10 BEST Linux Applications: Must Have Software (2021)

This is the Top 10 MUST HAVE Linux apps going into the year 2021. All of these applications are free and open source, some do have optional paid features. This list is my opinion of the top Linux applications. Make sure you check out the 2020 video for 10 more great applications.
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Librewolf - Privacy web browser.
Joplin - Text and markdown editor.
Bitwarden - Open source password manager.
KDE Connect - Link your phone to your PC.
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bpytop - • Linux Terminal System ...
Lutris - Play your games on Linux.
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[@TechHut]

NEED MORE?? Check-out my top 10 list video from last year. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpa5e6yanKt-jdE

[@octopusonfire100]

Hey there! Check your mic, there's an annoying humming sound coming up. A high pass filter would get rid of it. Otherwise great vid as usual.

[@lexoleqsolexo]

sorry maybe you mentioned this earlyer but i wander what distro do you use and what desktop manager

[@suchithsridhar8460]

Main List: 0:34 LibreWolf 1:44 Joplin 2:48 BitWarden 4:13 KDE Connect 5:20 MailSpring 6:20 Bpytop 7:38 Lutris 8:30 Fluent Reader 9:25 VM Virtualbox 12:32 Ardour Honorable mentions: 11:22 Lybr 12:04 Krita

[@TechHut]

Not all heroes wear capes

[@suchithsridhar8460]

@@TechHut XD !! I went down to the comments looking for this and didn't find it. So just documented while watching it.

[@anantgupta7916]

@@suchithsridhar8460 Description

[@maskedredstonerproz]

how do y'all get virtualbox working on linux, I couldn't get it to work to save my life

[@sproott1498]

@@maskedredstonerproz try different emulation settings and 3d acceleration off I think. Also, you could try other software like Gnome Boxes, which worked for me where virtualbox failed.

[@casachezdoom2588]

Thanksfor this list! 2 suggestions to improve your videos: 1) use an EQ or noise removal plugin to remove the hum ccomming from your computer or A/C (you can do this in Audacity > Effect > Noise Removal) 2) add titles on screen when presenting a new app (display the app name for a moment). I'm very visually oriented and this would help a lot. I do appreciate that you listed the app list with links in the video description. Have a great day!

[@at8833]

Great content as always. I am currently myself preparing to transition fully to Linux this month and find your recommendations extremely helpful.

[@davidkoziar1811]

I made the switch a few days ago. If you're all about productivity, minimalism and not being nagged constantly about updates or being forced to update, you'll love Linux.

[@munkycoolgaming]

Me: hmm, KDE connect sounds interesting Also me: has an iPhone

[@orkhepaj]

tbh as a win user kde connect is one of the thing i found pretty good in linux , it worked instantly

[@mrgoob76]

and i see... a security risk with KDE connect

[@caprisces6139]

@@mrgoob76 not if you configure it, you can check and uncheck what you want each device to be able to do, and need to authenticate the connection via code; meanwhile in the phone app, you can set trusted IPs so people can't even begin to connect to your phone via pc.

[@Xanctus]

hey buddy, i love these lists you have made. Most aplications are indeed useful. Take care bro.

[@alanjrobertson]

Hehe I spotted the Bitwarden logo in the browser at the start, so was pleased to see it then feature - I've moved across from Lastpass and love it!

[@andre_lug]

Hey man, great video! Thanks for sharing. Let me ask you: What is that distro you're using on the video? Or maybe what are you using to customize it like that? Looks pretty good

[@happyfeet4506]

I've just installed Linux and these videos are brilliant thank you. Keep up the amazing work 👍

[@LuisCaneSec]

I use some of these. Krita is definitely a must have for the artistically inclined. It works well with Wacom devices and I've used it to make telegram stickers. Bitwarden is great, but make sure you have your backup password saved somewhere safe. My phone bricked and I had to reset my account.

