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I replace Spectacle with Flameshot.
- VLC with SMPlayer. I don't understand why they keep shipping VLC as default. It sucks.
- Kate with KWrite.
- Nano with Vim in *buntu variants
- Elisa, Rhythmbox, etc. with Strawberry. Although I mostly just use Spotify nowadays.
- Calculator with calc.
Everything else works just fine, unless the distro made an insane choice like having XTerm as the default terminal emulator.
If you haven't tried it the repl python is pretty in a pretty good calculator. Use "_" to use the output value.
I don't use calc for much more than basic calculations. Even speedcrunch was too much for my taste. Honestly, I'd use bc if it wasn't for the complicated syntax.
save you a little changes here, Kate and Kwrite are now combined as one install.. When you install one you get the other as they are no longer separate packages.
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I didn't see this one yet:
apt -> nala
Though I think it's technically just a wrapper, the colour support and formatting makes things much easier to parse (visually)
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I don't replace anything. I just install what I need from the beginning.
And yes, I run Arch btw. :D
switched to nixos after a decade on arch. What does "default software" mean? :D
Systemd?
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 dysfunctional
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- Firefox -> Edge
- Libreoffice -> Gsuite PWAs
- kernel -> Azure Linux kernel (added trust of Microsoft)
- nano -> vim
- vi -> Emacs
- GNOME -> Deepin
- Bash -> Powershell >=7.0
I think you forgot to add /s
Probably should have added yeah. Based on the amount of downvotes, some people took it too seriously
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nano -> vim
This one is extremely consistent with the others because once you have made the switch, it becomes harder to escape.
Fish for shell everywhere
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As a former Windows SUPERUSER, I always change the desktop wallpaper, just to show off. 😋
But jokes aside and apart from things already mentioned, I always install the Speedcrunch calculator, and xbindkeys so I can copy all my keyboard shortcuts.
Nothing. I picked a distro that works for me out of the box. On top of that I only installed stuff, instead of replacing stuff.
Yeah this is me.
I was reading these comments feeling as though I must be very odd until I got to yours.
Debian comes with firefox ESR which I think is a good choice because it "just works", but it's also no one's "preferred" browser. I tend to use both LibreWolf and ungoogled-chromium all day every day.
I do use the terminal every day. Years ago I used oh-my-zsh for a while but I think eventually I just kind of didn't bother to install it.
For file manager and video player et cetera, I've always found the defaults to be good choices.
I find most of the defaults are fine and get the job done, but I also understand the tinkerer types who like working on a super custom setup that's theirs.
I still use old big iron unix boxes from the 90's, but most of the time I Install the GNU versions of stuff like ls, sed, cat etc because they are so much more feature rich (and just about any modern software/script assumes GNU versions of those tools anyway)
Too many people concentrate on which distro when in fact it's the desktop they choose that will have the biggest impact on their experience
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Arch, so pretty much nothing.
Except maybe ZSH (but it's 'added', I guess; not 'replaced').
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!
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bash -> fish
Celluloid is honestly better than VLC. Native Wayland, Pipewire, no filesystem permissions (Flatpak)
I am on Fedora Kinoite, I replaced Kwrite with Kate, all the other default KDE apps are great. Okular, Gwenview as Flatpak, and apart from that a mix of different KDE, GNOME or 3rd party apps as Flatpaks.
I made a list here, but it is a bit outdated
Celluloid does much less than vlc, why not just using mpv (which celluloid uses as backend) so you have a full player
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I usually replace these:
- Bash with Fish
- Neofetch (if there is) with Fastfetch+Hyfetch
- Firefox with Floorp
- Mkinitcpio with Dracut
- GRUB with systemd-boot
Why systemd-boot? I don't know much about it. But I've heard it's faster?
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There are a handful on non-default apps I've used across my last 3-4 distros at least:
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mpv - the best video player, period. Minimalist UI, maximalist configuration options. I've been using it for many years across many OSes and at this point everything else feels wrong.
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Geany - My favorite GUI text editor on Linux.
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Foliate - the simplest eBook reader I've found.
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Strawberry - It's "fine". Honestly, I've never found a music player on Linux that I really liked. I keep falling back to Strawberry because it's familiar and generally works as expected.
Starwberry
Have you tried DeaDBeeF? It's the most similar to foobar2k coming from Windows.
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I install the minimal version and go from there.
- bash -> fish
- default text editor (like Kate) -> geany
- firefox -> firefox-esr
- chromium -> ungoogled-chromium
- nano -> micro
- top -> htop, btop
- default PDF reader -> Okular
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pdf reader with okular
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