What Are Your MUST-HAVE Applications/Utilities?

These are my main installs after a clean build:

  • Nix package manager, with these utilities (shared with all non-NixOS VMs):
  • fish, fd, bat, micro, ncdu, inxi, duf, unison
  • Visual Studio Code, pyenv, rustup
  • Vivaldi, scrcpy, LibreOffice fresh
  • QEMU w/libvirt, virt-manager
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If it didn’t come with the EOS (KDE) installation:

  • vulkan-radeon
  • mesa
  • Glances
  • Systemmonitor
  • Flatpak
  • Pacseek
  • kio-admin
  • Fastfetch
  • KCharSelect
  • pacman-contrib
  • base-devel
  • yay
  • Meld
  • UnRAR
  • KDE Partition Manager
  • Brave
  • KeePassXC
  • LibreOffice fresh
  • GIMP
  • aspell aspell-de
  • mpv
  • Strawberry
  • Filelight
  • yt-dlp
  • KTorrent
  • ISO Image Writer
  • Borg
  • Vorta
  • KPatience
  • Steam
  • bluez-obex
  • snapper / snap-pac
  • Btrfs Assistant / btrfsmaintenance
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Great lists. . . combine them all into one and and write a script for terminal that will download them all from all AUR and Endeavour directories. I’m all in . . . . any one else want to help me write this?

Rich :wink:

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Great lists! Without repeating them I’ll add some more of my favorites:

  • solaar
  • simple-scan
  • terminator
  • rami
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If it is not there with KDE then

  1. Kbackup
  2. KContact + Kmail
  3. Kdevelop
  4. KolourPaint
  5. Krita
  6. KGet

And apart from these

  1. Octopi
  2. bauh
  3. Steam
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Amazing and very interesting thread @UncleSpellbinder
I wish we end up having a full complete list of all possible apps.

I am thinking of something like a table containing each single app with a brief description hopefully categorized in categories and sub categories.

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i do even beta testing it for a very long time.. it is not perfect but way better compared to libre office for me . Sad that they also go the same path as all the others forcing to 365 pay model.

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There is one already.

I don’t know if this contains “all possible apps” but it seems to be quite exhaustive:

Enjoy exploring!

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I’ve read this and have checked out a lot of the apps. . . pretty extensive. . . . a good compilation of what’s out there . . . .

Rich :wink:

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KDE
Floorp (Firefox alternative)
Tidal Hi-Fi
Steam
VLC
Mullvad VPN + DNS
PCloud (appimage)
Corectrl
Lutris
LosslessCut
MakeMKV
Handbrake
Libreoffice Fresh
Pikaur (yay alternative that tried to ask all user inputs at the start of the build)
Pacseek
Btop
Netspeed widget
Snapper/snap-pac/grub-btrfs etc. for rollback support
ProtonPass
Clone
SSHFS (for android phone file access)
Factorio

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gimp
blender
darktable
7zip
cfdisk
ffmpeg
openjdk
git
micro
geany
yt-dlp
cpupower
btop
mpv
keepassxc
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You can still buy the perpetual licenses. It will be interesting to see what happens in the future. I won’t be subscribing.

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thanks @cactux
I am looking for doing something like this:
KDE Apps with Windows Alternatives.pdf (144.2 KB)

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Probably forgot a few but use these in every OS…
(edited)…

Audio_Images_Video
1 Audacity
2 Audaciuos
3 ffmpeg
4 Handbrake
5 Jellyfin
6 MakeMKV
7 MKVtoolnix
8 mpv
9 Shotcut
10 SMPlayer
11 Tartube
12 XnViewMP (Irfanview if I use Wine)
13 yt-dlp
Browsers
1 FireFox
2 FloorP
3 LibreWolf
4 SRWare Iron
5 Tor
Misc
1 Betterbird
2 Protonmail Bridge
3 qBittorent
PC_Tools_Stuff
1 Balena Etcher
2 eFRInd boot manager
3 Gparted
4 Gscan2PDF
5 KDE Partiton Manager
6 LibreOffice
7 Master PDF Editor
8 Nemo
9 Okular
10 Psensor
11 Ventoy
Security_Backup
1 MullvadVPN
2 OpenSnitch
3 TimeShift
4 Veracrypt
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Indeed!

Thanks.

I’ll have to bookmark this topic and come back to it.

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fish  
keepassxc  
librewolf  
steam  
tigervnc  
localsend  
apcaccess  
filezilla  
putty  
glances  
timeshift  
mc  
dd
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Just a simple user here. I only game and use the internet. Out of my mind i install

  1. Steam
  2. Lutris
  3. Drivers related for gaming (nvidia)
  4. Pinta (like windows paint)
  5. EOS update notifier
  6. Gnome disk utility (to add a mount point to my second drive)

The list is small, i don’t even use office :face_with_peeking_eye:

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Yeah it surprised me too.
My daughter used it in high school but never really liked it. It is excellent but different to work with she said. She used MS office but recently switched to libreoffice.
Still trying to get her on Linux haha

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@fred666 This is one step in the right direction.
My advice, do not try “to get her on Linux”, let her come on her own, let her discover it herself.

I mean just a simple chat Why did you switch sweetie from MS office to LibreOffice" Then take what she answers and explain how this is a result of opensource software, then how is MS office as a proprietary software was inferior, then Windows is proprietary VS Linux is open source, so the same rules and experience “may” apply, let her “research” it herself and get back to you what she finds about stability, responsiveness, security, virus free,… let her find out herself.

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How different? Did she try KDE? It is almost the same. What desktop she used in high school?

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