My Must-Have Apps Since Switching to Linux
Posted by Overflow_Nuts@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 217 comments
OnlyOffice → If you’re used to MS Office, the interface feels almost identical — super easy to adapt.
Brave / Zen → When I need a Chromium-based browser, I use Brave; when I need a Firefox-based one, Zen. Both are top-tier.
Okular → Opens everything from PDFs to EPUBs.
yt-dlp → Downloads videos and audio straight from the terminal — and not just from YouTube, it supports tons of platforms.
Qbittorrent → Clean, simple, and easily the best torrent client out there.
Stremio + Add-ons → The best torrent-based media player, hands down.
KeepassXC → A simple yet powerful password manager with browser integration.
LocalSend → Transfers files across all your devices locally, no internet needed.
KDE Connect → Perfect bridge between your phone and computer.
Timeshift → BTRFS ♥️
Bottles → Makes using Wine more stable and user-friendly.
Espanso → Expands text shortcuts automatically — a real time-saver.
Tmux → Lets you split your terminal and run multiple sessions at once.
Btop / ytop / glances → Displays system resource usage right from the terminal.
Fastfetch → A faster Neofetch alternative for system info.
Syncthing → Syncs your files seamlessly between devices.
Czkawka → Finds duplicate or junk files on your disk.
Mpv + Plugins → Lightweight, scriptable video player.
Input Leap → Control multiple computers with one keyboard and mouse.
Zapret → Bypasses DPI-based network restrictions.
Moonlight / Sunshine → Stream your games locally across your network.
Heroic Games Launcher → Great alternative for Epic Games.
Lutris → Customizable launcher supporting multiple game libraries.
Prism Launcher → Clean, mod- and shader-friendly Minecraft launcher.
Ente Auth → The best 2FA app I’ve tried — encrypted sync between devices.
GDU → Visual disk usage analyzer.
Newsboat → Read RSS feeds directly in the terminal.
Neovim → Fast, lightweight text editor.
Waypaper / Swaybg / Hyprpaper → Manage your wallpapers easily.
Easy Effects → Lets you tweak and filter your system’s audio.
Waybar (+ eww + rofi) → Build a fully customizable system bar.
scrcpy → The simplest way to mirror your Android screen on your PC.
Podman / Distrobox → Run another Linux environment inside a container.
Wireshark / mitmproxy → Monitor and analyze your network traffic.
Opensnitch → See which apps are making network connections.
qutebrowser → A minimalist, keyboard-driven browser.
fail2ban → The most satisfying way to troll persistent brute-forcers.
qemu + Virt-Manager → Create and manage virtual machines easily.
Waydroid → Run Android apps directly on Linux.
Lf → Terminal-based file manager.
These are the tools I’ve discovered and personally enjoy using on Linux. What about yours what are your must-have apps?
1krzysiek01@reddit
Mpv is really great. It has a lot of customiztion options and can always be improved if needed. I wanted to try out color LUTs with videos, so I wrote a script for that. If anyone is interested in automatically loading .cube LUTs in MPV, the script is available here: https://gist.github.com/Krzysztof-Bogunia/741a337f8e2d421458b2eedde826f275
Tip: Use Ctrl+L to toggle the LUT on/off for comparison.
GrowlingOcelot_4516@reddit
I made the switch a few days ago. Wanted to say I freaking love Espanso! I've used it on every OS possible!
neckyo@reddit
great list. I prefer some little variations.
zsh + and zinit for my shell
Emacs instead of vim I have all my life organized and documented in org
zellij instead of tmux
Ranger file manager in kitty terminal. your tabbed file manager in the console with native image viewing support
aria2c for downloading everyth8bg: torrents, web links. etc
again. Great list of tools
thephotoman@reddit
I wish more distros defaulted to zsh. I work on Macs, so I usually use it there, and I've just become used to its quirks as opposed to bash's. Yes, I can translate between them, but it's cognitive load I don't want at home.
So the things I tend to do during a VM spin up or Raspberry Pi card flashing are set up Neovim with Lazyvim to symlink as vim (muscle memory dies hard, and I usually let vim be vi in compatibility mode), set up zsh as my default shell and add Oh My ZSH, install Ghostty and make that the default terminal emulator (if I'm using a GUI and not sshing in from my Macbook Air).
tuxbass@reddit
Only ever really used bash. What are the most useful quirks that always make you miss zsh?
thephotoman@reddit
It’s less about the quirks being useful or that I miss them and more about muscle memory. The issue is consistency across devices more than it is an inherent superiority of zsh.
tuxbass@reddit
Devices using bash are as consistent as devices using zsh. I still fail to understand your reasoning. If anything, default devices should feel more "consistent" due to bash being more common option for a default.
thephotoman@reddit
You have deliberately misunderstood me.
