The 12 Linux Apps Everyone Should Know About

This is a top 12 list of Linux apps that I think everyone should know about, and probably should be using. Most of the programs I list are cross-platform, so you could use them on Windows/Mac as well. All of the programs I list will be free and open source software.
REFERENCED:
► www.mozilla.org/
► brave.com/
► www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
► www.libreoffice.org/
► jitsi.org/
► www.gimp.org/
► inkscape.org/
► github.com/oguzhaninan/Stacer
► htop.dev/
► notepadqq.com/s/
► app-outlet.github.io/
► deadbeef.sourceforge.io/
► www.virtualbox.org/
► www.vim.org/
► www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
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FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE THAT I USE:
🌐 Brave Browser - brave.com/dis872
📽️ Open Broadcaster Software: obsproject.com/
🎬 Kdenlive: kdenlive.org
🎨 GIMP: www.gimp.org/
🎵 Audacity: www.audacityteam.org/
💻 VirtualBox: www.virtualbox.org/
🗒️ Doom Emacs: github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs
Your support is very much appreciated. Thanks, guys!

[@FoxMaccloud]

1:13 Mozilla Firefox (Browser) 4:09 VLC (Media player) 5:27 Libre Office (Microsoft office alternative) 6:24 JITSI (Confrence call, Zoom alternative) 7:30 GIMP (Image manipulation, Photoshop alternative) 8:24 Stacer (System Monitor) 9:24 Htop (System Monitor) 11:03 Notepadqq (Text editor) 12:13 App outlet (App store) 14:07 Deadbeef (Music player) 15:23 Virtualbox (Virtual Machine) 16:54 Vim (Highly configurable text editor)

[@FoxMaccloud]

I would also suggest these programs: - Krita (Image manipulation, Photoshop alternative) - Cmus (Cli music player) - Qemu (Virtual Machine)

[@ribosomerocker]

And ffmpeg, for sure. It's probably the most known cli music player.

[@JessicaFEREM]

Hey DT, if you put this in the description of the video, it'll show up on the KZbin player like a chapter select It'll show up a day after you add it to the description, so be patient

[@Imaltont]

@@FoxMaccloud Blender and kdenlive also deserve a mention imo

[@mizhimo]

youtube-dl, Inkscape and geany are some apps I always install.

[@drishalballaney6590]

15:45 "What is a virtual machine?" "It not a physical machine, it is a virtual machine" LOL

[@FeedScrn]

VirtualBox is nice. As DT said, it has a Linux and a Windows vrs... (possibly Mac as well).

[@KasperSOlesen]

@@FeedScrn Yeah, I do think some people have managed to run MacOS in a VM. I think I have tried to do that a long time ago, but its messy to try to setup.

[@williamblair1123]

"Brawndo's got electrolytes"

[@ostech4114]

@@KasperSOlesen to install Mac OS I am using VMware workstation and it works perfectly

[@louistournas120]

@@KasperSOlesen The easiest way to run MacOSX, is to download a premade VM from someone else, which is what I did. Back then, I had Win7 and I had installed vmware. You have to have an Intel CPU. It has to be Core 2 Duo at least. There is a patch to run it on AMD CPUs. Also, it was very very slow.

[@micleh]

BTW: In Germany, in one of its 16 states called North Rhine-Westphalia, Jitsi is the standard for video conferencing at schools.

[@ravishankarsatheesh1901]

That's cool. Unfortunately in India everyones still using google meet and Zoom.

[@anonymanonym9004]

I live in switzerland. In the beginning of the quarantine we used jitsi as well, but later we switched to zoom :(

[@micleh]

@@anonymanonym9004 Zoom is prohibited here. Ministers started investigations against teachers and schools and wanted to impose a 1,000 € fine on them because they had used programs like Zoom at the beginning of the pandemic. At that time, there were no officially sanctioned programs and they used the ones that were popular. What they did not know or ignored out of a lack of choice was that these programs violate data laws in Germany because the servers are located outside the US and they do not follow the new and very strict data laws, called DSGVO (Datenschutzgrundverordnung) here.

[@JanikPilz]

In Bavaria even organisations like the red-cross use Zoom

[@ENTMusic-cj7wt]

No it isn't. I live there and we have to use Zoom.

[@TechHut]

Love it! Notepadqq was one of the first things that I used daily when I moved over to Linux. Perfect for editing YML files.

