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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions? (lemdro.id)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

tmux, htop, vim

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What distros don't include tmux and vim? Ubuntu has had them for at least a decade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

by default?

My work laptop came with Ubuntu preinstaled and didn't have tmux nor htop.

Vim is not present by default in at least debian and arch. Although vi is present in every distribution I believe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I can see that being the case for the Desktop variant. For the Server variant you get vim and tmux out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I was surprised that gnome ships with comes with it in default.