cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11419429
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?
Yeah, very similar. And I used to use fish, but I got fed up with it not supporting bash scripts, so now I just have prezto with plugins that make it act exactly like fish 😁
I used to use zsh with oh-my-zsh and Powerlevel10k before I switched to fish. I actually considered going back to zsh (don’t remember why) but now I’m pretty happy with fish. What to you mean with fish not supporting bash scripts? A bash script should always have at the beginning of the file, that way it will always be executed in bash, even if you run it from fish.
I can’t remember the details, it was 6 or 7 years ago that I switched, but it was something at work that wasn’t working because fish used a different scripting language
That’s strange. If you ever want to try fish again, you can do this to avoid problems with bash scripts:
- NEVER set your system shell (the /bin/sh symlink) to fish, it will cause so many problems. Make sure to use bash or dash.
- Only set your user shell to fish, use chsh to do this.
- Use
at the beginning of scripts - If you encounter some problems, just run your script like this:
bash script.sh