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.

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

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

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

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

• sysvinit with openrc-init
• elogind with seatd

Yes. I run Gentoo.

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.

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).

KDE Neon - I replace the Firefox deb with the snap.

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

And yes, I run Arch btw. :D

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.

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.

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.

Arch, so pretty much nothing.

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

bash -> fish

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

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

• 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

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.

Defaults hehe

I use arch btw

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

pdf reader with okular

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

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

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