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Distro hoppers, what's always on your install list when you've finished setup and logged in for the first time?

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I wouldn’t really call myself a distro hopper, but in the last few months I’ve had to do some fresh installs on a couple of machines and VMs for work

If these aren’t included by default, I’ll make sure to get em:

GUI:

  • Firefox & Chromium
  • Gimp & Krita
  • VSCode/VSCodium
  • Okular
  • Libre office

CLI*:

  • git
  • wget&curl
  • neovim
  • zsh/ohmyzsh + plugins
  • glow
  • neofetch
  • figlet/toilet
  • zellij
  • python
  • nodejs/npm/nvm + nodemon globally
  • ranger/rifle

Also, how do you go about migrating your old config and rc files? Start fresh or just copy em over and make adjustments where necessary?

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flashgnash@lemm.ee
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First I install home-manager, then home-manager installs and configures everything else I’ve added to my config over time

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ouch@lemmy.world
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Any issues with home manager?

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flashgnash@lemm.ee
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I’ve not had any but I’m using NixOS, have yet to try it on other distros. (though it supports other distros)

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gudu@programming.dev
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Using it on Nixos, Debian (wsl) and was using it (in the transition to nixos) on arch. Works flawless!

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