Disclaimer: I tried searching for something like “useful programs”, “useful packages”, “useful tools”, “recommended packages”, etc. Don’t see any posts like that, if this is a duplicate, then it’s not intentional and my search skills have failed me.
Anyway, I was watching a YT video today and the guy launched a cool program in his terminal, I paused to see what he was running. It was btop, of course being new I never heard about it. Then I thought – how many cool tools/packages are there, which people use, but I am not aware of?
So what do you like? What do you install on a fresh install? What are the most useful tools in your belt? What can’t you live without on Linux?
Perhaps I’ll find something useful :)
https://cockpit-project.org/ is a webui primarily meant for servers but I find it great to get a graphical overview of both services and logs on my workstation too.
I think that’s the thing that openSUSE is moving towards? I read that YaST will be deprecated in the future, but currently I think some features are only available in either of those tools. I didn’t try Cockpit yet.
Seems like they’ve made cockpit easier to use on openSUSE.
https://news.opensuse.org/2026/03/18/new-launcher-aims-to-simplify-cockpit-installations/
On Fedora installing and autostarting is as simple as:
sudo dnf install cockpitsudo systemctl enable --now cockpit.socketAnd to allow it through the firewall, if active:
sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=cockpit --permanentThen it will be available on https://localhost:9090/ (with a certificate warning)