I don't replace anything. I just install what I need from the beginning.

And yes, I run Arch btw. :D

• Firefox -> Edge
• Libreoffice -> Gsuite PWAs
• kernel -> Azure Linux kernel (added trust of Microsoft)
• nano -> vim
• vi -> Emacs
• GNOME -> Deepin
• Bash -> Powershell >=7.0

Fish for shell everywhere

I replace ARCH with Windows 11 bloat edition. I use windows 11 BTW

As a former Windows SUPERUSER, I always change the desktop wallpaper, just to show off. 😋

But jokes aside and apart from things already mentioned, I always install the Speedcrunch calculator, and xbindkeys so I can copy all my keyboard shortcuts.

Arch, so pretty much nothing.

Except maybe ZSH (but it's 'added', I guess; not 'replaced').

Apps I replace with newer versions (on Mint too):

1. LibreOffice, with the latest .deb from their website
2. Celluloid, with mpv. I cannot tell how much I appreciate mpv even though it sucks with DVD, for which I use VLC ;)
3. yt-dlp, with the latest version available from git
4. Screenshot, with Ksnip.
5. Whatever the default image viewer is, with Pix.

bash -> fish

• Clementine - music player
• yakuake - terminal
• fish - command line
• Geany - text editor
• eza - replacement for ls
• zoxide - replacement for cd
• bat - replacement for cat
• Librewolf - replacement for Firefox
• Brave - replacement for Chromium

Arch master race: you don't have to replace defaults if nom defaults are isntalled in the first place and you choose everything our own anyways.

cat > bat

ls > exa

(h)top > btop

whatever terminal > alacritty

whatever browser > librewolf + brave

cli editor > micro

app launcher > albert

vlc > mpv

I choose what I want when I install. I use Arch btw

Celluloid is honestly better than VLC. Native Wayland, Pipewire, no filesystem permissions (Flatpak)

I am on Fedora Kinoite, I replaced Kwrite with Kate, all the other default KDE apps are great. Okular, Gwenview as Flatpak, and apart from that a mix of different KDE, GNOME or 3rd party apps as Flatpaks.

I made a list here, but it is a bit outdated

https://github.com/boredsquirrel/recommended-flatpak-apps

I usually replace these:

1. Bash with Fish
2. Neofetch (if there is) with Fastfetch+Hyfetch
3. Firefox with Floorp
4. Mkinitcpio with Dracut
5. GRUB with systemd-boot

Defaults hehe

I use arch btw

There are a handful on non-default apps I've used across my last 3-4 distros at least:

• mpv - the best video player, period. Minimalist UI, maximalist configuration options. I've been using it for many years across many OSes and at this point everything else feels wrong.

• Geany - My favorite GUI text editor on Linux.

• Foliate - the simplest eBook reader I've found.

• Strawberry - It's "fine". Honestly, I've never found a music player on Linux that I really liked. I keep falling back to Strawberry because it's familiar and generally works as expected.

I install the minimal version and go from there.

I still haven't found a web service that really needs a chrome browser or that you cant' just trick with changing the user agent

I replace the <default, slow, annoying to use> image viewer with qimgv, which is ergonomic and very fast.

• bash -> fish
• default text editor (like Kate) -> geany
• firefox -> firefox-esr
• chromium -> ungoogled-chromium
• nano -> micro
• top -> htop, btop
• default PDF reader -> Okular

VLC player with mpv

Default terminal -> Kitty

pdf reader with okular

Gnome Files with Thunar.

It’s the perfect file manager for a user like me.

Firefox with (used to) Vivaldi, but now Zen Oh. That's it. Everything else for me is default

Rustdesk, so I can remote into my main computer and the others I manage.

PWAs For Firefox.

And that's about it.

I use Debian BTW. (Was on Fedora but killed it when there were sound issues, turned out to Rustdesk at fault. Can't do Mint as it boots to black screen.)

Terminal -> foot Text editor -> neovim, or more recently I've been trying Helix.

Those are the biggest two. I also recommend mpv over VLC.