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Which default software do you replace after you install your distro? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After I install Linux Mint (which is the distro I have settled on), I replace:

Thunderbird with Betterbird
Firefox with Librewolf (I also install Brave for web services that need a chromium browser).
Celluloid / Rythmbox with VLC player
Default Libreoffice with latest Libreoffice from source.
ClipIt/Parcellite with xfce4-clipman

I find this to be my optimal setup and these software give me the extra quality of life that make my workflows easier.

What software do you replace and install on your distro of choice?

Edit: I forgot to say I replace sudo with doas. That's something my friend told me to do although I personally don't find any immediate working advantage with it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

            
              Clementine - music player
yakuake - terminal
fish - command line
Geany - text editor
eza - replacement for ls
zoxide - replacement for cd
bat - replacement for cat
Librewolf - replacement for Firefox
Brave - replacement for Chromium


            
          

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wait? Why cat needs replacing? Do you have a link for bat?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Here you go.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yasuke for Terminal because he was a sole black man in Japan of his time. Just like Terminal program is solely black as compared to most other apps.

Most people dont use dark mode on Linux because most apps look horrible in Linux under dark mode

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh wow, cool story about Yasuke. Is that where Yakuake got its name from?

Most people dont use dark mode on Linux because most apps look horrible in Linux under dark mode

Among my friends, dark mode users hugely outnumber light mode users, I really don't have any apps that struggle to support it. LibreOffice used to be really bad, but I don't really edit documents anymore, so I don't use it often, but when I do, I don't see issues (although the document background is white, because paper, so the contrast is a bit weird). I'm curious about which apps didn't work for you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Code::Blocks is the worst offender