[@ghost6amer928]

Much needed one ❤️

[@coldwire3684]

Thanks dude! I just took the plunge and replaced Windows 10 with PopOS. I'm lovin it so far and videos like this are a welcome sight for me.

[@MTGTournamentGrinder]

I just made the switch to PopOS from Windows 10 as well, about 10 days ago. Any advice for a newcomer? Btw I am lovin' it so far as well!

[@ZambonieDude]

!Pop_OS is a very good OS to move to, they’ll receive updates well into the future & has great support for GPU drivers and Gaming overall.

[@slavic_commonwealth]

I just made the switch to PopOS from Windows 10 as well, about 5 days ago. Any advice for a newcomer? @@MTGTournamentGrinder

[@luxsasha]

love this vid thanks for putting this together. Huge fan of bitwarden!

[@matthewrowell5973]

You mentioned some tools I will absolutely need. Thank you. Subbed.

[@cjnc30]

Thanks Tech Hut great content, will be using these

[@colbyboucher6391]

Great video. IMO Obsidian gas really shot past Joplin, it's incredibly flexible and you're not locked in since it's all Markdown files.

[@Tabsit_Academy]

Hi! Thank you for the video. Can you tell plz which desktop environment are you using?

[@busdriver1261]

Thanks for the video - have given me some good ideas/option to explore

[@danteuk8024]

Nice to see Ardour there, I love it for the music I record, definitely the best free DAW.

[@darXcore]

Cool selection, thanks for sharing.

[@ativjoshi1049]

+100 for Joplin. I recently started using it, I don't think I'll be moving away anytime soon. But it does have some glitches/bugs (mostly due to Electron).

[@xycik112]

Awesome video man! Your voice reminds me a bit that of Quinton Reviews.

[@confetto.]

Hi! Your video is very beautiful. Can you say me what Distro are you using and how you are custimize it. Thanks.

[@CoolPupGaming]

Mailspring changed my life! I hate thunderbird's ui. Thanks for the video :)

[@G0twood]

Mailspring is awesome. I wonder if the premium is worth it

[@Benevolance]

Hi, been enjoying your content thanks for your work! have you made your own bit warden local? will you be making a tutorial video on making that with a pi? (also the part where you said your old video sounds like a kid, there's a bunch of explanations out there this is from BBC :...through vibrating sound waves hitting your ear drum, the way other people hear your voice. The second way is through vibrations inside your skull set off by your vocal chords. Those vibrations travel up through your bony skull and again set the ear drum vibrating. However as they travel through the bone they spread out and lower in pitch, giving you a false sense of bass. Then when you hear a recording of your voice, it sounds distinctly higher.

[@strange_man]

Hey, I fall in love with the look of your OS. Can you tell me which customisations you do? A video would be amazing🥰

[@strange_man]

@Christopher Bello i wish him to see this comment

[@yeahokaycoolcool]

@Christopher Bello looks like Mint to me

[@jemsterr]

If it ismint, it would be interesting to know how he installed it. Seems your only options are appimage or flatpak... or compile from source.

[@brotherbear6434]

KDE connect exists as a fully functional and separate gnome-extension called GS connect for gnome users

[@jyvben1520]

thanks for the info (how is cartman doing, still alive ?)

[@brotherbear6434]

@@jyvben1520 😆🤣

[@rahammc]

Hey man Great video, keep up the good work btw what is the distro that you're using in this video? it look awesome

[@iblackfeathers]

i don’t see lbry in your description section although it was mentioned in the video? kde connect sounds interesting but i don’t see a link in the description either for further details, like which phones it supports or if there’s an associated phone app? the rss reader looks really awesome. i also like the transparency opacity setting on your virtualbox. 👍

[@yutu3327]

Works on my android, install its app from Fdroid or playstore, and then it's very easy to use.

[@lucienreyes9]

Awesome video as always. I'd love to know your take on clients for podcasts and Twitch too XD

[@j_atkinson]

Getting back into Linux on my personal laptop, appreciate the video especially bpytop! It will definitely replace htop for me!

