What are your must-have packages?

Spudger , 11 months ago

Kpat.

lo_fi , 11 months ago

A few from the top of my head:

• git
• neovim
• nix (package manager)
• mpv + yt-dlp (stream music from yt with –no-video argument)
• unbound
• caddy (quickly spin up local web servers with https)

Edit: almost forgot, I’ve been using zsh + znap package manager and loving it.

pineapplelover , 11 months ago

I just tried out mpv and found it weird that it doesn’t offer a menu for settings like vlc does. Is that the same for you too or do I just not know how to use it?

chtk , 11 months ago

mpv is very barebones. Which is why I love it. You’re supposed to configure it through its configuration file, and mainly use it with keyboard shortcuts.

pineapplelover , 11 months ago

What are the keyboard shortcuts for it? It never occurred to me that it had any

pglpm , 11 months ago

You can find the default ones here, but they’re fully customizable.

lo_fi , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

There are wrappers for mpv that provide a more “full” GUI including settings, but mpv itself is more hotkey and config focused. You can do a lot of cool stuff using profiles and scripts. I get it if having docs open to configure a media player isn’t your cup of tea, tho.

Some of the wrapper built on mpv are mpv.net, iina, and gnome-mpv.

IndependentRanger , 11 months ago

In order of use:

• Firefox
• Nvim (with a slightly modified kickstart.nvim)
• SSH
• Minicom
• Python3
• Git
• CopyQ
• Curl
• Wget
• Tmux

DaveX64 , 11 months ago

• asciiquarium
• cowsay
• tty-clock
• mc
• nano
• btop
• htop
• vscode
• vivaldi
• mariadb
• apache
• php
• python3

kalipike , 11 months ago

• git • vim • openssh • openssl • fail2ban • curl • byobu • webmin (to give limited access to non-Linux help desk technicians)

plumbercraic , 11 months ago

Screen, vim, python

nachtigall , 11 months ago

In addition to what was already mentioned: reptyr

MashingBundle , 11 months ago

Suicide linux

Ocebi , 11 months ago

• exa
• ripgrep
• tree
• difftastic
• fzf
• git
• neovim
• zsh
• starship
• direnv
• bat

puzzlebox , 11 months ago

clipcopy to pipe output of commands into the system clipboard

cat foo.txt | clipcopy

Ret2libsanity OP , 11 months ago

Til. Thanks for sharing this

andrew , 11 months ago

• jq
• vim
• ag (silver searcher)
• kubectl
• k9s
• oh-my-zsh
• go
• xclip
• openssl
• tcpdump

Reorder9543 , 11 months ago

I always made sure my laptops had tlp installed. Now it seems openSUSE has cpu power profiles daemon or something by default, which it says conflicts with tlp when I tried to install it. So, I’m giving that a shot.

polskilumalo , 11 months ago

base-devel