[@yasargoktas]

👍

[@itzmeshervin]

Hi TechHut , i love you videos 😄

[@brunoais]

Same. But then I moved on to use others depending on what I need. xed being one of them

[@julianstephen1303]

Hey Techhut...you guys are my two favorite Linux and everything tech-related Content Providers

[@hatfansr563]

same

[@MaxDad7]

Thanks for the heads up on App Outlet. I didn't know it existed. I like how it categorizes the different installers much more clearly compared to others.

[@user-tm3fz7qx3s]

I saw SuperTuxKart in the thumbnail and now I just played it for a whole 7 hours. Dang it man!

[@GeoTechLand]

It's amazing that these community funded opensource alternatives can be better than their proprietary counterparts in many ways. The opensource world does a lot more with less!

[@happyfeet4506]

There is the truth right there I've just ditched windows and installed Linux mint on my desktop and Linux mint on my laptop and it's brilliant wish I had done this years ago

[@world_reborn1990]

@@happyfeet4506 same here.

[@waltciii3]

Perhaps. But all these Linux apps are knock offs / imitations of a proprietary original.

[@mattx5499]

@@waltciii3 How are they 'knockoffs'? They have their own interfaces, features and plugins. It's like saying that every spreadsheet program is knockoff of VisiCalc from 1979.

[@waltciii3]

@@mattx5499 Every non command line feature is a knockoff of proprietary. Every current free Office is a knock off of late 90's MS Office. Every Linux Gui is trying to be a Mac or Windows front end. It's like Windows 3.1 on top of DOS. Don't be mad, Mac and Windows haven't added much since the mid 2000s other than aesthetics...

[@keiichiiownsu12]

If you are looking for a couple other good symphonic pieces, I would recommend: Gustav Holst Suite in F major, Four Scottish Dances, and Seville Suite (preferably a version that replaces the oboe solo with an accordion). They were really fun to play in and a good listen too!

[@finnk1289]

What's fantastic about cross-platform FOSS is not only making your transition to Linux easy, but it improves your experience on proprietary systems.

[@alexdelgado186]

Thanks man, i been thinking a lot about trying out vim for programming, i will check your tutorials✌🏻

[@kychemclass5850]

Hey DT. I watched this video v.recently where you introduced me to FOSS "Jitsi Meet". I broke my ankle so cannot go to school to teach. Some of my classes are >40 mins so Googul Meet, Zoom etc would have caused me 'financial stress'. So I tried Jitsi Meet with my class today. I was able to do a continuous 90mins session and the students reported the session was fine. So a BIG THANKS :) for recommending this, and thanks to the Jitsi team.

[@enkiimuto1041]

The App Outlet is the one thing i have been looking for and criticizing Linux distros for not doing, thank you for showing me

[@DarrellBraunsLongThumbNail]

Gimp and VLC are amazing. I used them even back in my Windows days. I also really like glabel for label printing. It's so versatile, and I don't think Windows has anything even close to it, definitely not for free.

[@andrzejandrzejski229]

I don't like VSC.

[@mTrader1]

@@andrzejandrzejski229 try VLC then you'll like it

[@patriciofernandez6500]

I use gimp every day for cleaning scans. I'm a window 10 user.

[@lolitbairiganjan2940]

@@mTrader1 I think he wanted to write VLC and not VSC

[@Isassi007]

Thanks for information on app-outlet. That looks like something I will definitely use!

[@majoraslayer64]

As a Linux n00b, thanks for explaining what VIM is. I learned the hard way to use nano if I just need to make a simple edit to a config file. People who post step-by-step guides on edits to config files in Linux and assume everyone is advanced enough to know vim are the type of Linux users that discourage n00bs from learning it.

[@KasperSOlesen]

