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What are your must-have programs? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by land@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Trying to discover new/unheard Linux desktop programs (Sorry for the confusion).

Edit: I apologise for confusing a lot of people. I meant Linux desktop “programs” coming from Windows/Mac. I'm used to calling them “apps”.

Edit: 🙌 I’m overwhelmed with the great “programs” people have recommended in the comment section. Thank you guys.

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[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

Profanity & Dino are nice chat clients

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Emacs is the only app you'll ever need once you've mastered it.

[–] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Is it even possible to master emacs?

[–] FlickeringScreens@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I discovered warpinator recently, useful for transferring files to my android phone.

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[–] mdurell@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Any flavor of vi, Gnu Screen, lrzsz, bash with the usual cli tools (awk, sed, grep, tail, head, rev, cat, tac, and recently jq and yq). Also openssh client. Some flavor of netcat is also crazy useful too. This is a good home for me to do my thing.

Edir: oh, and git. How did I forget git?!

[–] koen@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Obsidian - great markdown-based note app
NewsFlash - fast and elegant RSS news reader
Bottles - program to run Windows apps and managing them easily
BreakTimer - a life-saver for me; it allows you to set a break after given amount of time
LibreWolf - privacy-focused fork of Firefox

There are a lot of awesome programs on Linux, I recommend browsing Flathub to find them

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Htop vim and ncdu to name a few terminal apps.

[–] aktenkundig@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

+1 for vim. Although I usually use a stripped down gvim.

Didn't know ncdu, will try.

I prefer btop to htop, the interface is much nicer.

For the terminal (and within vim) another must-have is fzf.

[–] 42yeah@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

ncdu is like Filelight but for terminal. It’s awesome!

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