You just installed a shiny new fresh install of Linux mint. What are your must install apps/tools?

  • Beryl@lemmy.ml
    11·
    2 months ago

    For me personally I install kitty terminal and integrate it with fish asap. Then I waste a bunch of time customizing it to my liking. My preferred text editor is Kate regardless of what DE I’m using and I usually get bleachbit for basic cleanup.

  • tomatoely@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    2 months ago

    LocalSend for quick local network file sharing from my phone that just werks. I prefer it over kde connect because the latter uses lots of random ports that kinda bloat my firewall whitelist. I know there is an alternative called warpinator, but I don’t see a reason to change my preferences for now.

  • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    2 months ago

    Timeshift is number 1

    Also it’s recommended to not reinstall a bunch of stuff and just install the app when you needed it that’s the power of Linux. Unless you just want to learn the software then disregard

    • over_clox@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      I found Timeshift to be a disappointment. I tested it as I was setting my system up.

      • Install Linux Mint, obviously.
      • Install most main software I want.
      • Do a Timeshift backup.
      • Install more software I might want to try eventually.
      • Restore the Timeshift backup.

      Result: The system still thought all the extra software packages were installed, but none of them actually worked. Like, if Timeshift is gonna uninstall packages that weren’t present in the last backup, shouldn’t it also unregister those packages as well?

      To fix all that crap, I had to force reinstall all packages, which takes about as long as a full OS reinstall, but I was already happy with the rest of the configuration, so I ran…

      sudo aptitude reinstall '~i'

      • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 months ago

        Had similar experience with snapshots. Restore to the last working version just to find the same issue that’s been bothering me.

        Then went back to the classic approach with 👻 images and Rescuezilla.

        With NVME drive, it takes 7min to backup 60Gb, and 3min to restore it.

  • Engywook@lemm.ee
    5·
    2 months ago
    • Kate
    • Yakuake
    • Brave, Vivaldi, Chromium
    • LibreOffice (I use Calc a lot)
    • Kate
    • Ocular
    • DoH-client
    • htop
    • ncdu
    • Windscribe
    • virt-manager

    … and more I can’t remember right now, because it’s too early in the morning.

    EDIT:

    • nano
    • mc (midnight commander)
  • ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
    61·
    2 months ago

    There’s a lot of letters here, but nobody is explaining what they mean. How do I know what I need? I’m not gonna install everything, or look up every single program to see.

  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    2 months ago

    CopyQ is an advanced clipboard manager. Gimp is great but Pinta is easy for quick, minor image adjustments. System Monitor is an applet that displays system information by double clicking on a taskbar icon. If you use VPNs, the IP Indicator applet shows the country of your public IP or customized icon when matching ISP is found.

  • WalnutLum@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 months ago

    guix and/or nix

    Both are functional package managers and manage dependency trees better than flatpak IMO (also the package description languages mean you can manipulate the package definitions at install time much easier)

    If you can’t find a package in guix/nix then it behooves you to use flatpak

  • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I believe Firefox is installed by default on Mint, so install uBO.

    Transmission.

    Veracrypt.

    Audacious.

  • Matriks404@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago
    • Anki
    • Beyond Compare
    • Discord
    • GIMP (Not sure if it’s installed by default on Linux Mint) with PhotoGIMP patch.
    • GnuCash
    • GParted
    • KeePassXC
    • KWrite + Kate
    • Pinta
    • qbittorrent
    • Steam
    • Telegram
    • Thunderbird
    • virt-manager
    • VLC
    • Wine
  • Read Bio@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago
    • GIMP (with photogimp patch)
    • Steam
    • Librewolf (I could also opt for a chromium based browser)
    • Tor Browser (to browse onion links/throwaway browser)
    • Heroic Games Launcher
    • Prism Launcher
    • latest Java lts (either from adoptium or openjdk i dont care about flashy new features)
    • Libreoffice Still (similar to the second reason above and onlyoffice in appimage due to Libreoffice weird handling with ppsx files and powerpoints)
    • QEMU/KVM with virt manager
    • Gnome evolution (if it’s gtk desktop I could opt for other email clients)
    • Proton-GE
    • WINE
    • Ghostty(Kinda sucks it’s based on libadwaita and gnome forces this theme on you no matter your desktop)
    • Fish/ZSH(fish not having posix compatibility is kinda annoying)
    • MPV (I could still use vlc but I prefer mpv because it can stream youtube links)
    • ytp-dl(I can opt for a gui for convenience sake)
    • BTOP
    • Fastfetch