Oh, this is a flipping great question. So much fun as I've just settled on one distro. M$ won't allow me to transfer my transferrable Windows license and I refuse o pay yetagain for Windows so Linux is my sole OS from now on. I have had so many weird issues or configuration woes with a ton of OSs ive been trying. So I tell ya, I sure have installed my fair share of them in the last month or so.
GUI:
- Steam (Gotta get my game on)
- ProtonPlus
- Lutris
- Heroic
- Winetricks
- Protontricks
- VLC
- Brave
- Bitwarden(Probably the second most important software in my life)
- Authy
- Krusader (No idea why but Ill use this before the built in file manager sometimes)
- Plex htpc
- Kate - Notepadqq (havent decided which one i like best yet)
- PolyMC
- LibreOffice
- Flatpack (I always prefer the native package but flatpack has almost anything the repositories lack)-
- Appimagelauncher (Just for ease of use, appimages are a always third fiddle but are a great backup as flatpacks can be - limited in available software compared)
- Gimp (Almost exclusively because the name makes me giggle)
- OBS Studio
CLI:
- MC (100% always the first this I ever install no matter what)
- HTOP (Not standard in all as many distros as i would think)
- Openssh
- Cifs-utils
- Starship
- Zsh
- Neofetch
- Tmux (Cant live without it)
Of course there are tons of other small things I add but those are the ones I will have installed likely before I go to reboot for the first time. The rest of what I interact with is generally running on my server so it's all web based stuff for the most part. I use VNC often to interact with virtual machines, do tech support for my son so i don't have to get up (disabled). I haven't really found a Linux VNC client i genuinely like. I used to use TightVNC with Windows and it's about the only thing I miss. I do have a Guacamole docker running on my network but unless you have a physical KB/M it's less than preferable to use. I'll find something I like eventually I'm sure. 👍-----