I wouldn’t really call myself a distro hopper, but in the last few months I’ve had to do some fresh installs on a couple of machines and VMs for work

If these aren’t included by default, I’ll make sure to get em:

GUI:

  • Firefox & Chromium
  • Gimp & Krita
  • VSCode/VSCodium
  • Okular
  • Libre office

CLI*:

  • git
  • wget&curl
  • neovim
  • zsh/ohmyzsh + plugins
  • glow
  • neofetch
  • figlet/toilet
  • zellij
  • python
  • nodejs/npm/nvm + nodemon globally
  • ranger/rifle

Also, how do you go about migrating your old config and rc files? Start fresh or just copy em over and make adjustments where necessary?

  • SuperSpruce
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    10 months ago

    I also don’t consider myself a distrohopper (I’ve only installed Ubuntu based distros), but I did recently install Ubuntu and KDE Neon on separate computers.

    It really depends on what I’m using the computer for, but I’ll list my most commonly used applications by importance tiers:

    A Tier (cannot live without these):

    • Firefox
    • Neofetch (obviously)
    • A GUI file manager (doesn’t really matter which one)
    • A usable Desktop Environment

    B Tier (extremely useful but nonessential):

    • LibreOffice
    • Xournal++ (for taking notes, and editing PDFs)
    • Baobab (for recording disk usage)
    • Steam
    • VLC (video player)
    • Clementine (music player)
    • htop (CLI system monitor)
    • GUI “appstore”

    C Tier (very useful, but quite niche):

    • VSCode
    • Vivaldi
    • Retroarch
    • Krita
    • Kdenlive
    • OBS Studio
    • Wine
    • GUI system monitor
    • Standalone PDF viewer