When I manually install a Linux desktop, I basically miss the microcode packages and a firewall gui compared to managed desktop distributions.
What you want is to know about exotic packages that you are not aware of. Seems like a good point to ask a better question if that's the case. I wouldn't make a problem of this.
I see quite a few people are fond of sysutils/tmux, something I hadn't used until recently, but am not really sure what is so good about it. From my limited point of view emacs provides similar features but includes a helluva lot more...
About 10 years ago I tried sysutils/tmux: My setup is one session on a server running 24/7. From my desktop I ssh(1) to the server and attach to the session. In my tmux trial I noticed:
All attached screens must look at the same virtual terminal. If I have multiple computers in front of me, I can’t use them to my advantage (e. g. one computer for monitoring some process while continue working on the other).
The screen size of the smallest attached screen determines the size of all virtual terminals. This is really annoying, because I do have various screen sizes. If I don’t detach my laptop (small screen), I must work with its size?
These were deal breakers for me, so I quickly reverted to sysutils/screen (with sysutils/byobu). Maybe in the meantime those “problems” got fixed (are configurable now?), but why should I opt for tmux(1) then if screen(1) does it natively (without jumping hoops)?
Well, sysutils/puppet7 – that’s the agent (client in server/client terminology) of Puppet, a configuration management tool. Other administrators use e. g. sysutils/ansible or sysutils/py-salt.
PS: My byobu(1) configuration uses two status lines (top: window titles and clock; bottom: various stats). I think tmux(1) is or at least was not capable of multiple status lines. Another reason why I stayed with screen(1).
What I must have? Depends of course on the use case.
For a regular use workstation/vm, I usually do: pkg install xorg xfce firefox fusefs-exfat fusefs-ntfs leafpad textadept pinta flameshot apache-openoffice smartmontools
More recently, I've been taking a shining to using twm, so leaving off xfce but adding bgs so I can have a background image.
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