I wouldn’t really call myself a distro hopper, but in the last few months I’ve had to do some fresh installs on a couple of machines and VMs for work

If these aren’t included by default, I’ll make sure to get em:

GUI:

  • Firefox & Chromium
  • Gimp & Krita
  • VSCode/VSCodium
  • Okular
  • Libre office

CLI*:

  • git
  • wget&curl
  • neovim
  • zsh/ohmyzsh + plugins
  • glow
  • neofetch
  • figlet/toilet
  • zellij
  • python
  • nodejs/npm/nvm + nodemon globally
  • ranger/rifle

Also, how do you go about migrating your old config and rc files? Start fresh or just copy em over and make adjustments where necessary?

  • pizzaboi@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    5 months ago

    Apart from what you mentioned:

    • Steam
    • Darktable
    • cmatrix (very important)
    • pfetch
    • vim
    • Hugo
    • clipboard manager

    I think that’s about it!

    • NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social
      81·
      5 months ago

      I understand disto hopping when you’re first getting into Linux. But are there really people who do it regularly? What’s the point?

      • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        I was using Ubuntu LTS for a while, then it dropped or of support, so I decided to upgrade. It totally shit that bed, and I wasn’t really happy with Ubuntu at that point so I hopped.

        I tried a rolling release (one extreme to another!) and found it problematic with Nvidia drivers. So eventually I hopped again.

        Now I’m back in ol’ reliable (Debian) and I’ve decided that the grass was never really greener anywhere else. If I need newer things I’ll backport them, or use Flatpak or Distrobox or something like that.

        I’m happy with Debian now, but we’ll see what the situation is with Plasma 6 after its final release. If it’s too much trouble to backport I might hop again.

        • tourist@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          5 months ago

          There is absolutely an element of that.

          There’s something about using a fresh OS that fills me with a mild sense of excitement. Like a child getting a new toy.

      • pizzaboi@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Well, I’ve only changed distros a handful of times. But, I’ve broken my system more than a few times, as well. Back when I had more time I tinkered a lot more than I do now haha