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?

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    224·
    11 months ago

    Step 1: install Debian 12 today, Step 2: upgrade to Debian 13 when available, then Debian 14, Debian 15 and so on… that’s the only hopping one should.

  • Dehydrated@lemmy.world
    12·
    11 months ago

    I always need

    • LibreWolf (privacy-focused Firefox fork)
    • Some nice terminal emulator like Alacritty or Kitty
    • A torrent client
    • Emacs
    • Strawberry (the music player)

    CLI:

    • fish shell
    • bat
    • neovim
    • fd
    • fzf
    • zoxide
    • Some other Rust alternatives for GNU coreutils
    • GPG
    • fun stuff like neofetch, lolcat, asciiquarium, cmatrix, etc.
    • krash@lemmy.ml
      3·
      10 months ago

      Another fish and modern Unix user 🫶

      PS. Try out lsd if you haven’t already - a nice ls/eza/exa replacement.

  • a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world
    112·
    11 months ago
    • fish
    • tmux
    • sshfs
    • htop
    • nmap
    • distrobox (haven’t tried this yet but looks amazing)
    • zfs (and any utilities that go with that)
    • sanoid
    • syncoid
    • tailscale
    • snapper (if using btrfs)

    As far as config files go, I haven’t gotten around to automating those so I usually search my nas for old ones and copy/paste what I need

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
    8·
    11 months ago

    First I install home-manager, then home-manager installs and configures everything else I’ve added to my config over time

  • ouch@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 months ago

    Use Ansible for package installations and configuration, and a git repository & GNU stow for dotfiles.

  • cammelspit@lemm.ee
    5·
    11 months ago

    Oh, this is a flipping great question. So much fun as I’ve just settled on one distro. M$ won’t allow me to transfer my transferrable Windows license and I refuse o pay yetagain for Windows so Linux is my sole OS from now on. I have had so many weird issues or configuration woes with a ton of OSs ive been trying. So I tell ya, I sure have installed my fair share of them in the last month or so.

    GUI:

    • Steam (Gotta get my game on)
    • ProtonPlus
    • Lutris
    • Heroic
    • Winetricks
    • Protontricks
    • VLC
    • Brave
    • Bitwarden(Probably the second most important software in my life)
    • Authy
    • Krusader (No idea why but Ill use this before the built in file manager sometimes)
    • Plex htpc
    • Kate - Notepadqq (havent decided which one i like best yet)
    • PolyMC
    • LibreOffice
    • Flatpack (I always prefer the native package but flatpack has almost anything the repositories lack)-
    • Appimagelauncher (Just for ease of use, appimages are a always third fiddle but are a great backup as flatpacks can be - limited in available software compared)
    • Gimp (Almost exclusively because the name makes me giggle)
    • OBS Studio

    CLI:

    • MC (100% always the first this I ever install no matter what)
    • HTOP (Not standard in all as many distros as i would think)
    • Openssh
    • Cifs-utils
    • Starship
    • Zsh
    • Neofetch
    • Tmux (Cant live without it)

    Of course there are tons of other small things I add but those are the ones I will have installed likely before I go to reboot for the first time. The rest of what I interact with is generally running on my server so it’s all web based stuff for the most part. I use VNC often to interact with virtual machines, do tech support for my son so i don’t have to get up (disabled). I haven’t really found a Linux VNC client i genuinely like. I used to use TightVNC with Windows and it’s about the only thing I miss. I do have a Guacamole docker running on my network but unless you have a physical KB/M it’s less than preferable to use. I’ll find something I like eventually I’m sure. 👍-----

      • jennraeross@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        This is true, has mpv started working with it? The reason I have it in the first place is to stream Lofi /synthwave/jazz audio via mpv rather than specifically for downloading. Back when I’d last looked, mpv needed the old fork specifically, but if they’ve updated I’d be more than happy to switch

  • Karna@lemmy.ml
    4·
    11 months ago

    • Nvidia proprietary driver

    • Docker Engine (Portainer, AdGuardHome, LibReddit, Nitter, Invidious)

    • Install and tweak Firefox setup

    • Steam Client

    • Gnome extensions

    • Gnome Shell Theme and Icon themes

    • Nextcloud Client

  • squid_slime@lemmy.world
    4·
    11 months ago
    • Yay
    • Nano
    • Mullvad VPN
    • Mullvad browser
    • Keepassxc
    • Blue.sh
    • Rtorrent-ps
    • Steam
    • Freetube
    • Ranger

    I have an auto installer for arch based distros that’ll automate installation of yay then grab a text file with a list of presorted applications from github and auto install them as well as my sway, waybar and bashrc scripts.

    Very clean and easily deployable with git then sudo bash ~/autoinstaller

  • pizzaboi@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Apart from what you mentioned:

    • Steam
    • Darktable
    • cmatrix (very important)
    • pfetch
    • vim
    • Hugo
    • clipboard manager

    I think that’s about it!

  • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Idk if it is distro hopping because I have been trying distros on my main system and usually for months at a time. It’s messy but I have a separate filesystem for /home and hope my current rc files don’t bork up whatever I’m running next. The transition from Cinnamon to Gnome went poorly for a while.

    I should probably automate the must have packages.

    Some applications are not packaged so I install ~/.local, e.g. Arduino, Eagle, Minecraft, etc.

    Packages… Hm. Direnv is all I can think of. I just use the system until something is missing, curse briefly, and install it.