Apps I think ought to be on the list because they are free and open source, and the best at what they do: Blender 3D : 3D editing software that is free and open source. Godot Engine: As a game developer, I also think Godot deserves a place on the list... it could of course quickly turn into a top 20 then, but I do not see a problem with that. So much great free open source software out there that people should now about I think. Midnight Commander: Personally I would also put Midnight Commander on the list. Its just a great file manager program that can run in a shell and reminds me of Norton Commander for DOS, but there are alternatives and some prefer a pure command prompt / shell. It can be configured so that left and right arrow goes in and out of directories, but also you can click ctrl-o to just hide Midnight Commander and use the shell again, and then click ctrl-o again to bring up Midnight Commander. Its just such a time saver, especially if you are wanting to delete, copy or move a lot of files around. Especially with its left and right view. OBS Studio. Free and open source video recording / streaming software. I had to check but it is for Linux, Windows and MacOS. I do not think there is any free and open source alternative that comes close to this... unless maybe you want something that does not have as many features as OBS Studio. OpenShot: Free and open source video editing software. I have been using DaVinci Resolve but it is not open source. I might switch to OpenShot because I do not need advanced features much, its pretty simple video editing I do, mainly to just take a few things out of videos and maybe do voice hours or adjust the audio if its out of sync. But I guessing fixing some out of sync audio might be too advanced for OpenShot, so I would have to test to see how that works. But there are also Kdenlive and Shotcut, both have more features than OpenShot and are closer to DaVinci Resolve, while still being open source. I guess 7zip is also worth listing. Its free and open source and... not sure what alternatives there are since I think they are mainly not open source.

[@xXx_Regulus_xXx]

re: 7zip alternatives, peazip is a good one if you like gui applications

[@selfelements8037]

Good video, but I personally switched from Windows to Linux mainly because I had to format the system every year literally. But I'm very passionate about open-source too. As I always say, the future is open-source! :)

[@Dee-Ell]

Nice to hear that both my main browsers (Firefox and Brave) are recommended. By the way, Stacer ditched Electron in 2019; it's been rewritten in C++.

[@roberttranceedm]

I like your well mixed and practical approach to the topic. It can be useful for new members.

[@BobbyDotTV]

Good list. This prompted me to dig much harder into firefox settings to try to come up with a more private setup.

[@12Q46HPRN]

Another outstanding video! I watched on LBRY but came here to like & comment.

[@barrycheesemore2928]

Awesome video dude, really enjoyed it. I've 'dabbled' with Linux on and off for a few years, but I now use it as my every day OS. I only keep Win10 (dual boot on a separate drive) for a few games. I might switch completely next year, who knows. Keep up the good work!!

[@chilskater]

same case like mine.. i need windows for some casual gaming with RX580

[@Mega_Casual]

Great video, DT. Didn't know about notepadQQ and Stacer. Both are great!!!

[@kennethhawkins5943]

I have found this to be your most useful video so far. I have used Linux for years but there were several apps that I had never heard of. Thanks.

[@reilly6187]

Addressing video calling apps was really cool, maybe you can explore it more in a later ad. I feel like video calling has to be one of the most dangerous things to use privacy wise.

[@yash1152]

but they are essential when institutes force you to use it for official purposes.

[@garfreld]

Thats why he shows virtualbox lol

[@marioschroers7318]

»I forgot to add Emacs to the list« I really was wondering about this! 😁 Great list!

[@teosto1384]

Really nice picks. Having been away from Linux and computing scene for years now there were some really nice things I never even knew about like, that AppOutlet but also some oldies and goodies I remember from days past.

[@wnchandler14]

Thanks for the discussion of your top 12 Apps. I am considering setting up a couple Linux machines for general use and internet access. It would be helpful to have the name of the App on screen for the duration of your discussion of it.

[@scottmiller2591]

I looked at the LaTeX capability of notepadqq - pretty cool for a basic text editor.

[@Speykious]

I switched to Linux 2 years ago because I wanted more control over my computer. I guess its open-source nature is playing some part in that, but I feel like it's less relevant than privacy and security issues. I came to embrace the open-source philosophy anyway after 2 years of experience with Linux. :)

[@s4ty-s4t]

I'm gonna switch to linux when i get a flashdrive i can use to make a back-up and i can actually use my laptop The main thing that convinced me is i can customize the desktop/ui But i also enjoy my privacy so yeah

[@ChristianGeske-yn3mr]

That’s why I switched because I started listening programming/computer science and windows file management system was being to confuse me and piss me off lol so I made the switch

[@FHangya]

I have to say, your content is super useful, and informative. Thank you so much. Please continue doing this great support, and stay safe! :)

[@nicktayloriv310]

Between you and KeepItTechie I'm learning (relearning) a LOT of things. Thank you Sir.

[@davidlewisjohnson4235]

I still don't understand why folks don't ship htop de facto with every linux distro.

[@leoe.r.7338]

Lubuntu does.

[@C6438911]

glances and gtop are great too! they should be included as well, imo.

