Distro Hopping - For People That Can't Make A Decision

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Distro hoppers, what's always on your install list when you've finished setup and logged in for the first time? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by Dehydrated@lemmy.world to c/distrohopping@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11419429

I wouldn't really call myself a distro hopper, but in the last few months I've had to do some fresh installs on a couple of machines and VMs for work

If these aren't included by default, I'll make sure to get em:

GUI:

Firefox & Chromium

Gimp & Krita

VSCode/VSCodium

Okular

Libre office

CLI*:

git

wget&curl

neovim

zsh/ohmyzsh + plugins

glow

neofetch

figlet/toilet

zellij

python

nodejs/npm/nvm + nodemon globally

ranger/rifle

Also, how do you go about migrating your old config and rc files? Start fresh or just copy em over and make adjustments where necessary?

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[–] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I personally always install

LibreWolf (superior fork of Firefox)
Alacritty or Kitty
Emacs
Strawberry
FreeTube
Signal Desktop
Bitwarden

For terminal usage I install:

Fish shell
Neovim
bat
fd
ripgrep
fzf/sk
lsd
lf
tmux
git
GPG
Fun stuff like neofetch, hollywood, cmatrix, asciiquarium, figlet, etc.