What i Use in 2025 | Lakshmanshankar
Back to Blog
2 min read

Tools & Setup in 2025

Daily Apps

  • Browser: Chrome (Work), Brave (Personal)
  • Terminal: Warp & Kitty (miss scrollbar, find-in-terminal, bigger scrollback)
  • Editor: VSCode (Frontend, with super Maven), Neovim (Python, Go, TS)
  • Password Manager: Bitwarden (recently switched)
  • Productivity: Google Workspace (Mail, Calendar, Tasks)
  • Notes: Notion & Excalidraw (I work for a company which makes websites out of notion, and We have a excalidraw fork which you can add notion pages as excalidraw elements.)
  • OS: Fedora 40 (Personal), Ubuntu 22.04 (Work)

Command Line Tools

  • shell zsh with starship
  • jq with jnv I work a lot with json. with warp workflows it’s amazing
  • zoxide It’s cd command but better.
  • nvim I don’t like nvim for frontend, but I use it for python and go and use a customized version of nvchad config.

Hardware

  • Personal: Acer Aspire (Fedora 40)
    • i5 12th Gen, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, NVIDIA 1620 (4GB)
  • Work: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s (Ubuntu 22.04)
    • i7 10th Gen, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Touchscreen
  • Accessories: Basic wireless keyboard & mouse

Lakshmanshankar © 2025