beekeeper Studio. |
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| Local AI |
Models on your own machine |
Alpaca and LM Studio run language models locally, with nothing leaving your computer. |
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| Remote |
Reach other machines |
Remmina and RustDesk for remote desktops, LocalSend to send files to nearby devices, and Trayscale for Tailscale. |
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| Utilities |
The useful little things |
Boxes for virtual machines, Impression to write ISOs to USB sticks, Warehouse to manage Flatpaks, Extension Manager for GNOME, and Helvum for audio routing. |
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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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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Something missing? |
Tell us which titles or services you'd add, or send in a pull request. |
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