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

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    115 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.

    • themadcodger
      link
      fedilink
      25 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

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      75 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.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        24 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.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      5
      edit-2
      5 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.