[@alpacamale2909]

it is ugly

[@danduby8416]

"Top" from the terminal is basically the same thing.

[@shandrakher]

manjaro does

[@Klffsj]

This really isn't for casual users but kvm, qemu, virsh, and libvirt (combined) are a way better alternative to VirtualBox. Since kvm is a part of the Linux kernel, it's a Type-1 hypervisor, which means it has fewer layers of abstraction between the VM and the physical hardware, reducing the performance overhead of the VM. So, VirtualBox is better for trying out something in an isolated environment, whereas qemu and kvm are better when performance matters.

[@princemjmc]

Thank You DT Awesome Picks! 🥳

[@gusgreen3104]

Some I have used for Evah, but VIM is what I need. Thanks. I really like your presentation, and above all your good attitude.

[@eminyaren]

Good video, I would like to see Blender 3d in that list but it's a good list, thank you.

[@KasperSOlesen]

Yup... I somewhat expected to see Blender on the list. Not that I use it myself, but seems to deserve a spot on a list like this. As a game developer, I also think Godot deserves a place on the list... it could of course quickly turn into a top 20 then, but I do not see a problem with that. So much great free open source software out there that people should now about I think. Personally I would also put Midnight Commander on the list. Its just a great file manager program that can run in a shell and reminds me of Norton Commander for DOS, but there are alternatives and some prefer a pure command prompt / shell. It can be configured so that left and right arrow goes in and out of directories, but also you can click ctrl-o to just hide Midnight Commander and use the shell again, and then click ctrl-o again to bring up Midnight Commander. Its just such a time saver, especially if you are wanting to delete, copy or move a lot of files around. Especially with its left and right view. Hmmm... oh yes, OBS Studio. Free and open source video recording / streaming software. I had to check but it is for Linux, Windows and MacOS. I do not think there is any free and open source alternative that comes close to this... unless maybe you want something that does not have as many features as OBS Studio. I guess 7zip is also worth listing. Its free and open source and... not sure what alternatives there are since I think they are mainly not open source.

[@davidvantongerloo1907]

have a nice weekend DT !!

[@DistroTube]

Same to you!

[@xdmtoter6739]

I just found your channel, and I'm gradually watching all your videos. Good Stuff. It's nice to see someone actually Recommend Vi. I've been using *nix since the 90's and started on the good old Green Screen serial terminals, where the keyboards didn't have Arrow keys. Hence hjkl for movement through the file.

[@GlenBarnhardt]

Hey DT, I love your video's. I have been a heavy Mac user for years however I started in computers in the early 80's when everything was at the command prompt. Because of mainly you and other fine youtubers I have installed (on a brand new laptop, it came with windows and I never even fired it up) *Arch Linux* . I did it the hard way. I'm using sddm as a login manager, and qtile as a tiling window manager. I've been trying out brave but also have firefox. Now because of this video I have some other missing pieces. Next I"m exploring Dmenu. I love how your menuing in this video works. One question, do you know of any full screen zoom apps or code for qtile? Being an old guy my eyes are quite bad. I'll be supporting you on patreon. Keep up the great work and I'll see you over on your new chanel want to hear what you have to say about options trading. 🙂

[@clintonkildepstein580]

Been using Nano for text editing, installed notepadqq after learning about it here. Thanks!

[@braydenburr1776]

have you heard of or tried atom?

[@SpaghettiRealm]

@@braydenburr1776 have you heard of or tried VS code

[@GuidoMakor]

Have you heard of or tried Bluefish?

[@DouglasJenkins]

Although I had tried Linux in 1998 (I had a win-specific modem) I finally switched completely to Linux by 2005 BECAUSE I was already using StarOffice/OpenOffice (now LibreOffice), Audacity, GIMP, FireFox and wanted to be completely FOSS.

[@suvetar]

Hi Derek, Fascinating and well thought out as usual, Thank you! I was wondering if you could *ahem* scratch an itch for me? :D I noticed in your HTOP, lots of 'obs' processes ... Can you tell me what they are please? Thanks again

[@elia1608]

hi, thank you for the recommendation. I was wondering which desktop environment you are using here and if you have any tips how to configure my desktop to look the same. which background picture are you using?

[@tcholly]

What's the difference between flatpack, appimage and snap?

[@MagikGimp]

See that wheel there? We need to start yet again from scratch on it.

