Linux Apps I Use Daily
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- čas přidán 10. 05. 2024
- In this video, I go over all the Linux distributions and apps that I use every single day. I could not imagine my life without any of this software. .
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Have you seen the app-outlet application? is it something I can trust and install?
What would be your preferred code editor ... ?
4:56 Start of the list.
0:00 Start of the video for normal people.
@zizzy .... Yeah in their basement. I'll come out of the basement when the corona virus outbreak is over. czcams.com/video/eCdRFMp8Xwo/video.html
Thanks
Not the hero we wanted, but the one we needed, thanks
how we say literally in spanish: "hero without a cape". regards from Chile
I'd used Arch for about four years, fell off the wagon and went back to Windows for a few years, and then came back home to Arch after seeing one of your videos a few months back - it reminded me how much I loved Arch and I really missed it. I guess that makes you my sponsor or something? "Hi, I'm Jeremy, I'm a former Windows user but I've been "clean" for three months."
I've been clean for 2 weeks, got tired of the random updates when I was taking a timed test for school, Manjaro power wipe.
Hi, Jeremy! :-)
I have been clean for 5 years
I’m Jeremy and I’ve been window$ free for 14 years
I'm new to Linux and got a ubuntu LTS based distro. I plan on moving to another distro for sure, but havent got to the partition thing to not lose data
I find it hilarious how you customize your MATE to look like Cinnamon.
I just use cinnamon, make it look good. And is very stable out of the box on Arch.
"Never assume this conversation is private" - best advice ever, I try to preach that to everyone
"Self-censor all the time"
It's a public chat, so yeah no kidding.
Yeah same here
But none of my friends listen to me
They think I am just crazy...
🤣🤣🤣
@@TheMax6808 Yeah, that.. we shouldn't give up the fight for privacy.
What about Telegram. I think they are pretty secure and private.
Distro: @1:28 - Arch Linux (Manjaro for newbies); DE - MATE (KDE for newbies)
Browsers: @5:13 - Brave (Single device) ; @5:37 - Vivaldi (Multi device)
Shell: @6:05 - Terminator
Text Editor: @6:39 - GEdit & Kate
Chat Client: @7:32 - Discord
Gaming: @9:49 - Lutris & Steam
File Manager: @11:02 - Nautilus
Video Editing: @12:19 - Kdenlive
Photo Editing: @12:19 - Gimp 2.10
Screenshot: @16:21 - Flameshot
Thankyou
Gd
need to pin this
also, 5:27, they just recently have updated the sync functionality, and it is as simple as typing your passphrase, and everything will be synced up quickly
Man are u a angel or what 🔥
"the distribution doesn't matter" While this is very true one thing that is a complete game changer for me is the AUR. I can't imagine living without it now.
So true the AUR makes life sooo much easier.
AUR is so important!!
It makes installing things so much easier, 99.9% of the time.
That moment when you install fresh and forget to turn on AUR and you're like but why can't I find any of my software?!
What is AUR?
@@thecaretaker0007 AUR Stands for Arch User Repository. Essentially it's a very well maintained repository or software, because they allow any one to post software install scripts and dependencies. Makes getting most software a breeze. For example, I recently wanted a what's app of some kind. I saw many listings of ways to do it from the official to most custom ones. Click install, bam builds and installs. It's how canonical apt get wishes it was
@@DXTR420 thanks.
I've been using Ubuntu for nearly 20 years. Love it!
I've been using it for 8 years. At first I was missing Windows but now I would never go back.
Chris, consider adding links to stuff you talk about in the video under its description.
This would remove the need to watch the video, and reduce watch-time significantly. This sounds like it has a negative connotation to it, but Chris also has to earn something of his videos, and i respect it.
