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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 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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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The things I tend to gravitate towards:

  • Flatpak
  • Firefox of some kind (lately been loving Floorp)
  • Keeper Password Manager extension on Firefox
  • try to install some form of backup
  • git (if not already available)
  • nvm (Node version manager, usually I install the latest LTS)
  • Go (sometimes I write Go programs)
  • Steam (if I plan to play games)
  • Sometimes I'll install Zsh, sometimes Fish, then oh-my-zsh / oh-my-zsh
  • Fastfetch (Neofetch is so slow?)
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