Re:Ask HN: What are the apps you find most useful in Linux?
by beatgammit on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @09:55PM
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Web Browser: Firefox
Email Client: ProtonMail in Firefox?
Terminal: Gnome terminal
IDE: vim
File manager: my shell
Basic Text Editor: vim
IRC/Messaging Client: web; used to use irssi, but I don't do IRC as much anymore, so it's mostly freenode's web client now
PDF Reader: Firefox
Office Suite: I don't bother, but I suppose LibreOffice occasionally
Calendar: the one built into GNOME
Video Player: Firefox, VLC
Music Player: I don't bother
Photo Viewer: the one built into GNOME
Screen recording: idk, I do it so rarely that I just pick one up when I need one
Honestly, must of my Linux time is spent in the shell, browsing the web, or playing games on Steam, mostly in that order. I used to be picky about my software (used to use XMonad with a curated set of keyboard-driven software), but GNOME seems to work mostly okay these days without fuss, so I've been using it.
I guess I'm trying out KDE because I'm moving to opensuse, so replace some of the stuff above with "whatever comes with KDE". I really don't care that much anymore until something doesn't work right, and that's pretty rare anymore.
Email Client: ProtonMail in Firefox?
Terminal: Gnome terminal
IDE: vim
File manager: my shell
Basic Text Editor: vim
IRC/Messaging Client: web; used to use irssi, but I don't do IRC as much anymore, so it's mostly freenode's web client now
PDF Reader: Firefox
Office Suite: I don't bother, but I suppose LibreOffice occasionally
Calendar: the one built into GNOME
Video Player: Firefox, VLC
Music Player: I don't bother
Photo Viewer: the one built into GNOME
Screen recording: idk, I do it so rarely that I just pick one up when I need one
Honestly, must of my Linux time is spent in the shell, browsing the web, or playing games on Steam, mostly in that order. I used to be picky about my software (used to use XMonad with a curated set of keyboard-driven software), but GNOME seems to work mostly okay these days without fuss, so I've been using it.
I guess I'm trying out KDE because I'm moving to opensuse, so replace some of the stuff above with "whatever comes with KDE". I really don't care that much anymore until something doesn't work right, and that's pretty rare anymore.