Sources

• Linux distro tryout: https://www.onworks.net/

• Useful Packages: links collection and sorted list

• Docker container configurations: Check here

• Test out docker containers online: Here

Essential

• Zsh : Better version of bash shell

• Oh-my-zsh : zsh plugin manager

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sh -c "$(wget -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

• Powerlevel10k : Awesome zsh prompt theme

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git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k

• Zsh-z : directory jumping

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git clone https://github.com/agkozak/zsh-z ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-z

• Zsh-syntax-highlighting :

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git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

• Zsh-autocomplete :

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git clone --depth 1 -- https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autocomplete

• Neovim : Best CLI Text editor [apt]

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/unstable && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install neovim

• NvChad : Customized neovim [bob]

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git clone https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad ~/.config/nvim --depth 1 && nvim

• vim-plug : neovim plugin panager

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sh -c 'curl -fLo "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}"/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim'

• Docker : Running services within containers

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sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose-plugin

• Docker-compose : Running docker with yaml files

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sudo apt-get remove docker-compose; VERSION=$(curl --silent https://api.github.com/repos/docker/compose/releases/latest | grep -Po '"tag_name": "\K.*\d') && DESTINATION=/usr/local/bin/docker-compose && sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/${VERSION}/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -o $DESTINATION && sudo chmod 755 $DESTINATION

• Speedtest : Internet speed testing CLI

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sudo apt-get remove speedtest-cli ; curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/ookla/speedtest-cli/script.deb.sh | sudo bash && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install speedtest

• Tailscale: For Tailnet connection among self devices over the internet

• Bat: Better cat functionality

• Fzf: fuzzy search

• Tmux: Better terminal, with multi-device session restore support [apt]

• Ripgrep: more efficient than grep [apt]

• Lsd or Exa: better ls functionality

• Duf: Better disk space analysis ( df )

• Ranger or Browsr: File browser and content preview [apt]

• Ncdu or dua or Dust : disk usage utility | dua<Dust=ncdu

• Git : for git clone

• Btop & Bottom : better than top and htop : system viewer

• Nala : Package manager ( Better version of apt )

• Navi : a cheatsheet manager

• Pueue : Background parallel task manager

• Fd : Uset friendly alternative to find command

• Thefuck : corrects errors in previous console commands with zsh plugin

• Lnav : Terminal log file navigator

• Lazydocker : Docker container TUI

• Ctop : top like interface for docker containers

• Lazygit : Git TUI

• Deb-get : for easy instralling and updating 3rd party .deb packages

• tre : For directory tree generator

• hyperfine : For comparing command runtime (benchmarking)

• atuin : For database driven history search

• httpie : Better curl or wget

• Czkawka : File duplication finder

• jq : Command line JSON processor

Optional

• Cockpit: web console for raspberry pi

• Glances: for system data collection

• Cloudflare : For internet tunneling and remote usage

• Bash-snippets: https://github.com/alexanderepstein/Bash-Snippets

• Visidata: csv file reader and manipulator in commandline

• Rsync: copy and sync files utility

• Cowsay: Cows says text [apt]

• Curl: request and download from internet [apt]

• FFmpeg: CLI video management [apt]

• Figlet: for ASCII text art [apt]

• Imagemagick: CLI image manipulations [apt]

• Flameshot: Screenshot utility

• Hollywood: fancy hacker screen

• Lolcat: Colored output from other commands [apt]

• Micro: simple text editor on terminal [apt]

• Neofetch: system details viewer on terminal [apt]

• Moc : Music player on console [apt]

• Xclip : X-11 based clipboard management

• No-more-secrets : fancy encrypted text effect on terminal

• Protonvpn-cli : Vpn service

• Synaptic package manager : Package manager

• Fsearch: GUI search utility

• Pensor: Sensors data collection

• Copyq: GUI clipboard manager

• ddTerm : collapsible terminal - Gnome shell extention

• Qalc : Easy unit conversions and mathematical operations on terminal [apt]

• Httpie : User friendly interaction with HTTP servers and APIs from the terminal

• Gping : ping with a graph TUI

• Cronitor-cli or Healthchecks: Effective cronjob testing and monitoring

• Motion : easy to setup webcam livestream server

  stream_quality 80
  stream_maxrate 5
  stream_port <your_port>
  stream_localhost off
  output_pictures off
  framerate 5
  ffmpeg_video_codec mpeg4
  width 640
  height 480
  auto_brightness off
  contrast 0
  saturation 0
  stream_auth_method 1
  stream_authentication <any_username>:<any_password>                   
  

• Rmlint : Detect and remove duplicate/empty files/directories

• Rclone : sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers

• Nfty : A utility for sending push notifications to phone or desktop on demand and when commands finish

• Pdd : Calculates date and time difference. Also works as a timer and stopwatch. Can be installed directly with apt package manager

• Grc and Colortail : command line utility with colorized text output [ stdout, stderr, file contents, ping, ps, logfile ]