Trying to discover new/unheard Linux desktop programs (Sorry for the confusion).

Edit: I apologise for confusing a lot of people. I meant Linux desktop “programs” coming from Windows/Mac. I’m used to calling them “apps”.

Edit: 🙌 I’m overwhelmed with the great “programs” people have recommended in the comment section. Thank you guys.

  • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    8 days ago

    If you like gaming:

    For the CLI:

    • land@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      1 month ago

      This is fantastic! Thank you for taking the time to write all that down.

    • cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 month ago

      Brilliant list! Starred this to go through it in detail later.

      EDIT: A good deal of overlap with me on the type of applications I already use, so looking forward to discovering other hidden gems I haven’t yet found.

  • Guenther_Amanita@slrpnk.net
    2·
    1 month ago

    Logseq.

    What is Logseq?

    It’s a non-linear note taking app that allows smart linking and is made as a second brain.

    It makes use of the Zettelkasten system, where, in theory, you make notes of everything and categorize it. Over time, you offload your brain and make it free for more productive stuff.

    Logseq is often considered as a FOSS alternative to Obsidian.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nz
      0·
      1 month ago

      Do you feel like offloading stuff into your notes helps your cognition?

      • Guenther_Amanita@slrpnk.net
        1·
        1 month ago

        Yeah, definitely, especially at work.
        It really helped me to switch off my “work brain”, because I know, that everything I did today is written down, and I don’t have to keep things in my mind anymore after work. Doing that was a blessing for my stress level and mental health.

        It also gives me the edge above my colleagues that I “remember” everything I did in the last months, which is nice when my boss wants to know details of a project I did a year ago.

        I basically can’t even remember what I did 5 minutes ago (ADHD says hello), but I know exactly where I can find that knowledge. This frees up my working memory (psychological term, not related to work) immensely. It’s basically like transfering more tasks onto your hard drive instead of keeping it in the RAM.

        It’s also great to give me an graphical overview of all I think and work on all day, and unveals connections I never thought of between different topics.

        For private use, it’s also great as a journal, though I gave up on that because I’m too busy for it and it cost too much time in my everyday life. But I still use it daily for normal note taking, e.g. results of some experiments at home, hobbies, thoughts, and much more.

        • Fizz@lemmy.nz
          1·
          1 month ago

          Fuck you I’m sold. That sounds so useful if I can stick with it enough.

          • Guenther_Amanita@slrpnk.net
            1·
            1 month ago

            That sounds so useful if I can stick with it enough.

            That’s my main issue for private use. At my job, I never had problems sticking with the habit of writing everything down. I work in a science job, and documentation is key there. So, I basically get paid for exactly that.

            But in my free time, the whole concept of task management, knowledge offloading, and more, is a bit harder for me, especially when I come home tired.

            Welcome in the life of someone with ADHD. I need my life to be organized, but have a hard time with exactly that. It’s like needing to find your contact lenses because you dropped them…

        • fossphi@lemm.eeEnglish
          0·
          1 month ago

          All of this makes sense, but I still can’t wrap my head around the “finding” of information. How do you search for it? Do you remember keywords or the location of the note (this I feel like maybe defeats the purpose of Logseq’s write anywhere idea)

          • Guenther_Amanita@slrpnk.net
            1·
            1 month ago

            I use a mix of

            • Search bar, very powerful
            • The graph overview, which allows me to “hunt” for the thing I need
            • Filters
            • And a lot of tags, aliases and crosslinks
  • muhyb@programming.dev
    1·
    1 month ago

    Because you asked about “apps”, people are replying with mobile apps. I think you wanted to write “programs” considering the community. Maybe you should edit this

  • macniel@feddit.de
    1·
    1 month ago

    KDE Itinerary. To keep all your travel (rail tickets, hotel reservations…) documents and Infos in one place.

    Tokodon/Tuba a great mastodon client for KDE and GNOME respectively

    Lollypop a beautiful and useful Mediaplayer and Jukebox for GNOME.

    Geary a great mail client by the same developer as Lollypop, also for GNOME.

  • Ramin Honary@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    Emacs.

    Emacs is an app platform in and of itself, and the vanilla installation comes with dozens of its own apps pre-installed. Like how web apps are all programmed in JavaScript, Emacs apps are all programmed in Lisp. All Emacs apps are scriptable and composable in Lisp. Unlike on the web, Emacs encourages you to script your apps to automate things yourself.

    Emacs apps are all text based, so they all work equally well in both the GUI and the terminal.