[@philippeheyvaert3742]

Hello Derek, Greetings from Belgium! I've ditched VLC and went for mpv, a month or 7 ago. I'm forced to use Windows at work and I've noticed many VLC updates on my work pc. Most probably bloath, I think. I don't think that is secure software anymore. I use Debian for my personal computers. Fan of your channel, btw! Best regards, Philippe

[@AbhishekBM]

Vlc might be bloat but it's definitely secure.

[@madthumbs1564]

@@AbhishekBM VLC works great in Windows but is a mess in Linux.

[@spanners7343]

The reason VLC updates often is that it contains it's own Codecs for video/audio playback so the developers are often adding new ones or tweaking existing ones. As for been secure it doesn't send any info back to the developers except crash reports (can you can turn those off) and it's open source so if it was collecting info ppl would see it in the code and let everyone know.

[@jemiebridges3197]

There are TWO versions of VLC. The windows store version and the original in the wild version. They are very different under the hood. Its highly unlikely the work version is anything but the Windows Store VERSION. It is more "secure" from an IT perspective. There is no reason they would install the wild version unless your job set required it. I.E. you requested.

[@send2gl]

Great video. I do use many of them but will look into the others. Thanks for suggestions.

[@mohammadmehdi1559]

Hey Dt. Thank you , for the movie Whats your todo list or task manager?

[@mariejojones]

Thanks for this video. Glad to see there's a notepad++ equivalent in Linux. It's a very useful app. Simple and efficient.

[@yash1152]

yeah same.

[@LevisRaju]

Deadbeef :-) My favorite music player for years.

[@hoterychannel]

and it have bitperfect mode, what other linux player have that?

[@mobydick8555]

I'm a Tauon Music Box man myself. Relatively new but looks cool

[@alvarogroy]

Ey DT! What program do you use to create/edit your videos? Openshot? KDEnlive? Flowblade?

[@cassandradawn780]

I've been watching you for a while, but didn't notice that I'm not subscribed. subbed. DO MORE VIDS, YOU'RE AWESOME. Also what wm are you using in this video?

[@favor94]

he using many wm, but he mostly use xmonad or qtile

[@dalriada842]

I'm only six minutes into this video, but I thought I should point out that my brain is auto-completing every time you say "proprietary software" with "proprietary garbage"!

[@TukozAki]

lol I have the same auto-completion, with "privacy thief, to profit" tho.

[@cblte]

I like your list. Unfortunately, Brave still communicates a lot with Google. On first start, it generates a "BraveServiceKey" which is unique to your PC, Google is still the default search engine and the setting to transmit full product analysis data is turn on by default as well. Brave also loads a lot of JavaScript and Fonts from Google and Facebook and Twitter to keep those things working, and this is loaded when you start the browser without user interaction. So it might be a good browser, but there is still a lot of things you need to tune by hand to make it more private than the developers claim it is. Beside that, you can turn on adds to earn brave credits or whatever they are called to buy things in games. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@redcoat4348]

are these problems still extant in Brave?

[@cuttlefishn.w.2705]

Since this video came out just now, and I haven't heard you talk about either text editors before, I think a notepadqq vs sublime text video is in order. I do remember my windows days, discovering notepad++ felt like Christmas. I don't miss it at all because the internet suggested sublime text at the time I was transitioning over and that was a major upgrade. This begs the question whether notepadqq is a 1-to-1 clone exactly, or if it's another/alternative improvement on notepad++ in a similar/different way to sublime text being a massive improvement.

[@SnoDawg]

What is the app you are using on this video on the desktop to launch your apps ? Thanks for any info.

[@Aemilindore]

Oh man I didn't know you can kill a process using htop. Oh man, love you so much

[@pieterhartzer7884]

xkill is another one of my favourite commands :)

[@callisoncaffrey]

I had vlc for years until I heard about mpv. Vlc is great on Windows, but on Linux I couldn't even fast forward without everything being stuttery afterwards. With mpv i can go back and forth slow, fast, and it has a terminal like input system and uses config files where you can bind your own keys or write your own scripts. Don't know if that's possible in VLC as well, but just for the non-stuttering after skipping alone I'll go with mpv.

[@yash1152]

thanks a lot for input

[@DarrellBraunsLongThumbNail]

I haven't had any problems, but I'll stick this in my hat. Thanks

[@callisoncaffrey]

@@DarrellBraunsLongThumbNail I've noticed the issue is only if you watch stuff faster. I never watch anything below 2.0x so when I skipped, it became stuttery. So I guess for the normal people vlc is still fine.

