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.

  • Fliegenpilzgünni@slrpnk.net
    16·
    5 months 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.

  • muhyb@programming.dev
    82·
    5 months 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

      • muhyb@programming.dev
        7·
        5 months ago

        That makes sense. Maybe I’m just old but they are called as programs since punched cards, as well as on Unix, Linux, Windows (until recently apparently).

        Not exactly sure but I think the term “application >> apps” started with mobile phones. So, to me they are different. At least that evokes this meaning in my mind. It seems not with younger people though.

        • the_doktor@lemmy.zip
          3·
          5 months ago

          Go search Usenet posts from the 80s. We’ve used the short term “app” for “application” for goddamn forever.

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
    4·
    5 months ago

    Linux, system:

    • KDE Plasma (Dolphin, Kate, Kfind, Merkuro, shell, Spectacle)
    • Librewolf / hardened Firefox (system app because of user namespaces, which Flatpaks cant create)

    Linux, Flatpak:

    • syncthingy
    • thunderbird
    • libreoffice
    • KDE: Okular, Gwenview, maybe soon digiKam
    • Qt: qBittorrent, Keepassxc
    • GNOME/Circle: Celluloid, PDF Arranger, Carburetor, Decoder, G4music, Railway, SimpleScan (or Skanlite), Impression, GIMP
    • GTK: localsend, GPU Screen recorder
    • Electron: Freetube, Signal, Cryptomator, Nextcloud
    • Podman: StirlingPDF

    Android:

    • Fossify Gallery, Calendar
    • Material Files
    • Markor
    • Antennapod
    • Florisboard (or maybe Futo, but I dont need the fancy stuff yet)
    • Shelter
    • localsend
    • Obtainium
    • dict.cc
    • Grayjay
    • k9mail
    • soundbound (spotify), seal (ytdl)
    • öffi, kleine Wettervorschau
    • SaveTo…
    • mjpdf
  • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz
    3·
    5 months ago
    • sshfs. I use it for everything.
    • autossh
    • git. It always annoys me how Debian doesn’t come with it out of the box. Gets me every time I set up a new server.
    • Signal desktop app.
  • CCRhode@lemmy.ml
    2·
    5 months ago

    There’s no doubt there are a great variety of Linux packages in use.

    Recently I did a CD install of Debian 12 (Bookworm) desktop with Gnome, which loads a bunch of stuff over the Net. Here are extra packages that I installed manually. The first set is used by and with an automated configuration script that I wrote, so they have to come in to begin with.

