Disclaimer: I tried searching for something like “useful programs”, “useful packages”, “useful tools”, “recommended packages”, etc. Don’t see any posts like that, if this is a duplicate, then it’s not intentional and my search skills have failed me.
Anyway, I was watching a YT video today and the guy launched a cool program in his terminal, I paused to see what he was running. It was btop, of course being new I never heard about it. Then I thought – how many cool tools/packages are there, which people use, but I am not aware of?
So what do you like? What do you install on a fresh install? What are the most useful tools in your belt? What can’t you live without on Linux?
Perhaps I’ll find something useful :)
It’s probably not a case for everyone due to the obvious limitations, but I primarily use KeepassXC from my main workstation. I have backup scripts that periodically run for my user on said workstation that capture my Keepass database among other user files and backup to external storage, cloud storage as dictated.
For my laptops, mobile devices; I periodically push the database from either the main workstation or pull from a backup to these devices. I do not write new entries from these devices in order to avoid having to handle writeback to the main instance of my Keepass db. This can be done, but inherently starts to hinge on needing network access all the time to ensure an up-to-date copy of the DB is present as well as being explicitly a single-user db to prevent a syncing protocol from accidentally writing over new entries from any given device. Obviously, if network sync and the potential for multi-user is important to you, continue using Bitwarden. It is a perfectly fine solution.
Thanks. Yeah, I do add or edit the entries on all my devices and I need them to sync fast. :) I used KeePass many, many years ago but at the time I only used it on my PC. That might have been before smartphone era, so my needs were different.