guide:linux:apps [~wiki]

This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong.
====== Useful Linux applications ======
See also: [[:admin:linux:cli:|CLI Applications for admins]]

  * [[:guide:linux:rofi|rofi]] – fast application launcher and window switcher
  * [[https://ulauncher.io/|uLauncher]] – another application launcher with lots of plugins. Looks sexy and is based on Python and HTML, so it's a bit slow.
  * xfce4-terminal – terminal emulator
  * Zim Wiki – personal desktop wiki
  * Qalculate! – calculator
  * Geany – fast mini-IDE / Editor
  * Lutris – game installer and runner

===== Internet =====
  * Firefox – Browser
  * Element – chat application

===== Office =====
  * LibreOffice
  * Kexi – fast database application

===== File management =====
  * Recoll – fast indexing file search
  * Ark – File archiver for Zip, 7z and more, integrates well in Qt/KDE desktop
===== Multimedia =====
  * mpv – video player with minimal UI
  * VLC – video player with good playlist GUI
  * [[https://www.guayadeque.org|guayadeque]] – music player with smart playlist feature, handles huge music collections
  * VideoMorph – Python GUI for transcoding videos
  * soundKonverter – transcode audio files
===== coding =====
  * vscode – IDE with lots of plugins (based on electron, sadly)

===== system tools =====
  * Barrier – share mouse and keyboard between two PCs (client-server), "software KVM"
  * Krunner – launch applications
  * [[https://albertlauncher.github.io|Albert]] – Spotlight/Everything replacement for Linux. Extensible Application Launcher written in Qt.