- Firefox -> Edge
- Libreoffice -> Gsuite PWAs
- kernel -> Azure Linux kernel (added trust of Microsoft)
- nano -> vim
- vi -> Emacs
- GNOME -> Deepin
- Bash -> Powershell >=7.0
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Arch master race: you don't have to replace defaults if nom defaults are isntalled in the first place and you choose everything our own anyways.
Apps I replace with newer versions (on Mint too):
- LibreOffice, with the latest .deb from their website
- Celluloid, with mpv. I cannot tell how much I appreciate mpv even though it sucks with DVD, for which I use VLC ;)
- yt-dlp, with the latest version available from git
- Screenshot, with Ksnip.
- Whatever the default image viewer is, with Pix.
how do you personally install yt-dlp? I just use pip(x).
- I remove the preinstalled version (sudo apt remove yt-dlp)
- In my ~/.local, I have a 'bin' folder in which to put any manually added app, and in my .bashrc I added that folder to the path. So everything in it is usable.
- I download the latest binary from https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#release-files and moved it to that bin folder.
- Done. I can use it like if it was the pre-installed app ;)
Jesus that explains why I've never used this. Pip is a security issue.
Celluloid is honestly better than VLC. Native Wayland, Pipewire, no filesystem permissions (Flatpak)
I am on Fedora Kinoite, I replaced Kwrite with Kate, all the other default KDE apps are great. Okular, Gwenview as Flatpak, and apart from that a mix of different KDE, GNOME or 3rd party apps as Flatpaks.
I made a list here, but it is a bit outdated
Celluloid does much less than vlc, why not just using mpv (which celluloid uses as backend) so you have a full player
TIL there's a frontend for MPV. Nice.
There are a handful on non-default apps I've used across my last 3-4 distros at least:
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mpv - the best video player, period. Minimalist UI, maximalist configuration options. I've been using it for many years across many OSes and at this point everything else feels wrong.
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Geany - My favorite GUI text editor on Linux.
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Foliate - the simplest eBook reader I've found.
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Strawberry - It's "fine". Honestly, I've never found a music player on Linux that I really liked. I keep falling back to Strawberry because it's familiar and generally works as expected.
I'm still struggle to unclear typing vlc, but MPV works so much better
I don't replace anything. I just install what I need from the beginning.
And yes, I run Arch btw. :D
switched to nixos after a decade on arch. What does "default software" mean? :D