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What is your most useful Linux app which others might not know about (please don't just give the name but a link and why it is good for you) ? (feddit.org)
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Why software do you use in your day-to-day computing which might not be well-known?

For me, there are ~~two~~ three things for personal information management:

  • for shopping receipts, notes and such, I write them down using vim on a small Gemini PDA with a keyboard. I transfer them via scp to a Raspberry Pi home server on from there to my main PC. Because it runs on Sailfish OS, it also runs calendar (via CalDav) and mail nicely - and without any FAANG server.

  • for things like manuals and stuff that is needed every few months ("what was just the number of our gas meter?" "what is the process to clean the dishwasher?") , I have a Gollum Wiki which I have running on my Laptop and the home Raspi server. This is a very simple web wiki which supports several markup languages (like Markdown, MediaWiki, reStructuredText, and Creole), and stores them via git. For me, it is perfect to organize personal information around the home.

  • for work, I use Zim wiki. It is very nice for collecting and organizing snippets of information.

  • oh, and I love Inkscape(a powerful vector drawing program), Xournal (a program you can write with a tablet on and annotate PDFs), and Shotwell (a simple photo manager). The great thing about Shotwell is that it supports nicely to filter your photos by quality - and doing that again and again with a critical eye makes you a better photographer.

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Aside from ones listed here:

System Tools

  • WinApps - Run Windows applications seamlessly integrated into your Linux desktop environment, like native including Adobe products.
  • Waydroid - Run Android applications in a container on Linux with full hardware access.
  • Topgrade - Upgrade all your system packages and dependencies in one command.
  • AM (AppImage Manager) - Easy AppImage management for installing, updating, and organizing portable applications.
  • Starship - Fast, customizable cross-platform shell prompt with Git integration and status indicators.
  • InShellisense - IDE-style IntelliSense autocomplete and suggestions for your terminal.
  • Tabby - Modern terminal emulator with tabs, split panes, and extensive customization options.
  • Zeit - Qt GUI frontend for scheduling tasks using at and crontab utilities.
  • KWin Minimize2Tray - KDE extension that allows minimizing windows to the system tray instead of taskbar.
  • Flameshot - Feature-rich screenshot tool with built-in annotation and editing capabilities.
  • CopyQ - Advanced clipboard manager with searchable history and custom scripting support.
  • Safing Portmaster - Free open-source application firewall with per-app network control, DNS-over-TLS, and system-wide ad/tracker blocking.

Productivity Tools

  • DSNote - Offline speech-to-text, text-to-speech and translation app for note-taking.
  • NAPS2 - User-friendly document scanning application with OCR and PDF creation capabilities.
  • Morphosis - Simple document converter supporting PDF, Markdown, HTML, DOCX and more formats.
  • Obsidian - Powerful knowledge management app with bidirectional linking and graph visualization.
  • BeeRef - Minimalist reference image viewer designed for artists and designers.

Media & Entertainment

  • Popcorn Time - Stream movies and TV shows via torrent with built-in media player.
  • Nicotine+ - Modern Soulseek P2P client for sharing and discovering music files.
  • XnView - Versatile image viewer, organizer, and converter supporting hundreds of formats.

Happy to list out the self hosted stuff too if there is interest.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago

Topgrade - Upgrade all your system packages and dependencies in one command.

Keeping your system up to date usually involves invoking multiple package managers.

As someone who worked build/rel before working OS security: if you're intentionally breaking Single Source of Truth for software state management, then you're in for a bad time. This can only delay the inevitable, but the technical debt comes at a high credit cost on top.

Building an RPM is SO trivial to do, even without some LLM feeding it to you; and maintaining an existing one or rebuilding it to suit another distro or version even more trivial. Save your sanity and avoid out-of-band 'package' managers!

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I invented WinApps. http://nowsci.com/winapps

I had a conversation started with the org fr their takeover and they just dropped off. If anyone from there is reading this, please reach out.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thanks... I had no idea this existed. I can now connect to the work remote desktop software with a single window perfectly integrated. This is incredibly helpful. Moreover I can now say I'm using Winapps in order to run Windows App. I guess now they can rename the remote desktop app again to Winapp to go full circle. Or maybe Winamp, just to confuse people. Or just App, to make it impossible to ever troubleshoot.

EDIT: At any rate, this works really beautifully. It's a bit of a PITA to set up if you're having the VM via virt-manager but hell if it's not as smooth as native.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 0 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for your baby! It's great.

[–] GFGJewbacca@midwest.social 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd love your list of selfhosted stuff. I'm running a little server with TrueNAS Scale and it's working really well.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Media & Content Management

  • FreshRSS - Self-hosted RSS feed aggregator with multi-user support, mobile API, and custom tags.
  • AudioBookShelf - Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server with mobile apps and progress syncing across devices.
  • PhotoPrism - AI-powered photo management platform with facial recognition, geo-tagging, and automatic organization.
  • Jellyfin - Free media server for streaming movies, TV shows, music, and photos with no licensing restrictions.
  • Karakeep - Personal data backup and synchronization tool for maintaining local copies of online content. AI tagging, lists, easy to use interface. Really good stuff, especially combined with a browser plugin.

Productivity, Documents & Task Management

  • Vikunja - Task management app with Kanban boards, Gantt charts, multiple views, and team collaboration features.
  • Memos - Self-hosted memo hub for capturing and sharing thoughts with markdown support.
  • Docker Obsidian - Containerized version of Obsidian knowledge management app for browser access.
  • Stirling PDF - Comprehensive PDF manipulation tool with 50+ operations including merge, split, convert, and OCR.
  • Paperless-ngx - Document management system with OCR, tagging, and full-text search capabilities.
  • LanguageTool - Grammar and spell checking service with support for multiple languages and integration APIs.

Good Deeds

  • Archive Team Warrior - Docker container for contributing computing power to internet archiving projects.
[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is there any concern to be had with archive warrior regarding legality (like scraping piracy sites)?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

You can pick the project you want to participate in. :)