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 :)

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    But bash left a lot to be desired in that regard; its history simply didn’t record everything.

    Bash doesn’t merge history from multiple bash instances into your ~/.bash_history by default. If you want that to persist:

    https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1288/preserve-bash-history-in-multiple-terminal-windows

    Add the following to your ~/.bashrc:

    # When the shell exits, append to the history file instead of overwriting it
shopt -s histappend
    • OUwUO@programming.dev
      2·
      3 days ago

      Thank you for that! IIRC, it was one of the settings I took from bash-sensible. I can say that it definitely improved after just a couple of changes to ~/.bashrc. Add in ble.sh and it suddenly seemed somewhat modern instead of archaic.

      Unfortunately, I don’t remember exactly what broke the camel’s back. However, FWIW, contrary to how I recall my experiences with bash and zsh, I don’t feel any frustration while using using fish. So it’s definitely doing something for me 😉.