What Are Your MUST-HAVE Applications/Utilities?

General system Applications
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I know. I did not miss the point. I just commented on a sub point!

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This is a Thread about software Applications that one must Have Please keep it on TOPIC.

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I love EOS & have it installed on various devices for various purposes, usually with KDE Plasma but 1 (HTPC) with XFCE. Apps/utes vary by devices’ purpose but I always reach for:

Sys

  • lts & headers
  • perl-rename
  • cronie
  • inxi
  • timeshift
  • btrfs tools & grub menu & autosnaps
  • gparted
  • dd / ddrescue
  • smartmontools (mainly for spinning rust in the past, may start using again for ssd)
  • htop/btop
  • yay
  • firewall (usually firewalld) & if a server then fail2ban with multiple filters of increasing ban severity
  • nano (yeah I’m one of those :blush: )
  • relevant gpu drivers & tools (eg: nvidia, nvidia-settings, nvtop…)
  • .bashrc (aliases for the win)

Media

  • yt-dlp
  • ffmpeg
  • kid3
  • okular
  • gwenview
  • pinta
  • vlc

Comms/Net

  • brave
  • thunderbird
  • hexchat
  • ssh & sshfs
  • curl / wget
  • bluetooth (usually bluez, bluez-utils, blueman)
  • kde-connect
  • proton-vpn
  • transmission
  • keepassxc

Games

  • wine
  • heroic games launcher
  • steam
  • bash (1-liner automation is FUN! :upside_down_face:)

Also use OpenOffice on a laptop used for such purpose, KDE Connect very useful with that too (file transfer, copy/paste, SMS…).

And just recently started using arch-audit-gtk for critical update notifications & find it handy.

There are others that come and go but I think that’s most of them.

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On EOS, with kde plasma and btrfs file system, the software I add is this:

> System

* gparted
* isoimagewriter
* etcher-bin
* ventoy-bin
* os-prober-btrfs
* btrfs-assistant 
* btrfs-progs 
* btrfsmaintenance 
* grub-btrfs 
* snapper 
* inotify-tools 
* snap-pac
* cpu-x
* gpu-viewer
* flilelight
* kdiskmark
* kdiskfree
* fastfetch
* flatpak

App Center

* octopi
* pamac-all

Browsers and Internet

* brave-bin
* qbittorrent
* thunderbird

Communication

* discord
* telegram-desktop
* whatsapp-for-linux

Graphics

* gimp
* krita
* inkscape
* kolourpaint

Multimedia

* vlc
* mpv
* hypnotix
* obs-studio
* handbrake
* vidcutter
* video-trimmer

Office

* arianna
* libreoffice-still

Games

* steam
* bottles
* lutris
* heroic-games-launcher
* scummvm
* dosbox
* wine
* wine-gecko
* wine-mono
* goverlay
* mangohud
* gamescope
* vkbasalt

For other KDE distros, obviously Haruna or Okular, or Gwenview would not be missing. All very useful tools. In fact, I possibly install them even on distros with a desktop environment other than KDE, for me they are essential.

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Could not locate the packages flilelight and kdiskfree in Arch repositories or in AUR.

Also for isoimagewriter, does this allow to create bootable ISOs with persistence? And if there was a flash usb stick of say 16GB having 4 ext4 partitions, then will it be able to install 4 different bootable ISOs into each partition? Say one is System Rescue, the other is AntiX, the other is Ultimate Boot CD and finally the fourth is Clonezila?

Thanks for cpu-x, kdiskmark. Though I wish kdiskmark would be able to report on how my bytes/GB/TB/PB have already been written to the SSD disk so as to get a better visibility on the wear level of SSD.

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My list is short:

LibreWolf
Transmission
Nicotine+
mpc/mpd
mpdscribble
ncmpcpp
Easytag
Sublime Text
Nano

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filelight? not flile

kdiskfree = kdf:

1 extra/kdf 25.04.0-1 (629.5 KiB 1.3 MiB) [kde-applications kde-utilities]
    View Disk Usage

I use qdirstat :smiley:

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Interesting, how does it work?

Just a few more that were not cited:

  • ruby-fusuma + dotool (custom gestures under wayland)
  • julia
  • ttf-comic-mono-git (!)
  • (francis)
  • zram-generator
  • signal-desktop
  • xdg-ninja
  • pdf-arranger
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Nicotine+ is just a GTK frontend for Soulseek.