“Consistency across devices” means “I am using the same thing on all my devices”. I have a Mac for work that I am explicitly forbidden from installing a newer version of bash on (it belongs to my employer, they make the rules). The version that ships with macOS is from 2007 due to Apple’s objection to the patent indemnification terms in the GPL3.
Delete your account.
ArjixGamer@reddit
zsh + antigen
Generic_User48579@reddit
Whats better about zellij?
sepiropht@reddit
You can copy paste on a pane even if panes are side by side. Impossible in tmux. Zellij saves the session automatically with no plugin needed.
I use zellij with alacritty terminal, copy paste doesn't work with all terminal app
deviled-tux@reddit
tmux can do that but one needs to enable mouse support and synchronize the copy buffer with the system clipboard (though I prefer them separate)
human_with_humanity@reddit
Can u share ur zsh dotfiles please?
toughsoftguy@reddit
Cool list.
But yazi >>> lf
Helmic@reddit
Had to say it. Unless you really need a barebones filemaneger with poor performance, Yazi's just better. Built-in image previews, dramatically superior performance, plugin ecosystem is in great shape and it doesn't need plugins for a lot of core functions. You can sort of approximate Yazi's features in lf if you're willing to maintain your own set of scripts gluing shit together, but I'd rather just have shit work out of hte box and be confident those featuers will continue working years from now.
Helix is a more conditional endorsement over neovim, because it does stuff backwards - instead of
dwto delete a word, it'swdso you can see what's highlighted before you act on it. Like Yazi, a lot more features baked into it (it's not a plugin list or neovim at all, it's its own separate text editor) so you don't need to do anything special to get it playing nice with themes and language servers or spellcheck or whatever, it can access the system clipboard easily out of the box (still uses registers by default), it has a hint system so you can see what your options are when you start typing out a command, multicursor and hte like out of the box, it's just good stuff.Puchann@reddit
how do you move cursor with
wthen?Helmic@reddit
As in hit
wto move? It does move - it simultaneously highlights what it just moved over. So if I hitwfive tiems, it'll highlight one word after another. Or I can hitvand thenwfive tiems to highlight all five words, and then hitdto delete. Or I can usehjklafter hittingwfive times to move my cursor around manually a little. Or I can hitCCCto have four cursors and then hitwfive times to highlight only the fifth word of every line, and I can see what is highlighted to again verify I'm acting on the exact selection I intend change before I hitcto change them all at once.https://docs.helix-editor.com/usage.html
tuxbass@reddit
That sounds like a much intuitive way than what vi(m) came up with. Are there any downsides to this semantic change, as far as you're aware?
Helmic@reddit
The main downside is muscle memory - it took me a little bit to get used to it, and vi is preinstalled on most distros while helix is not. So it can get annoying when I have to use vi on a VPS or something. Aside from that, though, it's just better, neovim and the like can never change this because people have spent their whole lives doing it the one way.
The other downside has nothing to do with the syntax - Helix does not (yet) have much in terms of plugin support. I don't really need plugins because Helix includes everything I used to use plugins for in neovim, it natively handles multicursor and integrates with langauge servers, it'll show autocomplete suggestions for commands, and so on, and by combining it with Yazi it's able to very easily do things like bulk rename a bunch of files, but if you need something more exotic it probably doesn't yet exist as a plugin.
Puchann@reddit
That's cool, i'll try it.
DescendingNode@reddit
Yazi works well with Foot too.
tyrannus00@reddit
Foot is amazing. Server mode with a tiling WM feels so smooth
DescendingNode@reddit
Ya I've been using it with Niri, it's great.
Helmic@reddit
I think foot only has sixels support so the image support is really bad.
DescendingNode@reddit
Ah, you're right. I hadn't used it to preview at any large/detailed images, but I see what you're saying after looking at a few. I've mostly relied on it for previewing PDFs and small photos.
tuxbass@reddit
Agreed. But vifm > *
anthony_doan@reddit
I don't get the Brave browser popularity.
The CEO and the company did some sketchy things. The crypto thing was eregious.
TONKAHANAH@reddit
I also dont understand it. so many people are onboard with brave and opera despite them both just being chromium based distros with weird crypto shit going on.
hell im even starting to feel weird about firefox with all their chatgpt integration lately. firefox just sponsored a streamer I watch frequently which seems very weird to me cuz those sponsor spots aint cheap and I've never seen or heard of them doing sponsor ads before.. why they doing that now?
been contemplating switching to librefox
tuxbass@reddit
Opera as well? While it's Chromium-based, I was under impression Opera was otherwise on the up and up.
TONKAHANAH@reddit
They've taken the open source chromium base and closed sourced it. Opera was bought out by some Chinese company years ago, I don't trust it, it's not the dame opera it used to be years ago.
The original Opera team left that project and is making Vivaldi which is pretty good but is also unfortunately chromium based so it'll be subject to a lot of if not all the issues Google push into the chromium base.
tuxbass@reddit
Dang, yet another thing I wasn't aware of. Cheers.
