I have some feelings about how long Plume stayed in Ubuntu’s repos. It still downloads with the publishing packages of Studio 
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Offers far, far more built in. Tracks characters, locations, etc. Easy shuffling of chapters, story bible, sometimes timelines. I like having custom spell checking. There’s more, too.
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Another great feature is exporting. When writing a novel specifically, sometimes you have ideas that you explore or notes that won’t be part of your final document.
With apps like novelWriter, you can easily export just the content you want the readers to see without having to worry that you’ll need to edit the PDF/EPUB and remove notes and ideas from the actual novel.
PS: In fact, I just remembered that this is one of the main reasons I’ve kept novelWriter even though I’m not actually using it. When it comes time for me to publish, I’ll export to novelWriter and then have it organise the final output. That is, if Obsidian makes it too cumbersome or doesn’t do it the way I want.
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Quickemu, an installer/launcher of virtual machines, can download the iso image of a Linux/BSD distribution and create a default configuration.
- Operating Systems: alma alpine android antix archlinux archcraft arcolinux batocera blendos bodhi bunsenlabs
cachyos centos-stream debian deepin devuan dragonflybsd easyos edubuntu elementary endeavouros endless
fedora freebsd freedos garuda gentoo ghostbsd haiku holoiso kali kdeneon kolibrios kubuntu linuxlite linuxmint
lmde mageia manjaro mxlinux netboot netbsd nixos lubuntu macos openbsd openindiana opensuse oraclelinux
peppermint popos porteus reactos rebornos rockylinux siduction slackware solus spiral tails tinycore trisquel
truenas-core truenas-scale ubuntu ubuntu-budgie ubuntucinnamon ubuntukylin ubuntu-mate ubuntu-server
ubuntustudio ubuntu-unity vanillaos void vxlinux windows xerolinux xubuntu zorin
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As if I already didn’t have enough things to play with in my limited time… cheers. 
Sardonicism aside. That looks pretty brilliant. Thanks for sharing.
I have recently discovered Mission Center it
- Monitor overall or per-thread CPU usage
- See system process, thread, and handle count, uptime, clock speed (base and current), cache sizes
- Monitor RAM and Swap usage
- See a breakdown how the memory is being used by the system
- Monitor Disk utilization and transfer rates
- Monitor network utilization and transfer speeds
- See network interface information such as network card name, connection type (Wi-Fi or Ethernet), wireless speeds and frequency, hardware address, IP address
- Monitor overall GPU usage, video encoder and decoder usage, memory usage and power consumption, powered by the popular NVTOP project
- See a breakdown of resource usage by app and process
- Supports a minified summary view for simple monitoring
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And if the distro you want to install is not in the list, you can do it manually. Create the distro directory, copy/download the iso file in it and create a config file looking like this :
#!/usr/bin/quickemu --vm
guest_os="linux"
disk_img="salix64-xfce-15.0/disk.qcow2"
iso="salix64-xfce-15.0/salix64-xfce-15.0.iso"
that’s it.
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there’s a flatpak of this and there is all sorts of versions on github. it looks cool though, so which one do you trust?
I went to the AUR version mission-center. I like it cause it monitors all sorts of stuff including my graphics cards temp
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What a simple, but awesome tool to search the text-based contents of a file/system. This includes text files, log files, pacman output, etc.
And of course there are ugrep and ripgrep which are enhanced versions of this tool.
With ripgrep, you can search for so much more. Gonna start using it today.
PS: Just saw that someone else mentioned these before, but it was over 100 replies ago, so…
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The grep tools are so good, it bears repeating anyway!
Have you ever tried to use that little search box in the Windows “File Explorer” application? It’s so agonizingly slow, and sometimes just hangs without doing anything even when you are doing a search which should be fairly straightforward. We have to use Windows at work and I just can’t understand why it is so bad.
By comparison, the grep tools are insanely fast and reliable. With the snap of a finger I can search through all my Git repos, documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, even compressed archives and it’s practically instantaneous compared to the Windows tool.
Three cheers for grep! 
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I don’t really think flatpak should be used when an AUR/native version exists esp for a system utility like this.
Whats not been said is this is a Windows Task Manager clone, which is a very good thing. I always found it so much nicer than the various Linux system monitors.
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Yep. I used to think my computer was slow when I’d do searches on W1ndoze. Turns out it was just the OS.
Clone is a strong word, but I get what you mean. Stacer and btop come the closest (IMHO) to being as feature-rich as the w1n task manager, but they are usually missing something, or in the case of btop, it’s not necessarily as user-friendly or straightforward.
I do too in most instances but had a subpar experience with AUR epsonscan2 package (connection problems) and just fine with the Flatpak. Hit and miss with the AUR. My tried and true Ungoogled Chromium was also wigyy in the AUR version and better in the Flatpak.
those are about the only two apps in my flatpak list.
I prefer AUR too but sometimes it just doesn’t work out. edit-formatting
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Facts. Right now I have to be using the direct GitHub source build of qimgv because the AUR version stopped working on my system even after removing it completely and reinstalling.
And for some apps, like Freetube, I just prefer the Appimage because that’s how I first tested it and it worked. If it ain’t broke…
I like Stancer but: " This project has been abandoned. There will be no further releases". Two years since last update.
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I know I’m running a risk, but it still works lol. Gonna uninstall it now, though, because I didn’t really check why there weren’t any updates. So, thanks for mentioning this.
I’ve been using Mission Center for a while now (AUR version, I try to avoid Flatpaks). And it really is a great utility. And while it does look great on it’s own, I wish it integrated better with the look of KDE. Still, I love it!
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