The majority of the apps are EnOS generated - mostly by @manuel. Others are scripts that make use of good tools more easily than by commandline access alone. For instance, reflector is a tool for generating mirrorlist for Arch - and reflector-simple is a GUI interface that eases (and speeds) its use.
Another is the eos-shifttime, which simplifies accessing the Arch Archives for previous versions of things that have been updated. It adds a mini-GUI and pre-chooses the simpler way to use it - and @manuel tidied it up for EnOS use (it was originally a little tool for my use on an EnOS-based server).
None of them do anything you can’t get done otherwise - but all of them ease your journey!
And there are the translators in this community who made the Welcome app appear in many languages.
As @freebird54 mentioned, mostly the purpose of the apps is to make usage of the system easier, and help get started. They hopefully are useful for people new to the Arch world, and possibly even linux veterans too (although veterans tend to have their own way).
Most of them are implemented on top of common linux or Arch tools (like reflector-simple on top of reflector, or eos-update on top of pacman and yay).
Maybe there are some flatpak users here. There is an article on ostechnix about the warehouse program to manage flatpaks efficiently. If anyone is interested I have the link here
Some parts may need to be updated but all in all it looks to be a pretty alright list of open source alternative applications and sites for some internet platforms.
If you know of other applications or sites not on the list and if you feel like to you could perhaps open an issue and let the developer know.
It s been around for a bit, but I recently installed Lossless Cut. No nonsense, and easy to use app. The best non terminal audio/video-splitting app I ve found for Linux so far.
I checked in on NovelWriter again, something I stopped using about a year ago. It’s come a long way since then, to the point where I can completely replace Scrivener the included “Cyberpunk Night” theme is awesome.
Yeah, the developer really loves the app she created. I hope it’s being funded well, as I stopped donating when I switched to Obsidian.
Still have it on my system in case I ever wanna switch back, though I’m unlikely to because I now see that Kate is actually really good as a “novel writer” since it has global (file content) search like Obsidian.
It might have been Manuskript (which I’ve also used and experienced some major crashes with). NovelWriter seems much more stable, though it’s still a good idea to make backups
And to keep using the currently working version, make a copy of your novel, then test the new version with it for a like week’s worth of writing. If all goes well, then you can delete the old version.
This and backlinking/linking. You can click on a character or location name, and see how they all link throughout your novel/essay/whatever. A feature in Obsidian as well.
In a regular text editor like Kate, you’d have to do a file content search for the directory, which works just the same, but being able to click is nice.
PS: File content search for a whole directory is usually a missing feature in regular text editors. Kate is one of the few exceptions.
the included “Cyberpunk Night” theme is awesome.