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 :)

  • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago
    • I use ferdium to concentrate all my communication accounts into a single place and not get lost
    • Syncthing is really nice to keep my files readily available between devices
    • Zotero is amazing if you do academic research. I can’t imagine making references without it
    • distrobox allows me to run things that aren’t available or that would conflict with my distro’s repos
    • frog saves me a lot when I have to copy text from an image. It’s a simple and easy to use ocr tool that can quickly get text from screenshots or image files
    • personaldnsfilter allows me to block ads on the phone, system-wide
    • changedetection.io checks a few sites for me automatically
    • Well caibrated guesslron and openoise are handy measuring tools
    • Just knew about paperknife recently, and it has been useful to process pdfs on the phone
    • Plainapp is really useful to share files from the phone with other devices

    Those are the ones that came to my mind