Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: luxhalitus Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.emacs Subject: Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:21:38 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: <8qsepo40.fsf@nowhere.nil> References: <944d7e85-d640-455a-7ecf-e0eac288d4d3@example.net> <87ttb2j0q5.fsf@rpi3> <87o71an5me.fsf@parhasard.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:21:42 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5b34d1b2d310df086546ca723208c171"; logging-data="1772149"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX196+NqRoGBCGzXgHf0E+NAXqJbmquhzcaU=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jz1BM1Ngs3Wf143jRMcq87dtkBg= sha1:eDMZHXAcVWCRlXbdPrg7/Mgvk4g= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:62586 comp.emacs:2459 While i don't have any hard rules, i usually end up installing lynx, an emacs, groff, plan9port and fbpdf over the course of a week. On laptops i only ever prepare dwm as a desktop, because what else can you use without a proper mouse? After recently getting into s6, i also installed execline everywhere and ported some of my program launch scripts to it. Aidan Kehoe writes: > I’m a big fan of Inkscape, mainly for editing PDFs. If you like and use TeX > that gets installed early. Some people like to rag on ImageMagick for being unintuitive and sometimes butchering the quality of PDFs (like this doesn't happen in GIMP as well). Nothing can beat the simplicity of it though, if you've memorized which flags you need. These days i mainly use it to append pictures. Recently someone send me a document as a photo with horribly uneven lighting, so i passed it some brightness and contrast parameters to get sharp text on a white, washed-out background.