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That’s not a flex, it requires no skill to install software, they’re just some of the better tools you can install to boost productivity in Linux terminals. I doubt they’re obscure to any Linux CLI user who spent time on improving the default OOB UX of bash terminals.

And you just alias them, so you can keep using the core utility names to use them.




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