Linux

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.

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

i keep rhythmbox honestly because it helps me in organizing all my audio and music files and plus i don't have to keep opening the file manager to change the music, i can just press the forward button and it changes track!!

Defaults hehe

I use arch btw

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

And yes, I run Arch btw. :D

• 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

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

Default terminal -> Kitty

On Ubuntu, replacing Firefox/Thunderbird snap version with actual deb version.

Fish for shell everywhere

Kinda in the Pop!_OS - NixOS club but Zen Browser here.

cat > bat

ls > exa

(h)top > btop

whatever terminal > alacritty

whatever browser > librewolf + brave

cli editor > micro

app launcher > albert

vlc > mpv

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

I don’t. I install a distro with sane defaults and get to work.

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

Firefox -> Zen Browser

Arch, so pretty much nothing.

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

bash -> fish

I also replace Firefox with LibreWolf and Brave! I don't do much more than that though; I used to replace GNOME Software with Warehouse, but I eventually found it easier to just remove PackageKit and use Software to install my flatpaks (I still use Warehouse for changing flatpak settings).

Bash with fish and GCC with Clang.

Replaced alacritty with ghostty
Fish With Zsh (Fish not being posix got annoying)
The distro am using comes with not too much apps so yeah thats it

Nothing. I picked a distro that works for me out of the box. On top of that I only installed stuff, instead of replacing stuff.

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

VLC player with mpv

I think one of the few default things I've technically replaced on my laptop right now is Libreoffice's powerpoint software with the OpenOffice one because I am too dumb to figure out how to make it so Libreoffice's powerpoint software doesn't immediately default to every character having basically 0 spacing between each other every time I either make a new document or slide. That, and I can almost never find the right number of points to make the text look good no matter the font.

Also, I do have the Librewolf appimage, but I use it a little less than my slightly tweaked default Firefox install.

Otherwise I'm normally fine with defaults, besides installing gridplayer to watch things off my external HD so I can watch and resize my shows in a way I can't with other video players.

• sysvinit with openrc-init
• elogind with seatd

Yes. I run Gentoo.

First thing I install is git, followed by emacs.

Then I download my init.el and my PC setup is complete.

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

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.

Bahah as other dude said I don't replace anything cus I'm on arch btw, but I often tend to remove the default web browser whenever i run a vm or somethinf cus base Firefox isn't my thing, its far too dull for me. I rock ff forks like zen browser, librewolf, icecat, and mullvad. Currently on zen.

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.