@@teel3651 I think it's common courtesy to leave links to stuff one talks about but, that's just me. If I wrote a blog post about a bunch of apps I use and didn't link to said apps in the hopes that people would stay longer on my site and maybe I'd get more ad views or something, I'm fairly certain people would stop reading my articles and never come back. It's not a perfect analogy being that this is video we're talking about and not blog posts but, I hope you get my point. Now, I do realize there may be some truth to what you're saying, and of course Chris needs to make money to continue to provide content (and why I don't blame him for plastering his description with affiliate links) but, there is also this thing called loyalty and one way to build a loyal base is to go above and beyond for your viewers and this by providing them with the best content and making their lives easier as the same time. Since watching this video I've instead Googled these apps and have since found other people who have offered articles and videos about them so, instead of coming directly back to Chris after checking out a link Chris provided me, I'm off watching and reading these other people's stuff instead. Had Chris linked to the apps, I'd have checked them out, one by one and come back to Chris for each app until the video was over. That back and forth, Chris' video, app, Chris' video, app, Chris' video, app would actually have a powerful affect on me and I'd probably be more likely to remember about Chris going forward. Of course, it's his show and he can do what he wants but, now he has competition he didn't have before and this due to not linking to the apps he's talking about in his video.
@@teel3651 if he didn't talk so much and repeat himself, his long videos would be half the size, so we'd be more likely to watch the entire thing
@@teel3651 this just makes people close the video
I tried to find the game platform he mentioned as well as steam. I can't find it. I don't know how it is spelt. My ears are not good enough to tell from his speech. So I vote for links in the description.
I really like manjaro, arch and mint those are just my favorite. Thank you for this video chris
I made my first attempt at editing a video a couple days ago. Never used a video editor before so I had no clue what I was doing. I fired up Kden and within seconds I'd crashed it.
Great first experience. 😅
Use Filmora x 😁
I'm soon making the change to Linux, after all these years. Your channel and these videos really helped me. I want the customization and the free stuff that are just for linux. Thanks!
Raspberry Pi 4 with Debian Buster is my daily driver now. This credit card sized computer is amazing when it is set up right.
Over the years, I have tried several different windows managers but always come back to Gnome. For some reason, I just love it.
I used shutter for my screenshots, I'm used to that for quite a while during my time working in Linux. It has all the feature you need including editing the screenshot in one app (maybe simple, but useful for quick edits)
Like your nonsensical approach in the video. Your audio is great where you are understood and no other audio distractions. Thanks and I'm a new subscriber 😉
I'm really loving Ubuntu budgie right now, had it only a few weeks now and it's awesome on an older HP laptop i use for work...
Another excellent video Chris,personally I use MX Linux and Manjaro I my pc's
But MATE looking like something straight out of the 90s is part of the appeal.
I always thought it looked the cleanest. Now, the *buntu theme for it is not good; clearlooks looks classic.
I’ve used Gnome , KDE , Xfe and LXDE but always go back to Mate and looks as though it’s really been improved recently in stability and it works very well with apps native to other desktop environments which I feel other desktop environments don’t do as well.
The other desktop environments are not bad but Mate is really great for someone who likes to mix and match.
You helped me learn how to install arch linux on a vm. Then I used that knowledge to install in on my desktop. Now it's my daily driver at home, and I love it. I use enlightenment for my desktop environment, and terminator as my shell. You've been a big help.
Very helpful. Thank you very much.
I have a question:
Best Linux distribution for built-in multi seat support?
7:56 I've learned something.
Hi Chris excellent videos as always, have you tried Shotcut or OpenShot I use those for editing and they are stable and available on each OS platform. Also they update quite alot throughout the year
Thanks, Chris. Very helpful video. Do you have recommendations for audio?
Audacious as player and PulseEffects as equalizer.
Best file manager ever: Double Commander!!!
I'll have to try this out, thanks Igor!
Good joice. Because I use KDE I went for Krusader. Same thing but well integrated into KDE
Krusader is pretty nice too
my favorite as well, although I sometimes have to restart it because its not responding on mouse commands
Looks like Windows/Total Commander I've been missing all these years using Linux, will try this out
re: text editors
vim is a great text editor especially when it comes to text manipulation
@ItsAllUnity I have found the learning curve isn't as steep if you keep 2 rules in mind:
"You can do everything in normal mode, except insert text"
"Everything" includes moving around, selecting text, moving text, deleting text, replacing textwhich sends you into insert mode), copy text, pasting text, saving, opening file and more xD
Which is why rule #2 is always return to normal mode whenever you finish inserting text, for accessibility you can map tab to escape or use alt combinations(in the terminal)
Don't enter a new line with enter escape and press o :p
You should try Emacs with Evil mode ;-)
@@abel6580 but but so many modifier keys
vim is the Roach Motel of text editors. They check in but they can't check out.
