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What are your must-have packages? (lemmy.world)

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I’ll start:

Tmux
vim
ghidra
okteta (hex editor)
speedcrunch (calculator with bit manipulation)
python3 with IPython for nice reply and embed(), pwntools

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.)