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

  • Engywook@lemm.ee
    6·
    2 months ago
    • Kate
    • Yakuake
    • Brave, Vivaldi, Chromium
    • LibreOffice (I use Calc a lot)
    • Kate
    • Ocular
    • DoH-client
    • htop
    • ncdu
    • Windscribe
    • virt-manager

    … and more I can’t remember right now, because it’s too early in the morning.

    EDIT:

    • nano
    • mc (midnight commander)
  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
    73·
    2 months ago

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

  • a14o@feddit.org
    16·
    2 months ago

    Helpful answer: vlc, libreoffice, gimp, inkscape, zathura, obs-studio

    Real answer: gnome, run-or-raise, foot, fish, tmux, fzf, silver-searcher, neovim, neomutt, vifm

    • Kory@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 months ago

      Curious why you would need Gimp and Inkscape? Wouldn’t one of them be enough? Is one of them better suited for certain tasks?

        • Kory@lemmy.ml
          2·
          2 months ago

          Oh I see, thanks. I thought you could also edit images with Inkscape. I’m apparently not very well versed in these topics.

          • a14o@feddit.org
            3·
            2 months ago

            You can load bitmap images into Inkscape and manipulate them to a degree, but Gimp is much better at that. You can probably also load vector graphics (svg) into Gimp, but I’d assume they would be converted to bitmaps.

            Vector vs bitmap is a good topic to be familiar with for anyone who works with computers, I keep running into professionals who really should know the difference but don’t.

            • Kory@lemmy.ml
              2·
              2 months ago

              Thanks for the explanation! I agree, this has been very helpful already. Now I go and do some reading on it.

  • Beryl@lemmy.ml
    14·
    2 months ago

    For me personally I install kitty terminal and integrate it with fish asap. Then I waste a bunch of time customizing it to my liking. My preferred text editor is Kate regardless of what DE I’m using and I usually get bleachbit for basic cleanup.

    • SBFalcon@kbin.earth
      3·
      2 months ago

      Hello Beryl. Could you help me with bleachbit settings (tick boxes)? Once when I used bleachbit, it changed back the icons of packages like Zen Browser that I have changed through Menu Edit. It also removed start up applications from the setting. I’m on Arch KDEplasma. So, I was wondering, which check box should I leave empty to preserve my icon customizations and startup apps?

  • liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    kitty, nvim, fish, zed, mpv, btop, borg. Weird how all the gone ones have short names. Depending on the system, I would add tlp as well.