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

submitted 11 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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[–] rozodru@piefed.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

IDE:

DOOM Emacs. It's my IDE, my email client, sometimes my terminal, my calendar, my regular word editor, it's just everything I need.

NVChad. It's Neovim but with all the smart plugins as default. I prefer it over lazyvim as it just has everything I need good to go.

CLI/TUIs:

If you like watching anime than Ani-CLI is the best thing out there. has everything and you can watch whatever you want in the terminal.

Bat. It's like Cat but better.

lazygit. really great git interface that makes things easy.

cmus. easiliy the best TUI music player

yazi. my go to file manager. has everything I need, easy to theme and customize.

osxiv. straight forward image viewer

Browser:

Qutebrowser. I like using vim navigation for everything so Qutebrowser is my browser of choice. very easy to customize and configure with custom scripts. works fantastic with various password managers.

[–] OUwUO@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

DOOM Emacs

NVChad

You might be the first person I've found on Lemmy that actively uses both DOOM Emacs and a Neovim distribution. Could you perhaps do a deeper dive on your work flow? Thanks in advance!