Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications?

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications? by folkhack on Saturday October 12, 2019 @07:25PM (#21237059)

OS: Debian 10 + XFCE

Terminal: highly-customized Terminator bound to F1 + XFCE Terminal for "floating" instances

Text/Programming: Sublime Text, Intelij IDE, nano (yeah yeah bring your hate vim users - I know it well and I'm not a fan), Meld

Markdown/docs: Typora (TRY THIS OUT IT'S AMAZING.)

Browsing: Chrome, Chromium, FF, Brave (in that order); Postman for API work, Charles Proxy for reverse-engineering work

Communication: Hangups (CLI), Discord

Containers/Virtualization: Docker, VMWare Workstation (I run a full Win10 LTSB underneath with all quick-access to my Adobe Creative Suite, saves time not having to switch to the MBP)

Transfer: Qbittorrent, Filezilla

Misc: Remmina for RDP, Kazam for screen recording, pgAdmin4 for working with my Postgres DBs, ncspot (CLI) for Spotify client; KeePass2 for password management in a file-based DB; GParted for partitioning

Ninja edit: Sublime Merge looks amazing... I will be trying this out ASAP.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications? by SanderSantema on Sunday October 13, 2019 @11:20AM (#21240835)

As an open-source alternative to typora I can suggest Marktext https://github.com/marktext/marktext which I believe is on par with typora features. Don't be alarmed by the fact that it's electron, it's pretty fast either way. And as far as I know typora is electron based too.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications? by slipwalker on Monday October 14, 2019 @09:49PM (#21254851)

+1 for mark-text

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications? by physicles on Saturday October 12, 2019 @09:44PM (#21237718)

I’ve been using Typora for about three years. One of my favorite pieces of software for sure.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications? by sebelk on Thursday October 17, 2019 @07:53PM (#21287437)

I prefer Mark Text because is powerful and free as in freedom :)

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications? by nickthemagicman on Saturday October 12, 2019 @10:14PM (#21237838)

Haha, I get puzzled faces when I use nano too, but to quickly edit a file, it's actually less keystrokes than VIM. It's just not as l33T.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications? by croo on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @02:36AM (#21256057)

Try out Dbeaver instead of pgAdmin for database administration. It's a much, much better tool.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications? by 8bitsrule on Saturday October 12, 2019 @10:44PM (#21237979)

Huh. I've never run into a 'Linux app' that couldn't be authenticated at install-time. Different.

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