Must-Have Linux Apps
Basically the title.
Here's a quick background, though (because I have nothing better to do today). Suffered a failed EOS update on my laptop and it refused to boot. Rather than fix it, I decided to do something I've been thinking about for a while now: I installed NixOS (I still use Arch on my VM, btw).
Problem is it's been a bit long since I last set up my laptop I can't remember everything I did on it. Lol.
So what do you guys install after changing distros? What are your must-have applications (for any distro)? I'm already running zen kernel, got bitwarden up and running, hardened firefox and installed ungoogled chromium. Seems there's no standalone pihole (yet?) for Nix so I'll be checking that out as well. Thanks in advance for your input!
nano, geany, xxd, gimp, feh, nsxiv, oxipng, pngquant, ffmpeg, mpv, yt-dlp,, librewolf/firefox, surf, dmenu, tor-browser, pcmanfm, ranger, htop, qemu, curl, wget, darkhttpd, dash, clang & gcc, git, xarchiver, p7zip, calc. mediainfo, mkvtoolnix, obs, firejail and imagemagick depending on what I want to do. I think that's the most important things. Will update when I think of something else.
I like adguard home more than pihole and I think it has a nix package. Idk nix well.
surf? LOL
I'm not a big fan of file managers but a GUI one like thunar is good for the sake of drag and drop.
I always install a second terminal emulator like xterm just in case of "uh oh I broke my terminal emulator"... that can happen sometimes with urxvt after updates if you do particular addons or bash configurations and such
cups if you like to print
I like dictd as a dictionary
ufw
potentially appropriate microcode for your hardware?
zathura for pdf
always install tmux and run it in your ssh instances
If you want to drag and drop without using a GUI File Manager, you can use: dragon - simple drag-and-drop source/sink for X or Wayland. I prefer lf a terminal file manager, but I do use Thunar sometimes.
I just saw this. Zathura is definitely gonna be installed. And yeah, i always have 2 terminals, usually konsole and xterm. No real reason except I'm just so used to those 2. Thunar is nice, but I usually have Nautilus (just personal preference).
I'll check adguard asap. Thanks for the list.
Firefox, Steam, Discord, OBS, LibreOffice, Dropbox (I badly need an alternative for this pos), Ark, Sublime, Krita, Git, Apache, VLC. Vaguely in that order. Everything else gets installed as I need. Pretty much all of it is very use specific tho.
Have you tried syncthing fot your use case?
Thanks for the suggestion, I haven't heard of it before! Sadly it doesn't quite seem to work for what I need from the looks of it :/
LMAO
Git is installed. VLC is installed. o7
The applications that came out of my mind, because i use these often...
I've heard a lot about rclone before. Maybe I should check it out. 🤔
Appreciate the input!