AsoarDragonfly@reddit
Try out Librewolf instead.
Zen & Librewolf
Ungoogled Chromium
Those are best ones in my eyes
TONKAHANAH@reddit
librewolf is probably what I meant. I havent looked at it in a few months. the non-mozilla open firefox fork.
TheFr0sk@reddit
What do you use then?
anthony_doan@reddit
Firefox and Chrome.
It covers the majority the website compatibility.
tridavadu@reddit
Agree chrome is must have for devs. 👍
No-Layer1218@reddit
You don’t use Brave for privacy reasons, but you use Chrome?
anthony_doan@reddit
Because I do web development and I need to make sure that web applications are rendered correctly and functional on the most used browser on the internet.
TheFr0sk@reddit
And on mobile? Firefox is really slow, and chrome does not have AdBlock...
anthony_doan@reddit
I don't really use mobile
TheFr0sk@reddit
I see, so it's a good fit for your use case then.
Mangoloton@reddit
If you find me a browser; just as private, just as optimized and the day after a YouTube or Twitch changes something it continues to work and blocking I think about the change
Overflow_Nuts@reddit (OP)
I kinda feel the same, tbh. I use Brave occasionally but I stay far away from all the crypto, rewards, and VPN nonsense. I mainly stick to Zen. I’ve tested a bunch of others, but there’s really no perfect option. Vivaldi looks fancy but it literally phones home once every 24 hours to report usage stats (source) and that’s just the part they admit to. They also collect crash reports, device IDs, and “feature usage” metrics unless you dig through settings to disable them. Privacy theater at its finest.
Chrome, Edge, Opera — all bloated spyware at this point.
Maybe I’ll give Helium or Ungoogled Chromium another try later, but for now Zen’s my main browser and Brave’s just a backup when I need Chromium.
Brave isn’t perfect, but the sad reality is everything else somehow manages to be worse.
anthony_doan@reddit
I do web dev so I have to use Chrome T___T.
Zaev@reddit
I only use it because I needed another browser that syncs between my PC and Android phone, that doesn't break adblockers, and isn't Firefox. Know of any better options?
Nascentes87@reddit
Vivaldi
Zaev@reddit
Hm, I'm trying to give it a shot, but it's refusing to allow me to import my passwords. Also I'm not sure if this is normal but the menus are obnoxiously transparent; dunno if that's intended by the browser itself, or if it's not playing well with Plasma or something
einval22@reddit
Brave Browser is a NO to me.
ptoki@reddit
Have an upvote. Im with you.
I will never use that browser. To me its more dead than IE.
whosdr@reddit
That's a really good list. Definitely a bunch here I use a lot.
Timeshift & Btrfs combo is just...all of my yes. With custom scripts this one carries me so hard.
It's nice having a system with near 100% uptime regardless of bad updates or experimentation.
Indolent_Bard@reddit
What custom scripts?
whosdr@reddit
I use rEFInd bootloader, so I have a script that creates boot entry configuration per-kernel, per-snapshot. And then multiple sets of parameters per entry.
Just so I can boot into snapshots quickly and easily.
tuxbass@reddit
Any idea if something similar can be done with systemd-boot?
whosdr@reddit
I have not looked into systemd-boot at all, I'm afraid.
RaptorJaya@reddit
Keepass alternative bitwarden
tuxbass@reddit
bitwarden not on the list, but xc is. what's your point?
dorfsmay@reddit
tmux is a lot more than a way to split terminals! Check how you can disconnect from it and let your task run when using a remote machine, and reconnect to it later.
tyrannus00@reddit
you dont need tmux for that, you can do it with screen really conveniently too
tuxbass@reddit
"you don't need firefox for browsing the web, you can use chromium really conveniently too"
le_flibustier8402@reddit
Freetube = youtube desktop client (no ads no sponsor no bs)
Ludo = like retroarch, but lighter
Quod Libet = local music player
rofi = app launcher
genmon-plugin = must have xfce plugin
Riffraff50@reddit
Uh… watching YouTube on brave is watching YouTube with no ads… it’s like their whole deal. I use brave for all my social media apps and have no ads on any of them
Lawnmover_Man@reddit
True, but Freetube has loads of other benefits. You don't need an account on Youtube, but you can still subscribe and create playlists. Freetube handles that locally. It's also lighter than the original Youtube website, and offers quite a lot of settings to configure your experience.
Indolent_Bard@reddit
So you can follow channels without supporting them, yay. Sounds good though, gonna have to check it out.
Lawnmover_Man@reddit
Subscribing is not supporting. That's just socially accepted "corporate speak" that Influencers invented, and everyone else blindly copied. If you want to give your support to a channel, you can do it various other ways - other than watching advertisements.
Indolent_Bard@reddit
Do you have a source for that? Or at least a reason why what you just said is logical and not nonsensical? Like, do you have a source that it's objectively true that subscribing does not, in fact, help channels grow?
