ranger [1] is not mentioned yet. I had never used a console based file manager prior to starting using this 3 months back and I have stopped using Dolphin (I am on KDE) now.
Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications?
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Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications?
#42GNOME Browser offers an extraordinary browsing experience, and most people seem to ignore it — probably because it lacks extension support, which I don't really care about.
Being part of the GNOME project is also follows the GNOME design and maintain consistency with the rest of the desktop environment — a must for me.
Aside from that, I mostly like applications that follow the GNOME HIG, like GNOME Terminal, Geary, Polari, and Fractal.
My favorite text editor after vim is still Gedit, and it is a shame I can't use it on macOS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications?
#43For all cli apps, the importance of cli itself can't be understated. While there are only a few cli programs available to ALL unix users (grep/ps/awk/sed/xargs/etc), the value of the pipe are one of the defining features of CLI that amplify any program made to work in CLI. A command I often run: `ps aex | grep $common_denominator | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill` to deal with multiprocess testing runs demonstrate this…
As Awk is a pattern-matching language, you can simplify it to something like this:
ps aux |awk '/what/ {print "kill " $2}'
And when what you try to do sequentially might take too long, you can consider throwing GNU Parallel [1] in the pipemix!
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications?
#44Shutter is my favourite screen shot tool, quick selection of content and easy mark-up
Kazzam is a simple (tiny) screen capture app, which does one thing and does it well.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications?
#45sox - girlfriend teaches a dance class and needed a slower version of some of the music; she
was impressed as all get-out that sox could slow the tempo without lowering the
pitch (using fancy Fourier math)
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications?
#46OS: Debian 10 + XFCE Terminal: highly-customized Terminator bound to F1 + XFCE Terminal for "floating" instances Text/Programming: Sublime Text, Intelij IDE, nano (yeah yeah bring your hate vim users - I know it well and I'm not a fan), Meld Markdown/docs: Typora (TRY THIS OUT IT'S AMAZING.) Browsing: Chrome, Chromium, FF, Brave (in that order); Postman for API work, Charles Proxy for reverse-engineering work Communi…
As an open-source alternative to typora I can suggest Marktext https://github.com/marktext/marktext which I believe is on par with typora features. Don't be alarmed by the fact that it's electron, it's pretty fast either way. And as far as I know typora is electron based too.
+1 for mark-text
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications?
#47GNOME Browser offers an extraordinary browsing experience, and most people seem to ignore it — probably because it lacks extension support, which I don't really care about. Being part of the GNOME project is also follows the GNOME design and maintain consistency with the rest of the desktop environment — a must for me. Aside from that, I mostly like applications that follow the GNOME HIG, like GNOME Terminal, Geary,…
Two things that keep me away from gnome browser. 1. The tab handling is awful, would be great if they added vertical tab support. 2. Like firefox, it doesn't play with dark desktop themes, you end up with text areas with black text on a black background.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications?
#48OS: Debian 10 + XFCE Terminal: highly-customized Terminator bound to F1 + XFCE Terminal for "floating" instances Text/Programming: Sublime Text, Intelij IDE, nano (yeah yeah bring your hate vim users - I know it well and I'm not a fan), Meld Markdown/docs: Typora (TRY THIS OUT IT'S AMAZING.) Browsing: Chrome, Chromium, FF, Brave (in that order); Postman for API work, Charles Proxy for reverse-engineering work Communi…
Try out Dbeaver instead of pgAdmin for database administration. It's a much, much better tool.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications?
#49For all cli apps, the importance of cli itself can't be understated. While there are only a few cli programs available to ALL unix users (grep/ps/awk/sed/xargs/etc), the value of the pipe are one of the defining features of CLI that amplify any program made to work in CLI. A command I often run: `ps aex | grep $common_denominator | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill` to deal with multiprocess testing runs demonstrate this…
> ps aex | grep $common_denominator | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill
That looks pretty equivalent to:
pkill -f $common_denominator
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications?
#50vim
vim
and lastly
vim