After I install Linux Mint (which is the distro I have settled on), I replace:
- Thunderbird with Betterbird
- Firefox with Librewolf (I also install Brave for web services that need a chromium browser).
- Celluloid / Rythmbox with VLC player
- Default Libreoffice with latest Libreoffice from source.
- ClipIt/Parcellite with xfce4-clipman
I find this to be my optimal setup and these software give me the extra quality of life that make my workflows easier.
What software do you replace and install on your distro of choice?
Edit: I forgot to say I replace sudo with doas. That’s something my friend told me to do although I personally don’t find any immediate working advantage with it.
Gnome Files with Thunar.
It’s the perfect file manager for a user like me.
Nautilus is abomination in the file browser. Except maybe deepin’s
I also replace Firefox with LibreWolf and Brave! I don’t do much more than that though; I used to replace GNOME Software with Warehouse, but I eventually found it easier to just remove PackageKit and use Software to install my flatpaks (I still use Warehouse for changing flatpak settings).
Konsole - kitty Firefox - librewolf Bash - fish Juk - mpv
I install the minimal version and go from there.
I uninstall Firefox and install Brave and Chromium.
Yeah. I also uninstall Thunderbird and install wine, outlook, and internet explorer
/s
I know it’s /s, but if it worked for you, cool.
Tell that to Mozilla.
How do you pronounce your pronouns?
zee, zem, zeir.
I remove anything by KDE and find an alternative from the 21st century.
I also install Janus as my text file editor, which is a Windows Notepad clone.
What is your KDE alternative from the 21st century?
Can’t be Gnome or Xfce, they’re both from the 20th.cinnamon or something
I don’t replace anything. I just install what I need from the beginning.
And yes, I run Arch btw. :D
lol ditto. but the first thing I do on new installs is
chsh /bin/zsh, replace caps lock with control and enable vi keys. otherwise I’m dysfunctionalYeah, there is nothing more annoying in general when starting to type text into a co-workers desktop than having random letters show up rather than having the cursor move around.
switched to nixos after a decade on arch. What does “default software” mean? :D
Systemd?
I stared using Zen Browser instead of Firefox lately and i find it really good.
Zen browser gang 🗣️
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
It’s so good! I love the design right out of the box, with very few settings adjustments.
Note that zen currently only has vertical tabs (horizontal tabs are on the roadmap). If horizontal tabs are a must, try Floorp browser instead, which has several similarities with Zen.
Rustdesk, so I can remote into my main computer and the others I manage.
PWAs For Firefox.
And that’s about it.
I use Debian BTW. (Was on Fedora but killed it when there were sound issues, turned out to Rustdesk at fault. Can’t do Mint as it boots to black screen.)
- bash -> fish
- default text editor (like Kate) -> geany
- firefox -> firefox-esr
- chromium -> ungoogled-chromium
- nano -> micro
- top -> htop, btop
- default PDF reader -> Okular
Do you really replace bash though? I also use fish but even as a relatively deranged minimalist I haven’t removed bash as it has so many dependents.
Personally I wouldn’t call that replacing. But that’s probably because I am a deranged minimalist. I can’t answer this thread because technically I didn’t remove anything that my installation started out with.
Replacing doesn’t mean removing in this case.
It still needed for the system scripts, etc.More like fish is my daily driver, bash if needed (I can write a script in bash faster then in fish).
- nano -> nvim
fixed that for you
Stop.
Everyone has their own preferences.
No judging here.Yeah, but some people have the wrong preferences /s
Yeah, fair point tbh, my bad
Apps I replace with newer versions (on Mint too):
- LibreOffice, with the latest .deb from their website
- Celluloid, with mpv. I cannot tell how much I appreciate mpv even though it sucks with DVD, for which I use VLC ;)
- yt-dlp, with the latest version available from git
- Screenshot, with Ksnip.
- Whatever the default image viewer is, with Pix.
mpv FTW!
Celluloid, with mpv
Hard agree, also SM Player for the FE
Whatever the default image viewer is
xviewer, it’s built on top ofeogwith Pix
Is that no longer pre-installed, at least for camera imports?
It was on 17-20.3 but I don’t think I’ve done a clean (re)install since.s that no longer pre-installed, at least for camera imports? It was on 17-20.3 but I don’t think I’ve done a clean (re)install since.
I could not swear, one or the other. Let’s just say I make it my default viewer instead ;)
how do you personally install yt-dlp? I just use pip(x).
- I remove the preinstalled version (sudo apt remove yt-dlp)
- In my ~/.local, I have a ‘bin’ folder in which to put any manually added app, and in my .bashrc I added that folder to the path. So everything in it is usable.
- I download the latest binary from https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#release-files and moved it to that bin folder.
- Done. I can use it like if it was the pre-installed app ;)
Jesus that explains why I’ve never used this. Pip is a security issue.
Jesus that explains why I’ve never used this. Pip is a security issue.
Not sure to understand your remark: I don’t use pip and have no idea what risks it could represent or not.
Ah cool, that’s exactly where pipx installs to as well :3
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I don’t. I install a distro with sane defaults and get to work.
Kinda in the Pop!_OS - NixOS club but Zen Browser here.
Arch master race: you don’t have to replace defaults if nom defaults are isntalled in the first place and you choose everything our own anyways.