    Emacs comes with the following apps pre-installed:

    • a text editor for both prose and computer code
    • note taking and organizer called Org-mode (sort of like Obsidian, or Logseq)
    • a file browser and batch file renamer called Dired
    • a CLI console and terminal emulator
    • a terminal multiplexer (sort-of like “Tmux”)
    • a process manager (sort-of like “Htop”)
    • a simple HTML-only web browser
    • man-page and info page browser
    • a wrapper around the Grep and Find CLI tools
    • a wrapper around SSH called “Tramp”
    • e-mail client
    • IRC client
    • revion control system, including a Git porcelain called “Magit”
    • a “diff” tool
    • ASCII art drawing program
    • keystroke recorder and playback

    Some apps that I install into Emacs include:

    • “Mastodon.el” Mastodon client
    • “Elfeed” RSS feed reader
    • “consult” app launcher (sort-of like “Dmenu”)
    • the_doktor@lemmy.zip
      1·
      1 month ago

      I’ll stick with nano over Esc+Meta+Alt+Ctrl+Shift, thanks. I mean, it’s an interesting operating system, but too bad its default text editor sucks.

      (This from someone who used to use “pull the power plug to exit” vim…)

  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 month ago

    The first things I install on a fresh linux install are always htop (task manager) and micro (nano but better).

  • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
    1·
    1 month ago

    edir to mass-rename

    fd is more convenient than find

    aria2 makes downloads go brr with parameters -x 10 -k 5M and is integrated with multiple tools like yt-tlp, yay

    Oh, and pass for password-management

    ssu makes root console tools password-less. That and rdo for gui-tools (both a bit over 100 loc) made me uninstall sudo.

  • paradox2011@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 month ago

    EDIT: realized this was for desktop, so removed the original list of mostly android apps. Here’s my go to desktop apps:

    Lollypop - music player
    Invoiceninja - open source invoicing service
    Meld - file/folder comparison
    Librewolf - hardened Firefox
    Joplin - notes
    QEMU/Virt-Manager - virtualization for that one windows app you still need
    KeepassXC - password management
    Element-desktop - Matrix client
    Gparted - no fuss partition management
    Lutris - game launcher that works with epic games (among many others)
    PDFarranger - best PDF management I’ve found on Linux Soundconverter - easy to use file converter
    Restic - backups
    Fdupes - duplicate file finder
    Freetube - privacy respecting YouTube client
    Paperless-ngx - very well built electronic document storage. Must be run as a server.

  • devpaul@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 month ago

    Someone already mentioned Logseq, but I’m really enjoying Obsidian for my note taking needs. It’s similar, but I have found Obsidian to be very nice. Not FOSS, but I really like what the devs are doing.

    • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip
      1·
      1 month ago

      Same I tried logsec but it needs a bit more polishing and most importantly the excalidraw plugin is not that good.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    1 month ago

    I don’t know about you specifically, but I’m surprised how many people haven’t heard of Krita, a FOSS image editing app with an optional AI Image Generation plugin.

    • the_doktor@lemmy.zip
      2·
      1 month ago

      STOP ADDING AI TO EVERYTHING PLEASE

      Am I going to be able to use a computer in any way at all in the future without having freaking world power-sucking, thieving, inaccurate, laughable AI doing stuff for me?

      • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        1 month ago

        First of all, I actually find it quite helpful, AI is not bad in itself, just the people who use it for things it’s not designed for are misguided. Secondly, did you miss the part where this AI is optional?

        • the_doktor@lemmy.zip
          2·
          1 month ago

          The fact that it’s optional now is irrelevant. Most people aren’t going to disable AI and will thus use a horrible, broken feature that has never been proven to work reliably. And what is “optional” now becomes the standard later. Best to kill it now before it becomes the complete ruination of the tech industry.

      • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        It uses Stable Diffusion, yes (specifically comfy UI for the backend), but it has a much better in app UI that any stable diffusion web UI I’ve tried.

  • governorkeagan@lemdro.idEnglish
    0·
    1 month ago

    Not necessarily unheard of but Floorp has been pretty great for work. I think all of the other applications I use are well known within their respective niche (e.g JOSM)

      • governorkeagan@lemdro.idEnglish
        0·
        1 month ago

        I’ve been trying to figure out a way to use vanilla Firefox instead but also have a web panel like Floorp. Being able to open and close a webpage on the side like that is pretty handy. Vivaldi has the same feature but I don’t want to use that.

        • xep@fedia.io
          0·
          1 month ago

          Would it be impractical to open another window and align the window somehow?

          • governorkeagan@lemdro.idEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            For the most part, that works fine. It’s more of a convenience feature since I can quite easily switch between different sites I have saved in the panel.