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What are some programs/tools/packages that you can't live without? (piefed.social)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev
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Disclaimer: I tried searching for something like "useful programs", "useful packages", "useful tools", "recommended packages", etc. Don't see any posts like that, if this is a duplicate, then it's not intentional and my search skills have failed me.

Anyway, I was watching a YT video today and the guy launched a cool program in his terminal, I paused to see what he was running. It was btop, of course being new I never heard about it. Then I thought -- how many cool tools/packages are there, which people use, but I am not aware of?

So what do you like? What do you install on a fresh install? What are the most useful tools in your belt? What can't you live without on Linux?

Perhaps I'll find something useful :)

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    upx - compress binary files

    Just to be clear, the parent poster means "binary as in executable binaries", rather than "binary as in non-text".

    mlocate

    This was replaced by plocate some time back in Debian, which IIRC was generally faster. Some distros used a compatibility package for some time; you may actually have plocate installed yourself.

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