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What are your must-have packages? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I’ll start:

  • Tmux
  • vim
  • ghidra
  • okteta (hex editor)
  • speedcrunch (calculator with bit manipulation)
  • python3 with IPython for nice reply and embed(), pwntools
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[–] 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

Stuff that I insist on regardless of platform (that is, I install these even onto Windows systems if I'm forced to use them):

  • Pale Moon (web browser)
  • Claws Mail
  • GIMP
  • vbindiff (command-line hex editor + diff utility for binary files)
  • mercurial
  • perl

Stuff that I require only on Linux systems for desktop use:

  • Pan (yes, really, I still use a Usenet newsreader on a daily basis)
  • qemu
  • conky
  • Aqualung (music player—I like odd software)
  • Inkscape
  • Scribus
  • PySol ;)
  • rdesktop (less a favourite than a regrettable necessity)
  • various TDE built-ins: konqueror (as file manager only), kedit, kate, konsole, ark
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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Is there a reason you use mercurial (like work) or are you using it, because you like it better than git or fossil?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Fossil I've never tried, but I utterly hate git. Nothing about how it works makes sense to me. Mercurial is, in my opinion, better-designed and easier to understand for my rather simple use cases. (I should note that I graduated from university around the time svn was replacing csv, so I was coding before there was such a thing as distributed version control.)

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