Lawnmover_Man@reddit
Could you troll any more obvious?
Indolent_Bard@reddit
I don't troll, just ask questions some find stupid.
Cermmi@reddit
Subscribe counter does nothing for creators on YT these days. In past there advertisers used subscriber count a measuring tool how big reach ad will have to creator audience. These days 1) algorithm controls most of views 2) you can purchase bot to subscribe to you 3) older channels have inactive subscribers. So with this combined, subscriber count doesn't matter that much for advertisers, they mostly just views for last x amount of videos.
If you want to support creator, most of them will let you know how to give them money.
Indolent_Bard@reddit
And the algorithm doesn't care about subscriber counts? Because I always assumed that's what people were talking about.
Cermmi@reddit
Noone knows exactly how it works, I would say it probably does play role, but very small. It should take pattern of viewing habits of users with similar interests and recommend you videos that people from same interest group watched. For that you dont need subscription to take in consideration since they have all your view history.
Indolent_Bard@reddit
That makes sense.
le_flibustier8402@reddit
If you value your privacy, then it's a advantage IMO.
I listed others here : https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ol5a1k/comment/nmh94bw/
Indolent_Bard@reddit
Hey, that thing about grouping multiple channels into a single feed actually sounds kind of brilliant. But I'll gladly give up a little privacy to support my favorite content creators. It's not like it would do me much good considering that I've already got a Gmail account anyway.
Actually, this has been a thing on the desktop website for, I don't know how long, you just right-click twice and you'll get a menu with a bunch of options, including taking a screenshot.
le_flibustier8402@reddit
Just tried and it works indeed. I did not know about it, thx.
Indolent_Bard@reddit
I only found out recently by Google searching.
CaptainObvious110@reddit
yes it's pretty cool to use
burning_iceman@reddit
For me the main feature is subscribing to channels without having a youtube account. Ad-free I already had with Firefox.
Riffraff50@reddit
I have both Firefox and brave, brave is the only one that will block ads on iOS as a browser
burning_iceman@reddit
One of the many reasons I don't use iOS.
Existing-Tough-6517@reddit
Same browser across mobile and desktop is a feature
ukezi@reddit
But it's not the same. Apple Forbes everyone to use WebKit as the engine while desktop brave uses Chromium.
Indolent_Bard@reddit
So the main feature is subscribing without supporting the them? Nice.
Chance_of_Rain_@reddit
I'm never installing Brave
Careful-Major3059@reddit
you know an adblocker does that too
le_flibustier8402@reddit
I did not list all Freetube features. There is an Appimage version of it, give it a try.
theheliumkid@reddit
O.M.G.! You have transformed my life with introducing me to Freetube!! This is sooooo much better than what YouTube actually offers! Thank you so very much!!
le_flibustier8402@reddit
You're welcome, glad you like it. Yes, it's worth to be known.
justokre@reddit
Regarding freetube: I use Firefox with extensions to block all ads, including sponsors inside the videos. Is FreeTube superior in some way?
le_flibustier8402@reddit
If you value your privacy (ie that google doesn't collect your data), then yes.
- you can use it without a google account and subscribe to channels without it
- you are not being tracked
- your subscriptions / playlists / history watch are stored locally
- you can import your current yt subscriptions
- you can export your subscriptions to NewPipe format
- you can make "profiles" to group some youtube channels in a single feed
About the video player :
- you can make screenshots of the videos
- video setting speed up to x3
- you can download videos
Give it a try, you might like it (or not). Personally, I totally switch from youtube to freetube, because I'm a "degoogler". r/degoogle
ElSasori69@reddit
But it constantly crashes. I always update the app as soon as possible but for some reason I have to use the option of play on external player because otherwise it just won’t play the video
le_flibustier8402@reddit
You should blame Google for that. Because they don't like people using yt clients.
archontwo@reddit
Grayjay has a Linux desktop app now as well as an android one.
Existing_Conclusion2@reddit
Dope. Will definitely give it a try later. Thanks!
justokre@reddit
Awesome reply, thank you.
le_flibustier8402@reddit
You're welcome.
burning_iceman@reddit
Freetube also has built-in sponsor-block. You just need to activate it.
jrcomputing@reddit
Quod Libet has been the best local player for ages now. I love that program.
oderi@reddit
Tried it briefly but ended up on fooyin. Admittedly did use foobar2000 back on Windows so having the exact same thing is just convenient.
jrcomputing@reddit
Haven't tried fooyin, I'll have to check it out.
le_flibustier8402@reddit
Yeah I tried fooyin and it's very nice. But it did not exist yet when i needed a foorbar2000 replacement. And now, I have my habits with Quod Libet.
le_flibustier8402@reddit
Quod Libet made me forget Foobar200, which I loved in my windows days. Too bad it's not more known.
jrcomputing@reddit
Are you me? 🤣 Foobar2000 is a throwback. That came after WinAmp got bloated.
