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. 👍-----