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What are some programs/tools/packages that you can't live without? (piefed.social)

submitted 17 hours ago by steel_for_humans@piefed.social to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev

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Disclaimer: I tried searching for something like "useful programs", "useful packages", "useful tools", "recommended packages", etc. Don't see any posts like that, if this is a duplicate, then it's not intentional and my search skills have failed me.

Anyway, I was watching a YT video today and the guy launched a cool program in his terminal, I paused to see what he was running. It was btop, of course being new I never heard about it. Then I thought -- how many cool tools/packages are there, which people use, but I am not aware of?

So what do you like? What do you install on a fresh install? What are the most useful tools in your belt? What can't you live without on Linux?

Perhaps I'll find something useful :)

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[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

https://cockpit-project.org/ is a webui primarily meant for servers but I find it great to get a graphical overview of both services and logs on my workstation too.

[–] steel_for_humans@piefed.social 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I think that's the thing that openSUSE is moving towards? I read that YaST will be deprecated in the future, but currently I think some features are only available in either of those tools. I didn't try Cockpit yet.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 hours ago

Seems like they've made cockpit easier to use on openSUSE.
https://news.opensuse.org/2026/03/18/new-launcher-aims-to-simplify-cockpit-installations/

On Fedora installing and autostarting is as simple as:
sudo dnf install cockpit
sudo systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket

And to allow it through the firewall, if active:
sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=cockpit --permanent

Then it will be available on https://localhost:9090/ (with a certificate warning)