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
I really like the disk usage analyzer in gnome. The ui/visualization is really intuitive and useful, and I often wish for something similar on windows.
I’m not sure what the gnome disk usage analyzer looks like but WizTree on windows is excellent at showing you where stuff is and how much space it takes up
Is that like WinDirStat?
Exactly like it but waaaay faster. Something about the protocol it uses speeds up things quite a bit
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It scans the NTFS file table instead of the individual files, which is much faster. It does require administrative permissions though.
Here’s a screenshot of the Gnome one, which is actually called baobob:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baobab_screenshot.png
Wiztree looks interesting, I’ll see if I can install it, although my work machine is pretty locked down, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s off limits.
I use SpaceSniffer for Windows but it uses the rectangular view not the pie. I do like the pie.
If you’re on Windows I highly suggest you try Wiztree it’s really fast. It scans an 8 TB HDD in like <10 seconds.
Kubernetes, Docker and mpv.
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!
I just read the comments under this thread and while most of them mention standard stuff (the things most people use on Linux) there are some interesting things in there too! :)
Either evolution nheko or console. Even though a terminal emulator is a cop out
Bottles. Makes getting stuff working on WINE 10x easier.
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Definitely the clipboard manager. On kde, it’s klipper. This is actually such an underrated piece of software that I can’t live without. Windows has one too, but they added their’s a little after all the linux desktop environments got one by default.
Firefox, emacs, grep, konsole
Mixxx is the only Linux-native DJ software that I know of, but it’s still amazing. If it’s missing featutes compared with Serato or Recordbox I’m not good enough to miss them yet, and the features it doea have are damn impressive.
Likewise, Inkscape and Gimp are both great. I know that Gimp takes a lot of heat for not being as “good” as Photoshop, but it’s just different. The few times I’ve tried Photoshop were as painful to me as Gimp seems to be for others. And since I don’t need the CMYK functionality that Gimp is missing, I’m happy with Gimp.
LaTeX has a steep learning curve, but using anything else for documents is like stone knives and bearskins in comparison.
To add to Inkscape and GIMP, Krita is also pretty damn nice.
LaTeX has a steep learning curve, but using anything else for documents is like stone knives and bearskins in comparison.
Have you seen or tried “typst” yet? It’s a modern alternative to LaTeX. Haven’t tried it yet but looks promising.
Thanks for that, it looks much nicer than Latex!
Easy Effects is such a great program. Very good for doing all sorts of effects on audio. Great for filters and EQ.
I do like my easy effects, absolutely no competition for anything I’ve ever used on windows
If based on the thing I used most then it has to be Firefox!
If you want something more trivial but personal,
openttd- the best game ever. :)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
Being a flutter dev (and shameless fanboy) I will suggest people try:
appflowy - a FOSS near-clone to Notion.
spotube - FOSS music streaming using the spotify API for metadata and youtube for music playing/downloading. Completely free of ads and works surprisingly well as long as the music you like is mirrored to YouTube.
honourable mentions:
Plex, Nextcloud, Radarr, Sonarr, qbittorrent. Not your usual apps for these kinds of threads but they’re absolutely top-tier for linux home servers.
How I never heard of Spotube?
I never know spotube, this is first time! WOW!
I think I can start put it into my uncle smartphone.
I do still pay for spotify premium, because their service is awesome. Welp…
It’s not a drop in replacement for spotify, of course. It just uses Spotify’s public API for fetching playlists and routes them through Youtube to play the audio of music videos hosted there, but as a free option it’s one of my faves :).
If you want podcasts or certain spotify-only remixes you’ll still need spotify.
Wow it’s available for Android too, it’s even on the Play Store (which I didn’t expect)!
Yup, it’s Flutter so it’s easy to port to other platforms. There’s Mac, Windows and iOS builds too!
Does Hyprland count? It’s so effortlessly slick