[@This_Month_In_History]

How did you make your app list open wherever you clicked on your desktop, is that an app or is it distro specific?

[@pascaldifolco4611]

Cool ! I'm just starting to use Linux with Mint (alongside Win10 on a separate drive, dual boot), this is very useful ! A long time ago (in the 90s) I did some ol'Unix sysop and programming, seems that VIM is the grandson of vi :)

[@PinakiGupta82Appu]

All the applications you mentioned are essential and must-have applications. Keep up the great work!

[@jhonyortiz5]

I'm trying to leave Windows because I can customize my pc to my heart's content. I love how beautiful linux can look and how productive in makes me.

[@feschber]

then you realize you wasted weeks customizing it and your not any more productive at all I speak from experience

[@feschber]

then you realize you wasted weeks customizing it and your not any more productive at all I speak from experience

[@jhgames5381]

@@feschber *Laughs on perfectionism*

[@MrQwebek]

You not only CAN customize your PC, you will have to do this ;)

[@marusdod3685]

@@feschber thats why you always install a just werks distro

[@igorberlocnik3402]

Hello,can you tell me what theme is on video,or window decoration you use

[@digitalzoul57]

Man!! The sound is incredible

[@Pokemonman44441]

To be honest I love Brave. Which was made one of the same founders of Firefox.

[@Speykious]

I usually use MPV as my media player. It's more minimalistic than VLC it seems, but it works really well for anything you might want to play. Even music where it would put the wallpaper as a static image (maybe VLC does that too?).

[@abodawead9039]

You're great man. Thank you very much

[@privatery3509]

Hey DT - video has been fantastic for someone like me who has literally just dipped his toe in the Linux World. I'm Using Linux Mint (cinnamon) But out of everything, the only trouble i'm having is getting App Outlet installed. Any advice or a video on how to do this? Tried your link in description and via the terminal but no luck. Thanks in advance and thanks again for the awesome content to help people like me.

[@NathanielStickley]

Worth mentioning: Byobu, Krita, Darktable, FFMPEG, OBS Studio, KdenLive, Olive (video editor), Qt Creator, Blender, FreeCAD, LyX

[@pieterhartzer7884]

DaVinci Resolve for video editing too.

[@NathanielStickley]

@@pieterhartzer7884 yeah, it's not free/open software and it requires a fairly powerful GPU with the appropriate driver installed. Otherwise, it refuses to launch. Then, when it does launch, the Linux version of the application is sort of buggy. I wish it worked better. I try different versions periodically, but I haven't encountered a stable version that I can actually use yet.

[@pieterhartzer7884]

@@NathanielStickley It's free, uses GPU or CPU and the only bug I've encountered was the fact that the free version doesn't support all codecs and instead of displaying a message it just doesn't load the video. It logs the problem though. FFMPEG convert and all works well. Admittedly open source would be preferred but for what you get it's amazing.

[@NathanielStickley]

@@pieterhartzer7884 Point me to the source code. As far as I can tell, the source code isn't available publicly, which means it's not free / open source. As of a few months ago, it will not run unless OpenCL or CUDA are available on the system. Has this changed recently?

[@pieterhartzer7884]

@@NathanielStickley As I mentioned in my comment, it's NOT open source, so I cannot point you to the source code. It is free though and I understand that if it's not open source you won't list it, which is fine. Free != Open Source. Did you mean 'and' when using the slash(/)? It normally means 'or' which is where the confusion might have come in. I never had problems running it without the graphics drivers set up although I set it up because of the speed improvement. Even their tool that comes with it tests your CPU speed.

[@MpSniperM1911]

i don't use VLC because idk why every time i wanted to open the program again it didn't worked, so i just switched to MPV

[@richardshalla]

Great video. I would suggest you work on your microphone recording. With your voice,tthe setup is very clear but the top end has some very Sharpe edges,wwhich can be hard for long listening.II would advice taking that down some, whether it's with more base or less treble or just covering the mic better. Just a suggestion, I really enjoyed this video and others you've done.

[@courtlaw1]

This is by far my favorite OS channel.

[@Boba0514]

ungoogled chromium is the FOSS version of chrome, in case people are wondering if they need to use brave, which also has some "baggage"

[@lingux_yt]

I tried Dissenter for a while, instead of Brave. I don't see people talking about it

[@yutu3327]

What baggage?

