Useful software thread

Useful software thread
You just installed your favourite OS from scratch.
What are the first 5 pieces of software that you install.
I start:

Firefox
Notepad++
Gimp
Bash for Windows
Python

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favourite OS from scratch

>software that you install


>Firefox
>Gimp
>Bash
>Python

All of this shit comes with most Linux distros. Why even cuck yourself with Windows, mate?

>games

Oh. Yeah.

Use Linux always on my servers, it's phantastic.

But for desktop I prefer windows.

> no driver problems
> no fucking around with compatability (MS Office)

But again, this shouldn't be a "muh [insert some shifty distro here]" thread in the first place

>ClassicShell
>Microsoft Toolkit
>Flux
>7zip
>7TT

>not having FFportable on a separate partition that never needs reinstalling ever

Chrome
Dropbox (full of .sparseimage images)
Textual
SteelSeries ExactMouse (because macOS mouse acceleration is absolute shit)
Flux
Karabiner-Elements
The Unarchiver

whoops that's 7

But solus already comes with everything I need?

Chrome
Notepad++
Putty
Steam
Word
MPC/VLC depending on my mood.
utorrent

I've become so normcore.

I don't know. Probably download my games and some addons for wow. Then I guess android studio. Barely learning. I just don't know what to do with my computer apart from working on some programming projects and occassionnally playing some games. I mainly just browse the internet for guides on how to get a GF.

apt-get install fish tmux cmus htop iftop

Dropbox
Vivaldi
Cmus
Guake
Nomac

>not installing FFportable on an usb so you can carry it from pc to pc

>running a browser off a shitty 10mbps USB drive

>not syncing your FFportable install to the botnet along with your reaction images folder so you can shitpost from literally anywhere with an internet connection

Irfanview

VMware
HashTab
Picard MusicBrainz
VirusTotal uploader
FileBot

>utorrent
enjoy the botnet

Git
Neovim
Openssh
Tmux
Chromium

liferea: how can you live without this RSS feed reader?
transmission-daemon: I don't always need a GUI, but when I do is in my web browser
MOC: because music should be free of bloat
anki: learn you some english and math
keepassx: non-retarded password manager that saves your configuration in a safe database without .NET botnet
gjots2: somebody should copy how this note taking program works, because there is none like it to make novels and brainstorming
hexchat: get yourself some IRC pleb

firefox
scrot
screenfetch
kolourpaint

all i need to shitpost on muh gnu plus linux rig

>Bash for Windows
I think you mean cygwin. Otherwise kill yourself.

>no driver problems
Stop installing meme distros

>office
Couldn't figure playonlinux out?

This guy knows what's up.

The Linux subsystem provided by Windows isn't too bad.

I'll add:

sublime text
virtualbox
sysinternals suite (if windows)
homebrew (if mac)

>The Linux subsystem provided by Windows isn't too bad.
Having to use windows 10 to get it is.

Heavy is the most useful, and takes the most skill.

...

Chrome
>le botnet xD
Notepad++
Visual studio
Steam
Mount&blade Warband

kek chrome was on the list as well user

>iMactodler can't count till five
What are the images for?
fish is disgusting
shitty Botnetbrowser
Acceptable


st
zsh
ranger
Neovim
firejail because I'm lazy and love false safety

Is there anywhere good to go on ice these days? Opened up hexchat for the first time in a year and it was pretty empty.

Gimp resynthesizer plugin
gimp g'mic plugin
imagemagick
ffmpeg
vim

Firefox
iTerm2
SublimeText
Viscosity
f.Lux

Firefox
VLC
Excel
Word
Photoshop

Sup Forumsftp on freenode ;^)

>useful software
>gimp

What is this, 2003?

i hope that's placeholder art/ui

I haven't needed to reinstall an OS in a very long time, but I guess it would be something like

firefox
sublime text
foobar
mpv
cygwin

>chrome
>compile vim
>compile mpv
>noto and noto cjk fonts
>deluge

i hate installing precompiled packages for vim and mpv, it's so limited.

what do you add with compiling yourself? serious question

GCC
Vim
Git
Firefox
Autoconf

Assuming I already had an x server and wm, curl, make, etc.

do you mean what i compile in or the benefits?

if you mean the latter then it's mostly because it's not completely up to date like i'd like it to be. for mpv i want the latest and greatest improvements, and to be able to use new features. for vim, it's python support and a whole bunch of other stuff that package maintainers omit for size

Not him but I found vim didnt have python built in for the debian version when trying clang complete, so I compiled it myself.

W7
>Firefox
>Speccy
>Flux
>VLC Media Player
>Microsoft Office

Chrome
Utorrent
Steam
Xsplit
Winamp

really depends on what computer im using and what i want to use it for!!
if its windows
WSUS Offline updater
Firefox
MSE
7zip
TeamViewer

i would use GIMP more but mspaint in Win7 is decent enough for most image editing that i do and doesnt take half a minute to load

htop
multipath
debian-zfs
youtube-dl
sl

Chromium
urxvt
Transmission (the only torrent client for Linux that "just werked" for me)
(Neo)vim
Spacefm

mpv would be the next install.

i3-gaps
zsh
oomox
xbanish
mpv

>Windows
>no driver problems
Pick one. Windows is the leading OS in "driver problems". Anything below Windows 10 has 0 drivers included and requires users to manually install them, while Linux includes all necessary drivers by default and you never have to fuck around with them.

