Gavin Pereira uses

Last updated: January 2022

🖋️ Code Editor

• Visual Studio Code with a giant pile of extensions.
• Theme: Night Owl
• Font: Fira Code iScript. Cursive italics and ligatures all the way!

⌨ Terminal

• Powershell inside Windows Terminal with Oh My Posh

💻 Operating Systems

• Windows 10 on my primary laptop.
• Constant distro-hopping on my secondary laptop.
• Ubuntu 21.10 with DDE on my cloud instance.
• Evolution X custom ROM on my phone.

📁 Desktop Apps

• Adobe After Effects for motion graphics.
• Adobe Illustrator for most graphic design work.
• Adobe Photoshop for all photo editing and some graphic design work.
• Advanced Renamer 'cus I won't want to do it manually.
• AutoHotKey for automating repetitive stuff.
• Bitwarden password manager.
• Brave Browser for the ad-blocking and BAT tokens.
• ESET Nod32: Lightweight antivirus.
• Everything search 'cus Windows can never get its search in place.
• Figma for UI design.
• FileZilla as FTP client.
• F.lux so that 10 hours of screen time doesn't ruin my sleep schedule.
• Free Download Manager 'cus downloading in the browser isn't the best thing to do.
• Mark Text for taking notes in Markdown.
• Notepad++ to make quick changes to files without having to open VSCode everytime.
• OBS Studio for screen recording.
• Powertoys for the FancyZones feature mainly.
• Syncthing for backing up files between devices.
• VLC Media player
• Wondershare Filmora X for simple video editing which doesn't require After Effects.
• WPS Office: Free and almost ad-free Microsoft Office alternative.

🔩 Hardware

• ASUS A555LF: primary laptop, which stays docked all the time. Upgraded storage to SSD and RAM to 12GB.
• Lenovo E41-15 for distro hopping.
• Another Lenovo E41-15 as backup server.
• LG 22MK600M 22" IPS monitor
• Logitech MK270r wireless keyboard & mouse combo.
• Huion Inspiroy H640P pen tablet.
• Redmi Note 7.
• Realme Buds 2 and boAt 114.

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