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What's that one feature you liked so much while distrohopping that you want it by default in all distros? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by Owell1984@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I have always been discovering new things about Linux distros while distro hopping. And when I get something I really like, I just copy the package name and make sure I install it in every distro I use in the future.

Let me start:

  1. Clipboard manager (Gpaste)
  2. KDE connect
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[–] eshep@social.trom.tf 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@Owell1984 @russjr08 Things usually have a .deb or .rpm available which almost always unpack and run with no issue regardless of distro.

[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 3 points 2 years ago

Oh for sure (and a lot of AUR packages are exactly just that), but nothing beats the simplicity and speed of running a quick sudo pacman -S package_name and then being up and running :)