What are your 'must have applications/software'?
Hello everyone,,,
I searched this sub and I saw a post that was about a year and figured maybe it is appropriate to get a more current consensus on the topic. Used Linux way back when. Was my main OS for a period of time. Then I switched back to Windows. However, I've recently began using Linux again as my daily driver OS. What do you consider must have applications? Aside from the apps that come w/ the distro I use, I've installed Anacona, VS Code, Atom, and Sublime on my box software. What software do you download/install immediately after setting up your workstation? |
My software requirements are pretty basic. I always make sure Geany, GCC, Gimp, LibreOffice, and Falkon are installed. Like a lot of people I use a lot of other software but not the same ones on on every computer.
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VLC, Kaffeine (for digital TV, since I can't be bothered learning how to configure MythTV), mediainfo, ffmpeg, Audacity, gcc (and related things like make, etc, since I am/was trying to learn C), ISO Master and probably others that I can't currently remember...
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You've said you're using Linux as part of your everyday environment, and you've noted some number of applications which you've installed. #1 is whether or not you're actually using them. #2 is what everyday things do you need from your desktop? And from there, have you found these things, or are there specific applications which you'd like to know the Linux alternatives? For my answer, I actually rarely install new applications, I use what the desktop distribution provides. While I use Linux everyday, I also have a Windows boot which I use all the time because the tools we use at work are for that OS, and I've also found that as good as the Libre-, or Open- Office variations or other Word, Excel options there are for Linux, I invariably have compatibility issues with viewing or editing and passing along documents to those using the Microsoft Office programs. Thus I stay within that environment. A solution which has helped greatly is that we have several web portals that help us to edit pages and documents online, therefore I'm less using the specific Microsoft independent document tools, and can use Linux more readily. |
Unless you get something very small like Slackware, any distro should give you a browser, email client, office suite, text editor, media player, pdf-viewer, and probably a graphics editor. I add accounting software and a font editor, some-one else might want a video editor or an ide for their favourite programming language.
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I thought over the applications I use almost daily and came up with this list: Firefox, Sylpheed or Claws Mail, Pan, the GIMP, an RSS aggregator, vim, a GUI text editor (I prefer Kate), a GUI file manager (I prefer Dolphin), VLC, Kolourpaint, a podcatcher (I use podget).
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On a basic command line set up, I would ensure that I have at least mc & mpg123. :)
(They nearly always have vi, so editing is taken care of, but having some music just makes the day go more pleasantly.) As a mainline O/S, I would require a good web browser, video player, music player, & PySolFC &/or at least xpat2. :) |
On the server, it would be tmux, OpenSSH, and vi, plus maybe Emacs and a few activity-specific utilities depending on the situation.
On the desktop it is Thunderbird, Firefox or Chromium, Blink or Jitsi, Clementine, VLC, and various terminals. |
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mpv firefox geany urxvt gimp geeqie dmenu dunst And the Terminus font. And if the windowmanager was openbox again, also obmenu-generator. And I'm probably forgetting half a dozen super essential things. |
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Firefox, chromium, thunderbird, clementine, kdiff3, kate, ksudoku, smplayer + mpv (I hate the mpv ui without smplayer), konsole, krename, ark, glabels, remmina, pinta, spectacle. That's the ones I can't survive without.
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Konsole (if not available as standard) and thunderbird (webmail is terrible).
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Absolute essentials for me on my desktop.
Chromium, handbrake makemkv, asunder, libreoffice, rhythmbox, sigil, playonlinux, kmymoney. And a few other smaller ones. I really only do basic things... rip movies and music, write documents occasionally, and do my banking registers on it. Server / HTPC Kodi, openbox, bind9, isc-dhcp-server, apt-cacher-ng, transmission-cli/daemon/common, mythtv-backend, mariadb-server, openjdk for 2 minecraft servers, ltsp-server. A few other smaller miscellaneous ones as well. |
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Firefox - it comes pre-installed with my "distro" KDE Neon :) LibreOffice VLC - this, too, comes with the distro Amarok and Clementine Audacity digiKam XNViewMP GIMP Krita qBittorrent RedShift BTW, what distro you are on now? |
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