What is a “must have” depends on your use case, personal preferences, and the shortcomings of your distro’s default configuration (I’ve never used Cachy so I don’t know what’s missing).
For myself, I usually end up installing VLC and Strawberry Media Player, since the media players most distros come with aren’t as good. On non-GNOME distros I tend to install GNOME Disks as it’s the least painful to use of the GUI partitioning tools I have used. My preferred rich text format is Markdown, for which I use ghostwriter. I also usually install a few FOSS games to pass the time with - my favorites are Freedoom, SuperTux, SuperTuxKart, and Xonotic - and RetroArch for emulation.
Just figure out what you want to do. Its not like Windows where you need to run scrub scripts, or turn specific things on or off. It’s very subjective.
Examples:
are you in a laptop? You want specific tools for battery and performance tuning.
are you gaming?
are you working audio or video?
Just edit your comment and throw a few things out that you’d like to do, and you’ll get a much more complete list of suggestions and tips.
something similar happens with Debian 12 currently, it’s super obnoxious and has made me seriously reconcider using Firefox. It freezes all Firefox windows, you can close them but it no longer updates the icons as you hover, nor let’s you do anything in Firefox, and if left unchecked will eventually hard crash plasma
tree, screen, and wget have for a long time been the three packages I’ve always added on a fresh install.
Other packages are mainly connected to the use of the system at hand, like zellij, helix, and git on a development setup, or fish on any system where I do my doings mainly in a terminal och over ssh.
KeePassXC or keepass2, VLC, mplayer, mpv, qmmp, gimp, qtqr
on X: xdotool, xmacro
on Wayland: ydotool
free cool games (some not in repos, some snaps): OpenTyrian, AstroMenace, warzone2100, Card-Forge Java MTG Simulator, Heroes Forge, Spiral Knights (Very old; May need Java 64bit tinkering; Also on Steam)
If this was 1988, I'd agree with you, but I didn't buy a 12 core CPU and modern GPU so that I could program in 80 column text mode. To my fellow Linux users: it's okay to use a GUI. Really. True power lies in being able to leverage that AND the terminal at the same time.
To my fellow Linux users: it’s okay to use a GUI. Really.
As a contrbuting member of Society of Linux Users on Terminals I am aghast, AGHAST at the very proposition of using shuddergraphics on your Linux system. I mean, the very idea! If you can’t browse the web in console mode, then why even bother using Linux? GUIs are for quitters.
Using or IDE or vim is entirely up to preference. True skill lies in being able to ike out every bit of productivity you can when using it. And I am saying this as a hardcore neovim user.
I won’t go to a mechanic who uses imperial measurements for their tools and rant about how they should use metric. As long as they get the job done, it’s all good.
Just because someone does not copy you does not mean they are in the wrong.
qalculate. It's a calculator. A good one, though. You can put in 2 * x = 5.5 or 100 inches to meters and get an answer, it loads fast, it keeps history, the arrow keys work and it has all the fancy scientific buttons you'd ever want too.
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