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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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[–] morto@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

I use ferdium to concentrate all my communication accounts into a single place and not get lost
Syncthing is really nice to keep my files readily available between devices
Zotero is amazing if you do academic research. I can't imagine making references without it
distrobox allows me to run things that aren't available or that would conflict with my distro's repos
frog saves me a lot when I have to copy text from an image. It's a simple and easy to use ocr tool that can quickly get text from screenshots or image files
personaldnsfilter allows me to block ads on the phone, system-wide
changedetection.io checks a few sites for me automatically
Well caibrated guesslron and openoise are handy measuring tools
Just knew about paperknife recently, and it has been useful to process pdfs on the phone
Plainapp is really useful to share files from the phone with other devices

Those are the ones that came to my mind