After I install Linux Mint (which is the distro I have settled on), I replace:
- Thunderbird with Betterbird
- Firefox with Librewolf (I also install Brave for web services that need a chromium browser).
- Celluloid / Rythmbox with VLC player
- Default Libreoffice with latest Libreoffice from source.
- ClipIt/Parcellite with xfce4-clipman
I find this to be my optimal setup and these software give me the extra quality of life that make my workflows easier.
What software do you replace and install on your distro of choice?
Edit: I forgot to say I replace sudo with doas. That’s something my friend told me to do although I personally don’t find any immediate working advantage with it.
On Ubuntu, replacing Firefox/Thunderbird snap version with actual deb version.
i keep rhythmbox honestly because it helps me in organizing all my audio and music files and plus i don’t have to keep opening the file manager to change the music, i can just press the forward button and it changes track!!
I don’t. I install a distro with sane defaults and get to work.
Replaced alacritty with ghostty
Fish With Zsh (Fish not being posix got annoying)
The distro am using comes with not too much apps so yeah thats itsysvinitwithopenrc-initelogindwithseatd
Yes. I run Gentoo.
I also replace Firefox with LibreWolf and Brave! I don’t do much more than that though; I used to replace GNOME Software with Warehouse, but I eventually found it easier to just remove PackageKit and use Software to install my flatpaks (I still use Warehouse for changing flatpak settings).
KDE Neon - I replace the Firefox deb with the snap.
I don’t replace anything. I just install what I need from the beginning.
And yes, I run Arch btw. :D
lol ditto. but the first thing I do on new installs is
chsh /bin/zsh, replace caps lock with control and enable vi keys. otherwise I’m dysfunctionalYeah, there is nothing more annoying in general when starting to type text into a co-workers desktop than having random letters show up rather than having the cursor move around.
switched to nixos after a decade on arch. What does “default software” mean? :D
Systemd?
- Firefox -> Edge
- Libreoffice -> Gsuite PWAs
- kernel -> Azure Linux kernel (added trust of Microsoft)
- nano -> vim
- vi -> Emacs
- GNOME -> Deepin
- Bash -> Powershell >=7.0
I think you forgot to add /s
Probably should have added yeah. Based on the amount of downvotes, some people took it too seriously
I still can’t get why people should downvote your comment, but fine.
Nah, I’m just bored of pointless sarcastic replies being at the top. It’s bloat!
Thanks for the explanation. I was hoping it was this instead of “I disagree!”
nano -> vim
This one is extremely consistent with the others because once you have made the switch, it becomes harder to escape.
Fish for shell everywhere
Any specific features made you go fish over others like zsh?
It just feels better and lighter. Also, autocomplete looks nicer. Devs are also amazing. They have a clear vision of the product. And Fish 4.0 had been rewritten in Rust. Now I just cannot go away:)
I use fish instead of zsh just because it has all the nice stuff without having to set anything up. Helix over Neovim is pretty nice for this too.
I replace ARCH with Windows 11 bloat edition. I use windows 11 BTW
I use Windows 11 inside of a Gentoo vm inside of Windows 10 on my ipad.
Huh I bare metal run proxmox virtualising my LFS to start a gentoo VM where I have my XP VM I remote into with my phone
As a former Windows SUPERUSER, I always change the desktop wallpaper, just to show off. 😋
But jokes aside and apart from things already mentioned, I always install the Speedcrunch calculator, and xbindkeys so I can copy all my keyboard shortcuts.
Nothing. I picked a distro that works for me out of the box. On top of that I only installed stuff, instead of replacing stuff.
Too many people concentrate on which distro when in fact it’s the desktop they choose that will have the biggest impact on their experience
KDE <3
I prefer KDE >3
Is KDE 3 so bad that people only prefer <3 or >3, but never =3?
Yeah this is me.
I was reading these comments feeling as though I must be very odd until I got to yours.
Debian comes with firefox ESR which I think is a good choice because it “just works”, but it’s also no one’s “preferred” browser. I tend to use both LibreWolf and ungoogled-chromium all day every day.
I do use the terminal every day. Years ago I used oh-my-zsh for a while but I think eventually I just kind of didn’t bother to install it.
For file manager and video player et cetera, I’ve always found the defaults to be good choices.
I find most of the defaults are fine and get the job done, but I also understand the tinkerer types who like working on a super custom setup that’s theirs.
I still use old big iron unix boxes from the 90’s, but most of the time I Install the GNU versions of stuff like ls, sed, cat etc because they are so much more feature rich (and just about any modern software/script assumes GNU versions of those tools anyway)
Arch, so pretty much nothing.
Except maybe ZSH (but it’s ‘added’, I guess; not ‘replaced’).
Apps I replace with newer versions (on Mint too):
- LibreOffice, with the latest .deb from their website
- Celluloid, with mpv. I cannot tell how much I appreciate mpv even though it sucks with DVD, for which I use VLC ;)
- yt-dlp, with the latest version available from git
- Screenshot, with Ksnip.
- Whatever the default image viewer is, with Pix.
mpv FTW!
how do you personally install yt-dlp? I just use pip(x).
- I remove the preinstalled version (sudo apt remove yt-dlp)
- In my ~/.local, I have a ‘bin’ folder in which to put any manually added app, and in my .bashrc I added that folder to the path. So everything in it is usable.
- I download the latest binary from https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#release-files and moved it to that bin folder.
- Done. I can use it like if it was the pre-installed app ;)
Ah cool, that’s exactly where pipx installs to as well :3
Jesus that explains why I’ve never used this. Pip is a security issue.
Jesus that explains why I’ve never used this. Pip is a security issue.
Not sure to understand your remark: I don’t use pip and have no idea what risks it could represent or not.
Celluloid, with mpv
Hard agree, also SM Player for the FE
Whatever the default image viewer is
xviewer, it’s built on top ofeogwith Pix
Is that no longer pre-installed, at least for camera imports?
It was on 17-20.3 but I don’t think I’ve done a clean (re)install since.s that no longer pre-installed, at least for camera imports? It was on 17-20.3 but I don’t think I’ve done a clean (re)install since.
I could not swear, one or the other. Let’s just say I make it my default viewer instead ;)
