what are your "most-used" linux programs ?
I was doing a regular yum update this morning and noticed that my fedora system has a significant number of GUI programs installed...I've never used most of them yet.
So,i was wondering if someone else is getting their work done with such utilities.It is too difficult and time consuming for me,to try all of them one by one. Please list which programs do you use most frequesntly on your linux system...so that i can get benefitted too. |
In approximate order of how often I use them (1=most often), here are the ones I can think of off the top of my head:
1- Firefox. I would use Chromium, but I've got so many Firefox extensions for which there are no Chromium equivalents. 2- Pidgin. Mostly as an Identica client, running in the background. 3- gedit. It's surprising how often a simple text editor is useful. 4- GIMP. A very powerul image editor. 5- Clementine. A music player/manager inspired by Amarok 1.4. 6- Unison. For making backups of my very large music collection. 7- TrueCrypt. For encrypting files. |
Firefox.
Deluge. vlc. Terminal. |
Iceweasel (firefox lol)
Banshee VLC Gedit Libreoffice Writer Empathy (I used to prefer pidgin but sometimes it just wont work) Skype Evince Synaptic I have a huge amount of GUI apps installed and I have used each one but the list above is my daily usage in Gnome and most get used in Enlightenment, Fluxbox, XFCE, LXDE, MATE (Mate has gnome apps with different names). I don't use KDE often so I don't know what I would use in that. |
Firefox
Claws Mail zsh vim Virtualbox MPlayer Audacious Thunar Bunch of command line programs, like htop, ssh, rsync, ... |
GUIs:
Firefox Kwrite VirtualBox Dolphin VLC not necessarily in that order. CLI stuff in Konsole, or the terminal. |
gnome-terminal - filesystem
gpodder - podcasts realcrypt/truecrypt - sharing encrypted volumes with Windows VMWare Workstation - virtualization calibre - ebooks conversion for Amazon Kindle handbrake/vobcopy - DVD ripping netbeans - Java coding eclipse IDE - Java & python coding Visual CertExam Suite Pro (Wine) - Prometric Certification Testing keepass - encrypted passwords management firefox - web |
Gedit
Abiword K3b FireFox Opera Totem VLC Thunar/Dolphin Kget/Gwget Screen Shot Xchm Qps Mdic F-Spot Konqueror Evince SoundConverter KMag On Fedora/CentOS/Scientific Disk-Utility ,Main-Menu ,Alacarte |
Firefox
Thunderbird Gnome-commander OO.o Calc and Writer VMWare Player VLC Wine (well a few items installed under Wine) gedit TrueCrypt K3b Beyond Compare recoll utilities such as System Monitor, Baobab, Synaptic, Update Manager |
Firefox
Abiword Musique |
I think the OP is interested in the little tools rather than the full applications? In that case, my common ones are evince, eye-of-gnome, gcalctool, brasero, file-roller, system-monitor, user-mount. If it's applications, then the usual one for me are opera, claws-mail, openoffice, gnucash, and wine.
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firefox
pidgin gnumeric abiword gramps lxterminal geany gftp mirage gimp yumex pcmanfm evince scrot conky gnomebaker |
If we talk about interesting command line aplications, then
metapixel (great one to make photomosaics) testdisk/photorec (restore erased partitions and files) libcaca and associates (cacademo/cacafire/cacaplay/cacaserver/cacaview/toilet) ascii art/videos, banners ... wget (http swiss knife) nmap port scanning aircrack-ng (airodump-ng, etc...) Wireless cracking ssh (secure shell) asterisk (PBX) rsync (easy Backups) strings (scan for strings in executable files) sensors (informs about the status of your pc sensors) wol (wake on lan) dosbox (for the oldies goldies) gpg (encryption tool) gdb (disassembler) hexdump (self explainable) file (inform of the file tipe -magic number identification-) john (john the ripper -password cracking-) lame (audio convert) screen (allows to unlink a session from a terminal so that you can access that session from different terminals) steghide/stegbreak/stegcompare/stegdetect (steganography tools) stereograph (tool to create 3d images that you can see without glasses, just adjusting your eyes) shred (erase a drive making it almost imposible to recover). tor (the onion router, anonimity network) fortune (fortune cookies) Wow, there is plenty of GREAT material up there, don't take it lightly. By the way, in my previous post I forgot about blender, a great open source app for 3D creations. |
Opera
LibreOffice Konqueror Kate Pan Nautilus VLC XAMPP |
- Google Chrome
- Thunderbird - Pidgin - Skype - irssi (terminal-based IRC chat client) - Filezilla - Bluefish - Kompozer - Rhythmbox - VLC |
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