I have used vim for years! It is still my favourite go to for editing text. I use notepadqq for when I need something visually easier to follow.
Quick question are there any good tts voices available for Linux? And by good imean simething like acapela. There is cereproc of course, but their voices are rather error prone when it comes to pronunciation.
Great channel, your videos are very useful!
Pretty informative video, im a super noob with Linux and had just experimentally put it on an oldish laptop i had given to me that was super slow with windows 10, originally thought it was the hard drive but after installing Ubuntu (I know you and some others dislike it, but I'm new and it was an easy start), the laptop became very snappy and I've been able to actually use the computer for stuff. Once I become more confident with how linux runs as a whole I might try something like arch but for now ubuntu works for what I needed and I've been learning alot with it.
Hi Chris, excellent video;s keep up the good work, I use ShotCut for editing and also OpenShot. ShotCut is updated regularly and has 4K support and hardware support
Love the cinnamon de, my favorite de, but xfce is my 2nd
I think Endeavour OS is a really good alternative to Manjaro. It s much more close to stock Arch . For productivity, I recommend i3wm environment (+ rofi, i3-expo, clearine ) , Suckess terminal, lf/ranger file manager, mail client neomutt, cmus for music. For content creation etc Gimp, Krita, Blender, Maya, Kdenlive/Natron. I ' m still looking at Clearlinux developpement, but it is not ready to production. Good video as usual!
EndeavourOS is a much cleaner alternative to Manjaro with a lot more flexibility and without the bad decision making. You'll also be able to use the AUR without issue.
just use base arch
I use arch btw KDE plasma
Hi Chris, thank you for all the great videos! Do you have a recommendation for a Linux alternative for the Mac app Hazel. I can’t find something similar for Linux. This is the only reason why I don’t switch to Linux.
I need a solution which also check the content of a document like date or a specific word.
Thank you so much!
If you need it just for searching files, then I can recommend KFind.
I just downloaded manjaro kde iso.
After watching your channel, I am leaving Ubuntu.
Great!
I advice to update system using sudo pacman -Syu and not using a GUI.
@Jenna Talia For most of the people, Ubuntu is the only linux distro they know.
For others
" what's linux?"
Me: An OS
Them: what's an OS?
Me: 😕
@@igorthelight Definitely not GUI for updates... I personally use TTY for updates these days, just found it safer overall.
Please explain why command line over GUI?
@@shamrock- This is just my personal experience but Manjaro only does bulk updates every 10 to 14 days on average, but it is still Arch and a LOT changes. I have found that GUI only updates can potentially break the system because so much has been changed. These days I don't even use terminal, which is still attached to the desktop, I prefer to go to TTY (usually Ctl-Alt-F2) and then just use the same commands as per terminal. If you're not using TTY (and maybe sometimes even if you are lol), it is probably better to check in with the Manjaro website before you update in case there are specific things/approaches they want you to take with that update. Still, I'm sure everyone has their own individual approach. My approach has seen me safe on Manjaro for over 12 months now. I'm not a total beginner, but I'm definitely not a computer and/or Linux advanced user either. Good luck :)
"I use MATE" ... You're welcome Chris ;)
As long as he doesn't say "by the way, I use MATE". :p
lmao i was the other person telling him to use MATE, glad he did try it out haha
@Jessica Sinclair xD
i mint i love it
DigitalSparky love Mate
This is the video I been looking for! I didn't know it existed. I was hoping something like this would be front and center on your website.
3:48 looking through the description for the referenced link 🙄
flameshot is everything I've been looking for in a ss tool: system tray icon :D love it, thanks!
'Bouns'. I like it. Great video Chris. Maybe we'll see a Chrisix distro in the future? :)
What do you use for recording your screen/desktop for making tutorials?
I am switching from windozzze 10 N Pro to SOLUS (Tired of being a sheep
and steam works fine plus hate the spying) as I am on now but unsure
whether to use the Budgie DE or the new available Plasma one as they
both seem similar at least on SoLus versions of it and both easy to
transition from windows - least for me but I can not decide which is
best! Suggestions? I LOVE SoLus so staying with it even though my fave
DE is not available for it as in "Enlightenment" or the newer version of
it after 17 - I believe.. Not sure if anyway to add a DE to a Linux
Distro that it was not made with, not advanced but going to get there...
