Favourite Linux Applications

I know what applications you use for day to day tasks is a very personal affair, however i had numerious people asking me what I use daily and sometimes what alternatives to commerial software I am using as such I though I would list them for reference, obviously all of these fit my spesific requirements. Lots of the time the need for me is to have applications that can work cross-platform with some sorts of a mechanism to sync between operating systems / devices.



As operating system for home and general use I am using Kubuntu Xenial.


 Then there is a few out of the box KDE applications I can't live without:
 

For Audio management there is nothing better on this planet than Amarok and an application i will never be without.

  VLC Media player is that swiss army knive for media playback.

Then for IRC I find Konversation the easiest to use.

For that dreaded email world we wlive in nothing do the task better than KMail. It integrates well with Google and for me the use of OpenPGP and encryption from within KMail was very easy to use.

Then to ensure all those Keys as managed easily KGpg is a simple interface for GnuPG.

For backups I found Back In Time to perform the easiest for me nad do have a KDE GUI.


Then more generic applications I use:

Favourite and first choice web browser is FireFox, as i find the web developer tools and Greasemonkey integration valuable.





Second choice for browser is Google Chrome.

Whenever I am not using Dolphins' location bar to perform FTP functionality, I will be using FileZilla client.

The one text editor that stands out head above the rest for me at this moment is Sublime Text. With multi column layout, Syntax Highlighting and the command pallet to perform actions it surely increase the productivity for anything that needs to be done in a text editor.

For all those backups and transfers, nothing better than Rsync, and if I need to use a GUI the best out there is Grsync.

Calibre eBook library management and reader application is another of those applications I will never be without. The ability to tag, and create series for my magamzines as well as convert to the proper format for reading on any of the devices in the household is invaluable.

Another one of those swiss army knives for audio tagging and management is Musicbrainz Picard. Written in Python with the ability to use plugins.

DupeGuru ME (Music Edition) does a great job at identifying duplicates in music collections and can do so based on many criteria.

Puddletag is the best to view & edit custom MP3 tags. As I add things like BPM to my MP3 audio files via a Picard plugin, Puddletag is a great way to confirm the BPM field.

Then for the tagging and library management of multimedia files, I have found the best GUI application to be MediaElch. Ability to sort Movies and Series and spesify source folders is great. It uses multiple scrapers as well.


Then for more work related stuff I do use:

Keepass for those password

I use KRDC for all those remote desktop connectivity (RDP and VNC)

yEd from yWorks is great for BPMN, flowcharts and semantic diagrams with an easy abillity to auto arrange and export.

One of those Gnome apps that I do use frequently as well is Dia.

then there is nothing better for those documents andspreadsheets than LibreOffice.

Graphical disk usage Filelight

Mount linux from OS X

If you need to mount an ssh/sftp volume and make it visible in finder to be able to use it as if it were a local volume you can use.

The easiest way is to install FUSE for macOS.