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Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by artursapek »

keithpeter wrote: post #46
brudgers wrote: post #3

What I want is no change unless there is a good reason to change. The internet voting for Browsey McBrowseface etc. is not, in my opinion, a good reason to change. There are things Canonical does well, I think. Those things are technical. When it comes to trying to be Microsoft/Apple/Google, it misses the mark. In part because it assumes that which PDF reader it ships with matters to users. Good luck.

I would echo brudgers sentiment here but would table the suggestion for a meta-package or series of meta-packages that would install R, texlive, octave, iPython and a good selection of other mathematical/data processing software. My 'vision'(+) would be something like UbuntuStudio for data/maths. (+) I can no longer use words like 'vision', 'paradigm' &c without distancing speech marks because of their misuse in the…

> turning off JS by default for a browser

Year of the Linux laptop would never come

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by lucb1e »

Web Browser: Firefox

Email Client: Thunderbird

File manager: Nemo

Basic Text Editor: Anything except Gedit. For example Geany is fine.

Messaging Client: Telegram, Pidgin

IRC client: Hexchat

PDF Reader: Evince

Calendar: Thunderbird's built-in

Video Player: VLC

Music Player: Spotify non-free, VLC

Screen recording: SSR (ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder)

System monitor: htop, gnome-system-monitor

Calculator: apcalc

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by lucb1e »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #140

Web Browser: Chrome non-free, Emacs Email Client: Gmail web, Emacs Terminal: xterm, fish shell, Emacs IDE: Emacs File manager: default, Emacs Basic Text Editor: Emacs IRC/Messaging Client: Emacs PDF Reader: whatever that default one is, Emacs Office Suite: LibreOffice Calendar: Emacs Video Player: VLC Music Player: Spotify non-free Photo Viewer: whatever the default is Screen recording: OBS I'm not joking with that E…

I downvoted because I don't think it's constructive to force Emacs on everyone. In my post, I thought of including vim as the default text editor (I have set it as default on my work and home computers, also when opening a text/code file from a browser or file manager) and definitely as the default terminal editor (instead of nano), but many people are just not going to make use of it. If you want something specific, you should just install it yourself I think.

> please, ensure Ubuntu has always a recent Emacs version.

Outdated software is an issue in general. This is one of the reasons I hear people don't like Ubuntu, Debian or Mint because Fedora is actually up to date. Never mind that Fedora frequently breaks and Debian totally has a testing release, but Ubuntu is just lacking in this.

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by newscracker »

Web browser: Firefox

Email client: Thunderbird

File Manager: Thunar File Manager

Office Suite: LibreOffice

Video Player: mpv

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Completely unrelated, but having Ubuntu work well on a Mac (and retaining habits learned on a Mac) with the external Apple Magic Trackpad would be great. It's a huge source of frustration and annoyance for me for various reasons, right after the keyboard shortcuts. Native to Ubuntu, I will also miss Unity not being developed further or not being developed with the focus that existed before.

Another one, though not a desktop default app. Please add a well maintained and working VNC server (or make it available). I tried a few, gave up and went with TeamViewer (which is a commercial product, but free for personal use). Not being able to screen share with a mostly headless machine has been very frustrating.

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by TeMPOraL »

lucb1e wrote: post #145
TeMPOraL wrote: post #140

Web Browser: Chrome non-free, Emacs Email Client: Gmail web, Emacs Terminal: xterm, fish shell, Emacs IDE: Emacs File manager: default, Emacs Basic Text Editor: Emacs IRC/Messaging Client: Emacs PDF Reader: whatever that default one is, Emacs Office Suite: LibreOffice Calendar: Emacs Video Player: VLC Music Player: Spotify non-free Photo Viewer: whatever the default is Screen recording: OBS I'm not joking with that E…

I downvoted because I don't think it's constructive to force Emacs on everyone. In my post, I thought of including vim as the default text editor (I have set it as default on my work and home computers, also when opening a text/code file from a browser or file manager) and definitely as the default terminal editor (instead of nano), but many people are just not going to make use of it. If you want something specific,…

Hey, I'm not forcing Emacs on anyone! The poster asked to "submit the apps you find most useful in Linux", so I listed what I use, honest-to-God. I don't see how a legit datapoint deserves a downvote, but whatevs.

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by lucb1e »

shock wrote: post #99

Web Browser: Firefox Email Client: Thunderbird Terminal: Tilix[0], Gnome Terminal, IDE: IntelliJ, Eclipse File manager: Double Commander[1] Basic Text Editor: Vim IRC/Messaging Client: Pidgin PDF Reader: Evince/MuPDF Office Suite: LibreOffice Calendar: Gnome Calendar Video Player: Vlc, Kodi Music Player: Audacious Photo Viewer: Eye of Gnome Screen recording: Simple Screen Recorder[2] [0] - https://github.com/gnunn1/t…

Cool to see SSR in here. A friend made that and I always thought it was much better than existing tools, at least at the time, both in how fast they are, their ease of use and the options they provide (some have options you just never touch, others lack options that you wanted to change; SSR has neither).

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by zanny »

sametmax wrote: post #28
Kostic wrote: post #20

Web Browser: Firefox Email Client: Thunderbird Terminal: Tilix[0], Gnome Terminal, IDE: Visual Studio Code (although it's not a fully fledged IDE) File manager: Nautilus Basic Text Editor: Gedit IRC/Messaging Client: Polari, HexChat PDF Reader: Evince Office Suite: LibreOffice Calendar: Gnome Calendar Video Player: Totem Music Player: Lollypop[1] Photo Viewer: Eye of Gnome Screen recording: Peek[2] [0] https://github…

Same but vlc for videos

I think? VLC is the only Qt dependency on there. That means you pull in all of Qt just to run VLC.

If you are making a default install, it is best to only include one or the other toolkit for a lot of reasons:

* Consistency. Gnome and Qt apps, even when themed the same, have different UI metaphors, especially modern GTK3 apps and Qt Quick apps vs everything else.

* Performance and memory. Central to making a fast, responsive, low resource using OS is sharing libraries. Having all your software using the same hot toolkit rendering code paths means - optimally - better cache coherency and - generally - lower ram usage from not having to pull two toolkits into resident memory at the same time.

* Install image size / hard drive disk usage. Full Qt (including webengine) takes up at least 400MB of space. That is both on the iso and in the final install. That isn't a problem for average use cases, but there exist both bandwidth limited and storage limited scenarios where you can still run a modern desktop to consider.

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by rasengan »

The switch to libinput is good. I would also strongly suggest including libinput-gestures which enables multi-touch gestures. It's a fascinating feature which helps one's work flow.

Dash to Dock is another good one as are several other nice GNOME extensions.

bumblebee / gfx support would be nice :-)

Tiling Extensions as well.

The GNOME screen recorder works fine built in. :)

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