After I install Linux Mint (which is the distro I have settled on), I replace:
- Thunderbird with Betterbird
- Firefox with Librewolf (I also install Brave for web services that need a chromium browser).
- Celluloid / Rythmbox with VLC player
- Default Libreoffice with latest Libreoffice from source.
- ClipIt/Parcellite with xfce4-clipman
I find this to be my optimal setup and these software give me the extra quality of life that make my workflows easier.
What software do you replace and install on your distro of choice?
Edit: I forgot to say I replace sudo with doas. That’s something my friend told me to do although I personally don’t find any immediate working advantage with it.
On Ubuntu, replacing Firefox/Thunderbird snap version with actual deb version.
Kinda in the Pop!_OS - NixOS club but Zen Browser here.
I replace ARCH with Windows 11 bloat edition. I use windows 11 BTW
I use Windows 11 inside of a Gentoo vm inside of Windows 10 on my ipad.
Huh I bare metal run proxmox virtualising my LFS to start a gentoo VM where I have my XP VM I remote into with my phone
Ooh, not a “hot take” answer. I rather like MusikCube. It plays nice with putting my music on my NAS and running it from both my personal machines and my Windows/work machine too. I’m not specifically excited by it as a TUI, but it also works just fine as a basic-'03-iTunes-style-navigation clone. It’s super boring in the most usable of ways.
My more “hot take” answer is that I replace the terminal program in Fedora with the boring arsed “Gnome Console” from vanilla Gnome. It does all the stuff I want it to do and nothing more. If I was slightly more different than me I might be upset that it doesn’t do enough terminal things but I’m just me. :)
I stared using Zen Browser instead of Firefox lately and i find it really good.
It’s so good! I love the design right out of the box, with very few settings adjustments.
Note that zen currently only has vertical tabs (horizontal tabs are on the roadmap). If horizontal tabs are a must, try Floorp browser instead, which has several similarities with Zen.
Zen browser gang 🗣️
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
I choose what I want when I install. I use Arch btw
Terminal -> foot Text editor -> neovim, or more recently I’ve been trying Helix.
Those are the biggest two. I also recommend mpv over VLC.
I don’t. I install a distro with sane defaults and get to work.
- bash -> zsh
- Gnome terminal -> Ghostty/Alacritty
- Adwaita -> My custom adwaita build with smaller sizes
- Default UI/Mono Font -> Inter/Meslo
- Default browser -> Zen Browser
Firefox -> Zen Browser
I replace Spectacle with Flameshot.
Bahah as other dude said I don’t replace anything cus I’m on arch btw, but I often tend to remove the default web browser whenever i run a vm or somethinf cus base Firefox isn’t my thing, its far too dull for me. I rock ff forks like zen browser, librewolf, icecat, and mullvad. Currently on zen.
Arch, so pretty much nothing.
Except maybe ZSH (but it’s ‘added’, I guess; not ‘replaced’).
I use MPV as movie and general media player with my custom config as well as auto-crop and URI copy/paste scripts. It works better than any other media player I tried in the last 10 years. I only use VLC for DVD menus, but it sucks even at that task, because the cursor gets stuck and the menus lag even when playing from SSD folder.
I use Tauon Music Box as music player because of its design, easy playlist/library customizability and Jellyfin integration. I also pay for spotify and use spicetify with custom skins if the songs are available there.
Kröhnkite as real auto-tiling solution with KDE Plasma.
But I’m on Arch btw., so there is not much default software apart from what the KDE meta packages contain.
I don’t replace anything. I just install what I need from the beginning.
And yes, I run Arch btw. :D
switched to nixos after a decade on arch. What does “default software” mean? :D
Systemd?
lol ditto. but the first thing I do on new installs is
chsh /bin/zsh, replace caps lock with control and enable vi keys. otherwise I’m dysfunctionalYeah, there is nothing more annoying in general when starting to type text into a co-workers desktop than having random letters show up rather than having the cursor move around.