Overflow_Nuts@reddit (OP)
Thx
Expensive-Vanilla-16@reddit
Handbrake for ripping dvds, Asunder cd ripper.
K3b for burning discs.
gosand@reddit
I don't have any DVDs left to rip. lol. But I use K3b for ripping and burning discs. I use ffmpeg for fixing videos (e.g. changing 5.1 audio to stereo) so they play on my Roku. You can also save configs from Handbrake to json and use it with HandBrakeCLI.
sublime_369@reddit
The only annoyance with Asunder is that error checking option is disabled by default - at least in the distros I've used it in. Ripped a bunch before I noticed that option.
timmy_o_tool@reddit
"Alien" is one of the first things I make sure to get up and running when I get a Linux box setup. Bring able to convert packages from each if the major distros to to rpm or deb or... Is very useful to me.
FinancialPause@reddit
Have you encountered any incompatibilities with LibreOffice that made you consider OnlyOffice?
Was OnlyOffice able to meet your needs with these incompatibiltiies?
Witty-Culture-5978@reddit
Great list, thank you
Red_natsu19@reddit
Thanks for the recommendations, also what could be an equally functional alternative to Paint to edit images quickly, and that is not GIMP.
Quartrez@reddit
For torrents I'd recommend using Transmission. The interface is super clean, minimalist, and it's fast.
mizzrym86@reddit
> yt-dlp → Downloads videos and audio straight from the terminal — and not just from YouTube, it supports tons of platforms.
When you desperately need to convert a video to mp3 from pornhub xD
Overflow_Nuts@reddit (OP)
Shhh :D
thestoiccoder@reddit
This is a great list but, I'd sure love to know how to get Okular to support epub files? For now I've had to fall back on Calibre.
stone_cold_kerbal@reddit
For epub, I recommend Foliate.
thestoiccoder@reddit
I've tried Foliate. It's a great option, but it didn't have any settings and I couldn't get dark mode to work.
ManDan_666@reddit
Will come back to look at this after work. Bookmarking this.
Middle_Bike_5424@reddit
Clipboard manager for Linux? I have tried a few never settled on.
Rust desk for Remote Desktop between any OS
cRz1337@reddit
Ngl
I prefer my 2FA be handled by Bitwarden. (No idea if it's free, i pay for it)
ArjixGamer@reddit
You can self host it, but for self hosting it's recommended you use vaultwarden
TraceyRobn@reddit
A great list.
I like double commander or midnight commander as a file manager.
Netwatch_APT@reddit
Nice list! Thanks for sharing!
_Aviators@reddit
Proton vpn and proton pass ;)
jbstans@reddit
Ooh is input leap working now? I loved barrier but it was completely fucked with Wayland
jcamina@reddit
I keep it to myself. One question: do you install this with apt or dnf? And while I'm at it... what distribution do you use? Greetings from Spain.
Beinghariii@reddit
If debain based then apt and for fedora dnf
jcamina@reddit
Thanks for responding
Careless_Raise_2671@reddit
From ArchWiki
Humble_Connection934@reddit
Here what i use
File Viewing and Navigation
cdreplacement)catalternative with syntax highlightinglsls,tree,fd,bfs,dustand etcSearch and Filtering
findgrepalternative)Development and System Tools
inotifywaitandinotifywatchAPI Testing Tools
jqfor HTML)Postmanalternative)ngrokalternativeDownload Utilities
rsyncfor clouldManipulation Tools
Media Tools
userhash@reddit
another AI reply I guess..
AcipenserSturio@reddit
The Download Utilities table layout is partly broken, consider editing the message
Maerskian@reddit
/u/Overflow_Nuts Just one question:
Why using Bottles & Heroic Games Launcher?, maybe i'm missing something but seems to be redundant as you can install apps & games (including windows .exe ones) through Heroic anyways.
Also: Bottles is on its way to oblivion, Bottles Next (its supposed replacement) still looking for people to take care of it AFAIR & former Bottles most visible face is essentially focused on his/their new venture: Bazzite. All the more reason to get used to something else.
Just to make things clear: not complaining about Bottles itself or anything.
einval22@reddit
What I always first install on all my Linux are (the command-line tools):
- bind-utils
- git
- wget
- vim
returnstack@reddit
Jupyter, iPython, vim/neovim, Okular, VLC.
AsoarDragonfly@reddit
If I may add on:
Librewolf too for Firefox alternative
Handy for Speech To Text
FrozenLogger@reddit
Brave? Yuck. If you have to chromium, try Vivaldi.
Indolent_Bard@reddit
Does Vivaldi support ublock origin?
FrozenLogger@reddit
I would recommend Chromium over Brave, I mean if you want Ublock Origin, you should be using firefox anyways.
But yes, Vivaldi does adblocking.