[@SaltyNotSweat]

Bitwarden I have been using for a while and it’s great! I got because it was open source and how you can self host so if the company decided to go a bad direction like last pass , I don’t need to scramble for an alternative

[@loganbeck9626]

I used Bitwarden simply because it was cheaper than last pass and now I don’t wanna go back.

[@im1random263]

Using Bitwarden with a self hosted server since a few months. Now I can't imagine remembering passwords myself

[@leodumach]

Nice suggestions! I would like to find a software to use in my classes to apply green screen effects to the live stream of the webcam. I've got a portable green screen and I use the webcam in class by accessing the site directly. So it is not Zoom or Meets, etc. I know it would be possible to set it on OBS, but that is not the case, since I enter the site of the school and enable my webcam inside the class. I believe it would be similar to what xSplit Vcam does on Windows, but for the latest Manjaro KDE version. Any hints? Thanks in advance and congratulations on the nice content of your videos!

[@Khyree_Holmes]

KDE Connect is very convenient, I have it running under Linux Mint 19.3 and some of the features don't work such as SMS Replying and the indicator keeps on dis/reappearing - I can remotely Control my Linux PC from anywhere in the house.

[@africawago2222]

Great list thanks Mate

[@luizotavio2116]

FINALLY! Someone is talking about Joplin!

[@amirnasiri1112]

Thanksfor this list!

[@aellionnecalara3223]

Thank you for this!

[@Sitwayen]

Very good list. And I found some software that could be useful thx

[@kyedav]

Decent list but I'd also recommend these: QEMU with virt-manager (like virtualbox but it's generally the main vm manager for Linux and supports gpu passthrough) Qutebrowser (if you like using the keyboard) Rofi (dmenu replacement - great in conjunction with scripts) Freetube (Google free KZbin) Ranger (TUI based file manager) Arandr (GUI for Randr - monitor manager) Pcmanfm (file manager - generally what I use on every distro) Kitty (gpu rendered terminal) Kdenlive (video editor) Mpv (probably the best video player) Nitrogen (background manager) Picom (composition, allows blurred windows and such) Pavucontrol (pulseaudio manager) Redshift (night-time mode software) Streamlink Twitch GUI (self explanitory - can use Mpv and it gets around the ads) Syncthing (file/folder sync software to other devices) Themix/oomox (theme designer/automation using the background colours) Pywal (needed for above software but this is what generates the terminal colours from the background image) Yaourt-gui (if you don't like using yaourt via terminal) Tmux (terminal multiplexer, can have sessions, split windows, tabs, etc) Can't really think of more off the top of my head but I'm sure there's a few I've missed. Hope it helps some of you to find new software you didn't know existed.

[@ajax321]

Great list!

[@hankf666]

Thanks for these!

[@khalidelgazzar]

Great video 😊 thank you

[@informativecontent4778]

I subscribed bcoz the list is amazing definitely gonna 3 of these apps

[@JavisoGaming]

I live and die with RSS feeds! Feedly is what I use. Highly recommended!and Bitwarden rules! I love it!

[@hamidmohammed3916]

Thanks for the video I have a question about using portable browsers like portable firefox or chrome , is it safe enough to use it on other computers like at job and so on?

[@alexxu2314]

Nice job. Thank you very much.

[@vagner_tenzen]

What distro you are using in this video? super cool

[@Mutombo71]

Xterm and vi Great work, great overview. Go on.

[@internetcookie2064]

thanks for the video :D

[@sharg0]

Signal. While it's primarily a secure message application for phones once you have that setup you can link it to computers as well. Only drawback is that you can only send/receive to other signal users in the desktop application.

[@MinecraftSurvivalNL]

@Connor Bensyl Source?

[@AnthonyP2A]

THANKS for turning me on to bpytop!!! I can't live w/o it now!

