Interested to see if I'm missing out on any better applications. I used to use [0] as a reference, but it doesn't seem to have changed much over the years.

Here's Mine: - text editor: geany and vim/neovim - IDE: vim/neovim, vscode - web browser: firefox - window manager: openbox - taskbar: tint2 - GUI filemanager: thunar - terminal multiplexer: tmux - media player: vlc

[0]: https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/List_of_recommended_GNU/Linux_software