Basically the title.
Here’s a quick background, though (because I have nothing better to do today). Suffered a failed EOS update on my laptop and it refused to boot. Rather than fix it, I decided to do something I’ve been thinking about for a while now: I installed NixOS (I still use Arch on my VM, btw).
Problem is it’s been a bit long since I last set up my laptop I can’t remember everything I did on it. Lol.
So what do you guys install after changing distros? What are your must-have applications (for any distro)? I’m already running zen kernel, got bitwarden up and running, hardened firefox and installed ungoogled chromium. Seems there’s no standalone pihole (yet?) for Nix so I’ll be checking that out as well. Thanks in advance for your input!
- newsboat for RSS feeds
- mpd for music playback
- python-mutagen for tagging audio files
- keepassxc for password managment
- dunst for notifications
- maim for taking screenshots on X, and [grim[() for Wayland. Also a bunch of neat little scripts like record-with-ffmpeg.
Firefox, Steam, Discord, OBS, LibreOffice, Dropbox (I badly need an alternative for this pos), Ark, Sublime, Krita, Git, Apache, VLC. Vaguely in that order. Everything else gets installed as I need. Pretty much all of it is very use specific tho.
Have you tried syncthing fot your use case?
Thanks for the suggestion, I haven’t heard of it before! Sadly it doesn’t quite seem to work for what I need from the looks of it :/
nano, geany, xxd, gimp, feh, nsxiv, oxipng, pngquant, ffmpeg, mpv, yt-dlp, librewolf/firefox, surf, dmenu, tor-browser, pcmanfm, ranger, htop, qemu, curl, wget, darkhttpd, dash, clang & gcc, git, xarchiver, p7zip, calc. mediainfo, mkvtoolnix, obs, firejail and imagemagick depending on what I want to do. I think that’s the most important things. Will update when I think of something else.
I like adguard home more than pihole and I think it has a nix package. Idk nix well.
surf? LOL
I’m not a big fan of file managers but a GUI one like thunar is good for the sake of drag and drop.
I always install a second terminal emulator like xterm just in case of “uh oh I broke my terminal emulator”… that can happen sometimes with urxvt after updates if you do particular addons or bash configurations and such
cups if you like to print
I like dictd as a dictionary
ufw
potentially appropriate microcode for your hardware?
zathura for pdf
always install tmux and run it in your ssh instances