Any suggestions very welcomed! Thanks.... BTW: On Budgie now via SoLus
OS as it seems to be Solus's MAIN de so burned it to .iso first for
trial and have not had a single hiccup with it in learning it or
customizing it nor any drivers missing or not being able to be added,
everything just works... Should I switch to plasma before I install and
ditch windows FULLY... BTW: Anybody know how I would add Pulse SMS app
to my Solus Linux? It is the only one that does not have a link with
easy way to just download for Linux and not sure how to use package
manager and not in store or third party part of store?... Thanks... PPS:
Any distros based off of QNX besides Neutrino itself which is usable as
I always LOVED Blackberry, BB10, etc... Would not mind trying something
off of that before installing SoLus? I doubt so? I think it is
Unix-Like with real time kernel utilizing QT?>... Lastly, I also CARE
who makes the distro I will stay with as in their TRUST factor and
prefer them not to be a larger company or have any plans to become
one... A solus with a custom enlightenment DE that had a QNX type kernel
would be greatest but it does not exist... LOL...
How productive is nautilus in linux mint mate? Just curious as to your thoughts.
I miss my Linux Mint with Cinnamon. Been on the road and stuck with MacBook and PCs. Arrggghhh.
I second Vivaldi. I use it on Windows, Mac, and Linux. I also second Manjaro as a great arch district to learn on... I have it running on a super old 1.2 GHz dual core PC. I should probably put a different district on it but I have yet to find a lite district that is stable on it...
Have you tried Olive video editor and what did you think of that if you have?
6:25 Chris, you ought to try the Fish shell + byobu combo, it's quite amazing and yo can do all the neat tricks you do on Terminator everywhere, be it a TTY, SSHing to another machine, etc. Also, "Oh my fish" with a powerline based theme like Agnoster.
7:20 gedit is more that meets the eye, check the preferences menu, you can have gedit with a "minimap" scrollbar, grid and numbered lines for easier code browsing
Hello, I found your channel through I.T. Career questions and watched your video on SysAdmining just now.
I am currently majoring in I.T. with a couple of years of I.T. experience with the U.S. Army; My goal is to become a SysAdmin, and am wondering whether I should get the Comptia Server+ or Linux+ certification. Which one and why?
Thanks for your time!
Linux + Cert over the Comptia would be my recommendation. Also, I'd recommend at least one Windows Server cert as well. Linux servers are in every single data center out there and required for most positions. Windows Server is in almost every single business out there and you will need to know Active Directory as well. So there isn't just one certification for sys admin imo. I currently hold about 8 certs with my last one in 2016 for Citrix Administration. That will be the last certification I get unless required by a future employer.
@@ChrisTitusTech dont forget the MCSE and a Cisco to go with that Linux cert!
thanks for sharing the Vivaldi browser mate would never have heard of it till you mentioned it. cool browser.
About 11:26
Hey , it's okay if i get Nautilus on Linux Mint mate ?
It won't harm the install/break cuz it's not it's native file manager ??
Could you make a video installing arch linux from basic to setting all these applications for beginners
For terminal, I am pretty agnostic about it since I use tmux. For text editor, hands down vim. Even I use vim plugin on vscode.
Chris in Linux Mint is there a way to organize your Icons and Folders the way you want to or are we stuck with the way Linux wants to orange them.
Just tried out Flameshot. It's f**king amazing. Thank you so much.
Heck Chris, my first distro was Ubuntu 7.04 and then I switched to Debian because someone recommended it to me and I managed to install it and get all my stuff installed, etc and it has been my go-to distro for a long time for running my server, but as I started to advance over the years I did my first Arch install a year ago and I love as a daily driver!
You introduce me to "ncdu" instead of "du" and I still use that when I'm on remote ssh session. Recently I found this GUI app that does the same thing called "filelight" that is very intuitive and easy to use as well. With Plasma 5.18, "filelight" will be integrated as a tab on a folder property window.
