less, I don't remember what distro it was, but there wasn'tless. There wasmorethough.Sometimes, more is less.
KDE Connect on KDE distros, just feels part of the KDE experience
Git. I feel like that is a pretty important part of any linux os nowadays
git not installed in ubuntu based distro was the shock for me.
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git isn't in Arch's base-devel
Damn, I am quite sure it's in Debians build-essentials!
I think most people (including myself) prefer a minimal desktop by default, and then proceed to install only the software they need. Nevertheless, it always surprises me when I log in to a system that doesn't have vim.
For almost all users, especially beginners, nano is just simpler faster and better. A lot of distributions are bundling it, and I am finding indeed systems without vim at all.
Especially for beginners,
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I disagree. Don't get me wrong, vim is amazing and all that, but I think nano is easier for new users to grok out of the box, making it a better choice most of the time. What it lacks in features it makes up for in transparency.
100% agree about the minimal set of desktop apps, though. That drives me crazy.
Just my 0.02$.
Edit: silly mistakes and clarification
A Doom-clone. I mean, come on.
Seriously tho, Gparted for how useful it is.
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type -pis a shell builtin though, and one character shorter :)Although you may prefer
tool=$(command -v tool)
- Multimedia/ h264 codecs ??
- KDE/GSconnect
- Something like Arch's downgrade package + an archive of package versions
- Hardware video acceleration support is sorely lacking
- Picture-in-picture in Gnome's Wayland (bug that a gnome-shell extension fixes!)
Multimedia codecs have a different license agreement than the OS so they aren't bundled by default for a reason
I don't care about the licenses. If I click on my media and it refuses to play because some codec is omitted by default, am annoyed nonetheless.
More annoyed when the distro doesn't even bother to document how to properly install the "missing" codecs.
Don't mistake this as condescension, but doesn't VLC solve all of that?
Nope. VLC uses system libraries, unless you install through something that ships its own dependencies like flatpak.
I've heard it's great for opening any file. Is it good with a bunch of file formats as opposed to media codecs?
VLC is good everywhere even though it cannot compare to MPV in number of features available. It will work for most people just fine.