Indolent_Bard@reddit
Chromium doesn't support ublock origin.
FrozenLogger@reddit
No, but who cares. If you are want ublock origin you would be on Firefox anyways.
Or use degoogled chromium I suppose, but either way, it would never be primary. And brave is a worse choice either way.
S1rTerra@reddit
Yeah
Indolent_Bard@reddit
Sweet.
Nelo999@reddit
Funny that you say that, yet Vivaldi is literally closed source lol.
Mozai@reddit
I wish I could recommend fail2ban, but when it grew past 1GB of resident memory, I had to drop it from my servers.
robozee@reddit
Apotessar@reddit
kdelive = easy to use video editor, pairs nice with obs
rei3 = low code platform (server and local mode) as access replacement
Obsidian = OneNote with Markdown
ProtonUp-Qt = Wine/Proton download tool
CoreCtrl = For Undervolting
kdrive/ksuite = similar to dropbox, good linux client, 15 GB free account, swiss provider
fre:ac = very capable audio converter
Bartifle@reddit
Are you on a wayland WM ? Or can someone that has a wayland WM (for example Hyprland) if KDE Connect works ? I want to switch or arch + hyprland and i'm doing a list of things to install, and as i'm new to wayland WM etc... I saw that KDE Connect has problems with hyprland but many subs or issues are from 2023 or 2024, is it still the case or KDE Connect works just fine now ?
mrandr01d@reddit
What's a good PDF app that can compete with mac's preview app? Preview can literally do anything to a PDF and it's amazing. I haven't found anything on Linux that can do all of: 1. Deleting pages 2. Exporting as a different format 3. Annotating/adding notes/sticky notes 4. Signing a PDF
nevermind__________@reddit
A lot of em dashes in the original text. Interesting.
SRART25@reddit
Change to vivaldi for your chrome browser. Brave is a zionist company and should not be trusted.
Nelo999@reddit
Are you literally going to use a closed source browser just to make a point?
SRART25@reddit
Yes. https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/
only the UI layer is closed-source. Roughly 92% of the browser’s code is open source coming from Chromium, 3% is open source coming from us, which leaves only 5% for our UI closed-source code.
https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/
Brave isn't any more open source than vivaldi, and probably less so.
Brave’s core browser engine is based on Chromium, which is open source. However, some of the additional features and components, such as the ad-blocking technology and Brave Rewards, are proprietary. This means that while the core browser engine is open source, some of the additional features and components are not.
SunnyStar4@reddit
Please stop spreading hate. Religious discrimination is soo last century.
SRART25@reddit
Zionism isn't a religious thing. Plenty of Christians and Jews are. It's an anti genocide and mossad stance.
SunnyStar4@reddit
Zionism has been a sect of Jew since I learned the word in the 1980's. You may have a different definition of the word. Yours still includes religious entities and qualifies as religious discrimination. It is also being used in a way to stereotype and dehumanize someone. Dehuminization is the first step towards genocide. You can't be anti genocide while practicing genocide. Jews are a very small minority (15 million worldwide). Muslems are estimated to have a 2 billion world wide population. Palestine is composed of Muslems from many different ethnic groups and countries. Isreael weighs in at 10 million people. Palestine weighs in at 6 million people. Iran who protects Palestine has 100 million people. So how are ten million people going to commit genocide against a group that massively outnumbers them????? Cause the math and logic and money don't really add up to Isreal being the big bad in this story. I don't know about you but I wouldn't start a war with a group that could potentially pull resources from 2 billion people.....
le_flibustier8402@reddit
“We are fighting against human animals” said Yoav Gallant.
Reported as hate speech.
Other_Refuse_952@reddit
Stop supporting genocide
RefuseAbject187@reddit
I would add: Zotero - excellent document organiser and note keeping tool Kodi - Organize and play movies for your home theatre
ElSasori69@reddit
I’m on of the few ones that have a laptop (mini laptop) on my classroom so I also have LibreWolf so my classmates can login on theeir google account, WhatsApp or Canva safely and just close the tab when they finish
DeDifferentOne@reddit
I'll add Haruna player which coming from potplayer in windows, satisfied me more than any other video player I've ever tried.
BeefWehelington@reddit
Is Libre not recommended anymore over OpenOffice?
Overflow_Nuts@reddit (OP)
Not OpenOffice. OnlyOffice
ptoki@reddit
Im a bit sad that mc and mcedit arent on such lists. They are great tools. Much more intuitive than vim clones and cd/ls/cp/mv approaches.
I love the ctrl-enter for calculating sizes of directories and few more.
Also: tmux is better for session persistence than terminal splitting. Any monkey can resize the terminal but to do the following trick you need the expert (tmux, screen or similar):
To get the remote session to a computer, ask the person in front of it to run terminal and type screen or tmux.
Thats it. If the machine has ssh and you can connect to it then you can take over that windowed session and run vino or other vnc server. And then connect to gui.
