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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Never heard of bin but this is cool as hell thanks for shouting it out!

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Here’s an exhaustive list of modern replacements:

https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix/blob/master/README.md

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Nice list, thanks. A lot of them I was not even aware of.

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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

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