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Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by michaelmrose »

zanny wrote: post #160

Meta-observation: There are three primary applications everyone wants fairly uniformly. Firefox, LO, and VLC. It is really interesting from an integration perspective to consider all three: * Firefox pulls in gtk3 and gtk2 dependencies. * VLC pulls in Qt and sdl1. * LO pulls in Python. Of note, both Firefox and VLC use ffmpeg, which is nice. But my macro point - the most popular applications for Linux right now all u…

Its foolishness to try to find a whole list of apps that use the same gui toolkit instead of the best apps, python is installed by default on every linux system under the sun, and you can't just convert from installed size to memory usage. The universe just doesn't work that way.

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by gt_ »

ColanR wrote: post #116
BornInTheUSSR wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really like this idea, a wizard to get all your preferences on setup that preconfigures defaults. Expand it to programming toolsets or whatever your primary use is and have a way to save and share it between different linux versions or even OS's a la dotfiles.

Love the idea of a wizard - but a lot of users will want as painless a setup as possible. if they can worry about configuration when they feel like it, if they feel like it, they may be happier. i.e., some way to use a one-time app for running that wizard later.

I second this. Ubuntu default config probably isn't perfect for anybody, but nothing is in the way, which I consider a major benefit. If I need automatic configuration, none of these ideas will move faster than a decent Bash script. Some configurations cannot be scripted well and that's where the room for improvement is.

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by sathackr »

mlcdf wrote: post #169
sathackr wrote: post #164

Native Windows user, raised on it since 3.0. Made Ubuntu 16.04 my primary OS about 14 months ago after MS tried to cram Windows 10 down my throat and insisted on packaging the Windows Store, CandyCrushSaga and Facebook apps in Server 2016 and making them essentially impossible to remove. Every day I get more and more comfortable. It hasn't been without frustration, and often I've wanted to give up and go back, but so…

Regarding your last comment about Gimp, this feature (the multi-window mode) can be disable. Open Gimp > "Windows" > check "Simple-Window mode".

Interesting -- I went in to enable that option and it was already checked.

It's been a couple of weeks since I last used Gimp -- maybe it was changed in an update?

In any case, thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by hd4 »

I don't know if this is the appropriate thread but can we have some better support for F2FS in Ubuntu please?

From what I know, we can't even install to a F2FS partition using the default installer.

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by Rondom »

pmontra wrote: post #113

Web Browser: Firefox Email Client: Thunderbird Terminal: gnome terminal is ok IDE: none. I'm using emacs for all the things. Which standard IDE could handle all languages well? I think this is for developers and we pick our tools. If this is a IDE for learning, I don't know if this is the right way to learn. Maybe vim. File manager: nautilus is ok Basic Text Editor: gedit should be ok. I never use it because I don't…

Gnome has a smorke screen recorder built in already. Press Ctrl-Alt-Shift-R to record

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by anopows »

acabal wrote: post #126

Web browser: Firefox Email client: Thunderbird Terminal: Gnome Terminal File Manager: Nautilus Basic Text Editor: Gedit (But can you patch the ridiculous "find next" shortcut key to ctrl + f/enter from ctrl + f/ctrl + g?) PDF Reader: Gnome default Office Suite: LibreOffice Music Player: I always felt like Banshee was the superior Gnomish music player but it seems to unmaintained unfortunately. Rhythmbox is the next b…

>But can you patch the ridiculous "find next" shortcut key to ctrl + f/enter from ctrl + f/ctrl + g?

Yes this is one of the things that I am really annoyed with gedit. All searches (to my knowledge) in browsers and IDE's work by pressing enter to get to the new search entry.

The only exception which comes to my mind is vim which has 'n' to go to the next search entry(also completely different to gedit). But in comparison vim, excepts the user to learn a lot of new commands, gedit on the other hand should imo follow the simplicity of other GNOME apps.

To search a keyboard shortcut in the manual and then memorize it for such a simple editor is just tedious and irritating.

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by vkandy »

Web Browser: Chrome

Email Client: Thunderbird

Terminal: Gnome Terminal, Terminator

IDE: Webstorm (several)

File manager: Nautilus

Basic Text Editor: Gedit

IRC/Messaging Client: pidgin/hexchat

PDF Reader: evince

Office Suite: Libre Office

Calendar: Gnome Calendar

Video Player: VLC

Music Player: Rythmbox

Photo Viewer: Shotwell

Screen recording: Peek

Bonus: htop, KeePass2

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by supersexman »

Web Browser: Opera non-free (you can also make a commercial agreement with Opera, this would raise their market share)

Email Client:

Terminal: terminator

IDE: Atom

File manager: Nautilus

Basic Text Editor: Gedit

Office Suite: LibreOffice

Video Player: VLC

Music Player: Amarok

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by ColanR »

I really like the defaults that ubuntu gnome currently has. If I could make one request, it would be to include gdebi in the default install. I've found it much more convenient for adding .deb packages than software center.
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