So what are some of your must have apps on any new Linux distro install? Mine is Cinelerra-gg, kdenlive, OBS, WPS Office, Steam, Lutris, Homebank, Opera, Lollypop, Vocal.
Steam, Lutris,Wine,Vulkan driver,Vlc,Popcorntime,Wot,PES 2019,ETS2,DotaUnderlords,DirtRally,Banished,SayonaraâŚ
My Must-have-Apps: insync for Gdrive and Onedrive, Cryptomator, Softmaker Office, ICE for any kind of WebApps (from Peppermint), SimpleNotes, Electron Mail, Guake Terminal, Resilio Sync, Spotify
not only must have apps but snaps and an updateme alias
Buntu
sudo apt install snapd && sudo snap install core && sudo snap install telegram-desktop --edge && sudo snap install discord --edge && sudo snap install obs-studio --edgesudo apt install -y gparted gnome-disk-utility gnome-terminal gimp gpick smplayer jackd htop qbittorrent numlockx pulseaudio pavucontrol audacity screenfetch libreoffice thunderbird build-essential lm-sensors psensor synaptic glances darktable neofetch inxi flameshot inkscape guvcview catfish blender
nano .bashrc
#alias to do a full update and clear up
alias updateme=âsudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt dist-upgrade && sudo apt autoremove && sudo apt clean && sudo apt autoclean && sudo snap refresh && sudo flatpak updateâ
Save file
then run
source ~/.bashrc
edit: and I forgot Steam and Lutris and Zoom
edit again : Thank you @CubicleNate > Virt-Manager / Qemu/KVM
Regards ZebâŚ
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Most of my favorite Linux apps are listed here on my site https://dasgeekcommunity.com/brain-dump/
The first ones I install are Firefox, Bitwarden and Simplenote
pdftk - working with PDFs
gamemode - changing CPU governors
foliate - GTK3 ebook reader
kphotoalbum - local Google Photos alternative
VS Code - thanks, Microsoft
stubby - local DNS over HTTPS daemon
lxd - containerize anything!
and my favorite out-of-the-box and/or small cli tools:
dd
scp
nano
screen
htop
qemu
locate
Firefox! But usually it is already installed on the distros I use so it does not really count.
Otherwise it always looks like this:
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Telegram
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scrot
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mpv
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ffmpeg
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youtube-dl
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inxi
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asunder
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Audacity
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imagemagick
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lame
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replaygain
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Mixxx
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pavucontrol
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vim
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htop
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lm-sensors
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unifont
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Terminus fonts
- Atom
- Virtualbox
- KeepassXC
- Signal Desktop
- Calibre
- git
- tmux
- grsync
- shotwell
- Tilix
- OBS
The apps that I âMUST HAVEâ on a system I am going to use, outside of Plasma as my Desktop because that is essentially a requirement are:
- Kontact (KDE PIM)
- Kate (Text Editor)
- Audacity
- Kdenlive
- Telegram
- Gnome-Recipes as this is something I use almost daily in the kitchen
- SimpleNote
- Bitwarden
- Fusion 360 (thru Lutris)
- Lutris (because the former wonât work well otherwise)
- Virt-Manager / QEMU / KVM
There are several more but that would be the must-haves for day to day.
@zebedee.boss all those sudo
s in your alias are quite repetitive. Also you may have noticed that if one of those commands takes longer to run, it may ask for the sudo
password again. You can try something like this alias updateme="sudo sh -c 'apt update && apt -y upgrade...'"
Also notice the -y
flag to apt, that automatically answers yes to the want to continue prompt.
I wonât do a full list but rather, if I do a new install, what I will get back on my computer that day if I donât have much time to mess about.
First Iâd get my dotfiles restored and kill all that default garbage in my home directory, then make sure the basics are there:
vim
firefox
numix theme and icons
spotify
keepass2
terminal is probably guaranteed but Iâd have to disable all the window decorations and reduce font size.
Ultimately this will all become an ansible playbook.
@CubicleNate and I gave you a shout out on this weekâs episode of DLN Xtend. Such a great list! Very clever titles.
A few favoritesâŚ
mate-desktop-environment-extras # Debian MATE doesnât pre-install it
mumble # Because youâre missing out
gnome-icon-theme # Because
mousepad # Linuxâs answer to notepad.exe
deepin-screenshot # Any advice on something better that isnât Flameshot?
libnotify-bin # For desktop notifications via notify-send
sshfs # Because who needs Filezilla?
Hi, thanks for the suggestion, it has not failed me yet.
Also my understanding of the && is that it will not attempt the second command until the first has finished.
I did not want to use â-yâ as I like to see what is happening.
Regards ZebâŚ
True, the Debian task that will be installed if you choose the Mate desktop is more minimal. But if you install Debian without any GUI, then I just do this after the install:
apt install mate-desktop-environment-extras
and get all the goodies.
The best part is that you do not get some of the stuff that would be installed with the tasksel package like Synaptic or Reportbug, I do not need them, OK maybe Reportbug on sid.
my understanding of the && is that it will not attempt the second command until the first has finished
Thatâs not 100% correct. There are 3 ways to concatenate commands:
cmd1; cmd2
- will run
cmd1
, thencmd2
when the first is done, regardless of the result of the first one
- will run
cmd1 & cmd2
- will run
cmd1
andcmd2
at the same time (wonât wait for the first one to finish)
- will run
cmd1 && cmd2
- will run
cmd1
, then if that returned 0 (which means it exited without errors) runscmd2
- will run
Hope my explanation was clear!
Cool - good to know
Does Lollypop work on other DEs than GNOME? It looks fantastic!
EDIT: Nevermind, thereâs a FlatPak!
NordVPN, Brave, Catfish and Recoll (canât decide), TeamViewer, smplayer, guake