I don't replace anything. I just install what I need from the beginning.
And yes, I run Arch btw. :D
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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
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.
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- 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.
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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:)
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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.
Arch, so pretty much nothing.
Except maybe ZSH (but it's 'added', I guess; not 'replaced').
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
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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!
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bash -> fish
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.
cat > bat
ls > exa
(h)top > btop
whatever terminal > alacritty
whatever browser > librewolf + brave
cli editor > micro
app launcher > albert
vlc > mpv
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- 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
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I choose what I want when I install. I use Arch btw
Celluloid is honestly better than VLC. Native Wayland, Pipewire, no filesystem permissions (Flatpak)
I am on Fedora Kinoite, I replaced Kwrite with Kate, all the other default KDE apps are great. Okular, Gwenview as Flatpak, and apart from that a mix of different KDE, GNOME or 3rd party apps as Flatpaks.
I made a list here, but it is a bit outdated
Celluloid does much less than vlc, why not just using mpv (which celluloid uses as backend) so you have a full player
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I usually replace these:
- Bash with Fish
- Neofetch (if there is) with Fastfetch+Hyfetch
- Firefox with Floorp
- Mkinitcpio with Dracut
- GRUB with systemd-boot
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There are a handful on non-default apps I've used across my last 3-4 distros at least:
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mpv - the best video player, period. Minimalist UI, maximalist configuration options. I've been using it for many years across many OSes and at this point everything else feels wrong.
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Geany - My favorite GUI text editor on Linux.
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Foliate - the simplest eBook reader I've found.
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Strawberry - It's "fine". Honestly, I've never found a music player on Linux that I really liked. I keep falling back to Strawberry because it's familiar and generally works as expected.
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I install the minimal version and go from there.
I still haven't found a web service that really needs a chrome browser or that you cant' just trick with changing the user agent
I replace the <default, slow, annoying to use> image viewer with qimgv, which is ergonomic and very fast.
- bash -> fish
- default text editor (like Kate) -> geany
- firefox -> firefox-esr
- chromium -> ungoogled-chromium
- nano -> micro
- top -> htop, btop
- default PDF reader -> Okular
Do you really replace bash though? I also use fish but even as a relatively deranged minimalist I haven't removed bash as it has so many dependents.
Replacing doesn't mean removing in this case.
It still needed for the system scripts, etc.
More like fish is my daily driver, bash if needed (I can write a script in bash faster then in fish).
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pdf reader with okular
VLC player with mpv
Firefox with (used to) Vivaldi, but now Zen Oh. That's it. Everything else for me is default
Gnome Files with Thunar.
It’s the perfect file manager for a user like me.
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Default terminal -> Kitty
I stared using Zen Browser instead of Firefox lately and i find it really good.
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Terminal -> foot Text editor -> neovim, or more recently I've been trying Helix.
Those are the biggest two. I also recommend mpv over VLC.
Rustdesk, so I can remote into my main computer and the others I manage.
PWAs For Firefox.
And that's about it.
I use Debian BTW. (Was on Fedora but killed it when there were sound issues, turned out to Rustdesk at fault. Can't do Mint as it boots to black screen.)
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