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What is the best software do you use on a Linux desktop?

graeme_p

2:03 pm on Aug 29, 2020 (gmt 0)

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My favourites:

Dolphin and Konqueror. The best file managers I have found on any OS. Konqueror is also a web browser and document viewer. Weird but wonderful. Dolphin is more conventional but very slick. Both have excellent remote file and server connection management.

Kate. Great text editor, again, especially for remote files.

Geany text editor/lightweight IDE. Just feels natural to work with. Quite a lot of plugins.

Zim: "desktop wiki" - i.e. note taking and todo lists.

Terminator: tabbed, multi-pane, terminal emulator. Easy to organise when you have sessions open with a few remote servers and a few local windows.

digiKam - photo management

Okular - document viewer

My daughter's favourites:

Shotwell - photo manager

Thunar - file manager

Cross platform ones that deserves a mention because they should be better known:

Focus Writer - distraction free writing

Lyx - for presentations (usually PDF output).

Calibre - ebook management

Komodo Edit

Git Cola

GnuCash - accounts

Quod Libet - music player/library manager

Battle for Wesnoth

We also use a lot of better known cross platform software, from Firefox to Blender, but that is mostly stuff everyone who wants to knows about.

dstiles

4:48 pm on Aug 30, 2020 (gmt 0)

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Different OS: Manjaro XFCE (two machines), Mint XFCE (one laptop) Mint Mate (two machines) (lets ignore the two Windows m/cs). Mostly the following are pinned to my top-of-screen panel (task bar).

Geany, yes, but secondary to Kate and Gedit. Also Bluefish.

Cherrytree instead of Zim - only downside I can find is: if you try to copy from one node to another using just the linux select it fails; you have to either copy it to the clipboard (Ctrl-C) or paste and copy via an intermediate.

Thunar plus search monkey (for deep and in-file regex searches).
Terminal emulator.
Remmina for managing local and remote headless and headed machines.
Filezilla (up/down loading for online Windows server).
Disks for managing ... er ... disks.
Galculator.
Mysql for two online servers (web and mail), Maria and dBeaver for one local mail server.
Glogg (multi-file log viewer).
Thunderbird (mail and rss).
Libre - mostly Writer and Calc.
Music: I run 4 types of music and audio at different times so Clementine (best) DeadBeef, LxMusic, Audacious.

dstiles

9:13 am on Aug 31, 2020 (gmt 0)

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Part 2... Forgot a few:

get_iplayer - gets BBC audio and video (confined to UK). I have adapted it to list BBC programmes per channel on a local web server and download selected programmes from those lists using a bash script to simplify channel choice.

VLC to play videos; my wife uses a custom version from Footswitch2 for transcription.

Notes dropdown from panel - two panes, one for list of future downloads, one for frequently used passwords (main note taker is cherrytree).

Web browser now (mostly) Falcon and WaterFox.
Orage scheduler (but sometimes drops of the panel).
Gramps genealogy database.
ThunarBulkRename - what it says.
Geequi - gthumb-type image lister/viewer - gthumb sometimes crashed.
gcolor - colour selector.
luckyBackup - GUI front end to rsync, which I use raw as well.
Ghex and okteta - hex viewers/editors
Network Tools - single app includes whois, dns-lookup, traceroute, ping. Used extensively.
qpdfview - pdf viewer.
Regexxer - sometimes, to suplement Search Monkey.

Forgot to say about Disks - also use it to copy ISOs from DVD and then Engrampa to convert videos to playable VOB files.

graeme_p

11:18 am on Aug 31, 2020 (gmt 0)

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One correction to mine: Lyx for writing, including presentations. That was from my daughter's list and she uses it to do presentations for school. I have not used it much lately, but used to use it for a lot of things I would otherwise use a word processor for, especially long documents with cross references.

Glogg and Dbeaver are both very nice. I do not use Glogg much any more (most of my log searches are on a remote server so I just grep there). DBeaver is cross platform.

get_iplayer sounds useful

dstiles

8:37 am on Sep 1, 2020 (gmt 0)

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Lyx - hadn't come across that one... Ah. LaTex. Haven't used that in 20 years! Didn't really have good Mac editors for it in those days.

graeme_p

10:11 am on Sep 1, 2020 (gmt 0)

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Lyx uses LaTex and Tex under the hood, but you can use it without knowing them - you can add Latex commands to a Lyx document but its a power user option, and a lot of the time it would be very simple, probably following a cut and paste reciepe.

JorgeV

2:46 pm on Sep 2, 2020 (gmt 0)

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Hello,

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