[@Starlight-AG]

I have been using Linux distros for over 10 years. I will say that they have come a long way. They look great, install software well etc. However, since the beginning there is a major weakness - Printers. It has gotten better but still not great. I have recently tried Linux Mint 20.1 and Manjaro 21.04. After installation both see the printer (HP CP1025nw) and have set it up with IPP protocol. Seemed good until I tried to print on a legal size 14" paper. Both would print only as far down the page that a letter size page would be. The rest was blank. I tried every setting available to no avail. The Print preview was fine. Today I tried Fedora 34 and it too set up the printer but nothing would print at all! Not even the test page. in fact the settings module crashed 4 times so clearly this version of Fedora is not ready for prime time. Printing reliably is basic stuff for an O/S. If it can't do that, it's of no use (to me) as I do coding now and then and often need printouts for debugging etc. So long as these kinds of issues are not corrected all the Linux distros are not going very far. I would rather use Linux instead of Windows but Windows has no problems with any printer I have ever had. Lets get this fixed! That's my 2 cents worth.

[@ardithconley2628]

Nice video. With the upcoming Win11 I am thinking I will be moving to Linux. I only use about 4 to 8 windows programs. Which are paid programs. Moving to Linux for Me is either moving those programs to Linux versions if possible or getting them to run on Linux. I have been playing around with Ubuntu on my pi 4. You know it is not the interface or even the command line in Linux that seems weird to me. It is the lack of those programs I use. Strangely.

[@vizlodunken4952]

This is a cool list 👍👍💥

[@feliperafael8104]

Amazing video, just a feedback: there is a background noise, maybe is from your pc.

[@NanescuRadu1]

hehe, I already use most of the apps ... except virtualbox ... kvm + quemu + virt-manager gang! oh for ardour jack server and cadance is a must UMFA does a great job to set you up! and as a utility simple screen recorder is super cool for recording desktops and applications

[@RoyBlumenthal]

Nice list! I've tried KDE CONNECT on Linux Mint XFce. And it works wonderfully... But it DOESN'T work when my Linux box is connected to Wan and WiFi at the same time (this applies to WiFi printing also). It's probably something bonehead I've done, but I have no idea why it would be doing this.

[@barrykirkby9626]

Great vid.. any chance of doing one on the problems with wifi cards like those in atom based laptops using broadcom.. amazes me a 12 year old laptop with celeron no problem, 2 year old laptop with atom.. nope. Keep up the good work.

[@BWGPEI]

I see AMD processor combined with Linux, which is exactly what I've been building since the early days of Windows 10 and the Intel chip flaws kerfuffle. Many thanks for the update!

[@AdskiiPer4ik]

I suggest changing Joplin to Obsidian because the latter is more configurable and more flexible.

[@Number01]

Do you have a video that talks about setting up a list of programs that auto installs to a new linux install? I see all these great programs and need to find a way to install them after each install without remembering all their names. Thanks! Great video!

[@4vladimir]

Answer is very simple: Ansible

[@magicmanj32]

Subscribed, great video, interesting apps

[@farukofculture5722]

i love your videos

[@uz699]

what wallpaper you use :3, and thanks this videos help me alot

[@bassamatic]

Great list! don't know why anyone with security in mind would use a password manager though.

[@JohnPlissken]

This motivated me to switch back to Mint as my main OS from Win 11.

[@sailor-rick]

Hummm noise! I assume that your microphone was sitting on top of your tower or sharing a desk with your tower because it was picking up a low-mid range humm. Great content, though. I am, once again, moving back to Linux from a Win7 machine. I like KDE Plasma, Neon distro... or maybe Dr46gon distro. Thanks for the links, too. Add one more sub.

[@RobMonette]

I use Zim to save all my notes and love it a lot!

[@matthewweber4162]

I do too. Love zim

[@nukoolchompuparn8570]

Thank you for your comment of Zim, it's in Software of Fedora 34 WorkStation and I will install it right now.

[@Max-mz3is]

*Thx. man u really made my life ezier :)*

[@christianoliver2697]

Thank you!

