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 :)

  • OUwUO@programming.dev
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    9 days ago

    As I suppose the other user already went over your main query, I’ll instead focus on what might have felt rather innocuous.

    my default shell is fish

    I subscribe to the school of thought that one should not change their default shell[1] through invoking chsh (or whatever other method that applies changes to /etc/passwd). This article does an excellent job at laying down the reasoning (and the recommended alternative). FWIW, the alternative’s day-to-day experience provides all of the pros without any of the cons.

    1. I suppose it could be fine~ish as long as it’s POSIX compliant AND compatible with bash. Which, unfortunately, fish happens to be neither of the two. ↩︎