Which software do you install immediately after setting up a new Linux desktop system?
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MXLinux has already a lot of usefull programs installed by default. MXtools are great.
My firts must install is Guake, my favorite terminal.
System
Gufw Firewall
Pcmanfm a Twinpanel Filemanager. My favorite
Timeshift snapshot
Password manager, in my case Enpass / Keepassx is more mainstream and good
Conky to see processes on the desktop. Very cool application a lot of scripts available.
GrubCustomizer
Image and video
Inkscape for artwork (SVG)
Shotwell foto manager
Cheese for webcam
Communication
Signal messenger Desktop / secure
Telegram Tesktop / secure
Retroshare secure communication. Chat, filetransfer and more.
Internet
Vivaldi webbrowser / At first run from a terminal to get the video working. Instruction are then given what you need to do.
Extentions are from Chrome . Ublock, https, ghostery and duckduckgo (Basic setup to protect web behavior more or less)
VPN in my case PIA (private internet access) / Openvpn is free and also wide used.
Sound
Audacity sound manipulation
Clementine audio player
Text edit
LibreOffice
Gedit instead of using nano from the terminal.
Last edited by spanizdogs; 03-05-2019 at 04:51 AM.
For me, I'm nearly complete with a windoz to Ubuntu transition (these are NOT in order):
o Thunderbird
o Filezilla
o Apache Open Office
o UltaEdit
o FreeFileSync (HDD Backup)
o Txt2Speech (Text to speech)
o JotNotes (wrote custom script)
o VPN (PIA)
o Imagemagick
o dos2unix AND unix2dos
o gimp
o numlockx
o pdftk
o Variety of Perl modules
The transition is on-going but the major issues are behind me.
In Fedora or Debian in order,
Emacs,
Thunderbird,
Firefox,
LibreOffice,
Gnuplot,
Octave,
Arduino,
KiCAD,
Putty,
Acrobat,
and other stuff I don't remember off the top of my head.
First: yay, chrome/firefox, vlc, docker, java, netbeans, visual studio code, filezilla, gimp, xsane, inkscape, libreoffice, clamav, meld, some Plasma applets
Later: bleachbit, stacer, steam, wine + winetricks (+ play on linux on home workstation), calibre, kodi (fresh compilation from git + inputstreamaptive plugin), spotify, skypeforlinux, megasync & dropbox clients
synaptic. I've found the "software managers" from distros or desktop environments are often flaky and feature-limited, whereas Synaptic does what I want and does it rock-solidly.
megasync. This is my current online backup system.
firefox and vlc if not already installed.
steam if it's a gaming PC (and my main one is).
Though not asked about, on a server:
screen. It goes on first before I even do an apt upgrade, so that if the ssh connection drops the program keeps running. SSHing without screen is like driving without a seatbelt.
It depends on the nature of the system. However, I'd say that all of them get tmux, regardless, and then all headless systems get OpenSSH and many will get Emacs if I plan to edit non-shell scripts or markup language documents. For configuration files and shell scripts, I stay with vi(m). So for for headless machines it's:
[QUOTE=jeremy;5969769]The LQ poll series continues. This time we'd like to know: Which software do you install immediately after setting up a new Linux desktop system?
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Originally Posted by hydrurga
I install all the extra software in order of anti-malware, cleaning, tools, office, media, games, so the first one to get "installed" is chkrootkit, followed closely by rkhunter, clamtk, and Sophos Antivirus for Linux.
You don't mess around
But I have to agree with Sophos, as I find it to be pretty good. I just let the distro's installer program install stuff like office apps and similar. That's one of the good things about DE's like KDE - it will come with a lot of desktop related apps, so there isn't really a hell of a lot of "desktop type apps" to install post-installation really for me. I do install VLC, but Kaffeine comes in really handy for TV tuners, so I leave that install along with xine itself and VLC. So that pretty much covers most of my "desktop uses", and good old Firefox gets installed by default for a lot of distro's, including mine (Although I have Google Chrome installed as a backup web browser as well).
So it's really "specific uses" that's where I do most "post-installation" installations (no pun intended). So that would be things like Virtualbox, rkhunter, ffmpeg (plus a GUI for it as well), dvbcut, isomaster, MediaInfo, libdvdcss, etc.
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