    Title Description Purpose
    info Gnu info processor “Config”
    curl Command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax “Config”
    dbus-x11 Simple interprocess messaging system (X11 deps) “Config”
    emacs Editor “Config”
    gconf2 GNOME configuration database system (support tools) “Config”
    mc Midnight Commander - a powerful file manager “Config”
    python3-iniparse Access and modify configuration data in INI files “Config”
    python-lxml-doc Python XML documentation “Config”
    python3-lxml Pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries “Config”
    sakura Simple but powerful libvte-based terminal emulator “Config”
    Title Description Purpose
    “apcupsd” “APC UPS Power Management” “Monitor”
    “artha” “Handy off-line thesaurus based on WordNet” “Utils”
    “backintime” “Simple backup/snapshot system” “Utils”
    “brasero” “CD/DVD burning application for GNOME” “Utils”
    “bwm-ng” “Small and simple console-based bandwidth monitor” “Monitor”
    “ccze” “Robust, modular log coloriser” “Utils”
    “certbot” "Automatically configure HTTPS using Let’s Encrypt " “Utils”
    “claws-mail-dillo-viewer” “HTML viewer plugin for Claws Mail using Dillo” “Mail”
    “claws-mail-feeds-reader” “Feeds (RSS/atom) reader plugin for claws mail” “Mail”
    “claws-mail-plugins” “Claws mail” “Mail”
    “claws-mail-spam-report” “Spam reporting plugin for claws mail” “Mail”
    “cmake” “Cross-platform, open-source make system” “Retroshare”
    “conky-all” “Highly configurable system monitor” “Monitor”
    “copyq” “Advanced clipboard manager with editing and scripting features” “Utils”
    “cups” "Common UNIX Printing System™ - PPD/driver support, web interface " “Utils”
    “dcraw” “Decode raw digital camera images” “Photo”
    “devilspie” “Automatically resize windows” “Utils”
    “dict” “Dictionary client/server and a selection of dictionaries, too” “Utils”
    “dictd” “Dictionary server” “Utils”
    “diction” “Utilities to help with style and diction” “Utils”
    “exiv2” “EXIF/IPTC photo metadata manipulation tool” “Photo”
    “festival” “General multi-lingual speech synthesis system” “Utils”
    “ftp” “Classical file transfer client” “Utils”
    “gedit” “Popular text editor for the GNOME desktop environment” “Editor”
    “gimp” “GNU Image Manipulation Program” “Photo”
    “git” “Fast, scalable, distributed revision control system” “Utils”
    “gnome-audio” “Audio files for GNOME” “Utils”
    “gnome-extra-icons” “Optional gnome icons” “Utils”
    “gnucash” “Personal bookkeeping and finance” “App”
    “golang” “Go programming language compiler” “yamn”
    “hplip” “HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)” “Utils”
    “hplip-gui” “HP Linux Printing and Imaging - GUI utilities (Qt-based)” “Utils”
    “hugin” “Panorama photo stitching program” “Photo”
    “imagemagick” “Image manipulation programs” “Photo”
    “libbz2-dev” “High-quality block-sorting file compressor library” “Retroshare”
    “libcurl4-openssl-dev” “Development files and documentation for libcurl (OpenSSL flavour)” “Retroshare”
    “libglib2.0-dev” “Development files for the GLib library” “Retroshare”
    “libjpeg-turbo-progs” “Programs for manipulating JPEG files including loss-less rotation” “Photo”
    “libmicrohttpd-dev” “Library embedding HTTP server functionality” “Retroshare”
    “libopencv-dev” “computer vision core library” “Retroshare”
    “libqt5opengl5-dev” “Qt 5 OpenGL library development files” “Retroshare”
    “libqt5multimedia5” “Qt 5 Multimedia module” “Retroshare”
    “libqt5network5” “Qt 5 network module” “Retroshare”
    “libqt5x11extras5-dev” “Qt 5 X11 extras” “Retroshare”
    “libreoffice-base” “Database component for LibreOffice” “Utils”
    “librsvg2-bin” “Command-line and graphical viewers for SVG files” “Photo”
    “libsqlcipher-dev” “Sqlcipher shared library” “Retroshare”
    “libssl-dev” “Secure Sockets Layer toolkit - development files” “Retroshare”
    “libspeex-dev” “The Speex codec library” “Retroshare”
    “libspeexdsp-dev” “The Speex extended library” “Retroshare”
    “libupnp-dev” “Portable SDK for UPnP devices” “Retroshare”
    “libxslt1-dev” “XSLT 1.0 processing library” “Retroshare”
    “libxss-dev” “X11 Screen Saver extension library (development headers)” “Retroshare”
    “lm-sensors” “Utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors” “Monitor”
    “mosquitto” “MQTT version 5.0/3.1.1/3.1 compatible message broker” “Home Automation”
    “mosquitto-clients” “Mosquitto command line MQTT clients” “Home Automation”
    “net-tools” “NET-3 networking toolkit” “Utils”
    “numlockx” “Enable numlock in X11 sessions” “Unknown”
    “openhab-addons” “OpenHAB Home Automation” “Home Automation”
    “otpclient” “Simple GTK+ software to generate OTPs (TOTP and HOTP)” “Utils”
    “pandoc” “General markup converter” “Utils”
    “pcmanfm” “Extremely fast and lightweight file manager” “Utils”
    “python-is-python3” “Symlinks /usr/bin/python to python3” “Devel”
    “python3-babel” “Tools for internationalizing Python applications - Python 3.x” “Devel”
    “python3-calmjs” “Node.js Python framework for building toolchains and utilities” “Devel”
    “python3-cheetah” “Text-based template engine and Python code generator (Python 3)” “WeeWX”
    “python3-configobj” “Simple but powerful config file reader and writer for Python 3” “WeeWX”
    “python3-dateparser” “Python parser for human readable dates” “Devel”
    “python3-doc” “Python documentation” “Devel”
    “python3-ephem” “Compute positions of the planets and stars with Python 3” “WeeWX”
    “python3-nltk” “Natural language processing” “Utils”
    “python3-pycryptodome” “Cryptographic Python library” “eoas”
    “python3-pyqt5” “Python 3 bindings for Qt5” “Devel”
    “python3-pyqt5.qtmultimedia” “Python 3 bindings for Qt5’s Multimedia module” “Devel”
    “python3-serial” "pyserial - module encapsulating access for the serial port " “WeeWX”
    “python3-setuptools” “Python distutils enhancements (setuptools compatibility)” “Devel”
    “python3-tz” “The Olson timezone database” “Utils”
    “python3-usb” “USB interface for Python (Python3)” “WeeWX”
    “python3-venv” “Venv module for python3” “WeeWX”
    “python3-vobject” “Parse iCalendar and VCards in python” “Android”
    “python3-xdg” “Freedesktop.org standards” “Tonto2”
    “qgit” “Qt application for viewing GIT trees” “Utils”
    “qrencode” “QR code encoder into PNG image” “Photo”
    “qtcreator” “Integrated development environment (IDE) for Qt” “Retroshare”
    “qtmultimedia5-dev” “APIs for multimedia functionality” “RetroShare”
    “qtox” “Tox client” “Retroshare”
    “qttools5-dev” “Qt 5 tools development files” “Retroshare”
    “rapidjson-dev” “Fast JSON parser/generator for C++ with SAX/DOM style API” “Retroshare”
    “rblcheck” “Query real-time black list (RBL) servers” “Mail”
    “retroshare-gui” “Secure communication with friends” “Retroshare”
    “rsync” “Fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool” “Utils”
    “sane” “Scanner graphical frontends” “Photo”
    “sqlite3” “Command line interface for SQLite 3” “Firefox Devel”
    “sqlitebrowser” “GUI editor for sqlite databases” “Unknown”
    “ssh” “Secure shell client and server (metapackage)” “Utils”
    “tcl8.6-dev” “Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8.6” “Retroshare”
    “tesseract-ocr” “Command line OCR tool” “Unknown”
    “timeshift” “System restore utility” “Utils”
    “torsocks” “Use socks-friendly applications with Tor” “QTox”
    “trash-cli” “Freedesktop.org trash implementation” “Utils”
    “tree” “Displays an indented directory tree, in color” “Utils”
    “ttf-bitstream-vera” “Bitstream Vera family of free Truetype fonts” “Utils”
    “whois” “Intelligent WHOIS client” “is_tout.py”
    “xsane” “Graphical frontend for Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE)” “Photo”
    “zbar-tools” “Bar Code Scanner and Decoder” “Photo”
    “zip” “Archiver for .zip files” “Utils”

