GNOME Extensions
Blur My Shell – Adds blur and transparency effects to the top bar, dash, notifications, and overview for a sleek “frosted glass” look.
Dash To Panel – Combines GNOME’s dash and top bar into a single taskbar, showing running apps, launchers, system indicators, and window previews.
Forge – A tiling and window-management extension that provides dynamic tiling layouts, split containers, floating mode, and keyboard-driven window navigation.
Browsers
Ungoogled Chromium – Chromium with all Google-specific web services and background requests stripped out.
Terminal / CLI
micro
– My "normie" terminal text editor. It feels like a standard GUI app
(standard Ctrl shortcuts, mouse support) but lives in the
shell.
k9s – Great TUI
utility for k8s. Makes navigating clusters and checking logs
significantly faster than manual kubectl commands.
tilix - Terminal emulator that follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines.
Design & Graphics
Photopea – A free, web-based alternative to Photoshop.
IDE
VS Code – Open-source forks do not support the Dev Containers extension
BONUS
Windows AME (Ameliorated) - Used for setting up a "clean" machine when I'm forced to use Windows. I use the AME Wizard/Playbooks to strip the OS down to its core. It removes bloat, making Windows feel like it is 7 again.