Linux - What apps do you use ?

**MetalheadGautham** · 06-10-2008, 10:00 PM

I thought I can start this thread to get a general usage feedback about what people really do in their distro. This can help (1) find people who use linux for the same purpose as you, (2) find out the right combinations for a task you have, (3) help newbies decide what to install. Finally, it can also (4) Help us show off.

Let me start first:

I use:

Mozilla Firefox for internet
Opera, Kazehakase, Midori and Dillo as backup browsers
Links as a text browser

VLC Media Player as my primary media player
Xine as secondary media player
MPlayer as backup media player

LXDE as primary DE
Xfce as Secondary DE
IceWM as backup WM

Nano as primary text editor
LeafPad and MousePad as secondary text editor

Geany as primary scripting/programming IDE
QtDesigner to learn Qt4.4

MultiGet as primary download manager
DownThemAll firefox addon as secondary download manager
wget as backup download manager
cURL and Aria2C as alternate console download managers

Gimp and ImageMagiK for image editing

C++ or Python based QT4.4 as prefered application framework.

Audacity and Hydrogen for my music composing needs.

Faun · 06-10-2008, 10:28 PM

FF
MPlayer
Totem
Rhythmbox
Thunderbird
GIMP
Inkscape
Stardict
Gcolor2
Gthumb
Deluge
gFtp
Opera
Pidgin
ooo
abiword
evince
xchm
scrot
snort
nmap
wireshark
Eclipse
geany
audacity
avidemux
kino
brasero
exaile
easyTag
VLC
xvidcap

shady_inc · 06-10-2008, 11:14 PM

KDEmod/XFCE/Fluxbox for GUI.

Opera for browsing,e-mails,IRC.

SMPlayer/VLC as Video players.

Exaile/JuK as Audio players.

vi/Kwrite/Mousepad/ as text editors [Yes, I actually prefer vi over nano].

Audacity/ffmpeg for Audio/Video editing.

Ristretto for image viewing.

Imagemagick/Gimp for Image editing.

Geany as IDE.

hullap · 06-10-2008, 11:28 PM

Ratpoison as primary WM
Fluxbox as secondary
xfce used by family

Opera is primary browser
epiphany secondary

smplayer,vlc for music and videos

exaile and songbird for library management

Gedit and nano for text editors

inkscape and gimp for image editing

Gpicview as image viewer

xchat\irssi as irc client

thunar/nautilus(only for dropbox) as file manager

lighttpd for http server

NucleusKore · 06-10-2008, 11:44 PM

kchmviewer - chm viewer
mplayer - multimedia player
mplayerplug-in - multimedia player browser plugin
audacious - winamp like
k3b - cd/dvd burning
Brasero - cd/dvd burning
devede - dvd authoring
audacity - same as audacity 4 Windows
avidemux - same as avidemux for windows
ffmpeg - CLI video encoder
transcode - CLI video encoder
ntfs-config - mount ntfs partitions read/write
vlc - multimedia player
wine- windows emulator
kaffeine - multimedia player
GIMP - image editor
Firefox - browser
Opera - browser
Openoffice - office suite
Pidgin - instant messaging
KGet - download manager, i use wget usually, but if I want queuing I use this.
Klipper - clipboard
gstreamer and plugins for totem - multimedia player
XAMPP - server for my joomla study
Amarok - music player/organiser
Vuze - bittorent client
Frostwire - p2p (like limewire)
Konversation - irc
Filezilla - ftp upload

Ross · 06-10-2008, 11:50 PM

Internet: Mozilla Firefox.
Media Player : Rhythmbox and Totem.
Text Editor : GEdit
Office : OpenOffice, Evince Document Viewer.
Image Editors/Viewers : GIMP, Inkscape Vector Graphics Editor, F-Spot.
P2p : Transmission.
Messenger : Pidgin.
CD/DVD Burning : Brasero.

**MetalheadGautham** · 07-10-2008, 04:17 AM

@NucleusKore: K3B ? How did you get that to work ? You using an SVN version ?

