• Registered: 2009-02-10
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Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

Things I Use Everyday:
Firefox (keeping my eye on Midori though too)
Thunderbird (but am going to try Claws...)
Check-Gmail
Gnome-Do (love this but openbox keyboard shortcuts are making it superfluous)
TextRoom
OpenOffice
Gedit
Basket
Banshee
Prism
Dropbox
Pidgin
Skype (if there were a better alternative that worked with Skype's proprietary codec, I'd drop these guys in a second)

Some of those are pretty standard and should be familiar. I want to just say a few words about some of the lesser known apps there.
TextRoom - This is a fullscreen "distraction free" text editor. I use it to get me started on things I need to write. It's similar to Q10 or DarkRoom if anyone is familiar with those. One thing that I love (but others probably might find annoying) is that it makes typewriter sounds as I type...

Basket - This is my notes program. It does hierarchical notes in a way that Tomboy doesn't even come close to matching. The one real bummer here is that you have to download what feels like half of KDE to get it up and running. If there were a gnome (or even better, cross platform) alternative my quest for the perfect note taking app would be complete.

  • Registered: 2009-02-07
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Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

Firefox
Amarok
Terminator
gmrun
Thunar
Filezilla
gnu screen
Vim
rtorrent for remote torrents, deluge for local torrents
vlc
k3b for the occasional burn
aptitude
and like kestrel said, apt-cache search, which I have aliased for quick package lookups

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laptop - acer aspire one a110l | intel atom 1.6ghz | 512mb ram | 8 gb hd
  • Registered: 2009-02-10
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Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

As of present:

* Firefox
* Pidgin IM
* Gimp
* OpenOffice
* VLC

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Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

I try out new applications a lot. But currently I'm using:

Firefox (I love adblock plus)
openbox (Just love it so far. The scripting is easy and it's really fast)
conky (I just love statistics and it's great for showing stuff I want to know about my system)
Voicechatter (Great soundquality and easy to use)
wine (It just gets better and better and allows me to run some programs that is only available in windows unfortunately)
terminator (which currently grants me access to the programs listed below)
mocp (I still prefer foobar2000 which runs perfectly through wine but mocp is really nice so far)
vim (the more I learn in it the nicer it gets, thinking about trying out emacs as well soon)
mplayer (best videoplayer in the world if you ask me. I even use a port of it in xp)
cowthink (mostly to be different from cowsay moahaha)
sl (totally useless but always puts a smile on my face)
irssi (best irc client I know of)

games: (people seem to have refrained from listing them or perhaps you don't play much)
World of Padman - Cartoon shooter based on ioquake3 (an opensource port of the quake 3 engine)
Urban Terror - Counter-Strike like shooter also based on ioquake3
PySolFC - A collection or solitaire games, in the latest version counting 1048 different games

I can list a ton more if anyone is interested tongue but instead I'll give a link to a list of 100 games smile
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20090 … Games.html

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Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

Hello, #!ers everywhere.

Here's one that isn't on anybody's list - Autokey, without which I could not live (on Linux, at least - on Windows there's AutoHotkey and Keybreeze).

"Imagine how much time you could save if you had a tool that could help you to avoid typing static text like "Kind regards" or your address. Like the idea? Then you'll most certainly appreciate the Autokey text expanding utility"

(http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Bl … th-Autokey)

"AutoKey Does Customized Text Replacement for Linux" by Kevin Purdy:
(http://lifehacker.com/5310976/autokey-d … -for-linux)


Chris Dekter's Autokey is unique in all of Linux. It fills a glaring vacuum for Linux users. It supports macros and executes terminal commands (program launching, for example). If you find yourself typing the same text over and over in your day to day computering, you need Autokey!

Autokey home page: http://autokey.sourceforge.net/

Deb file here: https://launchpad.net/~cdekter/+archive/ppa

I hope you will find it as indispensable as I have.

- Jeff Schallenberg
Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec

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Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

scottro wrote:

opera for browsing, mutt maildrop getmail, and mmsmtp for mail, w3 for text browsing, mplayer for music and video. 

I usually need Japanese input, so scim-anthy and scim.

I used Opera until I got serious about studying the Japanese language.  Opera simply didn't have the language study widgets to compare to FFx's Rikaichan/PeraPera-kun or other such useful addons as far as I knew, so I found a new friend in FFx. 

