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Antonin J. (they/them)
Antonin J. (they/them)

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What are your favorite Linux utility/productivity tools?

I love Linux and one thing I love about it is that you can set it up just right for yourself to make yourself super productive and make working in Linux very pleasant.

What are your favorite tools to setup and use?

EDIT: I was writing out a list of my own tools and that ended up turning into a blog post about my favorite linux tools. :)

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Roelof Jan Elsinga

I use a ton of bash aliases, they make my work that much quicker! I've seen a lot of people mention oh my zsh here, so I'm going to see if that's something for me!

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Jérémie Astor

I've been using dwm for more than ten years, and I just don't change (I sometimes try some other VM, but always and up firing dwm).

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Waylon Walker

I just discovered broot last night. Its a really cool tree like command that allows you to do things with files and directory with a very nice fuzzy matching interface. It is quite different than fzf.

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PatrikBird

nice post! thanks for sharing. I just miss one tool:
ripgrep - a grep replacement which is fast, easy and nice to look at.

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Antonin J. (they/them)

I'm honestly not familiar with dwm, it looks interesting and I wouldn't mind trying it out but yeah, I haven't really heard much about it.

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Adam Gaskins

i3wm

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Jason C. McDonald

Here's my must-haves:

By the way, I use Ubuntu MATE.

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MilMike

my top tools I use all the time:

  • byobu (multiplexer, allows you to have multiple "windows" in one terminal session)
  • z (remembers your paths)
  • zsh
  • silversearcher (ag)
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UKJP

Oh-my-zsh, vim-plug, powerline, powerlevel10k!

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Tamara Temple

alias and function