>office
WPS, Google, Libre. Viable alternatives with full support for free office formats and 99% support for Microsoft exclusive formats.
Even if you're autistic enough to pay for office software you should know how to install it on PlayOnLinux. It's almost identical to installing shit on Windows.

Firefox
Python
Java Runtime
bspwm
also, I need recommendations for lightweight pdf reader

>qbittorrent
>7zip
>Gimp
>Audacity
>Chrome
>VLC

Chrome
Homebrew
Git
Neovim
Atom + plugins

His OS is the type that doesn't come with bash preinstalled

>Chrome
>Taiga
>Emacs
>Racket Lisp
>Git

kys

chrome doesnt mine bitcoin in the background tho
uTorrent does
and why would anyone use uTorrent when you have alternatives without shitloads of ads
i hate idiots

just my personal files in them. The images are encrypted.

zathura for the win, okulus for the bloat but shitload of features

Vivaldi a best client

firefox (with proper extensions and add ons of course)
winamp (classic skin)
mpc-hc
media player hotkeys (control other media players without them being the focus)
i don't know, deluge?

vim
firefox
2bwm
urxvt
zathura

Firefox
Terminator (linux)
Winscp (windows)
git / git bash for windows
Geany
mpv
nomacs
Qbittorrent
Peazip (windows)
evince
Kolourpaint (linux)
Steam
Mumble
Libreoffice
Soulseek

Chrome
Classic Shell
Steam
Notepad++
CCCP

Chrome
7zip
Spotify
Altium Designer
Qbittorrent

Well yeah. What else could it be?

Firefox
Notepad++
Totally legit version of WinRAR from HBCD / 7zip
Foobar2000
Process Explorer

Nope, I meant bash
howtogeek.com/249966/how-to-install-and-use-the-linux-bash-shell-on-windows-10/

Use it almost everyday

>>Windows
>>no driver problems
>Pick one. Windows is the leading OS in "driver problems". Anything below Windows 10 has 0 drivers included and requires users to manually install them, while Linux includes all necessary drivers [...]
Simply not true for a soundcard that I use to produce music. Not speaking of that the DAW is not running on Linux.
>>office
>WPS, Google, Libre. Viable alternatives with full support for free office formats and 99% support for Microsoft exclusive formats.
Unfortunately very often importing office documents in other applications messes up formatting and design (e.g PowerPoint, this is even true for PowerPoint on Mac). I get loads of presentations to collaborate on so that's not an option.

>Even if you're autistic enough to pay for office software you should know how to install it on PlayOnLinux. It's almost identical to installing shit on Windows.
Well, that would be a separate step. Why should I do that? (other than proving the world that I can do without windows)

>first 5
Yea, right.

First is a dozen programs off ninite in one installer. Then immediately after not countring device drivers and manufacturer software:

AirDroid
Cyberfox
Folder Size
Microsoft Office
Photoshop
Postimage
Sketchup
Start Killer
Tresorit
Vivaldi
Windows Remote Service (Banamalon)

I can't go 3 days without using any of these.

kde, kile, kate, kdevelop and kolourpaint

Winfag 4 lyfe ^^^

Not really, I use antergos on my laptop. The right software environment for the right purpose.

I have a x220
I installed windows for it because some old friends wanted to throw a LAN and invited me.
>no wifi drivers, no ethernet drivers, no graphic drivers (couldn't even display the 1336x768 resolution).
I never had these problems on linux.

>playonlinux would a separate step
So?
You install playonlinux, open playonlinux, select install office.
>why should I do that?
Think of it as a dependency needed to run your application.
Or do you mean why you should install it on linux?
I don't think there is a "proving the world" thing going on for any linux users.
I think it is more likely that people realize the importance of free software and might as well use it by default and use alternatives where they fail.

Firefox
Telegram
LibreOffice
Pinta
VirtualBox

>OpenOffice
>Foobar
>Chromium
>Tixati
>VLC

>TOR
>PROXYCHAINS
>ALPINE
>CHROMIUM
>FIREFOX

Chocolatey
then
choco -y install notepadplusplus googlechrome vlc 7zip
(and a bunch of other things but it said first 5 so.)

>not true for a single piece of hardware I use that less than 5% users even have so it must mean it's not true at all
Even if it doesn't include soundcard drivers at least it includes GPU, Ethernet, WiFi, and most USB device drivers which I think are much more important. Whereas Windows does not include any of those. And installing a single driver shouldn't be a problem.

>documents mess up formatting
It's only true for certain Microsoft Office documents and mostly because people use memes in it for no reason (wordart and other useless crap), plus doc and docx aren't the only formats for word-like documents. In fact, why would you limit yourself to those? Using property formats for communication and data sharing when free and fully functional exist is really stupid. "Libre" documents can be opened with no issues at all, by any office.
Besides, Google docs has full support of Microsoft's office formats the last time I checked. So there's no reason to ever pay for an office suite.
>inb4 less than half of desktop users pay for it anyway
I know, but in a company it's an unnecessary cost and they can't really pirate shit without risk.

>that would be a separate step
It wouldn't really. PlayOnLinux is included in a lot of distributions by default, so there are no additional steps here. Unless you count opening it and finding the software you want to install a "separate step", which takes less than 30 seconds.
Even if it's not included it's easily installed. Linux has very simple and easy software installation process.

Chrome
Steam
Notepad++
Gimp
Osu!

Latex
Evernote
Transmission
Anki
Keepas