For me, it’s hands down Flameshot. The best screenshot tool in the world - I’ve got it hooked up to my PrtScrn key for super easy screenshots.
I also love Kwrite as a Notepad++ alternative, and KolourPaint as a MSPaint alternative
rofi/dmenu for scripts, mpv and Tauon Music Box
Timeshift…
Foliate <3
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.
I’ll have to try kasts and okular, at the moment I’m using castbox as a PWA which doesn’t suck but generally desktop apps feel nicer to use
Graphical:
Non-graphical:
Ansible + Podman from Red Hat really a game changer in Industry Standard. Sometimes I want to just say, Fk Docker because they don’t listen from security perspective, until Red Hat made Podman, and they are thinking… (3 years), then implement the rootless container… same on HPC… fk docker…
Fuck docker! All my homies use podman!
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.
I believe the linux Deb is still “unofficial”
I’m a bit of a fan of Okular. It just does a good job displaying PDFs and is not annoying. The table of content works well if the document has one. There is text select and block select for when you need to get content out of the PDF. You can tell Okular to ignore DRM with a simple checkbox in the settings, for files that “don’t allow” selecting and copying text or “don’t allow” printing.
Okular also has vim keys for navigating.
My only complaint about Okular is when it comes to form fillable PDFs. I usually prefer using the inbuilt Firefox pdf reader for those.
I’m not gonna mention the basics like Kate. They’re great but nothing new.
My 2 hidden gems that I use on a daily basis are:
Wow, I’ve never seen QOwnNotes before! It looks appealing. I’ll have to check it out
Does Hyprland count? It’s so effortlessly slick
Krita. It is so good I cant believe it is free
Honestly I didn’t know Kirta was free because the first time I saw it was on Steam, later found out it was free but it’s such a good product I’m happy I found it there first.
I like KDE Connect quite a bit. Its a great tool to show of in front of my Windows friends and super usefull for media control.
Thanks for the recommendation, I installed Flameshot on Windows and it’s quite a bit better than the built-in tool.
you’re on windows, get sharex. It’s miles ahead of anything else. It’s the only thing I miss from daily driving windows.
Docker, btop, grim, foot.
+1 for
btop- so much easier to find and kill runaway processes.
- 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.
