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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?

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?

Bitflip ,

git clone ssh://[email protected]/~/dotfiles.git

step6672 ,

I don’t migrate any config file, always from scratch. My setup isn’t that complicated. Fedora for a long time.

GUI (mostly Flatpaks):

  • Firefox
  • Chromium (for Xbox Cloud Gaming)
  • Extension Manager
  • Flatseal
  • VeraCrypt
  • Stremio

CLI:

  • Syncthing
VerseAndVermin ,

Does the cloud gaming work pretty well? I’m trying to consider how to move my main rig to Mint, but also not lose my three years of game pass. I think dual boot is likely but feels purpose defeating haha.

step6672 ,

I have no technical problems. The only tricky part was setting up my controller (good old PS2), as I did have to mess with emulation and things like that. In the end, I just have to run a xboxdrv script before running the game. If you have an original Xbox controller it shouldn’t be a problem.

Anyway, if you encounter any issue: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad

EDIT: If you were asking about the cloud gaming experience, it’s pretty good I would say. The image will not be as good as a “physical” Xbox, and probably you will have to deal with queues depending on your location. But, overall, it’s a pretty good deal.

Samueru ,

I don’t distro hop, but I keep my most commonly used programs as appimages in my home, as well as some locally compiled programs that I install in ~/.local/bin and ~/.local/lib.

Those include essentials like:

  • i3wm
  • polybar
  • rofi
  • handlr (regex one)

And for the programs, those include:

  • brave
  • ferdium
  • freetube
  • gimp
  • librewolf
  • libreoffice

That way I can drop my home onto any distro and everything will work at once. No need to manually install programs.

I also have wrapper scripts on my PATH that force applications that don’t comply with the xdg base dir spec to use a fakehome in ~/.local, like steam and the web browsers.

currawong ,
@currawong@lemmy.ml avatar

I prefer btop to htop.

mrh ,
@mrh@mander.xyz avatar

guix home reconfigure home-config.scm

demonsword ,
@demonsword@lemmy.world avatar

fortune, cowsay

recarsion ,

CLI:

  • git
  • zsh
  • neovim
  • lazygit
  • my dotfiles (i have them on gh and then use a bare repo)
  • a few extra utilities: htop, ripgrep, tree, exa
  • yay (I use Arch btw)
  • tools for whatever langs I’m using, usually rust or golang

GUI:

  • Steam - games are on a separate disk that I add to /etc/fstab so I just need to add it to Steam and I’m good to go
  • Lutris
  • Sublime Text
  • Spotify
  • Discord
  • Flameshot
  • psensor
cammelspit , (edited )

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. 👍-----

therealjcdenton ,

Turn on night light and install syncthing to move over dotfiles

freedumb ,
  • GNOME Tweaks
  • Firefox
  • VLC
  • Blender
  • FreeCAD
  • Godot
  • VSCodium
  • PrusaSlicer
  • Steam, Lutris, Proton
  • KDE Connect
acockworkorange ,

GUI:

  • GnuCash
  • Firefox

CLI:

  • aptitude
Johanno ,

Usually I install:

  • Steam
  • flatpak
  • discord
  • gimp
  • vlc
  • lutris
  • protonupQ
  • protontricks

The rest I install once I need it. Plasma delivers also many of my programs.

c0mbatbag3l ,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

ProtonUpQ hell yeah

KarnaSubarna ,
@KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml avatar
  • Nvidia proprietary driver
  • Docker Engine (Portainer, AdGuardHome, LibReddit, Nitter, Invidious)
  • Install and tweak Firefox setup
  • Steam Client
  • Gnome extensions
  • Gnome Shell Theme and Icon themes
  • Nextcloud Client
0xCAFE ,
  • Firefox (often preinstalled)
  • Thunderbird
  • Code
  • FreeTube & Stremio
  • Apostrophe
  • KeePass
  • Nextcloud
  • Syncthing
  • yt-dlp
clot27 ,
@clot27@lemm.ee avatar

GUI: Firefox, nautilus, libre office, alacritty, mpv

CLI: git, helix, zellij, python, rust, wget & curl, neofetch

Koba ,

if you add fish to this it’s literally me

clot27 ,
@clot27@lemm.ee avatar

Ive never tried fish, many people in this thread wrote that actually. Ill try

Koba ,

fish is a very good interactive shell. probably one down side is that it’s not posix compliant. but if you set shell for alacritty or zellij as fish and keep system shell as bash or other posix shells, you can use posix shell scripts while using fish as an interactive shell

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