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?

  • Dehydrated@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 months ago

    I always need

    • LibreWolf (privacy-focused Firefox fork)
    • Some nice terminal emulator like Alacritty or Kitty
    • A torrent client
    • Emacs
    • Strawberry (the music player)

    CLI:

    • fish shell
    • bat
    • neovim
    • fd
    • fzf
    • zoxide
    • Some other Rust alternatives for GNU coreutils
    • GPG
    • fun stuff like neofetch, lolcat, asciiquarium, cmatrix, etc.
  • 0xCAFe@feddit.deEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago
    • Firefox (often preinstalled)
    • Thunderbird
    • Code
    • FreeTube & Stremio
    • Apostrophe
    • KeePass
    • Nextcloud
    • Syncthing
    • yt-dlp
  • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
    1·
    9 months ago

    I also don’t consider myself a distrohopper (I’ve only installed Ubuntu based distros), but I did recently install Ubuntu and KDE Neon on separate computers.

    It really depends on what I’m using the computer for, but I’ll list my most commonly used applications by importance tiers:

    A Tier (cannot live without these):

    • Firefox
    • Neofetch (obviously)
    • A GUI file manager (doesn’t really matter which one)
    • A usable Desktop Environment

    B Tier (extremely useful but nonessential):

    • LibreOffice
    • Xournal++ (for taking notes, and editing PDFs)
    • Baobab (for recording disk usage)
    • Steam
    • VLC (video player)
    • Clementine (music player)
    • htop (CLI system monitor)
    • GUI “appstore”

    C Tier (very useful, but quite niche):

    • VSCode
    • Vivaldi
    • Retroarch
    • Krita
    • Kdenlive
    • OBS Studio
    • Wine
    • GUI system monitor
    • Standalone PDF viewer
  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Step 1: install Debian 12 today, Step 2: upgrade to Debian 13 when available, then Debian 14, Debian 15 and so on… that’s the only hopping one should.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Gatekeeping Linux!? I certainly wasn’t expecting that… I think the state of Linux is needlessly fragmented, but even I won’t say a single distro will work best for every single person, business, school, government, or organization.

  • stormio@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Recently, I’ve been changing distros about once a year. These are the things I install every time:

    • hdparm - I use this to disable APM on my HDD which makes annoying sounds when it’s enabled. (Yes, my computer is old and still uses an HDD as the system drive.)
    • KeePassXC - My preferred password manager.
    • VeraCrypt - My external drives are encrypted with this.
    • Joplin - I store my setup notes in here.
    • Lutris/Steam/Wine - I’m a gamer.

    As for the config files, I always start fresh.

  • SmokeInFog@midwest.socialEnglish
    0·
    9 months ago

    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?

    I keep all of my important configs and dot files in a git repo. When setting up a new system I clone that repo and then symlink to them in the appropriate places