After I install Linux Mint (which is the distro I have settled on), I replace:
- Thunderbird with Betterbird
- Firefox with Librewolf (I also install Brave for web services that need a chromium browser).
- Celluloid / Rythmbox with VLC player
- Default Libreoffice with latest Libreoffice from source.
- ClipIt/Parcellite with xfce4-clipman
I find this to be my optimal setup and these software give me the extra quality of life that make my workflows easier.
What software do you replace and install on your distro of choice?
Edit: I forgot to say I replace sudo with doas. That’s something my friend told me to do although I personally don’t find any immediate working advantage with it.
Arch master race: you don’t have to replace defaults if nom defaults are isntalled in the first place and you choose everything our own anyways.
I replace ARCH with Windows 11 bloat edition. I use windows 11 BTW
I use Windows 11 inside of a Gentoo vm inside of Windows 10 on my ipad.
Huh I bare metal run proxmox virtualising my LFS to start a gentoo VM where I have my XP VM I remote into with my phone
Defaults hehe
I use arch btw
well arch defaults are just a terminal with very little tooling
- Clementine - music player
- yakuake - terminal
- fish - command line
- Geany - text editor
- eza - replacement for ls
- zoxide - replacement for cd
- bat - replacement for cat
- Librewolf - replacement for Firefox
- Brave - replacement for Chromium
Wait? Why cat needs replacing? Do you have a link for bat?
Interesting.
I wonder if it’ll work with lsp, when it sends data to pager. I’ll start testing this out.
EDIT: Whoa… 23megs for cat clone. Rust projects do have a whole lot of dependecies. I counted crates 128 for this.
Oh well. I’ll start compiling.
When I installed MX KDE on my laptop, I found out about yakuake as it was installed by default. I always use it almost immediately whenever I log in to run my update script. Saves a few extra seconds to just press f4 rather than click the terminal icon and then type. Absolutely love it.
Yasuke for Terminal because he was a sole black man in Japan of his time. Just like Terminal program is solely black as compared to most other apps.
Most people dont use dark mode on Linux because most apps look horrible in Linux under dark mode
Oh wow, cool story about Yasuke. Is that where Yakuake got its name from?
Most people dont use dark mode on Linux because most apps look horrible in Linux under dark mode
Among my friends, dark mode users hugely outnumber light mode users, I really don’t have any apps that struggle to support it. LibreOffice used to be really bad, but I don’t really edit documents anymore, so I don’t use it often, but when I do, I don’t see issues (although the document background is white, because paper, so the contrast is a bit weird). I’m curious about which apps didn’t work for you.
What I heard is that it comes from Yet Another Quake (terminal), which comes from a tradition in programming of naming an application “Yet Another (something)”, and they changed the Q to a K because KDE.
Code::Blocks is the worst offender
Default terminal -> Kitty
Kinda in the Pop!_OS - NixOS club but Zen Browser here.
i keep rhythmbox honestly because it helps me in organizing all my audio and music files and plus i don’t have to keep opening the file manager to change the music, i can just press the forward button and it changes track!!
cat > bat
ls > exa
(h)top > btop
whatever terminal > alacritty
whatever browser > librewolf + brave
cli editor > micro
app launcher > albert
vlc > mpv
cd > zoxide
didn’t know about that one, thank you
Similar to yours:
bash > fish
cat > bat -p
ls > lsd
df > dysk
top > glances
firefox > qutebrowserWhy hate for librewolf?
read carefully, he’s replacing whatever browser with librewolf or brave
ups, stupid me, but why then love for brave?
Firefox based browsers don’t as far as I know support protocols direct to usb connections, so if you’re using a web app based application (for example, some keyboard software) to flash your layouts you need a chromium based browser, and people generally choose brave over chrome (though I think it would be 100% fine to use chromium with hardening but that’s difficult with some of the upstream changes making chrome extension store less helpful — built in mitigations upstream as found in brave may be helpful in this regard, and faster).
I choose what I want when I install. I use Arch btw
Arch, so pretty much nothing.
Except maybe ZSH (but it’s ‘added’, I guess; not ‘replaced’).
I replace the <default, slow, annoying to use> image viewer with qimgv, which is ergonomic and very fast.
bash -> fish
On Ubuntu, replacing Firefox/Thunderbird snap version with actual deb version.
Firefox -> Zen Browser
Firefox with (used to) Vivaldi, but now Zen Oh. That’s it. Everything else for me is default
