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Old 03-04-2019, 09:30 PM   #166
Karellism
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Firefox comes with Ubuntu.

- Terminator
- Vim
- Synaptic
- Chromium & Opera
- VLC
- GIMP & Inkscape
- Furius Iso Mount + Brasero
- Git, Cacher
- Tusk (Notetaking app that works with Evernote), Atom, Sublime
- JDK 8 & 11, Eclipse, Android Studio (with SDK and Emulator etc.)
- Filezilla, Brackets
- Local LAMP-stack (Apache, PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin)
- VirtualBox
- Wine, Winetricks and PlayOnLinux

Most of the time. I'm going trough this list after a fresh OS install.
 
Old 03-04-2019, 09:43 PM   #167
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Wireshark
 
Old 03-04-2019, 09:49 PM   #168
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I can answer this with a resounding "It depends."

It depends on what the distro includes by default. With that caveat, Fluxbox, VLC, Vivaldi (which I quite like and use as a secondary browser after Firefox), w3m, vim (if it's not included), and KDE (for the applications).
 
Old 03-04-2019, 10:11 PM   #169
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Old 03-04-2019, 10:44 PM   #170
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I regularly get dedicated servers when they are on special and have seven running at the moment.

Linux Ubuntu -- command line
Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS [4.15.0-45-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]

BOINC
iptables-persistent
dkms
VirtualBox
Rsync
blender
transcode
postfix
NTP
 
Old 03-04-2019, 10:45 PM   #171
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I am an LFS user. During set up my desktop, I install tons of softwares. Setting up my desktop is ine of the goal. After setting up, I have less things to do. Hmm, Oh, I install games after the set up.
 
Old 03-04-2019, 10:58 PM   #172
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Except not installed by default apps but available in any Linux repo I install:
- Google repo and G apps
- InSync (payed) to sync with GDrive
- CrossOver for Windows compatibility
- AirPlay to stream to AppleTV
- TS-Doctor to clean Sat TV recordings
 
Old 03-04-2019, 11:20 PM   #173
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System Monitor to panel; Thunderbird; ensure the office program is LibreOffice, ensure I have Chromium, Slimjet and Firefox browsers; PlayonLinux and MS Office 2010 (no option when one works in publishing); Dropbox; GIMP; GParted; Adobe Reader 9 (as well as Document Viewer), PDF Shuffler; Master PDF 4; Sticky notes; ensure VLC Media player is there; KPatience.
 
Old 03-04-2019, 11:33 PM   #174
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Hi,
I will install

CairoDock
knock
openvpn
ssh server
unison
Texmaker
Virtualbox
Geany
WPS Office
 
Old 03-04-2019, 11:35 PM   #175
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I install GIT
 
Old 03-04-2019, 11:52 PM   #176
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Office, Eclipse including C/C++, Fortran and DVT tools.
 
Old 03-04-2019, 11:53 PM   #177
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A navigator
After being disappointed by firefox, the first program I install is very often the web browser WEB Iron software.
 
Old 03-05-2019, 12:07 AM   #178
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Emacs
Can’t believe it doesn’t ship by default...
 
Old 03-05-2019, 12:19 AM   #179
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mc
vim
chrome-browser
cinnamon
KeePassX
Mega
 
Old 03-05-2019, 12:52 AM   #180
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Installed softwares
Hello,

Always installed (most used first):

- Munich Image Data Analysis System (ESO-MIDAS)
- emacs
- perl
- texlive
- gscan2pdf
- gparted
- google-earth
- Libreoffice suite
- xfburn
- pdfshuffer
- filezilla
- gimp
- vlc
- octave
- IDL (occasionally)

I am on RedHat Fedora 29 linux OS.
 
  


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