To my knowledge, Opera still lacks support in that area.

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Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

Geany (the only real Notepad++ replacement!)
tilda (quake style terminal)
tint2 (I was so omfgitsgoingintomypants when #! switched to it big_smile)
pidgin (seeing how good it is now helped me get away from Trillian and with that from Windows)
ddate (all hail to Eris)
SMPlayer (better subtitle handling than VLC)
Exaile (since all Winamp alternatives suck on Linux, I tried a different concept... and love it!)
slimrat (basically a perl CLI alternative for JDownloader)
Gnome-Do (holy shit! this is the most powerfull GUI launcher I've ever seen! Type in a buddy name and it opens up a pidgin window...)
ImageMagick (CLI image manipulation)
nano (c'mon, I don't wanna read a book to learn how VI or EMACS "work")

I'm so meta, even this acronym
  • Registered: 2009-05-13
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Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

Moc:When i want music but im doing something that takes a lot of CPU(like converting .avi files)
Exaile:When Cpu dont matter
Gedit:Who could really get by without it?
Terminator:The name speaks for it's self
Opera:I like it better than FireFox, it seems to use less CPU for flash
Conky:I could play with this app all day
Xchat:Got a lot of friends i like to talk to
Gyachi:Looks like crap, but works great for Yahoo Messenger
Fbpanel/Tint2:They each have there own little uses, and they are pretty much brothers after all
Openbox Menu:Because there is no faster menu in the west cool
TovidIt just works

These are things i use each and every day! And i really have no idea what i would do without any of them!

  • From: Saginaw, MI
  • Registered: 2009-08-04
  • Posts: 42

Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

Well.  Favorite Linux apps... do they have to be specific to Linux?

Either way, here we go:

Rhythmbox: Gotta have this for my internet radio as well as my music.  Awesome.
Specto: Love this for reminders of email and RSS feeds.
Pidgin: (Multi-platform, I know) I love this.  Perfect messenger.
Tomboy Notes: This, coupled with Tomfox in Firefox or Flock and Dropbox is great to keep your notes synced through many browsers and computers.
Firefox AND Flock: Again, both of these are multi-platform, but I love the expandability of both.
Gedit: Like slipshot said above, who could really get by without it?

There we go.  Some programs that are available for Windows and Mac, but most are Linux-only.

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  • Registered: 2009-09-13
  • Posts: 3

Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

Taskbar replacement :
Avant Window Navigator, bye bye taskbar, I just getting bored from having a bar somewhere in my desktop tongue

Music player :
Rhythmbox, nice ui, good plugin (desktop art) and easily controllable from various stuffs (like my awn music applet). Too bad the memory usage is quite high...

Movie player :
MPlayer, have tried many others, but this is the ones I've feel comfortable with, altough I want something like Media Player Classic...

Web Browser :
Firefox, can't live with some of it's plugins (DownThemAll!, Brief, Adblock+NoScript, GMail Notifier)

Text Editor :
Gedit, with the file browser sidepane and autocomplete plugin, I've ditched the resource hungry NetBeans...

Instant Messanging :
Pidgin, dunno, just used to it...

File manager :
Nautilus, all of the features really suites me and I'm using most of it quite frequently (tabs, bookmarks, tree, emblems, etc...)

Comic book reader :
Comix, easy-to-use, support most archive format, support manga mode (RTL), nice UI.

Notes :
Tomboy, love the rich text and export to HTML support...

Bittorrent client :
Deluge, has a good set of feature and I can manage my bandwith with just two clicks from the statusbar, good queueing system too...

Others :
- xkill, die you stupid application, don't you dare ruin my system wink
- sudo apt-get install / autoremove, to put (or reduce) more bloat in my system roll...

Too bad I can't say OpenOffice & GIMP. Since I'd still prefer Office 2007 (easily formats document to great look) and Photoshop (at least until GIMP changed it's UI, I can't stand the current UI)...

