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.
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
less, I don’t remember what distro it was, but there wasn’t less. There was more though.
It was, but it was (and still is) a Unix tool.
I believe POSIX still requires that more be provided (even if it’s just less secretly).
The original Unix more could only go forwards.
Someone wanted to make something like more that could go both forwards and backwards, so he called it less as a joke (because “less” is a “backwards more”).
For the past 40 years, everyone’s realized that less is much better than the original more, so nobody uses the original any more.
(MSDOS took the idea of “more” before “less” caught on).
htop
Git. I feel like that is a pretty important part of any linux os nowadays
KDE Connect on KDE distros, just feels part of the KDE experience
