What are your favourite Linux applications? (Page 3 of 6)

@Madcrow, is Asunder good?

I have recently been using:
- pcmanfm and I like a lot, probably mostly because of the tabs. First I was think I would miss Thunar but no.
- newbeuter, definitely best CLI feed reader I have tried
- Quod Libet has been working for me very well. I like the UI a lot.

HANNA (without "h" in the end) likes green and #!
Also know as ultraturquoise online / #! last.fm / #! DeviantART / U / Q

Coming from the windows-world and beeing used to it, most important for me is a nice quick two-pane-filemanager.

My favourite: XFE

Second in: gnome-commander  -  because with gc it´s just one click to access the (windows-) smb-shares, i need in the office.

Office-Suite: SoftMaker Office. It´s not free, but for me it´s worth the money feature- and performance-wise.

hmmm....just decided to format :c and use #!instead.
nano
gftp
claws
I need to choose a irc-client
music and video-- I have a Popcorn hour and a mediaplayer so  no need for a client other than vlc.
torrents still not choosed a client. I have used rtorrent on a NAS but on a desktop I want a gui.Dunno
web I will  choose between G. Chrome and opera.

If GUI is opted for and it really doesn't matter outside of that, Pidgin will work fine.  It isn't like XChat has many more bells and whistles, and you can cut the installation clutter by going with an IM that can do IRC.

Last edited by kBang (2009-01-22 00:24:48)

After a clean install of 8.10.02 I have to add osmo to my list.

I've been looking for a little gem like this for some time. It suits my needs perfectly

From the project page:
Osmo is a handy personal organizer, which includes calendar, tasks manager and address book modules. It was designed to be a small, easy to use and good looking PIM tool to help to manage personal information. In its current state the organizer is quite convenient to use - for example, the user can perform nearly all operations using the keyboard. Also, a lot of parameters are configurable to meet the user's preferences. On the technical side, Osmo is GTK+ based tool which uses a plain XML database to store all personal data.

I have to agree with omns. Osmo is great. Does everything I need it to do in a tiny little package. Love that you can control everything from the keyboard, if you want.

Wow, a lot of stuff's been mentioned here that I hadn't heard of.  I'm going to have to try some of it out this weekend.

I've been in love with Songbird since I tried it.  It's got a bit more brawn than I normally like on a music player, but it works great on linux and it's got an awesome set of features.

i use netvibes.com to have 10 feeds in sight simultaneously, loads of other features i'm too tired to explain
Operas features around rclick plus mousewheel made it my weapon of choice

Last edited by Shinkanzen (2009-02-01 02:21:50)

Now that you mention it, I had forgotten that I had an account there.

I like less, and it gives me knowledge on everything I need to know...

Less is also known as 'info' (man is driven by more) less is more though...

terminal : xfce4-terminal
panel : tint2 + trayer + netwmpager
monitoring : conky
web browser : Opera (+ Firefox)
FTP client : gFTP (used to use FileZilla but gFTP seems to do its job as I ask it, so I kept it)
torrents : Deluge (more complete than Transmission, but I also like the simplicity of Transmission)
IM : Pidgin + Skype
text editor : gedit (for colors in code ... usefull to detect typing errors)
office : OpenOffice.org 3 (to be able to read f**king MS Office 2007 files)
music : Rhythmbox (good managing of enormous library)
video : SMPlayer (the best MPlayer frontend in my opinion)
graphics : Gimp (with iscan for better use of my Epson scanner) + Inkscape
mail client : Thunderbird (think about testing Sylpheed but wait to be sure that the complete importation from thunderbird is possible)
CD/DVD burning : Brasero (think about testing xfburn)

Last edited by choops (2009-02-05 12:19:33)