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I’ll start:

  • Tmux
  • vim
  • ghidra
  • okteta (hex editor)
  • speedcrunch (calculator with bit manipulation)
  • python3 with IPython for nice reply and embed(), pwntools
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[–] skillissuer@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] toomuchbeer@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

This is amazing. Thank you!

[–] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Holy shit I need this.

[–] nekat_emanresu@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Another of those rare times I don't expect to laugh in a thread.

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[–] Fryboyter@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)
[–] Maruki_Hurakami@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Awesome list! Thanks for providing links.

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[–] MavTheHack@lemmy.fmhy.ml 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I see a lot of the good ones are already mentioned. But I can't use a linux system for more than an hour without 'thefuck' installed

[–] orcrist@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Depends on what the machine is for.

[–] kalipike@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

• git
• vim
• openssh
• openssl
• fail2ban
• curl
• byobu
• webmin (to give limited access to non-Linux help desk technicians)

[–] plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Screen, vim, python

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

For everything:

  • vi/vim
  • ssh & sshd

For everything except firewalls:

  • C, C++, Perl, Common Lisp, Scheme programming tools
  • lynx
  • wget/curl
  • git
  • ksh (on *BSD)
  • telnet (yeah, there's equipment that still uses telnet out there)

For a desktop:

  • Emacs
  • xterm
  • GNU plotutils
  • TeXlive
  • X11 utilities (xcalc, editres, etc.)
  • Atmel and Arduino toolchains
  • xpdf
  • KDE
  • KiCad
  • GIMP
  • Inkscape
  • Firefox
  • Chromium
  • Kerbal Space Program
[–] Sebito@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
  • Kitty
  • fish + all the shell builtins
  • LunarVim (Neovim)
  • git + lazygit
  • openssh
  • npm
  • cargo
  • docker

Edit:

  • wget
  • httpie
  • tar & (un)zip
[–] letbelight@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Try podman it's lighter than docker. 😂

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And runs in unprivileged mode (nonroot) quite nicely.

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[–] luke@harfang.social 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Am I really the first.

Nano!!!!!!

[–] FarLine99@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Micro!!!!!!

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[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 8 points 1 year ago
  • jq
  • vim
  • ag (silver searcher)
  • kubectl
  • k9s
  • oh-my-zsh
  • go
  • xclip
  • openssl
  • tcpdump
[–] zoe_codez@lemmy.digital-alchemy.app 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
  • htop
  • docker
  • zsh
  • tmux
  • ssh
  • git
  • rsync
  • curl
  • dnsutils
  • jq
  • nodejs (managed via fnm)
[–] jxk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Ret2libsanity@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel that.

I still favor gcc over clang

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[–] ray_gay@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • neovim
  • alacritty
  • zsh
    • oh my zsh
    • starship (promp)
  • zellij
  • btop | htop
  • ripgrep
  • fd-find
  • exa
  • fnm (nvm alternative, since nvm starts too slow for me)
  • yt-dlp
  • bat (batcat)
  • the usual base-devel / build-essential
[–] exapsy@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

linux-headers

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • docker (What, you never wanted to use a optimized version of cmatrix that uses only 512KiB of ram while barely scratching your CPU?)
  • foot
  • brave
  • (on docker) btop, cmatrix, lynx
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[–] Ticktok@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One that I didn't see on here that I've added to my list

  • tldr
    • simplified man pages with common example commands.-

If on desktop

  • distro-box
  • yakuake
[–] iks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • zsh+ohmyzsh
  • tilix
  • neovim
  • fzf
  • exa
  • pv
  • htop+iotop+nethogs
  • iperf3
  • nc
  • socat
  • nmap
  • python3
  • ansible
  • lolcat
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[–] Ocebi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • exa
  • ripgrep
  • tree
  • difftastic
  • fzf
  • git
  • neovim
  • zsh
  • starship
  • direnv
  • bat
[–] puzzlebox@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

clipcopy to pipe output of commands into the system clipboard

cat foo.txt | clipcopy

[–] Ret2libsanity@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Til. Thanks for sharing this

[–] doomkernel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago
  • neovim
  • fzf
  • ripgrep
  • Firefox
  • git
  • lazygit
  • wezterm
  • zsh
[–] mfz@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

To add to all great comments here I have one that I’ve used for ages and not seen mentioned here: lftp

It supports many protocols for ftp like over ssh and allows for shaky connections with resume and back in the days when this was more common I used to just run it in the background to download huge files that took days to download and it would gracefully just reconnect/resume/retry until done.

[–] nydas@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • Tmux
  • NeoVim
  • Git
  • FZF
  • Fish
  • ssh Lots of others, but these are the day-to-day
[–] Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

+1 for fish shell. The lack of POSIX compliance really doesn't matter at all day-to-day, but all the qol features that the shell has absolutely do matter and they are so worth it.

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[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Every time I setup a new system, I always install these:

  • vim
  • zsh
  • git
  • rsync
  • tmux
  • mosh
  • btop
  • autossh
  • mc
  • direnv
  • asdf-vm

If the system is a desktop/laptop for personal use, then I'll install these too:

  • virt-manager
  • vscode
  • firefox
  • filezilla
  • mpv
  • yt-dlp
  • kdeconnect
  • onlyoffice
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[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago
[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Adding to that:

  • neovim for workstations
  • curl
  • wget
  • zsh

Edit: So essentially for me, I forgot to include it: vim, my beloved, always and for ever

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[–] lo_fi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

A few from the top of my head:

  • git
  • neovim
  • nix (package manager)
  • mpv + yt-dlp (stream music from yt with --no-video argument)
  • unbound
  • caddy (quickly spin up local web servers with https)

Edit: almost forgot, I've been using zsh + znap package manager and loving it.

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[–] Omniformative@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Desktop:

  • distrobox
  • brave
  • flatpak
  • neovim
  • nix
  • fish
  • tmux
[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Stuff that I insist on regardless of platform (that is, I install these even onto Windows systems if I'm forced to use them):

  • Pale Moon (web browser)
  • Claws Mail
  • GIMP
  • vbindiff (command-line hex editor + diff utility for binary files)
  • mercurial
  • perl

Stuff that I require only on Linux systems for desktop use:

  • Pan (yes, really, I still use a Usenet newsreader on a daily basis)
  • qemu
  • conky
  • Aqualung (music player—I like odd software)
  • Inkscape
  • Scribus
  • PySol ;)
  • rdesktop (less a favourite than a regrettable necessity)
  • various TDE built-ins: konqueror (as file manager only), kedit, kate, konsole, ark
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[–] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago
  • tmux
  • screen
  • autossh
  • mosh
  • rsync
[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't see enough of these here:

  • fzf
  • z (or zoxide)

Check them out

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