After I install Linux Mint (which is the distro I have settled on), I replace:

  1. Thunderbird with Betterbird
  2. Firefox with Librewolf (I also install Brave for web services that need a chromium browser).
  3. Celluloid / Rythmbox with VLC player
  4. Default Libreoffice with latest Libreoffice from source.
  5. 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.

  • adrianhooves@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    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!!

  • Matombo@feddit.org
    14·
    2 days ago

    Arch master race: you don’t have to replace defaults if nom defaults are isntalled in the first place and you choose everything our own anyways.

  • Itsapersonn@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    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).

  • Karna@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 days ago

    On Ubuntu, replacing Firefox/Thunderbird snap version with actual deb version.

    • gi1242@lemmy.world
      16·
      4 days ago

      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 dysfunctional

      • bitcrafter@programming.dev
        6·
        4 days ago

        Yeah, 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.

  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    3 days ago
    • Clementine - music player
    • yakuake - terminal
    • fish - command line
    • Geany - text editor
    • eza - replacement for ls
    • zoxide - replacement for cd
    • bat - replacement for cat
    • Librewolf - replacement for Firefox
    • Brave - replacement for Chromium
        • Zucca@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Interesting.

          I wonder if it’ll work with lsp, when it sends data to pager. I’ll start testing this out.

          EDIT: Whoa… 23megs for cat clone. Rust projects do have a whole lot of dependecies. I counted crates 128 for this.

          Oh well. I’ll start compiling.

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      When I installed MX KDE on my laptop, I found out about yakuake as it was installed by default. I always use it almost immediately whenever I log in to run my update script. Saves a few extra seconds to just press f4 rather than click the terminal icon and then type. Absolutely love it.

    • cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de
      27·
      3 days ago

      Yasuke for Terminal because he was a sole black man in Japan of his time. Just like Terminal program is solely black as compared to most other apps.

      Most people dont use dark mode on Linux because most apps look horrible in Linux under dark mode

      • Mike@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        3 days ago

        Oh wow, cool story about Yasuke. Is that where Yakuake got its name from?

        Most people dont use dark mode on Linux because most apps look horrible in Linux under dark mode

        Among my friends, dark mode users hugely outnumber light mode users, I really don’t have any apps that struggle to support it. LibreOffice used to be really bad, but I don’t really edit documents anymore, so I don’t use it often, but when I do, I don’t see issues (although the document background is white, because paper, so the contrast is a bit weird). I’m curious about which apps didn’t work for you.

        • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          3 days ago

          What I heard is that it comes from Yet Another Quake (terminal), which comes from a tradition in programming of naming an application “Yet Another (something)”, and they changed the Q to a K because KDE.

  • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    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 it