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

186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:

After consideration ...... you only install WHAT YOU ARE
LIKELY TO *NEED*. That will vary from person to person,
app to app, year to year.

True, but probably you will keep using the same stuff year after
year, unless your job changes.

The more shit you install the
more complicated things get.

Not really, you just waste some space for something you installed but don't
use and then forget about.
 

Just make sure 'nano' is there. There's a trick to setting the default
editor to nano, find it. I know Manjaro doesn't just assume this - loves to
default to the horrible 'vi' or 'vim'. Nano makes things SO much nicer -
like kinda up to 1984  :-)

Not nicer, easier for someone that doesn't use text editor often and has to
make a small change in a config file. Fedora switched its default editor to
Nano for this reason time ago. If you use a text editor for programming using
Nano instead of vim (or emacs) would be a nightmare.

As for the "Subject", I usally install Fedora with the "netinstall" disc so I
can choose from the start what I want and I have a system with KDE, vim,
gnuplot, gcc, gdb, LaTeX, Libreoffice ready, I have to add very little:
xmgrace and agrmerge, plus a few utilities I use, like ncdu, htop and bpytop,
ag, pdfshuffler...

G