Basically the title.

Here’s a quick background, though (because I have nothing better to do today). Suffered a failed EOS update on my laptop and it refused to boot. Rather than fix it, I decided to do something I’ve been thinking about for a while now: I installed NixOS (I still use Arch on my VM, btw).

Problem is it’s been a bit long since I last set up my laptop I can’t remember everything I did on it. Lol.

So what do you guys install after changing distros? What are your must-have applications (for any distro)? I’m already running zen kernel, got bitwarden up and running, hardened firefox and installed ungoogled chromium. Seems there’s no standalone pihole (yet?) for Nix so I’ll be checking that out as well. Thanks in advance for your input!

  • narshee@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    nano, geany, xxd, gimp, feh, nsxiv, oxipng, pngquant, ffmpeg, mpv, yt-dlp, librewolf/firefox, surf, dmenu, tor-browser, pcmanfm, ranger, htop, qemu, curl, wget, darkhttpd, dash, clang & gcc, git, xarchiver, p7zip, calc. mediainfo, mkvtoolnix, obs, firejail and imagemagick depending on what I want to do. I think that’s the most important things. Will update when I think of something else.

    I like adguard home more than pihole and I think it has a nix package. Idk nix well.

    • chungusam0ngus@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      surf? LOL

      I’m not a big fan of file managers but a GUI one like thunar is good for the sake of drag and drop.

      I always install a second terminal emulator like xterm just in case of “uh oh I broke my terminal emulator”… that can happen sometimes with urxvt after updates if you do particular addons or bash configurations and such

      cups if you like to print

      I like dictd as a dictionary

      ufw

      potentially appropriate microcode for your hardware?

      zathura for pdf

      always install tmux and run it in your ssh instances

      • Ice Tree@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        If you want to drag and drop without using a GUI File Manager, you can use: dragon - simple drag-and-drop source/sink for X or Wayland. I prefer lf a terminal file manager, but I do use Thunar sometimes.

      • CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyiOPEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I just saw this. Zathura is definitely gonna be installed. And yeah, i always have 2 terminals, usually konsole and xterm. No real reason except I’m just so used to those 2. Thunar is nice, but I usually have Nautilus (just personal preference).

  • mellitiger@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago
    • etckeeper
    • restic
    • rclone
    • chezmoi (dotfiles in git)
    • bashtop
    • atuin (syncing shell history)

    The applications that came out of my mind, because i use these often…

  • MouseWithBeer@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Firefox, Steam, Discord, OBS, LibreOffice, Dropbox (I badly need an alternative for this pos), Ark, Sublime, Krita, Git, Apache, VLC. Vaguely in that order. Everything else gets installed as I need. Pretty much all of it is very use specific tho.