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What are your must-have packages?
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Stuff that I insist on regardless of platform (that is, I install these even onto Windows systems if I'm forced to use them):
Stuff that I require only on Linux systems for desktop use:
Is there a reason you use mercurial (like work) or are you using it, because you like it better than git or fossil?
Fossil I've never tried, but I utterly hate git. Nothing about how it works makes sense to me. Mercurial is, in my opinion, better-designed and easier to understand for my rather simple use cases. (I should note that I graduated from university around the time svn was replacing csv, so I was coding before there was such a thing as distributed version control.)