[@AS-gq5ho]

Why this channel doesn’t have like a million subscribers at least?!

[@vaisakhkm783]

😂 because computer geeks like us are less

[@KunalVaidya]

wow! I have been searching for notepad++ for Linux from many days. I tried the wine package but it doesn't handle disks, the default text editor doesn't restore unsaved files, Kate is okay. htop is my default goto app at the office on build server to check how my build is going, I was surprised that it isn't default installed when i tried now at home

[@geekbeer5846]

DT I love your videos, hands down one of the best linux channels on the web. I have a question. I've recently installed Manjaro because I enjoy "working for my food" a bit. However, I cant seem to find my issue here. Maybe you'll have some thoughts. I've got an i9 11th gen CPU, AMD Radeon Red Devil 6600xt gpu, and 48gb of RAM. For some reason. Manjaro, (and most other linux distros), run decent. But nowhere near as well & snappy as Win10 did on my PC. I refuse to go back to proprietary, but I just cant sacrifice the performance for my gaming, streaming, recording, developing, calculating (I mine & work in IT, passwords / net sniffing etc). Any tips for a guy to get a snappy quick and enjoyable system back?? I've done all the driver work I can think of, i just cant get it figured out!

[@geekbeer5846]

@@reoencarcelado5904 in the 10 months since this post I switched to Fedora :)it's amazing. I've recently switched to the Nobara Project, it's basically Fedora for gamers. It is also amazing! Haha.

[@reoencarcelado5904]

holy cow, KZbin (or SOMETHING; it wasn’t me :-/ ) deleted my comment. I was looking for this link to edit my previous post to type it in: that it’s-also-good that you used a *AMD* graphics-card, because the NVidia ones have been having alot of problems in Linux (Linus exposes it in this video, and so does another Linux user: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3XGn6abo7VkbJo ). I’m-glad that things are working-out for you :-)

[@calfdindon2353]

Stacer is an electron application in an appimage... sounds like a meme xD !

[@firstnamelastname-hr9ds]

yeah DT content is horrible nowadays this man unironically likes appimage what the hell, why havent i unsubbed yet?

[@derricknyakundi1985]

@@firstnamelastname-hr9ds unsub then. What is wrong with appimages?

[@CoolGuyAtlas]

@@firstnamelastname-hr9ds appimages are great. Works on any distro and you can just uninstall with one click. Way better than Snaps and Flatpaks. Flatpaks all broke on me a bit ago and I needed to launch them from the terminal and snaps are ubuntu

[@firstnamelastname-hr9ds]

@@CoolGuyAtlas yeah, bloat is great. sometimes you need some bloat because you can't just use your storage effectively

[@nykal1510]

@@firstnamelastname-hr9ds I don't think AppImages would replace coventional installations, they look good for portable USB software though I guess

[@shrik3c394]

What's the taskbar (or window manager) in this video?

[@denissetiawan3645]

probably openbox

[@nykal1510]

Might be tint2

[@feelgoodcharlie3822]

What GUI are you using? I like how you can right click to access your applications

[@garkeinen7034]

Does Jitsi as appimage have any advantages (e.g. performance, security) over using it in the browser?

[@JayXdbX]

For a replacement for Htop, maybe i suggest bpytop. I believe you covered an htop clone made in bash script. This is a port of that into python.

[@mattseaton5832]

Whoa! Thank you. And not cancerous GPL too. Switching immediately.

[@pushqrdx]

Does Stacer clean itself?

[@Gorkid0]

Which video editor are you using? (for editing these videos)

[@DannyMexen9]

I have not used VLC in years. Feeling nostalgic, I might install it again. Jitsi is one I have had an eye on but the problem is getting others in my circles to use it. I'm really surprised you mentioned Stacer. I don't think I have ever seen you recommend an Electron app. Regarding htop, what do you think of glances, gotop, bashtop, etc (maybe we could have a video on these in future)? Notepadqq was a nice surprise. I once installed Notepad++ on my Ubuntu box years ago but I hated the experience. App Outlet is something that I had never heard of until now. Interesting. Deadbeef is another new one to me. Never heard of it. I generally don't explore music players outside rhythm box or ncmpcpp. Vbox is very hit or miss for me. Just struggled to install Kali and Solus. But OpenBSD and MX ran perfectly. My USB now rests with an Arch ISO. Vim! Haha. I honestly thought you would say Emacs haha. Vim and it's keybindings are the only way I can code now.

