KDE Connect on KDE distros, just feels part of the KDE experience
Git. I feel like that is a pretty important part of any linux os nowadays
less, I don’t remember what distro it was, but there wasn’tless. There wasmorethough.Sometimes, more is less.
But when will “then” be “now”?
Tuesday.
I think most people (including myself) prefer a minimal desktop by default, and then proceed to install only the software they need. Nevertheless, it always surprises me when I log in to a system that doesn’t have vim.
For almost all users, especially beginners, nano is just simpler faster and better. A lot of distributions are bundling it, and I am finding indeed systems without vim at all.
Especially for beginners,
microwould be even better.I’ve been using nano for 10+ years. Found micro and it is superior. Had to alias nano so that it opens micro instead, though. Hard to break such habits.
I hate itI could see that if you’re more skilled at something like vim.
I disagree. Don’t get me wrong, vim is amazing and all that, but I think nano is easier for new users to grok out of the box, making it a better choice most of the time. What it lacks in features it makes up for in transparency.
100% agree about the minimal set of desktop apps, though. That drives me crazy.
Just my 0.02$.
Edit: silly mistakes and clarification
tmux, htop, vim
What distros don’t include tmux and vim? Ubuntu has had them for at least a decade.
by default?
My work laptop came with Ubuntu preinstaled and didn’t have tmux nor htop.
Vim is not present by default in at least debian and arch. Although vi is present in every distribution I believe.
I can see that being the case for the Desktop variant. For the Server variant you get
vimandtmuxout of the box.
Lately,
jqawkfor the modern age
bash-completion
A Doom-clone. I mean, come on.
Seriously tho, Gparted for how useful it is.
htop
git not installed in ubuntu based distro was the shock for me.
git isn’t in Arch’s base-devel
Damn, I am quite sure it’s in Debians build-essentials!
Nano (or pico). I had to use vi one time 😭
Which distro doesn’t ship nano? I’ve only ever seen this in embedded or docker contexts.
Condolences for your vile experiences, though.
I think Debian doesn’t cause I used it in some containers
The Debian LXC containers ship without nano, the normal (net/dvd/cd) install have nano.
The first couple commands I run after install:
$ sudo apt install vim $ sudo apt autopurge libreoffice*I actually like Libre office very much, since it’s a good open source office software.
Which office suite do you use?
Some people don’t need an office suite at all.
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type -pis a shell builtin though, and one character shorter :)Although you may prefer
tool=$(command -v tool)
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Multimedia codecs have a different license agreement than the OS so they aren’t bundled by default for a reason
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Don’t mistake this as condescension, but doesn’t VLC solve all of that?
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I’ve heard it’s great for opening any file. Is it good with a bunch of file formats as opposed to media codecs?
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