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Distro hoppers, what's always on your install list when you've finished setup and logged in for the first time? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11419429

I wouldn't really call myself a distro hopper, but in the last few months I've had to do some fresh installs on a couple of machines and VMs for work

If these aren't included by default, I'll make sure to get em:

GUI:

Firefox & Chromium

Gimp & Krita

VSCode/VSCodium

Okular

Libre office

CLI*:

git

wget&curl

neovim

zsh/ohmyzsh + plugins

glow

neofetch

figlet/toilet

zellij

python

nodejs/npm/nvm + nodemon globally

ranger/rifle

Also, how do you go about migrating your old config and rc files? Start fresh or just copy em over and make adjustments where necessary?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

htop, midnight commander, nettools (ping, ifconfig), nmap, ssh server

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You don't use iproute2?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I personally always install

LibreWolf (superior fork of Firefox)
Alacritty or Kitty
Emacs
Strawberry
FreeTube
Signal Desktop
Bitwarden

For terminal usage I install:

Fish shell
Neovim
bat
fd
ripgrep
fzf/sk
lsd
lf
tmux
git
GPG
Fun stuff like neofetch, hollywood, cmatrix, asciiquarium, figlet, etc.

[–] thejodie 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I just pull down my ansible playbook from github and run it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Would you mind sharing the link to your repo?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Zsh with prezto and some sort of guake-like

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What does prezto do? Is it similar to oh-my-zsh? Have you ever tried fish shell?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, very similar. And I used to use fish, but I got fed up with it not supporting bash scripts, so now I just have prezto with plugins that make it act exactly like fish 😁

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I used to use zsh with oh-my-zsh and Powerlevel10k before I switched to fish. I actually considered going back to zsh (don't remember why) but now I'm pretty happy with fish. What to you mean with fish not supporting bash scripts? A bash script should always have #!/bin/bash at the beginning of the file, that way it will always be executed in bash, even if you run it from fish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can't remember the details, it was 6 or 7 years ago that I switched, but it was something at work that wasn't working because fish used a different scripting language

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's strange. If you ever want to try fish again, you can do this to avoid problems with bash scripts:

NEVER set your system shell (the /bin/sh symlink) to fish, it will cause so many problems. Make sure to use bash or dash.
Only set your user shell to fish, use chsh to do this.
Use #!/usr/bin/env sh at the beginning of scripts
If you encounter some problems, just run your script like this: bash script.sh