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What are your three must-have software? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago
  • kernel
  • shell
  • compiler
[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Nix, git, and alacritty.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Probably the Linux kernel, bootloader, and systemd.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago
  • KDE Connect (and GSConnect for when I'm using my laptop)
  • Fish
  • Lutris
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
  • Firefox
  • VLC
  • qbittorent
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Infinite entertainment glitch (with a VPN as well)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago
  • librewolf
  • weechat
  • mpv
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Linux, emacs, clojure

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago
  • Firefox
  • Python
  • Vim
[–] 299792458ms 4 points 4 months ago
  • Hyprland/Sway
  • Logseq
  • Bitwarden (literally must-have)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago
  • foot
  • wget
  • lynx

also * ffplay and * yt-dlp.

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

librewolf, freetube, neovim.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

  • Firefox

  • Bitwarden

  • Steam

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago
  • Firefox
  • Konsole
  • openssh-client
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago
  • nvim
  • firefox
  • LocalSend
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago
  • Emacs
  • Zathura
  • DWM
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Firefox, notepad ++, PuTTy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Vim Tree Redshift

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Standard Notes, Firefox, novelWriter are the ones I rely on the most for my daily needs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
  • Firefox
  • mplayer (VLC is neat and all, I just prefer mplayer)
  • vim
  • screen
  • nmap
  • rsync

Shitloads more, but I seem to have misplaced my text file with the apt-get install blob that I always run on new systems. The above are what I can recall if I give the question 10 seconds of thought.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Linux, firefox, vim

[–] sunglocto 1 points 3 months ago
  • librewolf
  • alacritty
  • thunar
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

helix mpv nextcloud desktop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Firefox Thunderbird VS code (sorry).

Extras: Obsidian, Double Commander, Steam