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Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications?
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#32Baobab: Disk usage Analyzer https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Baobab
Atril: Pdf Viewer, forked from Evince from the Gnome 2 days IIRC.
Base 16 Colors: https://github.com/chriskempson/base16
Unetbootin/TuxBoot: Creating bootable drives.
gnome-do: Alfred/Spotlight (MacOS) like quicklauncher. Used to use this but now I've just defaulted to using Alt+F2 (remapped to Super + Space keys) to launch apps. https://do.cooperteam.net
Zim : "A desktop wiki" https://zim-wiki.org
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#33flameshot for screenshots - https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot
almost everything is perfect.
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#34Freecad and Meshlab for 3D editing.
KeepassXC for password management.
Gnome Shell extensions:
- KdeConnect (phone sync/remote access)
- Argos (script based utilities for top bar)
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#35The only 3 GUI applications I use regularly are Emacs, Firefox and XTerm (which, like Emacs, has amazingly low latency). All via a tiling window manager (StumpWM).
I also use Signal Desktop, which is a rather plain Electron app.
For some imaging tasks, GIMP and Inkscape are great. GIMP gave birth to GTK, one of the two major Linux GUI toolkits.
Since the desktop ecosystem is very fragmented, I don't think there are any great GUI applications in Linux. On Macs, things are declining now too. A lot of the GUI innovation is happening on mobile.
In Linux, niceties come from CLI and whole OS, like Nix.
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#36flameshot for screenshots - https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot almost everything is perfect.
Amazing, thank you!
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#37SmartGit
It wasn't mentioned here yet, and having used GitEye on Linux before and SourceTree on Windows, and seeing coworkers use GitKraken, I think SmartGit is by far the best Git GUI client of them.
I know the Git CLI is popular, but most people I've seen begin to struggle with everything beyond a simple pull and push. With a Git GUI client things like squashing commits, interactive rebases, 3-way merges etc. are discoverable and intuitive. No reading of the documentation required.
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#38QtCreator
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#39I have used emacs since before Linux and window systems existed. Emacs is a small windows manager like it is nearly everything else. Nowadays I only use a tiny fraction of its functionality, because I do run a window manager and a web browser. Still emacs is one of the first programs I install on every system. On embedded systems where emacs is not feasible I try to get remote editing via TRAMP https://www.emacswiki.…
Does TRAMP mode offer any advantages to sshfs?
- 1 less step (just open the remote file directly, rather than running "sshfs" and then opening the file)
- If you execute shell commands from emacs -- these will be executed on the remote machine when editing thru tramp
- Tramp is not limited to ssh, but also allows emacs to access files in docker containers, as different users (e.g. root), in S3/GDrive/etc via the rclone backend, etc.
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#40syncthing, sublime text and marktext would be my favourites, but you can get them on every other platform so I don't really think of them as Linux apps
some of my fav linux only apps would lutris for managing your steam and gog library from a single gui
neofetch is a nice way to get a fancy readout of your system specs https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch
also just reading about ansible the last few days and i can see that becoming an instant fav for quickly setting up my computers. if I can get my head around it that is