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.

  • helmet91@lemmy.world
    211·
    4 days ago

    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.

    • sawdoctor@lemm.eeEnglish
      23·
      4 days ago

      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

    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      3 days ago

      Yeah this is me.

      I was reading these comments feeling as though I must be very odd until I got to yours.

      Debian comes with firefox ESR which I think is a good choice because it “just works”, but it’s also no one’s “preferred” browser. I tend to use both LibreWolf and ungoogled-chromium all day every day.

      I do use the terminal every day. Years ago I used oh-my-zsh for a while but I think eventually I just kind of didn’t bother to install it.

      For file manager and video player et cetera, I’ve always found the defaults to be good choices.

      • Isthisreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        I find most of the defaults are fine and get the job done, but I also understand the tinkerer types who like working on a super custom setup that’s theirs.

        I still use old big iron unix boxes from the 90’s, but most of the time I Install the GNU versions of stuff like ls, sed, cat etc because they are so much more feature rich (and just about any modern software/script assumes GNU versions of those tools anyway)