I’m using elementaryos, I love their politic and their design way..
me too. all HAIL the Elementary OS!
Should I use Firefox preinstalled on Mint or should I download Brave?
First thing I did after I installed Flameshot way back when, was add a KDE shortcut for print screen. It's so integrated for me that I don't even think of it as a separate app anymore.
I really like Manjaro KDE. For some reason, it also seems to run better on my computer than Kubuntu or Neon.
From what I've seen and heard, I like Ubuntu's implementation of Gnome more than plain Gnome.
Have you tried Olive for video editing?
It is under heavy development but it is lightning fast.
good for easy edits, guess it will have more features when it goes beta.
Thumbs up for Arch Linux!! And must say as I'm obligated to do so, I use arch btw!
I use ubuntu with scinnemon desktop. I needed to fix some issues for my aps so my linux doesnt freeze but after a few days of playing around i like it.
Probably worth looking at contributing to projects you love like Lutris if you can.
Flameshot is pretty awesome imo.
One other thing I'd point out is as far as I understand AMD GPU video encoding is behind Nvidia by a bit at least on Linux. Only reason I have not decided which route to go on my new build.
First THUMBS up 👍 then watching twice , Thank you for your amazing video , keep up man
I think Krita is pretty awesome and I also love working with Atom as my PHP IDE at work, I refuse to touch VSCode out of stubborness but from what I've seen of it I'm pretty happy sticking with Atom.
As for the image editing (the PS vs GIMP thing) have you tried Krita? I've been in the same conundrum but since I discovered it , and it's really good, I stopped feeling that cold turkey state of mind when working in or about PS (I've been a professional graphic designer and illustrator for more than 20 years, just for context)
BTW this is on MATE.
Thanks for sharing Chris! Took LinuxMint 19.3 beta MATE out for a skeptical spin... and it is now my home base! Wow! Super duper fast and light! Vivaldi is my fav too! :)
Linux should be a tool to get things done rather than us spending time on it.
it can be fun to rice the system though
Well that's one of many ways to use Linux.
@@agenttank Yeah, that's the biggest productivity issue with Linux, it's so much fun to tinker with.
Agreed, there is so many options but I am much more productive now once I figured out what works for me
@ i am done setting up my system with sway/i3 and now i can work very effiecient. it was fun too and i rarely really have to tinker now
It’s like you mind melded with me. Great review.
Chris can you make a video about how you customize / config your Awesome theme. I love it and also installed it on three of my computers but I can't figure out how to customize or configure it to work perfectly for me. This would be a great video and would definitely help people out. I know nothing about Lua. Thanks for all you amazing videos Chris
Fav text editor, gedit kate... Speechless
Hello sir. I would like to ask if You use Arch or Manjaro, and if for example Manjaro do You install community Mate flavor (and than awesome on top), or like architect flavor and pick Your install from there? I'm a semi beginner I've used Debian based distros form most time, but I would like to try arch. I've been using ArchLab on my old machine (dell inspiron 1525) (with openbox nad I3 ) and it works fine :]. I got some problems with Manjaro (on my new main machine) (there was something with updates and it doesn't detect monitors via HDMI ) but maybe it's something I need to read more. So now I'm looking for something I can dual boot on my main. I'm starting to really like TWMs (its something I subconsciously did on Windows not knowing it already exists :] ) but not yet sure witch to chose.
Oh and another question. Do You get Your games from Steam only or other platforms like GOG?
i think 2 distros that standout are peppermint because its light and has implemented web apps, the other one is mx linux and puppy linux because of frugal install that runs on ram. The otherones are more as of starting point as you said
Yeah I have heard great things about peppermint.
Cool. I use Debian with lxde and xfwm4. Works p well, idle loads below 400 mb.
My setup (in the same order): openSUSE 15, xfce, firefox, xfce termina, vi/notepadqq, zoom(for work), Steam/GOG, thunar, openshot/blender,gimp
"Linux apps".
Thumbnail is of an ipad, iPhone, and mac. Mac looks like it's running OSX. I lol'ed
Chris, How do you get such awesome audio given the generally crappy sound thru Linux?
