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Distro hoppers, what's always on your install list when you've finished setup and logged in for the first time? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wouldn't really call myself a distro hopper, but in the last few months I've had to do some fresh installs on a couple of machines and VMs for work

If these aren't included by default, I'll make sure to get em:

GUI:

Firefox & Chromium
Gimp & Krita
VSCode/VSCodium
Okular
Libre office

CLI*:

git
wget&curl
neovim
zsh/ohmyzsh + plugins
glow
neofetch
figlet/toilet
zellij
python
nodejs/npm/nvm + nodemon globally
ranger/rifle

Also, how do you go about migrating your old config and rc files? Start fresh or just copy em over and make adjustments where necessary?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

guix home reconfigure home-config.scm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I prefer btop to htop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

ne is my preferred CLI text editor... others would be: ranger, rtorrent, irssi, git, btop, and others that are not coming to mind right now..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Turn on night light and install syncthing to move over dotfiles

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

CLI:

git
zsh
neovim
lazygit
my dotfiles (i have them on gh and then use a bare repo)
a few extra utilities: htop, ripgrep, tree, exa
yay (I use Arch btw)
tools for whatever langs I'm using, usually rust or golang

GUI:

Steam - games are on a separate disk that I add to /etc/fstab so I just need to add it to Steam and I'm good to go
Lutris
Sublime Text
Spotify
Discord
Flameshot
psensor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

git clone ssh://[email protected]/~/dotfiles.git

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

byobu

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't migrate any config file, always from scratch. My setup isn't that complicated. Fedora for a long time.

GUI (mostly Flatpaks):

Firefox
Chromium (for Xbox Cloud Gaming)
Extension Manager
Flatseal
VeraCrypt
Stremio

CLI:

Syncthing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does the cloud gaming work pretty well? I'm trying to consider how to move my main rig to Mint, but also not lose my three years of game pass. I think dual boot is likely but feels purpose defeating haha.

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