I call it grandma rdp.
rotorwing@reddit
Absolutely agree about mc.
The first app for installation on a new system.
And the only thought is always - why it doesn't included by default.
aka13@reddit
Anydesk
frylock364@reddit
Rustdesk
Just_litzy9715@reddit
Main tip: glue a few of these together with smart defaults and your CLI gets fast and low-friction.
fzf + fd + ripgrep: set FZFDEFAULTCOMMAND="fd --type f --hidden --follow --exclude .git" and use fzf --preview "bat --style=numbers --color=always {} | head -500" for instant file jumps.
bat + less: export BAT_PAGER="less -R" and MANPAGER="sh -c 'col -bx | bat -l man -p'" so man pages and logs are readable.
git flow: lazygit plus delta as pager (git config core.pager delta) makes diffs and staging way nicer.
tmux: add tmux-resurrect and continuum so sessions come back after a reboot; bind C-a as prefix if you hop between GNU screen and tmux.
downloads: aria2c -x16 -s16 for heavy files; rclone mount remote: \~/mnt/remote for quick browsing and rsync.
HTTP tooling: xh for quick requests and hurl for repeatable test files; Hasura for GraphQL over Postgres, PostgREST for thin REST, and DreamFactory when I need instant REST with keys, RBAC, and OAuth across mixed databases.
Main point: wire up fzf+fd+ripgrep, bat+less, and a few helpers like lazygit and tmux plugins, and your day-to-day speeds up.
josephny1@reddit
This looks super-cool, but is nearly gibbrish to this near-newbie.
Would you mind explaining what you mean by "glue a few of these together wiht smart defaults?"
tomtthrowaway23091@reddit
I thought snapper plus btrfs was the move for snapshots and backups? I've heard it's more complete than timeshift.
Would need others opinion on that one though.
BandwidthBoy@reddit
Screen = keep your terminal session going even if you disconnect ncdu = terminal based disk usage analyzer spotify-player = Rust-based spotify client, works on 32-bit systems
N5tp4nts@reddit
Do you guys do any computing, or just play with tools? :)
In other news, I just found out about btop a couple days ago. VERY nice but I like that htop has I/O. So I'm torn.
PE1NUT@reddit
It's pretty, but I can't get it to show the IO to my ZFS pools.
ntropia64@reddit
OnlyOffice is tempting, but it has Russian ties they try to hide:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j7zlf2/onlyoffice_is_obfuscating_its_russian_ownership/
Nelo999@reddit
There is absolutely zero evidence for those erroneous allegations as OnlyOffice is owned by a Latvian company.
Also, the subreddit you shared is a literal misinformation haven.
They have no problem with endorsing and promoting all shorts of of unethical companies and products, as long as they are produced in the EU of course.
Why are those troglodytes dead silent in regards to what the EU is trying to accomplish currently, by attempting to bake literal spyware on encrypted messaging applications to "protect the children"?
shishironline@reddit
Thanks for sharing
joonet@reddit
Hurl - automating api calls and testing
matthewdavis@reddit
Switch out input leap for deskflow. Development has switched to that project.
Overflow_Nuts@reddit (OP)
Thx
Arctic_Turtle@reddit
Wow that is a long list. I’ve been using Linux for many years now and my list of apps is rather short.
In order from most to least used by me and I really don’t use much else. Would love to spend more time with Darkroom and Gimp but it just doesn’t happen. You appear to have much more time on your hands than I do.
anthony_doan@reddit
Is it me or GIS job market is really bad.
I tried to get a cert in it to upskill and complement my DS skill and wow they pay pretty bad (compare to software engineer and/or data science).
QGIS is fun though but the majority of the job market wants ArcGIS.
Arctic_Turtle@reddit
Perhaps because it used to be extremely complicated to get maps right, but they simplified it so much that any bozo can draw a map now. Not a good map but a functional map and bosses might not know the difference.
Also a lot of GIS is centered on already made maps. You take something from Google and just add some data points.
Dependent_Draft6307@reddit
Wine to run windows apps Wine + pdfgear to run pdf editor on linux
mralanorth@reddit
OnlyOffice doesn't support Wayland unfortunately... :(
howtotailslide@reddit
Use winboat if you need office apps or any other specific windows programs
Overflow_Nuts@reddit (OP)
OnlyOffice is better at least from what I’ve tried. And nah, Winboat’s kinda useless without GPU passthrough tbh.
howtotailslide@reddit
Ah sorry I misread the initial post, I thought it said OpenOffice. Libre gives me a ton of problems when saving files back and forth with MSoffice
I haven’t tried onlyoffice cause I saw random comments about Russia or something although I don’t know how legit those complaints are.
There’s a group working on adding GPU pass through for winboat in their discord right now although I don’t see why it’s necessary unless you’re trying to run windows games or something.
S1rTerra@reddit
Windows just runs piss poorly without GPU acceleration.