  • Registered: 2009-01-11
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Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

What I use on my tiny Eee all the time

rtorrent
nano
Opera (browsing/synch/notes)/Firefox(for add-ons)
terminator (looking to replace in the future)
pidgin (facebook chat keeps me onboard.  Got an alternative?)
dropbox/ubuntu one
htop
celtx, abiword
bleachbit, pysdm, xkill, gparted
gmusicbrowser
smplayer
irssi
homebank
play it slowly
adeskbar
wireshark
dmenu
remastersys
wicd
keepassx

games I would install if I wanted some: wesnoth, scummvm, dwarf fortress via wine, nethack

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Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

zile - like emacs, but with only the commands you actually use
apt-get - because speed kicks gui to the curb.
moc - picked it up via the #! blog and LOVE it! (So thanks whoever that was.)
totem - vlc repeatedly sucks suckiness.

And the usual gang of idiots: firefox, openoffice, pidgin, gimp, etc.

Two most underrated bits of linux wares not so necessary to me in #! so far:
emelfm - lightweight two panel file manager that appreciates fast keystrokes
icewm - fast, light, highly configurable and themeable wm. (Though I'm going to be a good sport and give Openbox a good run.)

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  • Registered: 2009-07-26
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Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

Hmm,

amarok (1.4)
XBMC
ssh
PMS
Samba

  • From: Sweden
  • Registered: 2009-05-19
  • Posts: 35

Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

A basic install for me (subject to change, of course);

Openbox
Nautilus (never did like pcmanfm)
Nitrogen
Firefox (adblock, stylish, gmail notifier)
foobar2000 (on that note, is there a viable non-wine alternative that can handle showing me my library by folder path instead of tags?)
PS CS4 (the gimp's competent, but I've used PS since 5.0)
Pidgin (latest WLM doesn't run in Wine yet (I love my messenger plus))
SMplayer (at least for me handles subs better than vlc)
xterm (gets the job done)
Deluge (locally)
rtorrent (remotely)
xfburn (has the features I need)
Conky (is there anyone who doesn't love it?)

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  • From: Linthicum MD
  • Registered: 2009-10-15
  • Posts: 32

Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

@ Savonlinna

http://snackamp.sourceforge.net/

SnackAmp has a media manager like many players, however it does NOT use the metadata to organize the tracks. It uses a simple folder tree that matches your directory structure allowing you to organize the tracks (and files) any way you see fit. SnackAmp does read the metadata from the tracks allowing to modify and search by tags as well as tools for moving your tracks around within the folder structures.

I haven't tried it as I've been using.....

MoC   great music player probably my favorite on my third day of use i know all the commands : )
ROX  file manager   light weight and has great right click customization
Seamonkey   I'm still looking for a better one then him
naim  does all I need
Gxine  for videos
Geany for a text editor

non computer
RockBox on my ipod
XDSL on my xbox1

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  • From: Sweden
  • Registered: 2009-05-19
  • Posts: 35

Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

^ Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out right away!

And on a side note, I've abandoned Pidgin in favor of emesene smile

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  • Registered: 2008-11-29
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Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

anonymous wrote:

OpenOffice.org - very good office suite

Dropped in favor of Abiword and Gnumeric. Its much faster and still good enough for my needs.

anonymous wrote:

Transmission - very light bittorrent client

Dropped in favor of rtorrent. A bit lighter and seems more reliable.

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Quod Libet - out of all the (GUI) audio players I tried, I like this interface the best.

Checkgmail - handy email notification for Gmail without a lot of dependencies.

Picard - very good tool for tagging your music (using the MusicBrainz database)

BleachBit - its like CCleaner but for Linux.

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  • From: Republic of Texas
  • Registered: 2009-09-20
  • Posts: 17

Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

In no particular order:

irssi
rtorrent
gparted (such a wonderful partitioning tool when compared to anything available on windows, I am constantly reformatting drives and i love this program)
conky
vlc

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Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

New favorite: Picard.  Thank you anonymous!  Now all the music I legally own is properly tagged.  (Well, everything but the concert recordings from archive.org...and certain unreleased songs I got directly from the songwriters themselves.)

