What are some programs/tools/packages that you can't live without?

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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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Here’s my list

  • K9s, it’s a TUI kubernetes dashboard/management tool. Since I work a lot in my terminal, having this kind of tool there just made sense.
  • Corner, it’s a task manager, and yes, It’s TUI as well.
  • Yazi, a really amazing file manager, and yes it’s of course TUI.
  • Absorb, it’s an android app that integrates with audiobookshelf, and honestly it is just amazing.
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Corner

Do you mean this ?

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Yes, that’s the one.

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