Your First 5 Packages after a Fresh Install?

WetGeek

brent This is a COOL tool

WHAT is a cool tool? We're all in suspense!

brent

WetGeek spectacle is. I mimicked what you did (the picture) and have been playing with it since @algent mentioned it above. i love it.

VaSAMiAn

Discord
Opera
Spotify
GUFW
Steam
This is my top 5 list

brent

VaSAMiAn man I used to love opera back in the day. innovators of cool features. many browsers today owe them a debt.

what does it say that among the first things a linux user installs is a good firewall?
(rhetorical question only)

elfprince

brent Hyper Vigilance never hurts nowadays... 😁

brent

elfprince security conscious at the very least--when I finally understood what the ufw default settings (all or nothing) actually did it was enormous peace of mind. set it and forget it. It's not the only piece of the security puzzle but now I realize there was no security at all like this on another platform we all used too long..

gsf

Steam
Discord
Lutris
Wine
Transmission

brent

gsf you are ready to game here🙂 with no messing around.

elfprince

brent On Linux there is much less risk of attacks from internet, compared to ms w systems. I just like to have an additional peace of mind by also using ufw. 😀

joluveba

I actually (re)installed Solus in my desktop a few days ago, so this list is real 🙂

1 ufw and gufw
2 Brave
3 Korla, Papirus and La Capitaine icons (eye candy)
4 VLC
5 Grub customizer
And if it's a laptop, tlp is a top priority

jppelt

joluveba I really like Korla. Have to check out La Capitaine.

brent

joluveba 3 Korla, Papirus and La Capitaine icons (eye candy)

jppelt I really like Korla. Have to check out La Capitaine.

A day afer dialing in I install from repo all icon/widget packages so I can...wait for it...mix and match like a child! La Capitaine was always one of those "unusable" packages since it left some sys icons/widgets empty or weird.
Now I love me some Korla all day long like many. A user named @WetGeek installed Korla recently and it La Capitaine'd him ( I made that term up😉). Meaning? I don't know. Not all package combos are compatible I supposes

WetGeek

First installs:

Vivaldi
VirtualBox
VLC
Micro (best editor for the terminal)
restic (backup)

First things to configure/use:

Thunderbird
Vivaldi
/etc/fstab (access to nfs shares)
.bashrc (install my macros)
restic/backups

brent

WetGeek yeah I think first 5 simplistic in context...I didn't even think about the time configuring the native stuff, which you pointed out, but it's all pretty concurrent in that two hour flurry until Solus is seaworthy (in the eyes of the user).
WOW Micro is one I never tried or heard of. I like vlc for a few things but that broken car on side of rode cone icon always has such a negative connotation for me! Caution it screams. Maybe they need a parakeet mascot instead?

WetGeek

brent A user named @WetGeek installed Korla recently

Hmmm ... don't remember that. What does it do, and did I like it?

EDIT: Oh, was that the theme that left a lot of icons as empty white rectangles? I didn't think of it at first, because it was on my computer less than 5 minutes. Not long enough to remember the name, I guess.

joluveba

brent Hmm, how strange. I had that problem with other icon sets (like Numix), but never with Korla or La Capitaine. No missing icons. By the way, this is in KDE Plasma, I don't know if that problem exists in other desktops.

I hate it when there are missing icons.

WetGeek

brent WOW Micro is one I never tried or heard of.

It's a lot like using a text editor outside the terminal. Works just as you're expect ... Ctrl+S to save, then Ctrl+Q to quit. Supports copy & paste with Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V, again as expected. So for most folks, zero learning curve.

brent

WetGeek

they always look nice until: " left a lot of icons as empty white rectangles?"
for as much as I read here I forget the compatibility thing about icon suites. all gtk is all gtk and all ABC is all ABC and never the twain shall meet or something like that.

WhiteWolf

WetGeek I'm using Korla on Budgie and no triangles/empty icons etc. just restart machine if something is missing or restart desktop session and it's fine.

WetGeek

WhiteWolf I'm using Korla on Budgie and no triangles/empty icons etc

I was using Plasma, but the missing icons were in applications. As I remember, the system icons were all there.

WetGeek

joluveba No missing icons

Perhaps you were using different applications than I was?

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