NucleusKore · 07-10-2008, 07:42 AM

I use the rpms from Packman or debs packaged by MOTU.
My current k3b version is 1.0.5

The same is available in my package collections on this forum.

Hitboxx · 07-10-2008, 07:43 AM

I use a lot of mix and match, so http://www.imgx.org/files/23730_rps5h/apps.jpg

Primarily, Firefox for Internet, QuodLibet for Audio and Totem for Video.

Psychosocial · 07-10-2008, 08:25 AM

Just installed Ubuntu yesterday though I have used it before.....its really good

.

As per now -->>

Amarok as music player
Pidgin for IMs and chatting
Evolution as a mail client
FireFox as the browser
Wine for a little games and stuff as I have no Windows OS right now.
Transmission for torrents

hullap · 07-10-2008, 10:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hitboxx

I use a lot of mix and match, so http://www.imgx.org/files/23730_rps5h/apps.jpg

Primarily, Firefox for Internet, QuodLibet for Audio and Totem for Video.

why is the phirst app in gfx blurred?

gary4gar · 08-10-2008, 03:07 AM

Firefox as browser
Gmail's web interface as mail client
Dolphin as File manager
Shaman as Default Package Manager
K3B or Nerolinux for CD/DVD burning
Kopete as Instant Messenger
Amarok as Music player & manager
Smplayer as Default Vedio player
Kate as Defaulte text editor
Konsole as terminal
Lotus Notes Suite as Office Application
FFmpeg/mencoder for Video conversion/Encoding of Home Videos
Konversation for IRC

All this on
Arch Linux 2.6.26 x86_64
with KDEmod 4 as default DE

Sykora · 08-10-2008, 07:17 AM

I use...

Ratpoison as wm (Although I will be switching to stumpwm soon)

Opera - Primary Browser
Elinks - Secondary Browser
mutt - Email
irssi - IRC
#bitlbee - IM
rss2email - feeds
feh - image viewer
wordnet - dictionary (SUPER)
gnuchess - Chess
vim - Text Editor
vim + latex - Word processing.
genisoimage and wodim - CD Burning

Openoffice.org - Only when I have to print something.
sc - spreadsheeting
devtodo - todo lists
pal - calendar and event notifier

mpc/mpd/ncmpc - music
mplayer - video
aptitude - package management
wget - downloads

Konsole - Term emulator (I'd rather use urxvt, but rp doesn't tile them too well.)

Best of the lot :
zsh - One shell to rule them all.

The rest are mostly scripts that I've written myself, when I haven't found a program for what I needed.

phreak0ut · 08-10-2008, 02:29 PM

KDE as WM
Opera/Firefox(depending on the need) for browsing
Pidgin/Kopete for IM
Amarok for audio
MPlayer for video
OOo for docs
gedit for text editing
GIMP for image editing
K3B for burning, but I'm still a bit scared to use it as I don't want discs which will work only on linux :-/
gnochmviewer for chm files
Dolphin for file management.

This is all I can think of now. Posting from Windows

**MetalheadGautham** · 08-10-2008, 02:41 PM

^^For making discs that work on both linux and windows, select that option from K3B. You can choose to make linux discs, linux/windows discs, dos discs and UDF discs.

And you should use KCHMViewer instead of gnochmviewer. Why use gnome app when kde app exists ?

As for browser, have you tried to use Konqueror ? I think its beautiful in KDE4.1.

gary4gar · 08-10-2008, 03:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

As for browser, have you tried to use Konqueror ? I think its beautiful in KDE4.1.

Konqueror sucks as a Broswer and file manager.
That why Dolphin has replaced it in KDE4.

IMO, KDE4 users should use Opera

Quote:

Originally Posted by phreak0ut

K3B for burning, but I'm still a bit scared to use it as I don't want discs which will work only on linux :-/

Don't worry, it would work fine with windows.
you seem like a Windows guy, so try Nero Linux

**MetalheadGautham** · 11-10-2008, 06:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gary4gar

Konqueror sucks as a Broswer and file manager.
That why Dolphin has replaced it in KDE4.