[@dpaddestroyer1861]

Great list

[@s.aravindh6227]

Nice video 👍👍

[@ariannabotaku]

There is a gnome3 equivalent to KDE Connect and also a Cinnamon companion app to use KDE Connect in Cinnamon.

[@RoboticParanoia]

Is that dock latte? I loved what you did to it.

[@vfletes1]

What flavor OS are you using in this video...Solus?

[@tachmonite37]

'Quod Libet' for music. 'KeepassXC' password manager. SMPlayer and SMTube for video. I've slowly started transitioning from Windows to Linux and I find it really helpful to start getting used to the Windows version of the Linux apps before I fully transition to Linux. Your list has been really helpful. I really like Joplin so far as a OneNote and Notion replacement. I only wish Joplin had pen integration like OneNote, or does it?

[@katzicael]

As a linux noob who's slowly transitioning from windows To linux, i'm Living off these videos right now. I love your KDE UI/Bar :)

[@myWareg]

Cool wallpaper. I've exactly the same!

[@gradientO]

You really need to do videos about window managers

[@sgill4833]

I installed all these for my new install 👍

[@cheako91155]

Homeserver for browser sync bookmarks, extensions, and even moving(pushing and taking) tabs?

[@jesus.moreno]

I'm new in your channel ... And on the linux world ... What distro are you using?

[@Eishventura]

What Linux distribution do you have the video please

[@Mathias-bz2kr]

I would say qemu with kvm is better than virtualbox, because of kvm speeding it up to nearnative performance and responsebility ,and being able to emulate arm devices. I would say virtmanager is only slightly harder to use. For windows users i think virtualbox is good if you want to virutalise linux x86 distros as a beginner.

[@hamidmohammed3916]

I'm using KDE connect daily and it's awesome but I wish If there is an option to disable or pause showing notifications "I mean only KDE connect notifications not all system notifications" instead of unpair the phone

[@AyushKumar-bj6yq]

Which linux use you use sir I am very pleased by your distro Please tell sir

[@joelwisdom8523]

Unrelated but can you do a video on Manjaro dual boot install with systemd-boot? My hp laptop has issues with showing grub in bios boot menu but a systemd-boot like Pop OS worked. I want to use manjaro but I don't want to have to deal with grub and windows

[@aslanenver]

I am a novice user. I make use of the videos. thank you. which linux have you used?

[@theyeetusbrown6728]

Hey what distro do you use? Just asking as i have never seen anything like this one just wanted to know

[@sabashafiei3761]

Hey, helpful Videos. Which ide can I use for python on Ubuntu for arm64???

[@ariannabotaku]

WARNING: Joplin's support for Nextcloud seems confusing. So if you use hosted Nextcloud I would keep an eye on it. In one area they say the API is depreciated for their own Joplin-Server but when connecting to my Nextcloud instance it errored out but did sync everything. Very confusing.

[@ChenliangXu]

Nice video! Any recommendations for video editing?

[@clemradio]

yeah, really important. it currently is the missing category on Linux. Cinelerra or KDEnlive are just jokes. I use VSDC on Windows, never found anything convenient instead.

[@JahidulIslam]

Davinci Resolve Studio and Lightworks.

[@akhilmalasar6085]

Which is best replacement in linux for Acrobat pro dc pdf editor.. please reply asap

[@alexcricles]

What is your operating system on that video? I like the close, maximize-minimize button.. Like mac-os..

[@DaltonMyWorld]

Thank You

[@jonasstrabel]

KDE Connect is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo usefull! Thanks!

[@SW-Video]

There's an extension I like called "New Tab Tools" but it's invasive. Is there a better alternative that doesn't poke its nose into all my browsing habits?

[@johnhixson7040]

I'm a newbie to Linux. How do I download KDE connect? I went to the site but when I click available nothing happens. So I click on GSC connect and it says download Gnome???Then asks me my shell version. I'm using Mint.

[@matthewweber4162]

What is the camera you use now? The camera I use on The Linux Cast is terrible.