Shortwave is by far my favorite radio app. Simple interface, auto records songs, access to thousands of radio stations from all over the world, and when scaled down, it turns into a little retro radio interface!
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I literally live inside the combo of
- #Firefox
- #Evolution
- #Emacs
- #Alacritty
- #GIMP
And very rarely leave the comfort of my cozy habitat 😁
At work, I'm "forced" to use a Mac but thanks to #FOSS I've got the whole combo setup on my work laptop too except Evolution sadly.
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Basic but the nemo file manager
Just feels right to use for me
I like Nemo as well!
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Perhaps a controversial opinion, but I quite like Mailspring as a desktop email client. It looks and feels much more modern than Thunderbird or Evolution.
Why is it a controversial opinion? Mailspring is a great email client. I've been using it for a year now.
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I'd say the terminal, although its not linux exclusive and kind of a cheat answer. Flameshot is also a staple for me, I use it everywhere.
MPV comes to mind, although its also available in windows.
WebCord instead of Discord
I still can't believe Discord operates in the 2015 GNU/Linux mindset of handing the user a DEB package and telling them to f off. But then again it labels its chatrooms "servers" in the client so what do I know.
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The Caja file manager. Hell the MATE desktop environment in general is just perfect for me. Xfce is acceptable too, though the inclusion of CSD in recent Xfce releases has made me a bit more wary of it when it comes to theming.
I also use Waterfox as my browser. A Firefox fork that has the option to put tabs below address bar (where they belong imo) out of the box without needing to muck around with the userChrome.css file.
- Newsboat Lightweight, custom rich, with very cool look on terminal.
- Doom Emacs Very hard to use. But once you got it, nothin can beat its multi-function note!
- Freeplane Must have software to mapping everything you want perfectly and very lightweight brain-mapping.
Easy Effects is such a great program. Very good for doing all sorts of effects on audio. Great for filters and EQ.
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Carla and QJackCTL for me. So much easier than having to haul around all my amps, pedals, etc.
I can't decide which one is my favourite. But thanks for the tipp, flameshot seems really amazing!
Kasts for podcasts, since it sync with Gpoddersync on my nextcloud.
Spectacle always makes me smile with how easy and featureful it is for a screenshot app.
Okular is a better PDF viewer than any proprietary app I've used.
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- Firefox
- Jellyfin
- (when I get it to work) KDE connect
- krita
- aMule
- riced xfce
- riced kde plasma
Micro. It's a terminal text/code editor that shares keybindings with modern text editors.
Whenever I use gnome I install the material-shell extension. I love the tiling.
Reaper, OBS, and Davinci Resolve.
- patched dwm
- polybar
- kitty
- a ton of tui's (mutt, ncspot, cointop, btop, dry, etc)
- obsidian
- vscode
- rofi, thunar
- blender and daz3d (wine)
- discord, element
The only real piece of software I don't like is Zoom; it's the most badly behaved app I've ever seen. Suck my balls Zoom, stay in your own god damned workspace.
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I really like Setzer. It does everything I need from a latex editor and looks much nicer than other editors I have used on windows imo
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- vim / neovim
- Signal desktop
- thunderbird & evolution
- firefox & vivaldi
- VL frickin C!
- qbittorrent
- docker
- axel
- zsh & bash
- vscode
- wireshark
- Konsole / Terminator
- Standard notes
- xed or geany
I guess it's probably also available for servers but the most innovative and interesting peace of software I used in years is Distrobox, I like the AUR and love Debian and Fedora so that's a bridge I have been waiting for!
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Neovim.
Does Hyprland count? It's so effortlessly slick
Telegram Desktop is pretty good.
Pinta. It's like paint.net but works on Linux. Quick and simple way to edit images on Linux.
Nothing Linux only but:
- Firefox
- OnlyOffice
- mpv
- DoubleCommander
Zathura, Firefox, VS Code, Remmina, Virt-Manager, hexchat, drawing, Master PDF, PlayOnLinux+Wine, LibreOffice, GVIm, Pragha, XFCE Terminal (But font broken in Fedora)