Disclaimer: I tried searching for something like “useful programs”, “useful packages”, “useful tools”, “recommended packages”, etc. Don’t see any posts like that, if this is a duplicate, then it’s not intentional and my search skills have failed me.

Anyway, I was watching a YT video today and the guy launched a cool program in his terminal, I paused to see what he was running. It was btop, of course being new I never heard about it. Then I thought – how many cool tools/packages are there, which people use, but I am not aware of?

So what do you like? What do you install on a fresh install? What are the most useful tools in your belt? What can’t you live without on Linux?

Perhaps I’ll find something useful :)

  • NostraDavid
    7·
    16 hours ago

    Some recommendations:

    • baobab -> QDirStat
    • qalculate -> speedcrunch
    • ncdu -> gdu (“I am you, but faster”)

    I prefer lsd to ls or eza/exa (RIP exa).

    • OliMoli2137@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      thanks for suggestions. but a couple of controversial things:

      • lsd is written in Rust, which I personally have no problem with but there are people that do
      • eza and lsd development appear to have been assisted by AI, which I don’t really know a lot about but generally dislike

      i have no problems with qdirstat or gdu, so i’ll give them a try. i’ll maybe try speedcrunch as well