I wouldn’t really call myself a distro hopper, but in the last few months I’ve had to do some fresh installs on a couple of machines and VMs for work

If these aren’t included by default, I’ll make sure to get em:

GUI:

  • Firefox & Chromium
  • Gimp & Krita
  • VSCode/VSCodium
  • Okular
  • Libre office

CLI*:

  • git
  • wget&curl
  • neovim
  • zsh/ohmyzsh + plugins
  • glow
  • neofetch
  • figlet/toilet
  • zellij
  • python
  • nodejs/npm/nvm + nodemon globally
  • ranger/rifle

Also, how do you go about migrating your old config and rc files? Start fresh or just copy em over and make adjustments where necessary?

  • pizzaboiEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    Apart from what you mentioned:

    • Steam
    • Darktable
    • cmatrix (very important)
    • pfetch
    • vim
    • Hugo
    • clipboard manager

    I think that’s about it!

    • NegativeLookBehind
      7•1 year ago

      I understand disto hopping when you’re first getting into Linux. But are there really people who do it regularly? What’s the point?

      • pizzaboiEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Well, I’ve only changed distros a handful of times. But, I’ve broken my system more than a few times, as well. Back when I had more time I tinkered a lot more than I do now haha