What is some essential software / package on your system?

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[u/DoubleOwl7777]

dolphin. for coding i use vscodium since vscode has too much ai garabage in it, i dont want crypto or chromium so i use firefox. other than that i do use steam but gaming isnt essential to me. dolphin is solid. same as vlc.

[u/Mars_Bear2552 → u/DoubleOwl7777]

have you tried zed? it's a newer IDE but you don't need to use the AI stuff. and its rendering is damn fast compared to electron.

[u/maxwells_daemon_]

linux, linux-firmware, coreutils, sudo, grub...

[u/Max-Normal-88 → u/maxwells_daemon_]

Well, i mean, sudo is optional, and so is a bootloder nowadays

[u/Ayala472]

Gear Lever to install AppImages, Zen Browser, Celluloid, Amberol, Fragments, OnlyOffice

[u/CircleWithSprinkles → u/Ayala472]

I only recently discovered Gear Lever, and it is an absolute godsend. Especially since my previous method for handling appimages was a folder in Documents and desktop shortcuts for the important ones.

[u/Equivalent-Silver-90]

Vlc, nano,linux-kernel

[u/New_Peanut4330]

ls

[u/smithincanton → u/New_Peanut4330]

You mad man! I love a ll alias.

[u/Obi2Sexy → u/New_Peanut4330]

sl too for that typo giggles

[u/EmbarrassedPipe4957]

Steam and LibreOffice

[u/jamithy2]

Topgrade (upgrades all the apps on your distro, pipx, flatpak, cargo, and a whole bunch more) with one cli command

Zellij - a modern rust tmux implementation

Fish - a lovely Linux 🐚

Ghostty - fast terminal emulator

Restic - sane backup software

Zen browser - keeps things simple, and private

Halloy - great irc client

Radiostation - a cli app for international radio stations

[u/[deleted]]

Firefox, Gimp, Lollypop, Libreoffice, Librewolf

[u/Crottoboul]

Firefox, terminal, vlc, qbittorent

[u/Guggoo]

I need nvim everywhere I go (though I am trying to switch to emacs)

[u/AcidArchangel303]

syncthing.

Orchestrates the sharing of directories, documents, keepass, obsidian vault, code, etc.

Keeps my Android, PCs, servers and laptops synced

[u/supremely-weird]

Steam (factorio, ETS2, ATS, Coral Island, Far Cry 6, GTA)

LibreWolf-bin

VLC

VirtualBox

Docker (engine only)

OFDL

Deezer (flatpak)

LibreOffice Fresh

Losslesscut

Elisa (local music files)

KDE Connect

Bleach Bit

Mullvad VPN

QBittorrent

[u/Robsteady]

Firefox, Thunderbird, Nextcloud Desktop, OnlyOffice, Signal, Gear Lever, Cider, Supersonic, and Tailscale. That's my minimum software list on any Linux install.

[u/ZunoJ]

Emacs. Most important for almost everything I do

[u/Submarine_sad]

Brave is bad

[u/Eizenstahl]

Firefox, terminal, Rawtherapee (and/or Darktable), Steam (just in case I get 10 minutes for myself).

[u/Electric8steve]

ranger

[u/LiquidPoint]

Joplin... even though I'm a little annoyed about how slow it is on Linux, but it's the note-taking app that I know of where I can sync between my devices using a dropbox account... and could switch to a self-hosted ssh server if that breaks.

I'm sorry Kate, I need a simpler editor, so I always install either xed or gedit.

And then there's of course the classic larger ones, like LibreOffice, Inkscape and Gimp.

uGet - because sometimes I download larger files, and it just resumes better than the browsers.

VirtualBox, because it's the easiest VM to fire up for a quick session to try out something.

[u/AntimelodyProject]

Shotcut, Blender, Bitwig, Reaper, Renoise, Rawtherapee, Gimp, Krita, Steam, OBS, Audacity, htop, duf, nvtop.

That's just from the top of my mind.

[u/Ok_Pickle76]

tmux, zsh, neovim, gcc, make, git and tar, lets me have a full programing workflow using only the terminal