From: Evan Leibovitch via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org>
Thanks again for this list. Here are my initial reactions. These are matters of taste and experience, so don't treat my opinions as correct for you.
- *yazi*, a text-based file manager that will display graphic thumbnails under ghostty and kitty;
I don't see why I need this. I use GNOME's "files" command and it is OK. If it were optimized to perform well over a slow connection, it might be useful, but this isn't mentioned.
- *neovim*, a modern update of the traditional Unix text edito*r*
I don't use or like vi so this doesn't matter to me. I seem to remember neovim was ahead of vim (that was the point) but I don't know about the current status.
- *fd* which does what find does but faster and easier;
I've leaned "find", painfully, a long time ago. A more humane interface is a Good Thing but it is too late for me. I don't like its helpful defaults. Others might. Performance? The single feature that might matter is multi-threading.
- *fastfetch* for a quick and useful system snapshot; "system snapshot" => "snapshot of information about your system" fastfetch replaces the no-longer maintained neofetch.
Some people have this automatically run when they log in through a console. I don't have a feeling for what fastfetch displays and what it doesn't. Most of the output looks like clutter to me but some might be useful to keep track of (eg. disk capacity utilization). For keeping track of hardware configurations, I tend to use lshw.
- you'd never think that someone could improve on `cd` but *zoxide* is exactly that
Seems scary. Might well be a time / keystroke saver. I haven't even adopted pushd and popd, which have been around for decades and might be useful. That shows how slow I am at adopting innovation.
- and finally *fzf*, a "fuzzy" file finder
Sounds useful.