[@ribosomerocker]

I know right! He said he forgot to add Emacs to the list at the end.

[@teemuleppa3347]

the number 1 reason for windows's security 'issues' is not the fact that it's proprietary OS but rather the fact that it has by far the largest userbase which makes it by far the biggest target.

[@jpHasABadHandle]

Been using mpv instead of VLC for a while. I've had issues with the latter on Windows, most of which followed me to Linux as well.

[@garkeinen7034]

you mean the former?

[@swagpenguin1644]

@@garkeinen7034 he wouldn't be using the one that is bugging.

[@Jeff_Seely]

Hey Derek. I know this is hard to say definitively. If your list was the top 20 do you think that you would have put emacs and alacrity in as part of the roundup? I would like to start delving into emacs but I'm a little bit afraid of it. It seems like learning emacs is a bit of a process. Thanks!

[@richardfrangie3518]

Yes, it's a process, Emacs is hard and learning it can be really frustrating at first, but it's worth it, it's the best tool I use. Once you learn how to use it, it's amazing what you can do in it.

[@Jeff_Seely]

A few weeks have gone by and I have had a chance to get started on Doom. In some respects, things are getting easier while on the other hand, some things seem completely foreign. I bought a split keyboard and I find this has actually helped some. I have printed out dooms key bindings and I keep it on my desk and that is helped as well. But I'm not so afraid of it anymore and I see a lot of "smarts" with Doom. Thank you for your comments!

[@mario2967]

nice summary. I replaced vlc by mpv because less resource consuming. checkout glances instead of htop. audacious with the winamp classic interface is a MUST.

[@mble]

7:52 >inkscape >amazing program choose one

[@lauriekimani]

now I know what will be included in dtOS

[@Magnetron692]

Hi, many thanks for your tip App Outlet!!!! Best wishes from Germany, Ralf

[@jnathanbush1780]

I have an old P4 with 512MB RAM it has xp n I wanted to shift to linux, how do i do this while saving the data on the win pc, also can I have two hdds n install linux on one hdd n keep another with windows.... Any leads will be appreciated. Thanks for the great Video....

[@chlorosokita596]

I would definitely add a couple of apps to the list: - ImageMagick for quick and easy image manipulation, - MPlayer (+MEncoder) to read *all* videos, - RawTherapee (or Dark Tables) to manipulate batches of RAW images, - Tutanota (or Evolution) as email & scheduling clients. If you feel very adventurous, try Jami to replace Skype. Unfortunately I forgot the name of the CLI IRC client that I used to use, but I clearly remember it was awesome. I'll edit this message if I remember.

[@Jmvars]

Big shoutout to VLC where ever you use it, since it's god tier software that will play anything you throw at it.

[@tomabdaniel]

Hi DT I noticed you have some kind of custom menu opening on your desktop, from where you open all these applications. Can you please share how you made that possible? Thanx

[@craigfellowss]

Along with the distro please

[@mikolajpodbielski]

Do you know anything similar (in terms of features) to Foobar 2000?

[@bwillan]

I've found that VLC on linux tends to hang after you've played the first video file with it. Have to kill the process and relaunch.

[@astor555]

Same here, haven't found the fix yet..

[@bwillan]

@@astor555 My fix was to switch to a different media player. There are lots to choose from.

[@milkiasyeheyis5407]

vlc sucks, if you only need basic functionality use celluloid, but if you'd like the same amount of features vlc has without the problems, use smplayer. It's quite frankly incredible that people use vlc more than smplayer what an amazing video player.

[@yakimura96]

@@milkiasyeheyis5407 I think it's because vlc is present on windows too

[@etherweb6796]

I would try changing the rendering back end - but for most things I like MPV on Linux. I use VLC when I have to use Windows

[@lorenzocabrini]

12 apps? ok: 1. Emacs 2. Emacs 3. Emacs 4. Emacs 5. Emacs 6. Emacs 7. Emacs 8. Emacs 9.Emacs 10. Emacs 11. Emacs 12. Emacs There, that should about do it.

[@web3wizard381]

What fonts are you using for the UI, DT-senpai?

[@MrKHOKOLAT]

What distro are you using? It looks really cool