Re:Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps
by sathackr on Friday July 21, 2017 @03:31PM
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Native Windows user, raised on it since 3.0. Made Ubuntu 16.04 my primary OS about 14 months ago after MS tried to cram Windows 10 down my throat and insisted on packaging the Windows Store, CandyCrushSaga and Facebook apps in Server 2016 and making them essentially impossible to remove.
Every day I get more and more comfortable. It hasn't been without frustration, and often I've wanted to give up and go back, but so far I've stuck to it.
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Web Browser: Google Chrome
Email client: None since I use gmail and Office 365, and not much will cooperate with O365 except OWA.
Terminal: default preinstalled app
IDE: Not a developer
File manager: default preinstalled app(Nautilus?)
Basic text editor: gedit, or the non-gui version of emacs. I know I know.....
IRC/Messaging: Google voice and Slack web pages, via Google Chrome
PDF Reader: Evince or Google Chrome. Not really because I prefer either, just the first ones I found and they were 'good enough'.
Office Suite: Preinstalled libreoffice has been 'good enough' for me. Also Google Sheets(via Chrome)
Calendar: Don't use one, probably would if O365 integration worked better.
Video Player: Default preinstalled player because it usually works, but VLC occasionally if I have something the built-in won't play.
Music Player: None -- Pandora/Soundcloud/Youtube/DI.FM/Google Play, all web, via Google Chrome.
Photo Viewer: default preinstalled has worked pretty well for me. I think I like it better than the Windows Photo viewer that MS took away from me with 8/10
Screen recording: None. I make heavy use of the preinstalled screenshot utility, though I wish it was a bit more like the windows snipping tool. It's fairly annoying to use it to grab multiple screenshots when you're trying to just select an area, though I like that you can grab a quick succession using the prt-screen and save them all.
Other apps I use often:
Steam
libvirt/VMM
Remmina, though I wish it had more features for RDP. Seems sessions are much slower than when using a MS rdp client.
PlayOnLinux
Occasionally Gimp, though it's pretty annoying to use in 16.04 because of the way it creates multiple separate windows.
Every day I get more and more comfortable. It hasn't been without frustration, and often I've wanted to give up and go back, but so far I've stuck to it.
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Web Browser: Google Chrome
Email client: None since I use gmail and Office 365, and not much will cooperate with O365 except OWA.
Terminal: default preinstalled app
IDE: Not a developer
File manager: default preinstalled app(Nautilus?)
Basic text editor: gedit, or the non-gui version of emacs. I know I know.....
IRC/Messaging: Google voice and Slack web pages, via Google Chrome
PDF Reader: Evince or Google Chrome. Not really because I prefer either, just the first ones I found and they were 'good enough'.
Office Suite: Preinstalled libreoffice has been 'good enough' for me. Also Google Sheets(via Chrome)
Calendar: Don't use one, probably would if O365 integration worked better.
Video Player: Default preinstalled player because it usually works, but VLC occasionally if I have something the built-in won't play.
Music Player: None -- Pandora/Soundcloud/Youtube/DI.FM/Google Play, all web, via Google Chrome.
Photo Viewer: default preinstalled has worked pretty well for me. I think I like it better than the Windows Photo viewer that MS took away from me with 8/10
Screen recording: None. I make heavy use of the preinstalled screenshot utility, though I wish it was a bit more like the windows snipping tool. It's fairly annoying to use it to grab multiple screenshots when you're trying to just select an area, though I like that you can grab a quick succession using the prt-screen and save them all.
Other apps I use often: Steam
libvirt/VMM
Remmina, though I wish it had more features for RDP. Seems sessions are much slower than when using a MS rdp client.
PlayOnLinux
Occasionally Gimp, though it's pretty annoying to use in 16.04 because of the way it creates multiple separate windows.