IMO, KDE4 users should use Opera

Wrong. Konqueror is still a great file manager, thanks to its multi-tab feature which only PCManFM has outside konqueror. Its not even present in Dolphin.

And Konqueror rocks as a browser, and is especially plesant for browsing FTP sites

Its dual web/local nature makes it ideal for managing online hosting accounts via FTP.

And its interface is the only thing thats bad in its browser - way too minimalistic for my liking.

NucleusKore · 11-10-2008, 07:13 AM

^+1
Konqueror does give that local feel to ftp browsing, just like Windows explorer used to give earlier.

hellknight · 11-10-2008, 11:33 AM

Firefox and Opera (Konqueror and Midori too sometimes)
Amarok ( I really, really, really like this app)
K3B
VLC Player,
Pidgin
Evolution
Wget
Konqueror (its really powerful)
W3M (for looking cool in front of my friends

)
Mplayer (from the command line)
Prism
Ktorrent
GNOME (primary DE and KDE Secondary DE)
GIMP (for killing time when the internet is not working)

gopi_vbboy · 11-10-2008, 12:41 PM

i love GNU-Octave

and as usual normal linux tools like Open office,Xine,etc that usually come with my Mandriva

shady_inc · 12-10-2008, 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sykora

I use...

Ratpoison as wm (Although I will be switching to stumpwm soon)

Opera - Primary Browser
Elinks - Secondary Browser
mutt - Email
irssi - IRC
#bitlbee - IM
rss2email - feeds
feh - image viewer
wordnet - dictionary (SUPER)
gnuchess - Chess
vim - Text Editor
vim + latex - Word processing.
genisoimage and wodim - CD Burning

Openoffice.org - Only when I have to print something.
sc - spreadsheeting
devtodo - todo lists
pal - calendar and event notifier

mpc/mpd/ncmpc - music
mplayer - video
aptitude - package management
wget - downloads

Konsole - Term emulator (I'd rather use urxvt, but rp doesn't tile them too well.)

Best of the lot :
zsh - One shell to rule them all.

The rest are mostly scripts that I've written myself, when I haven't found a program for what I needed.

Wow...lots of apps there of which I haven't even heard.

kgas · 13-10-2008, 06:01 PM

It is nice to see what applications are used by individuals. In my view the usage is highly a personal taste. For a normal user
an office suite (OOo) ,
a web browser (FF 3),
a mail client (TB, really good),
a photo editor (picasa),
vlc player (alternative :XBMC media player like media center in windows)
kino for video editing
will just do and are the basic ones.
Remaining all depends on the user what he/she would like to do.

gary4gar · 13-10-2008, 06:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

Wrong. Konqueror is still a great file manager, thanks to its multi-tab feature which only PCManFM has outside konqueror. Its not even present in Dolphin.

Sorry, you are wrong this time

Dolphin supports multiple tabs. And it has everything i expect from a decent file manager to have. On top it a Great easy to use interface.
My cousin(die hard windows fan) asked me if this thingy has a windows version too

**MetalheadGautham** · 13-10-2008, 08:41 PM

really ? I lost touch with KDE, since my 256mb ram is no longer sufficient to run KDE.

gary4gar · 13-10-2008, 09:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

really ? I lost touch with KDE, since my 256mb ram is no longer sufficient to run KDE.

Upgrade dude!
RAM is dirt cheap these days

khattam_ · 15-10-2008, 01:07 PM

Ubuntu Hardy Heron with:
GNOME as DE
SMplayer as Video Player
Exaile as audio Player
VLC as Backup Media Player
OpenOffice for General Document Processing (Not used much)
Eclipse as IDE
Firefox as Browser
ThunderBird as Email Client
Pidgin\Kopete as IM Client
GIMP for basic photo editing
Downloader For X as Download Manager
xCHM as CHM viewer
Gedit as text editor
K3B as Burner