What are your must-have packages?

moonlit_properly , 11 months ago

• alacritty
• neovim
• tmux
• vifm - terminal file manager with vi keybindings.
• zathura - pdf reader with vi keybindings.
• inxi - prints information about your hardware.
• tldr - cheat sheet for common commands
• qalculate - the most powerful calculator I’ve seen. There are qt, gtk and cli versions of it.
• moreutils - collection of tools. My favourite is vidir, it opens directory structure in your terminal text editor, so that you can rename multiple files easily.

moroviintaas , 11 months ago

• vim
• git
• rust (via rustup)
• codium
• pycharm ce
• nu (shell)
• starship (shell prompt)
• firefox
• sway
• alacritty
• python
• iproute (or whatever package has ip in distro)
• keepassxc
• gcc/g++
• make
• podman (or docker)

Cybersteel , 11 months ago

yay

Omniformative , 11 months ago

Desktop:

• distrobox
• brave
• flatpak
• neovim
• nix
• fish
• tmux

pearsche , 11 months ago

• ardour
• kdenlive
• vscode
• kdenlive
• gnome
• xmrig
• fish
• element
• telegram

Ticktok , 11 months ago

One that I didn’t see on here that I’ve added to my list

• tldr
  • simplified man pages with common example commands.-

If on desktop

• distro-box
• yakuake

Raphael , 11 months ago

None of those are must-haves…

Shouldn’t you have posted this to /c/archlinux or other meme-distro communities?

StudioLE , 11 months ago

Aren’t you enjoying everyone listing their favourite text editors and the fact they use ssh?

exapsy , 11 months ago

linux-headers

GustavoM , 11 months ago

• docker (What, you never wanted to use a optimized version of cmatrix that uses only 512KiB of ram while barely scratching your CPU?)
• foot
• brave
• (on docker) btop, cmatrix, lynx

physicswizard , 11 months ago

What is this optimized cmatrix you speak of? The normal one slows my desktop to a crawl when it runs.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

Basically, a “handcrafted” cmatrix with compilation flags focused on optimization and the musl library (which is “technically better” than glib, a standard library on most distros).

Do feel free to try it out however, its only 139KiB – click here.

tl;dr guide on how to get it running

1- Install docker (docker on most distros – docker.io on ubuntu and friends)

2- sudo usermod -aG docker (addyourusernamehere)

3- reboot

4- run it with “docker run -it --rm --log-driver none --net none --read-only defnotgustavom/cmatrix:marchedition”

spauldo , 11 months ago

For everything:

• vi/vim
• ssh & sshd

For everything except firewalls:

• C, C++, Perl, Common Lisp, Scheme programming tools
• lynx
• wget/curl
• git
• ksh (on *BSD)
• telnet (yeah, there’s equipment that still uses telnet out there)

For a desktop:

• Emacs
• xterm
• GNU plotutils
• TeXlive
• X11 utilities (xcalc, editres, etc.)
• Atmel and Arduino toolchains
• xpdf
• KDE
• KiCad
• GIMP
• Inkscape
• Firefox
• Chromium
• Kerbal Space Program

fratermus , 11 months ago

• tmux
• screen
• autossh
• mosh
• rsync

nyan , 11 months ago

Stuff that I insist on regardless of platform (that is, I install these even onto Windows systems if I’m forced to use them):

• Pale Moon (web browser)
• Claws Mail
• GIMP
• vbindiff (command-line hex editor + diff utility for binary files)
• mercurial
• perl

Stuff that I require only on Linux systems for desktop use:

• Pan (yes, really, I still use a Usenet newsreader on a daily basis)
• qemu
• conky
• Aqualung (music player—I like odd software)
• Inkscape
• Scribus
• PySol ;)
• rdesktop (less a favourite than a regrettable necessity)
• various TDE built-ins: konqueror (as file manager only), kedit, kate, konsole, ark

Makussu , 11 months ago

Is there a reason you use mercurial (like work) or are you using it, because you like it better than git or fossil?

nyan , 11 months ago

Fossil I’ve never tried, but I utterly hate git. Nothing about how it works makes sense to me. Mercurial is, in my opinion, better-designed and easier to understand for my rather simple use cases. (I should note that I graduated from university around the time svn was replacing csv, so I was coding before there was such a thing as distributed version control.)

doomkernel , 11 months ago

• neovim
• fzf
• ripgrep
• Firefox
• git
• lazygit
• wezterm
• zsh

jimakososx , 11 months ago

neovim, zsh, firefox, vlc, mpv, zsh plugins for autocomplete, ripgrep, zerotier vpn,fzf, pip3, htop, i am not sure what else

mfz , 11 months ago

To add to all great comments here I have one that I’ve used for ages and not seen mentioned here: lftp

It supports many protocols for ftp like over ssh and allows for shaky connections with resume and back in the days when this was more common I used to just run it in the background to download huge files that took days to download and it would gracefully just reconnect/resume/retry until done.