Indolent_Bard@reddit
Video editors or adobe apps would need the GPU.
CaptainObvious110@reddit
thanks for the reminder, if it works as well as I'm hoping it does then I will skip putting windows on one of my SSD altogether
Vidanjor20@reddit
does it really work? I just tried it a week ago and trying to open any app would make me wait like a solid 5 mins.
howtotailslide@reddit
I tried winapps like 8 months ago and it was super buggy and I probably configured it wrong.
WinBoat was super easy and everything works great for me. It works basically the same way winapps does but it just automated all of the configuration.
If you’re using lower end hardware it might be a bit tough cause it basically just runs a windows docker container which can be a bit heavy on resources
TheWorldIsNotOkay@reddit
Ghostty + the fish shell and/or nushell for terminal work
Zed if you need a more powerful text editor
VS Codium if you need an IDE
Kiwix for keeping local copies of websites like Wikipedia or Project Gutenberg (great for if you're frequently offline)
Calibre for managing your ebook library
OpenShot for simple video editing
Audacity for audio editing
OBS Studio for streaming or advanced screen recording
2rad0@reddit
qucs: quite universal circuit simulator
IAmRootNotUser@reddit
imagemagick is so nice because I can convert/edit a lot of photos super quickly; for example, I convert a lot of photos/images to gifs for Discord, and it's just `magick input.png output.gif`
shroedingersdog@reddit
etherape
ptoki@reddit
I will never use Brave. They proved they are shady company once. I dont trust them at all. Zero.
https://stackdiary.com/brave-selling-copyrighted-data-for-ai-training/
https://aidigitalnews.com/ai/brave-browser-is-selling-the-internet/
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whlthingofcandybeans@reddit
Nice to see Opensnitch mentioned. It needs more love. It really is essential, especially if you run any proprietary software. You never know when it's randomly going to decide to phone home.
not_so_unwise@reddit
Anything for a cloud drive directly access from file
MrManyTalents@reddit
Great post
FrequentWin4261@reddit
Motion graphics: Friction https://friction.graphics/
Desktop Publisher (DTP): Scribus https://www.scribus.net/
Video Editing: Lightworks or Kdenlive https://lwks.com/ https://kdenlive.org/
Note Taking w/ Stylus support: Rnote https://rnote.flxzt.net/
File Transfer (Windows/MacOS/Linux/iOS/Android): LocalSend https://localsend.org/
Beautiful_Map_416@reddit
Great list.... plus extra comment
I need....
NoMachine - Best ever Remote Desktop RDM, freeware, support everything.
Zerotier - World Wide Access - LocalNetwork - Secure
dddurd@reddit
Emacs, X11Libre.
sublime_369@reddit
Is Opensnitch actually solid these days? I really like the idea of it but it was a real bug-fest last time I tried it with no solutions in sight.
Specialist-Cream4857@reddit
It's still a bugfest and the developer still refuses to have it packaged for distros so who knows what he's trying to hide.
sublime_369@reddit
Thanks buddy, appreciate you taking the time.
Thulfiqar_Salhom@reddit
This is a great post, thank you for sharing
Overflow_Nuts@reddit (OP)
Welcome
Riffraff50@reddit
First time I’ve seen a comment “welcome” someone for leaving a comment. Idk it just feels wrong, like as soon as they left the comment they already left the post. It just doesn’t make sense… at all. 😂 idk, maybe I’m just trippin.
Overflow_Nuts@reddit (OP)
Haha firstly I'm not native I just wanna say ur welcome but I missed that part.
Riffraff50@reddit
😂got it brother, my bad for the confusion
battler624@reddit
what would be the best way to remote desktop?
I use AnyDesk for windows to windows and would probably use RustDesk nowadays if i wasn't invested in AnyDesk, but what would a linux alternative be? (for windows/android to linux) that would also work from login.
acepukas@reddit
I've tried a bunch of software KVM apps like Input Leap recently. The one that worked the best (and I've tried Input Leap a bunch) is Deskflow. It was super easy to set up and configure and had all the features I need. Input Leap had all kinds of issues when I tried to use the configuration GUI. It just wouldn't work for some reason.
Brilliant-Fruit7687@reddit
What Stremio add-ons are you currently using and do they work well?
Overflow_Nuts@reddit (OP)
Yep works perfect;
The pirate bay + Torrentio Torrentio Lite Udemy Courses Orion
if u don't find any add-on section try this website
Dev-in-the-Bm@reddit
Zen browser.
Bauh for all in one app for managing all apps (flatpak, debs, snap)
Gear level for integrating Appimages into the system and launcher
Extension manager
**Switcheroo for converting pics
**Upscayl for upscaling bad pics
**Dopamine for playing music
**Lossless Cut for cutting videos
Pinta for basic image edits
Resources** system Monitor|
Ulauncher for quickly launching apps
Wave terminal