Handy Must Know Linux Applications

[Tinuva]

I have been using brave since alpha version and I swear I didn't know it has tor in incognito mode. Great to know!

Was one of the first things I noticed when testing it, and I was like, got to test this and I literally browsed a few random sites with it on the tor network. I guess not everyone looks at the menus.

 

[r00igev@@r]

bpytop

I have it on open on my host session. People think I'm working but I'm having a nap.

 

[RonSwanson]

bpytop

I have it on open on my host session. People think I'm working but I'm having a nap.

Does it prevent Skype and Teams from giving a yellow "away" dot?

 

[r00igev@@r]

Does it prevent Skype and Teams from giving a yellow "away" dot?

Its not really my fault is it if you make me fall asleep on an online session.

Most people put their video off so that people can't see that they are sleeping.

 

[Jerepigo]

Vifm has been great as my file manager.

 

[leafhead]

I've tried all kinds of things but now I stick with Void Linux (and Devuan in one instance) and XFCE4.
I use Deadbeef for my music player. I make sure that LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Transmission, and Filezilla are installed. I also use the Seafile & Seadrive clients to stream/sync from my server (Ubuntu server 20.04) running Seafile Server.
I use Dolphin (file manager) and Baloo (file indexer) because that's the only way I can get to see mp3 durations (I'm a radio DJ and use Mixxx for broadcasting/recording). Oh yes... I like the plank dock!
That's about it.

 

[BrandonJ]

My go to applications

Thunderbird
Brave browser
Gimp
Libre office

All the others are nice to have

Visual Studio
VLC
Apache2 (Moving to Nginx)
Mysql (Moving to mariadb)
and other specalised applications

Been an Ubuntu user since version 6.04, now on 22.04 (not for not having tried debian, centos, mint, and a variety of other variants)

*PS I hate windows, i can't see through them.

 

[r00igev@@r]

bpytop

I have it on open on my host session. People think I'm working but I'm having a nap.

Moved to the btop binaries so I don't have to drap python along...

 

[BrandonJ]

Was one of the first things I noticed when testing it, and I was like, got to test this and I literally browsed a few random sites with it on the tor network. I guess not everyone looks at the menus.

View attachment 927269

It's a chrome based browser. Like Chrome I found it sometimes pushing my i7 to 90+ degrees at times.

 

[gotaway]

Does it prevent Skype and Teams from giving a yellow "away" dot?

Teams … blackhole presence.teams.microsoft.com
You’re flying blind, but you’re doing it incognito

 

[oldBastard]

Don't know if I ever shared it here, but this is my go to ls cmd

ls -lathr (pronounce as lather, but drop the e)

l - Long Format
a - All files
t - Sort by modification time
h - human readable
r -reverse order

So in combination t and r wil show the oldest first and the newest last, which is helpful if your Downloads folder is full of crap, as mine, and want to show the latest downloaded file, it will be the last file listed.

 

[techie1998]

Geany (just for the Ctrl+Alt+Shift column select function)
gedit (because it is so simple)
R (the stats and machine learning modules are really easy to use)

 

[garyc]

Alt + SysRq , because you will end up using it.

 

[gotaway]

Don't know if I ever shared it here, but this is my go to ls cmd

ls -lathr (pronounce as lather, but drop the e)

l - Long Format
a - All files
t - Sort by modification time
h - human readable
r -reverse order

So in combination t and r wil show the oldest first and the newest last, which is helpful if your Downloads folder is full of crap, as mine, and want to show the latest downloaded file, it will be the last file listed.

Prefer ls -ltra
h is horrible because bytes matter (sometimes)