Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux

While i don't have any hard rules, i usually end up installing lynx, an
emacs, groff, plan9port and fbpdf over the course of a week. On laptops
i only ever prepare dwm as a desktop, because what else can you use
without a proper mouse? After recently getting into s6, i also installed
execline everywhere and ported some of my program launch scripts to it.

Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> writes:

I’m a big fan of Inkscape, mainly for editing PDFs. If you like and use TeX
that gets installed early.

Some people like to rag on ImageMagick for being unintuitive and
sometimes butchering the quality of PDFs (like this doesn't happen in
GIMP as well). Nothing can beat the simplicity of it though, if you've
memorized which flags you need.

These days i mainly use it to append pictures. Recently someone send me
a document as a photo with horribly uneven lighting, so i passed it some
brightness and contrast parameters to get sharp text on a white,
washed-out background.