• rayon@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I think most people (including myself) prefer a minimal desktop by default, and then proceed to install only the software they need. Nevertheless, it always surprises me when I log in to a system that doesn't have vim.

    • s20@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I disagree. Don't get me wrong, vim is amazing and all that, but I think nano is easier for new users to grok out of the box, making it a better choice most of the time. What it lacks in features it makes up for in transparency.

      100% agree about the minimal set of desktop apps, though. That drives me crazy.

      Just my 0.02$.

      Edit: silly mistakes and clarification

      • duncesplayed@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        It was, but it was (and still is) a Unix tool. I believe POSIX still requires that more be provided (even if it's just less secretly).

        The original Unix more could only go forwards. Someone wanted to make something like more that could go both forwards and backwards, so he called it less as a joke (because "less" is a "backwards more"). For the past 40 years, everyone's realized that less is much better than the original more, so nobody uses the original any more.

        (MSDOS took the idea of "more" before "less" caught on).

    • Nick@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      What's the point to install htop when top is being preinstalled like 99% of time?

    • Jerbil
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      1 year ago

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    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Oh yeah! That downgrade option sounds cool. The only time I kinda regretted being on Manjaro. VirtualBox 7 still doesn't have functional graphics. I tried downgrade, but that didn't work. Maybe I should have tried deleting the VirtualBox config 🤔

    • Yuumi@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I've tried yast and I'm still unsure what it was supposed to do. I just poked around, asked me if I know than I'm doing and then just left

      • astroturds@startrek.website
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        1 year ago

        It's just a general system setup and config tool. I'm assuming that, like me, you already know how to do all that stuff without yast but it's good for newbies and people that aren't super nerds. With all of the anti terminal stuff I always read about on the internet you'd think at least ubuntu would have their own version of it or something similar.

        "YaST is a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server tool that provides a graphical interface for all essential installation and system configuration tasks. Whether you need to update packages, configure a printer, modify firewall settings, set up an FTP server, or partition a hard disk—you can do it using YaST."

        But yeah, I actually hardly ever use it myself.

  • Turtle@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    The first couple commands I run after install:

    $ sudo apt install vim
$ sudo apt autopurge libreoffice*
  • nik282000@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Debian, sudo, at least when ever I install it without a desktop.

    edit: I'm dumb af, it tells you right in the installer, I just never read it

  • Gamey@feddit.rocks
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    1 year ago

    htop, distrobox and in some cases Flatpak!

    Edit: after reading the comments I want to add curl and git, seriously, why aren't those a default?!

  • Terevos@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    emacs

    I realize half of you people never touch it, but come on. It's not that large a package these days.