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

  • HotsauceHurricaneEnglish
    2•2 months ago

    At the very least:

    Yazi Eza Kitty Fish Fastfetch Feh Trash-cli Micro Spotify-player Nmcli Polybar Rofi (fuzzel for wayland) Librewolf

  • @[email protected]
    11•2 months 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.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•2 months 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
      2•2 months 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]English
      7•2 months 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]
        2•2 months 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.

  • edricEnglish
    8•2 months ago

    I believe Firefox is installed by default on Mint, so install uBO.

    Transmission.

    Veracrypt.

    Audacious.

    • @[email protected]
      7•2 months ago

      Brilliant.

      This is like somebody asking you what you want for breakfast, and you say “Food”.

      • Onno (VK6FLAB)
        1•2 months ago

        I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic, observant, or something else. There have been many a meal where I was asked what I wanted to eat and it’s rare that I go beyond the words “surprise me”, knowing full well that the person asking would eat the same as I was offered, making the “surprise”, less of a risk and more of an adventure.

        In this case, OP asked a completely unanswerable question to which there was absolutely no reasonable answer, since we know nothing about the person, their interests, their experience, the hardware they have access to, or anything remotely resembling a needs analysis.

        So, even my answer, generic and random as it might appear, was based on how I use a computer, namely, to be productive. I’ve been using them for over 40 years, mostly like that, with some sojourns into art and personal expression, not nearly worthy of public scrutiny, but not specifically “productive” as such.

        So … what were you attempting to say?

        • @[email protected]
          5•2 months ago

          I didn’t interpret the original post as “What would a generic user consider necessary installs?” I interpreted it as “Could you suggest some software that you consider absolutely essential so that I could discover some that I might’ve overlooked?”

    • LupusBlackfur
      13•2 months ago

      ➕ 💯

      This is the correct answer. 👆

      Not one of the other replies (so far) addresses the question to the OP: “What do you want to accomplish with the machine?”.

      🤷‍♂️ 🤦‍♀️

      • @[email protected]
        15•2 months ago

        But OP is asking us. Presumably for the benefit of the community.

        If you believe your answer would be more valuable to also include what you are trying to achieve, by all means, include that.

  • @[email protected]English
    10•2 months ago

    Timeshift is number 1

    Also it’s recommended to not reinstall a bunch of stuff and just install the app when you needed it that’s the power of Linux. Unless you just want to learn the software then disregard

    • @[email protected]
      7•2 months ago

      I found Timeshift to be a disappointment. I tested it as I was setting my system up.

      • Install Linux Mint, obviously.
      • Install most main software I want.
      • Do a Timeshift backup.
      • Install more software I might want to try eventually.
      • Restore the Timeshift backup.

      Result: The system still thought all the extra software packages were installed, but none of them actually worked. Like, if Timeshift is gonna uninstall packages that weren’t present in the last backup, shouldn’t it also unregister those packages as well?

      To fix all that crap, I had to force reinstall all packages, which takes about as long as a full OS reinstall, but I was already happy with the rest of the configuration, so I ran…

      sudo aptitude reinstall '~i'

      • @[email protected]
        2•2 months ago

        Had similar experience with snapshots. Restore to the last working version just to find the same issue that’s been bothering me.

        Then went back to the classic approach with 👻 images and Rescuezilla.

        With NVME drive, it takes 7min to backup 60Gb, and 3min to restore it.

  • @[email protected]
    6•2 months ago

    CopyQ is an advanced clipboard manager. Gimp is great but Pinta is easy for quick, minor image adjustments. System Monitor is an applet that displays system information by double clicking on a taskbar icon. If you use VPNs, the IP Indicator applet shows the country of your public IP or customized icon when matching ISP is found.

    • AArun
      5•2 months ago

      I recommend fastfetch nowadays since neofetch is no longer maintained

  • @[email protected]
    14•2 months ago

    For me personally I install kitty terminal and integrate it with fish asap. Then I waste a bunch of time customizing it to my liking. My preferred text editor is Kate regardless of what DE I’m using and I usually get bleachbit for basic cleanup.

    • SBFalcon
      3•2 months ago

      Hello Beryl. Could you help me with bleachbit settings (tick boxes)? Once when I used bleachbit, it changed back the icons of packages like Zen Browser that I have changed through Menu Edit. It also removed start up applications from the setting. I’m on Arch KDEplasma. So, I was wondering, which check box should I leave empty to preserve my icon customizations and startup apps?