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What essential software do you install on a new computer?

Autumn on November 24, 2019

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scottshipp
  • A terminal tool
  • An IDE that speaks Java, Markdown, HTML, CSS, and JS
  • A lighter weight text editor
  • A diff tool
  • Firefox
  • A chat tool
  • Git
  • Maven
  • Docker
  • Vagrant
  • My bashrc and bash_aliases
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Juan Carlos • Edited

Other stuff KDE already has them...

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Jason C. McDonald • Edited
  • Evolution
  • RhythmBox
  • LibreOffice
  • VS Code
  • Spotify
  • Brave
  • Hexchat
  • Simplenote
  • Minecraft ;)

And then, of course, my development stack for C/C++ and Python, including Git and LLVM. (Too exhaustive to list here.)

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Andreas Jakof • Edited

Windows PC:

  • Chrome
  • Bitwarden
  • Visual Studio
  • Office (+ Visio eventually)
  • Notepad++ (maybe at some point in the future it is replaced by VsCode)

Mac:
I would do the same minus chrome and Notepad++, Office without Visio (not available on Mac) and Outlook
(Yes, I am a Safari User)

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Giorgos Kontopoulos 👀
  • CopyQ
  • SpaceFM
  • Terminator
  • VS Code
  • Firefox / Chromium
  • Gimp
  • InkScape
  • Slack
  • Skype
  • FileZilla
  • Docker
  • Node
  • npm
  • yarn
  • composer
  • VirtualBox
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Jordan Mack 🍍🍕 • Edited

Absolute essentials:

  • Firefox
  • Google Chrome
  • Thunderbird
  • SourceTree
  • VSCode
  • Notepad++
  • Google Drive
  • PuTTY or KiTTY
  • 7-Zip

Important, but not essential:

  • ArsClip
  • Discord
  • Everything Search
  • F.lux
  • Keepass
  • Greenshot
  • IrfanView
  • K-Lite Mega Codec Pack with Media Player Classic
  • Signal
  • SublimeText
  • Photoshop
  • Winamp

A bunch of these can be quickly installed all at once using ninite.com/.

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Mehdi Mousavi

My essentials for mac :

iTerm
VSCode
Chrome
Magnet (window manager)
Pine Player (music player)
Telegram (best messaging app ever!)
The Unarchiver
Persepolis Download Manager
IINA (movie player)
Android File Transfer (by google)
Paste (clipboard manager)
Some Finder Extentions (image size + betterzip viewer + webp viewer + open in vs code + ...)

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Sarah
  • Slack
  • Chrome
  • VSCode
  • Spark
  • Spotify
  • Figma
  • node / npm / yarn
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EmNudge

Do you find it essential to install Figma?
I haven't had much perf problems with the web version.
Fonts are easier with the downloaded version, though. I'll give you that much.

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Sarah

I don't think it's essential for everyone, I just like having it because
1) Fonts, as you mentioned
2) I'm often having multiple things open at the same time (jira, google docs, google drive, local dev version of our product, live dev/stage/production, google calendar, notion, sometimes social media). Then it's really nice having my design files (often more than 1 at a time as well) open in a separate app, rather than a million chrome tabs or windows.

But I use the web interface a lot though, especially for quick and easy things.

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Joe Mainwaring
  • 1Password
  • Chrome
  • Webstorm (preferred IDE)
  • VSCode (fallback IDE for edge-cases)
  • iTerm2
  • Docker
  • Brew.sh
  • Postman
  • Slack
  • Dropbox
  • PIA VPN (primarily for use abroad)
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Seniru Pasan Indira

These are the apps that I can't live with.

  • GIMP (for image designing)
  • Atom
  • Chrome
  • Netbeans
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Paresh • Edited

I would suggest install "only" those you require to run your dev environment and that depends on tech stack you are using.

Minimum set would be:

  • Web browser of your choice (i.e. Chrom, Firefox etc)
  • IDE (and build tools) of your choice (i.e. Visual Studio, VS Code, Eclipse etc)
  • Source repo client of your choice (i.e. Git bash or some other repo clients)
  • Communication tool of your choice (Mail, Skype, Slack, Teams etc)
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Autumn

For me, it's:

  • A browser
  • VS Code
  • VirtualBox
  • WSL

I live mostly in the cloud, so these are my essentials 😁

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Emma Humphries
  • Firefox
    • I use web for Slack, Discord, and social media
  • VS Code
  • Password manager
  • Cloud storage
  • Chat software like Telegram and Signal, but probably moving to Web versions.
  • Git
  • Node
  • pipx
  • jrnl installed with pipx
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Sudharshan S • Edited
  • Chrome / Firefox
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Visual Studio
  • SQL Server Management Studio
  • Nodejs
  • Git
  • OBS Studio
  • Chat : WhatsApp Web, Telegram
  • Designing : Figma Web or Desktop Application.
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Chad Kunde

Headless machine:

  • vim
  • docker
  • go
  • openssh
  • rsync

Dev machine:

  • emacs (w/evil and magit)
  • docker
  • openssh
  • go
  • chrome
  • mpd
  • i3
  • Alacritty
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Ghost
  • Firefox
  • XFCE4-Terminal
  • neovim
  • platformio
  • rust env
  • mpv
  • i3wm
  • docker
  • Telegram
  • zathura
  • Kicad
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Lautaro Lobo

VSCode
A torrent downloader (qbitorrent, utorrent...)
VLC
Inkscape
Chrome
Ruby on Rails
npm
yarn
Python and gcc (if are not preinstalled)

And that's it!

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Adam Szaloczi

VS Code
FireFox Dev. Edition
node
npm
qbittorrent
VLC

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Max Ong Zong Bao

Chrome, Keepass, Git, Python, PyCharm, VS Code, Spotify, Slack.

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David J Eddy

An operating system :D.

These days Ubuntu 18.04 or macOS.

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Chad Adams • Edited

Git Fork
Visual Studio Code
Discord
Docker or Podman
Spotify
Node.js
IntelliJ
Bitwarden
Postman
Web Torrent
NordVPN
Yarn
Chrome

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Siddharth Venkatesan
  • Chrome
  • Visual Studio Community Edition
  • VS Code
  • Sublime Text 3
  • Postman
  • Github Desktop
  • Putty
  • WinSCP
  • MS Office
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larson

Too much, every time I forget what reinstall the system to be installed, I've assembled a behind post;

dev.to/larsonzhong/essential-softw...

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Sourabh

Windows:

Chrome.
Papier extension chrome.
Maven
Git
Sublime text
IntelliJ

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Debashis Dip
  • Chrome
  • VLC player
  • Some Zip un-archiver
  • Pycharm
  • VSCode
  • ProtonVPN
  • LastPass
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Valentin Jonev
  • VSCode
  • Docker
  • Chrome
  • NodeJs
  • Slack/Teams
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Visual Studio Code
Chrome
7zip
Photoshop
Qbittorrent
NordVPN

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Bruno Pacheco

Besides what is coming with Debian, I install:

  • OpenJDK
  • GraalVM
  • Node.js
  • Git
  • Maven
  • Docker
  • IntelliJ
  • VSCode
  • Chrome
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Zafri Zulkipli

Development

  • VSCODE + some extensions
  • Docker + relevant images
  • Dbeaver
  • Git
  • Chrome

Communication

  • Skype
  • Slack
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Swarup Kumar Mahapatra

A software that makes sure that I can connect to Internet. (: