Linux

inxi saves you time 90% of the time that you would use for lsXXX commands and grepping. Really useful for quick hardware and kernel module checks.

The mouse.

Bring on the downvotes. 🎉

I think a lot of people don't realise that yt-dlp works for many sites, not just YouTube

I used it recently for watching a video from tiktok without having to use their god awful web UI and it was amazing

A few that I use every day:

• Fish shell
• Starship.rs
• Broot (a brilliant filesystem navigator)
• Helix editor (My favorite editor / IDE, truly the successor to vim IMO)
• Topgrade (updates everything)

I use fuck to fix typos

grep goes crazy if you know your regex

jq?

I'm a big fan of screen because it will let me run long-running processes without having to stay connected via SSH, and will log all the output.

I do a lot of work on customers' servers and having a full record of everything that happened is incredibly valuable for CYA purposes.

The pipe (|), which if you think about it is the basis for function composition.

awk

nano was and still is vital to me learning and using linux, I will not learn how to use vim so if the distro forces it to be default im not using it.

Why is editing text so convoluted for seemingly no reason.. also hate that vim must be used for certain files.

I find myself using tldr a lot since finding out about it. It's just so useful for commands that I don't use enough to commit to memory.