I loved OpenSUSE because of zypper's syntax and behavior, but Debian had much more programs packaged for it, so I made a wrapper for package managers
Can you please show us how you combine Awesome WM with mate
I did it before with i3 but it was clunky and Not optimize
i would use xfce instead of mate.
xfce gives me more "power" to mold it in the way i want it to behave.
Now i just usew kde with kvantum for some custom apereance and some light eye candy
Thanks man👌👏
My favorite Linux-world piece of software: digiKam. Omitting that first library-building step that may take forever with a big file collection (like, a couple terabytes big) - it's just so awesome for image management it's hard to describe. Now I just need to learn proper darktable workflow to untie myself from the Adobe/Windows bundle.
Would you consider making a video on how you install arch with mate and awesome wm ? Would be great :)
Ive used mIRC on windows for probably 15 years now. They don't support Linux so is there an irc client that has the same layout like mIRC such as being on multiple servers at once with multiple chat windows visible in the same screen? I really don't like the clients that make you flip through tabs to get back and forth to get to each channel displaying only one at a time. I'm planning out my possible move to linux and this is a must have for me. Any suggestions?
LXQT on my system uses about 40mb, I hear though if you want the best performance you want a Wayland based desktop environment (seems to be just KDE or gnome so far).
For photo editing I really like Darktable. That said, sometimes I use Windows for some stuff, and Darktable seems to process images differently depending on which platform you're running.
my mum is 75 years old, switched her to linux mint MATE on her old i3 laptop. No problems ever since. lol. she loves it!
Love it
I use Debian for my main but have a partition for trying out different ones, got openSUSE running right now, its easy and on the redhat side of things, something cool for people to check out.
I like a mix of KDE/XFCE, leaning towards XFCE with some KDE applications(Kate, KDEnlive, etc), mainly use Manjaro because I'm too lazy to setup Arch but have done in the past. for File managers I like Dolphin although some of their choices in recent times have annoyed me so yeah... Gimp is awesome. OpenShot is also cool for basic video editing.
I'm running Sparkylinux after a rather lengthy distro tour. Your videos really helped me with the software side and set up 👍 If there is ever a featherweight Arch distro in the future that is 32bit, plays DVDs without any hassle and has a browser that can handle Filmzie and Pluto TV let me know and I'll switch 👍
I have a Question I really want to ask,
I want to switch between different OS to experience more, i do this with smartphone devices and its easy bcz u have backup in PC and can easily switch phones.
I want to ask, since windows have the option to make different partitions of hard drive, ur data is safe in other partition while u r installing different OS in another primary parition. can there be such a scenario in Linux too ? i mean can I make partitions in Ubuntu or Fedora ?
Specifically, How you (Chris) manage ur data when u switch to another distro ? (I find it the only good way of installing Ubuntu to select the option "wipe drive and install fresh ubuntu", how to use "Something else" option given in setup of Ubuntu to make manual partitions for boot etc ? there are too many file system formats i m confused about.
I use like Arch based distros because they have AUR.
Desktop:
Distro: MX Linux
WM: Xfce4
Editor: Pluma (Fork of gedit gnome 2)
File Manager: Caja (Fork of nautilus gnome 2)
Music: Clementine (Internet streams)
Laptop:
Distro: AntiX
WM: Fluxbox
Same as above
can't agree more on most your recomends... I haven't tried flame yet and don't particularly love terminator but then again I spend minimal time in the terminal. For sure I can't do without Kdenlive though and I too have used a ton of other open source editors, I am also growing to be fond of Gimp but it sure is a learning process lol
MATE is small and works with Compiz. I love just moving my mouse right on the cube and desktop switching.
you can use gedit in KDE aswell btw. at least in manjaro KDE
Have you looked into myPaint, my artist friend loves it.
Sublime Text is the goto texteditor for me on linux. Notepad plusplus equivalent. Tilix as the terminal.
Like your videos and site! I have a small problem. I bought a Lenovo IdeaPad L340. I live in Mexico and the Windows 10 system only allows 1 language. I work in several European and Asian languages and this presents a problem for me. It says that the license is only for one language. The default language is Spanish so English is not a problem. Do you have any suggestions (Windows workaround or Linux)?
Is MATE just as configurable as KDE? (This was the reason why I chose KDE over Gnome)