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What are some tiny, lightweight apps for Linux that are really neat? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Witch@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Playing around with PeppermintOS on a "new " old laptop, and having fun. Its making me realize that tiny things can really work to impress. (Especially when you're waiting on a ram upgrade, haha!)

Could be terminal based or GUI, I'm just curious---what tiny apps do you use that you think are neat? Things that don't take up much storage or memory.

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[–] tochee@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

tealdeer takes up 3.7MB on my system. It's a rust implementation of tldr - simplified man pages with practical examples. If I want to do some common thing with a program I don't use very often, chances are I can type (e.g.) tldr kill and it'll tell me what I need to know.

[–] memphis@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, thanks. I had no idea something like tldr existed.