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Pirx

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What do you remove and/or install after a fresh OS instalation?

I always remove majority of programs in Internet section. Web browsers and uGet are the only ones that stay. Clipboard manager and media players different than MPV go, as well.

I install (if they are not already included) Geany, Gimp, ccrypt, MPV, mp3gain, ffmpeg, uGet, yt-dlp (versions from repos are often outdated), LibreOffice, Brave, Librewolf. Untill not so long ago, git and some interpreters and compilers were on my list, too (Ruby, Julia, Nim, V and Odin), but recently I've decided to take a break from coding.

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: What do you remove and/or install after a fresh OS instalation?

I quite like having all of GNOME's utilities so I leave them installed. A consistent desktop pleases me.

I have to install vim & ranger/lf and change the shell to oksh or mksh but the only major component I add is Pandoc because I prefer to write articles in markdown so I can output PDFs, HTML and Word documents without having to learn lots of different systems. Pandoc is awesome :-)

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beaker

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Re: What do you remove and/or install after a fresh OS instalation?

install vifm/broot/ncdu/mpv/vim/nsxiv/git sometimes noice and clifm

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Döbbie03

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Re: What do you remove and/or install after a fresh OS instalation?

I used to remove anything that was distro-centric, any double apps, and normally replaced the defaults with my preferred options. But other than ArchLabs, I would always install Arch from scratch, so it was always what I wanted.

Now with Gentoo, it's the same.

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chroot

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Re: What do you remove and/or install after a fresh OS instalation?

I used to remove anything that was distro-centric, any double apps, and normally replaced the defaults with my preferred options. But other than ArchLabs, I would always install Arch from scratch, so it was always what I wanted.

Now with Gentoo, it's the same.

I am with you @Döbbie03, always do a minimum install and then add other software piece by piece, except for AL.:)

greenjeans

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Re: What do you remove and/or install after a fresh OS instalation?

For me first thing to do was always remove translations/localizations, still do when I build my own.

But yeah as others have said, once I learned to build my own that's what I have done ever since.

Döbbie03

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Re: What do you remove and/or install after a fresh OS instalation?

I used to remove anything that was distro-centric, any double apps, and normally replaced the defaults with my preferred options. But other than ArchLabs, I would always install Arch from scratch, so it was always what I wanted.

Now with Gentoo, it's the same.

I am with you @Döbbie03, always do a minimum install and then add other software piece by piece, except for AL.:)

Well, AL was especially good

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Colonel Panic

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Re: What do you remove and/or install after a fresh OS instalation?

The first thing I install is always the mc (Midnight Commander) file manager if it isn't there already, because I use it to do so many things including moving and copying files between folders, unarchiving tar and zip files, viewing of text files etc. Then either or both of the full version of Vim or Neovim for text file writing.

After that it depends on what is already installed. I usually have SMPlayer and sometimes strawberry for multimedia, Geeqie for viewing images, gedit for editing my bookmark file, qalculate! for calculation and either Epyrus or Betterbird for an e-mail client.

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2025-03-19 09:39:52)

Colonel Panic

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Re: What do you remove and/or install after a fresh OS instalation?

Just to add to this; I've just used ncdu to troubleshoot a situation where my partition was getting unexpectedly full, and found it did the job. I've also installed, and am now running, BleachBit to try and clear up some of the excess baggage in the partition, so I'm adding that one to my list.

I'll have a look at some of the suggestions other people have made in the thread (such as vifm). Because I'm trying to limit the size of my installation to what I can snapshot and then burn off to a DVD-r, I;m a bit restricted in what or how much I can install.

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