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Thank you so much, comrades! I am feeling pretty comfortable with linux mint, and now would like some suggestions for some absolutely necessary FOSS or free license software for the OS. So far I have the standard, Firefox, ThunderBird, LibreOffice, yada yada. Thank you again to everyone on the linux comm! sankara-salute

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[–] jacob@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

BONUS: here's some command-line toys that are not useful or necessary, but are just real fun to take a look at especially if you're new to linux:

  • cmatrix (does the matrix code rain thing)
  • cowsay (ascii cow with speech bubble)
  • sl (steam locomotive in your terminal)
  • cbonsai (generate bonsai tree)
  • neofetch (this one is actually very useful and will print system information in an aesthetically pleasing way)
[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wow, neofetch is really cool! thank you!

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago

It's mandatory for online boasting.

[–] dbx12@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

You forgot the package hollywood.

[–] ikiru@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for this!

[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

fastfetch is neofetch in C instead of bash, makes it much faster.

[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cmatrix,SL and neofetch work on android too through termux, I bet others would too, but I have only tested these two