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  • From: Denmark
  • Registered: 2010-06-19
  • Posts: 12

Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

Lets jump the wagon

Netbook~#!/Desktop~DebianLennyLxdeOpenbox

here we go:

Firefox/Iceweasel <3 Mouseless Browsing
gmrun (or alt+f3)/gmrun nearly never use the rest of the menu any longer
quod libet I use audacious/rhythmbox to grab radiostations though (QL fails there =/). The artist bookmark store in QL is golden. 
Pidgin but Irssi is slowly taking over
pcmanfm detailed list
imageviewer please direct me to one with a pane smile
gedit Oblivion theme with sidepane+f11 for full screen...... the lurve! wink
Audacity for a music teacher this is a must have
Hydrogen currently building a drum pattern library for use in class
Tux-guitar mostly making bass lines for use in class
xpad is very very vey usefull for work for keeping track of todo stuff (can be pretty damanding being the sole sys-admin on an entire school)
Terminator
Synaptic

Im sure there are other programs, but these are the top ones

  • From: New Amsterdam, U.S.
  • Registered: 2010-06-13
  • Posts: 425

Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

Ever since I've lost my Linux Box I've grown to miss certain applications a lot. I guess it's like the old saying goes, once you go Linux you don't go back.

xfce-terminal: In the later months of using Linux I've grown accustomed to using the terminal for tasks like editing the source list and downloading applications on fresh installs. It's my terminal of choice.
nano: My terminal text editor of choice. Leet users might say vim is the best but I enjoy being able to copy+paste and other such things with nano. Controls are so easy.
Synaptic: It's kind of like google for applications. When I needed a video recorder for my webcam I looked up 'webcam' and found Cheese which was exactly what I needed. I can't find one damn program like it for Windows.
Swiftfox: It was the browser I used when I needed something stable. It's built for speed and Linux. I'm still in love with it.
Minefield: I'm using the latest Minefield (4.0b2pre) and it's always fun. I love alphas and betas and release candidates. The current latest trunk is actually super-duper fast and I highly recommend it.
PCMan File Manager: The tabs are a big reason for it, another thing is it seems to be lighter then Thunar. I'd consider it an absolute MUST for a light OS.
Pidgin: I'll never love another instant messanger. There's nothing else to say.
Cheese: It's for recording webcam videos and taking pictures, has a lot of really neat filters. I love it.
Xfce: My window manager of choice. I've only tried Openbox once on a live CD and loved it a lot but I can't put it on the list because like I said, I've only used it once. Xfce is my main manager that I've practically always used on my Linux machine. Openbox was delicious though.
Banshee: It wasn't my original favorite, I used to be a huge Songbird person. The problem is that Songbird dropped Linux so I was like "Well [bleep] you too, mate." So I've been using Banshee and it's pretty sweet. I can't stand Exaile or Rhythmbox though. If you like it that's awesome just keep it away from me.

Edit: A list of other applications I use that I don't feel like giving a description for:
FrostWire, Frost, Freenet, Tor, AbiWord, Transmission, AWN and GIMP which loaded a hell of a lot faster on Linux then it does on Windows.

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Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

Okay, here is my list of applications:

- Sylpheed as email client; at this moment I do have both Windows and Linux installed on my laptop and they use the same mail directory; great!
- Opera as internet browser; stable, one of the fastest (using 10.60) and flexible
- Remmina remote desktop; for login on my work, stable and fast, better experience then Windows remote desktop
- Emesene as MSN messenger; simple and good working
- Openoffice; I removed all other stuff for office, Openoffice is my default at home for all office stuff
- Gedit; as my default 'Notepad', although startup is not the fastest and sometimes OO-Writer is accepting files where Gedit is not...
- GIMP as photo editor, although I do like Paint.net on Windows also (in fact it replaced GIMP on my Windows platform because of easy usage but GIMP does have more features)
- VLC as mediaplayer
- At this moment Thunar as filemanager, but this is one of the programs where I have used some alternatives also....

  • Registered: 2011-01-21
  • Posts: 16

Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

Here's my contribution:

Ayttm - simple, lightweight IM
Icedove - again, simple and lightweight mail application for my eeepc
synapse - because I don't want GnomeDo
RoxFile Manager - for same reasons as Dirtydav
Abiword - because OoO isn't lightweight^^
Gimp - good alternative for Photoshop
Openbox - though I want to test e17, just to see the difference...

Everything for a stable and lightweight config on my netbook laptop smile

  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2011-02-15
  • Posts: 116

Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

Firestarter
AbiWord
FlightGear
Torcs
Claws-Mail
Opera
Chromium
Kupfer
GIMP
InkScape
Zim
Nano
Rhythmbox
RipperX
Brasero

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  • From: turkey-izmir
  • Registered: 2010-02-01
  • Posts: 23

Re: What are your favourite Linux applications?

* Firefox 4
* jDownloader
* VLC
*clementine player