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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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[–] flappy@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago
[–] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I always need

  • LibreWolf (privacy-focused Firefox fork)
  • Some nice terminal emulator like Alacritty or Kitty
  • A torrent client
  • Emacs
  • Strawberry (the music player)

CLI:

  • fish shell
  • bat
  • neovim
  • fd
  • fzf
  • zoxide
  • Some other Rust alternatives for GNU coreutils
  • GPG
  • fun stuff like neofetch, lolcat, asciiquarium, cmatrix, etc.