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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Maroon@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

After I install Linux Mint (which is the distro I have settled on), I replace:

  1. Thunderbird with Betterbird
  2. Firefox with Librewolf (I also install Brave for web services that need a chromium browser).
  3. Celluloid / Rythmbox with VLC player
  4. Default Libreoffice with latest Libreoffice from source.
  5. 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.

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[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
  • Clementine - music player
  • yakuake - terminal
  • fish - command line
  • Geany - text editor
  • eza - replacement for ls
  • zoxide - replacement for cd
  • bat - replacement for cat
  • Librewolf - replacement for Firefox
  • Brave - replacement for Chromium
[-] Zucca@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

Wait? Why cat needs replacing? Do you have a link for bat?

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago
[-] Zucca@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Interesting.

I wonder if it'll work with lsp, when it sends data to pager. I'll start testing this out.

EDIT: Whoa... 23megs for cat clone. Rust projects do have a whole lot of dependecies. I counted crates 128 for this.

Oh well. I'll start compiling.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

When I installed MX KDE on my laptop, I found out about yakuake as it was installed by default. I always use it almost immediately whenever I log in to run my update script. Saves a few extra seconds to just press f4 rather than click the terminal icon and then type. Absolutely love it.

[-] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de -5 points 6 days ago

Yasuke for Terminal because he was a sole black man in Japan of his time. Just like Terminal program is solely black as compared to most other apps.

Most people dont use dark mode on Linux because most apps look horrible in Linux under dark mode

[-] mikey@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

Oh wow, cool story about Yasuke. Is that where Yakuake got its name from?

Most people dont use dark mode on Linux because most apps look horrible in Linux under dark mode

Among my friends, dark mode users hugely outnumber light mode users, I really don't have any apps that struggle to support it. LibreOffice used to be really bad, but I don't really edit documents anymore, so I don't use it often, but when I do, I don't see issues (although the document background is white, because paper, so the contrast is a bit weird). I'm curious about which apps didn't work for you.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

What I heard is that it comes from Yet Another Quake (terminal), which comes from a tradition in programming of naming an application "Yet Another (something)", and they changed the Q to a K because KDE.

[-] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 6 days ago

Code::Blocks is the worst offender

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