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

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    2 months ago

    Helpful answer: vlc, libreoffice, gimp, inkscape, zathura, obs-studio

    Real answer: gnome, run-or-raise, foot, fish, tmux, fzf, silver-searcher, neovim, neomutt, vifm

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      2 months ago

      Curious why you would need Gimp and Inkscape? Wouldn’t one of them be enough? Is one of them better suited for certain tasks?

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          2 months ago

          Oh I see, thanks. I thought you could also edit images with Inkscape. I’m apparently not very well versed in these topics.

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            2 months ago

            You can load bitmap images into Inkscape and manipulate them to a degree, but Gimp is much better at that. You can probably also load vector graphics (svg) into Gimp, but I’d assume they would be converted to bitmaps.

            Vector vs bitmap is a good topic to be familiar with for anyone who works with computers, I keep running into professionals who really should know the difference but don’t.

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              2 months ago

              Thanks for the explanation! I agree, this has been very helpful already. Now I go and do some reading on it.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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

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      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'

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        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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    2 months ago

    I keep a list on my backup partition:

    $ cat packages.list
    
    appimagelauncher
    base-devel
    aws-cli
    aws-session-manager-plugin
    bat
    bob
    direnv
    
    discord
    docker-compose
    dog
    dotnet-sdk
    erdtree
    eza
    fastfetch
    github-cli
    httpie
    k9s
    krita
    kubectx
    lazygit
    
    mariadb-clients
    megacmd
    minikube
    mpd
    mtr
    mumble
    nvtop
    obs-studio
    ollama-rocm
    qalculate-gtk
    restic
    siege
    speedtest-cli
    
    steam
    terraform
    tig
    timeshift-autosnap
    tree-sitter
    virt-manager
    virt-viewer
    yazi
    yq
    ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd
    ttf-liberation
    ttf-meslo-nerd-font-powerlevel10k
    ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols
    ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-common
    ttf-roboto
    wine
    wine-gecko
    wine-mono
    winetricks
    playerctl
    php
    php-gd
    php-sodium
    streamdeck-ui
    speedtest-cli
    zoxide
    zsh
    ripgrep
    fd
    dry-bin
    kitty
    xdotool
    tmux
    tmux-plugin-manager
    sublime-text-4
    trash-cli
    
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    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

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    2 months ago

    Xournalpp - a fantastic tool for journalling (on X/twitter) your peeing habits.

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    • 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