You just installed a shiny new fresh install of Linux mint. What are your must install apps/tools?

  • @nimpnin@sopuli.xyz
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    717 days ago

    Potentially unpopular opinion: a bunch of rust replacements for the common terminal utilities: eza, bat, dust, fd, helix. Also fish and nushell, yt-dlp, and some of my favorite programming languages.

    • @Static_Rocket@lemmy.world
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      717 days ago

      All of these alternatives and you missed the best one ripgrep (rg). The other ones in my opinion are nice to have. Recursive multi-threaded grep that respects gitignore files is a must for me.

      • @nimpnin@sopuli.xyz
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        216 days ago

        I have it installed on a few of my machines but don’t really find it that useful. But then again that’s specific to my needs and usecases.

    • @Xanza@lemm.ee
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      17 days ago

      I also do this. There are some utilities I’d like to see included directly into most *nix distributions, like fd.

      I use bin to manage the utilities, and can setup a new install by just bringing he binary and config. It works great–I highly recommend it.

    • themadcodger
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      217 days ago

      I just discovered bat and eza, which were already installed, along with fd though I haven’t played with that one yet. I’ve really liked the first two at least