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

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Gimp, Oh my ZSH and VS Code.

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Xournalpp - a fantastic tool for journalling (on X/twitter) your peeing habits.

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Tmux - a nice tool for telephoning elon musk

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Wezterm - a utility for tracking the term limits of Wez Anderson style presidencies

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Cheese - a fantastic tool for ordering dairy products online

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Whatever you need to be productive.

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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?”.

🤷‍♂️ 🤦‍♀️

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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.

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Brilliant.

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

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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?

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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?”

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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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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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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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