    Here are third-party packages I admire. These are not available in Debian repositories although some provide Debian-compatible repositories of their own.

    Tor Browser Bundle: Anonymizing Network Browser

    This is available from https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowser/ as a tarball. This should be unpacked and the whole tor-browser_en-US directory moved to the ~user folder. This is so that the browser can auto-update at user authority as the need arises.

    RetroShare: Secure Communications with Friends

    This has its own Debian-compatible repository.

    metar: A Package to Parse METAR Coded Weather Reports

    ~/lab_pip/bin/activate
pip install metar --upgrade

    weeWX: Open source software for backyard weather stations.

    From http://weewx.com/docs/debian.htm. Although a Debian package exists, doing any development practically requires that all the code be in user-space, so don’t install the package. Download it instead.

    OpenHAB: Home Automation

    This has its own Debian-compatible repository.

    Ant: GTK3/4 Themes by eliverlara

    From https://www.gnome-look.org/browse?cat=135&ord=latest.

    This is for claws-mail. It provides better contrast.

  • SolarPunker@slrpnk.net
    2·
    5 months ago

    QuodLibet: I’m waiting for Amarok 3 to be ported but right now this is the best music collector/player in my experience.

  • devpaul@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 months 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.

    • land@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      5 months ago

      Same here. I have tried:

      • Joplin
      • Standard Notes
      • loqseq
      • simple notes
      • craft and a few others, but I keep coming back to obsidian. Currently self-hosting it using one of the plugins, that helps me easily sync between pc, MacBook, android and iOS.
      • devpaul@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        Nice! Yeah you’ve definitely tried a bunch of apps.

        What service are you using to self host obsidian? And is it cheaper than paying for obsidian sync?

        • land@lemmy.mlOP
          2·
          5 months ago

          Nextcloud and Janitor plugin. In my opinion, obsidian sync is not worth it. You have many ways to sync your data across different devices. Even using GitHub or Sorj.

          Edit: For my usecase, Janitor plugin works the best. You could try it.

          Edit:

  • rodbiren@midwest.socialEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    Syncthing, micro, fish, btop, podman

    I distro hop so these are usually the first that get installed.

  • koen@lemmy.zip
    1·
    5 months ago
    • Obsidian - great markdown-based note app
    • NewsFlash - fast and elegant RSS news reader
    • Bottles - program to run Windows apps and managing them easily
    • BreakTimer - a life-saver for me; it allows you to set a break after given amount of time
    • LibreWolf - privacy-focused fork of Firefox

    There are a lot of awesome programs on Linux, I recommend browsing Flathub to find them

  • macniel@feddit.de
    1·
    5 months 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.

  • 999999999@lemmy.ml
    1·
    5 months ago

    Blanket is an app that plays relaxing sounds, not really a “must have” but it works great.