10 Essential Linux Desktop Productivity Tools You Need to Try Right Now

[@kenshum9949]

Thank you. This is very useful to me and probably new Linux users, who doesn't know what applications are safe to install.

[@LearnLinuxTV]

Glad it's helpful for you!

[@JoachimBTube]

Jay, I do agree with you on the smart phone notification annoyance. And apart from that, thank you for all your great content!

[@StefenTower]

On my Android, I can easily turn off any notifications I don't want. I'm not sure why this complaint is a thing.

[@mchenrynick]

Timeshift is on Linux Mint out-of-the-box. In fact, if you go through the items on the initial setup dialog box the first time Linux Mint boots, Timeshift will be in there =)

[@j.w.9561]

As it is in Manjaro. At least if you use BTRFS file systerm when you install Manjaro.

[@MrTabanese]

Good video. The syncthing recommendation was just what I needed.

[@michaeloyor]

thanks to you and all the heros that take out time to teach people like me, the editing is also very professional, makes it easier to watch. thanks again.

[@13thravenpurple94]

Absolutely loved the video! Thank you for your hard work! 💖

[@Marcelo-rj3ll]

Sincerely, your channel is the best of all about Linux. Congratulations and keep up the excellent work.

[@Staniola]

Great as always!

[@ItMeCorban]

Hey Jay! Love everything you've done for the community! Just wondering whats up with the studio changes recently? Video quality seems to be back up to where it was now but the audio is still a touch worse than it was in the other studio, lacking in the mid and low frequencies. Of course content quality is top notch as always

[@conceptrat]

I feel like that t-shirt needs to be 'sudo apt install caffeine'. Works for both the cafe and a computer 😂

[@MarkLKahnt]

As a tea drinker, have to agree with this.

[@jono_church]

Kde connect is amazing- i take a lot of photos on my phone for clients and being able to flick them back and forward from my desktop instantly, along with the clipboard is super handy

[@renealbrechtsen9743]

Both todoist an standard notes can be replaced with obsidian. Especially if you install syncthing as well.

[@Lex_Invictus]

This

[@sachinchaudhary1310]

It's proprietary

[@renealbrechtsen9743]

@ it's a free tool that's privacy-first oriented. Entirely hosted on your computer. I don't give a shit if it's proprietary.

[@StefenTower]

Or Joplin, which is open source.

[@0xac829]

Has Jay done a video on a full open source enterprise stack? Including security and application deployment.

[@jchoneandonly]

Fair warning for kde connect, the gnome version can make your phone do some weird glitchy crap, turn off plugins until it behaves. I'm able to use it for texting and website sharing which is exactly everything I need

[@StarrockeR_]

Use scrcpy... its really good.

[@fullscale4me]

I use Barrier as a cross-platform software for K&M sharing. One PC is the server and the rest are clients. Text [mode] clipboard sharing too. Window/Linux.

[@StefenTower]

I believe Barrier is no longer maintained. Its fork InputLeap has taken over. It works well for me between my Windows 11 and Linux Mint systems.

[@fatihonal6273]

Jay, you forgot Rhythmbox right behind you :D

[@SudhaSingh-u8g]

if you’re here scrolling, wondering why manifesting hasn’t worked for you, trust me, i was in the same spot. i felt stuck, like no matter how hard i tried, things wouldn’t move forward. then i read Vibrations of Manifestation by Alex Lane, and it broke everything down in a way that clicked. chapter 3 especially changed how i approach my goals-it’s worth every word.

[@tomschulte3237]

a fat 👍Thumb Up👍! as usual ...and some use-cases for tmux. When you are going by train in Germany and doing some work, chances are, that you'll lose connection for various reason. Or you do some work in a cafe or customer site and had to head off but some jobs are delayed and still running. But with tmux no problem. Wait until the new connect or goto the next site and there you are!

[@handle_your_set]

You and @electronicswizzardy (I hope I spelled that correctly) are 2/3 of my top three favorite knowledge providers. I appreciate your approach, and it has helped me tremendously, in a lot of areas. Thank you.

[@nathanaelculver5308]

I use KeePass because it’s cross-platform, so I can run it on everything from my phone to my Linux, Windows and Mac machines. And it stores all passwords in a local file, which I can sync between machines, so I’m not dependent on someone else’s cloud server.

[@StefenTower]

BitWarden is cross-platform but yes, it kind of sucks that the passwords aren't stored locally and synced. I may take a look at KeePass if I ever get too frustrated with BW. :)

[@peterschmidt9942]

Personally I just use the built in password manager Firefox has. It syncs between very browser no matter what platform it's on. As for file syncing, I generally use FFS (Free File Sync). Again, works on all platforms. You can set it up to automatically sync devices with RTS (which is included). But I prefer to just manually run FFS periodically. The great thing about it is you can see what's changed and select accordingly. Sometimes I don't want all files synced in certain folder all the time, so I can select them to ignore

[@adastra7553]

Hi, Thanks for all your helpful content, and the clarity of your explanations I tried installing Gnome Boxes on Linux Mint From the Flatpak installer, and then with the sudo apt install command, various issues with both installations. I also tried installing os's using both the inbuilt installer downloader function and using the search file function, so far I just keep getting various error notification and "OS not found notifications? I'm running Linux Mint on a Entroware linux dedicated laptop, with 16GB of Ram and a 3 year old Intel CPU. No issues with running VirtualBox on my laptop? Tied looking for solutions online but no luck there!

