What do you install after a Windows re-format?

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I have become a minimalist in many ways, so this was a good chance to do some housekeeping and only install the minimums (which ended up being pretty significant). I detailed this process and I am sharing it with you here. It would be interesting to find out what applications you consider essential when doing a complete re-format.

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There is a lot of tools to apt-get after deploying a new Debian machine, but you'll mostly add them while you go. For a laptop, you'll want to install some networking tools before you need them: resolvconf, dnsmasq, wpasupplicant, bluez-utils, irda-utils, mtr, iptraf, tcpdump

Also some offline tools unless you keep a package archive with you on the go: dict, what have you

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