[@petersimmons7833]

Okay. There were a could have nuggets I didn’t know. Thanks. And of course Tailscale definitely had to be there. As a security professional of several decades, I convinced my organization that it was a never m necessary tool for what we needed. Glad to see it on the list.

[@hongkyulee9724]

This channel is a gem❤

[@Linux4theMac]

Best Linux channel ever!❤

[@anmarm.9487]

As always a true educational video. We need a tutorial about Gnome Boxes Performance enhancement and custom configurations for Linux and Win. Thx

[@muddyexport5639]

Thanks again. Excellent info!

[@holyhelga]

I use keepass xc a while still you need to make sure you don’t loose the database file

[@nothing-personal-tbh]

Wow! Great content! We definitely need more courses for stuff you use yourself!

[@HangryOne]

Can't believe I'm only just learning about GNOME Boxes! Going to be playing with that for a while...

[@mikecondo]

Tmux is definitely one of those things that once you start using it, youll never go back!

[@ryanmalone2681]

Symcthing is really unsuitable for large datastores. I used it to sync my primary and backups NAS’ once a month and after I got over 100TB, it would work, but it was slow (even after a lot of work tuning it) around 30MB/sec/300mbps and because it’s scanning all the files on the source it would cripple it. So unless you can leave your NAS unused for a week or two every time you want to sync, you’ll never be able to sync it. The forums had not even any suggestions to address this.

[@sjs1543]

Tmux, syncthing and tailscale... If someone travels a lot, these are pretty much essential!

[@mathieuberthalay21]

Thank you for your video 🤩

[@prorityfeed3210]

Can tailscale circumvent cgnat? If not, what strategies do you employ to circumvent cgnat?

[@inithinx]

The beard looks good on you!

[@LearnLinuxTV]

Thank you!

[@BosBrandon]

Would you know where I could get a terminal command sheet sheet for linux mint

[@mrkdosmil2879]

Are you into music production now? It looks like you got some legit audio gear on your desk.

[@mchenrynick]

Linux Mint uses Nano as the default Terminal text editor. Don't know why Vim got "pushed" aside. Vim can still be installed from the software center however.

[@y2ksw1]

Interesting stuff 😊

[@jamesleighton85872]

Great video, some good things i willl be trying out here

[@kevinstradling2172]

Immediately subbed when you agreed with me on smartphones.

[@richardmonroe4208]

My favorites: KdeConnect and Bitwarden.

[@MyChannel-vm6dw]

Please for the love of all things chocolate... is there a linux Mint version of "Fancy Zones" from windows power toys? It allows you to hold shift key down and snap windiws to predetermined sizes. Sooooo handy for larger ultrawide monitors.

[@HandballerBL]

Replace Todoist with Superlist (successor of Wunderlist)

[@PeacefulRS]

Syncthing is EOL from what I heard. Didn't VMWare just go free as well?

[@helloimatapir]

Syncthing is not EOL. The Android version is being discontinued because Google Play Store sucks for developers.

[@guytech7310]

VMWare is all paywalled now that Broadcom has taken them over. No more free esxi.

[@apioapio80]

a postmarketos video would be nice!! thank you for work!!!

[@Chris.Wiley.]

It's too bad that all of the Standard Notes features beyond plain text are locked behind an annual paid upgrade. $90 or $120/yr is pretty steep for the functionality it provides.

[@LearnLinuxTV]

In my opinion, with how great that app is, it's more than worth it for me.

[@StefenTower]

Joplin does notes and to-do's, encryptable and syncable, for free. The only potential cost is for storage of data you're syncing, but if you're just starting out or don't have much to sync, OneDrive's first tier is free (as an example).

[@Chris.Wiley.]

@@StefenTower Thanks for the info - I'll check it out!

[@adamshan7688]

noted 3 apps. Thanks!

[@manavvaishnav7644]

been there, wondering why manifesting seems to work for everyone else but not for me. i followed all the advice, but nothing seemed to click. then i read Vibrations of Manifestation by Alex Lane, and it completely shifted my perspective. chapter 3 has this one idea that changed how i see energy, and honestly, it’s been a game-changer for me.

[@davidbarr832]

I really like standard notes been using for everything.

[@ronm6585]

Thanks Jay.

[@railwaysmodelselectronics7636]

Timeshift: I wanted to use it, but at first it said no as there was no drive in the needed format. So I created one & it then said no it can't do them when Linux is run from a plug-in drive.

[@EXTREMOZAU]

Thenk you got some grate mew aps thenks to this video

[@LabMonkey-k2j]

to say smart phones are a nuisance because of messages&alerts (that can easily be turned off) is a dumb arguement

[@elek02]

Tasks, notes and kanban is better done with self hosted Nextcloud. Overall you had a lot SAAS on your list.

[@BapsyGames]

Sounds to me like you've got a Cold, Jay... If I'm right... Get well soon 🙂

[@LearnLinuxTV]

No, I didn't. It was a different studio but thanks regardless :)

[@jonl316]

Great Video, thanks

[@samuelitooooo]

I love Bitwarden and Syncthing. I'm worried that the Android version of the latter is no longer maintained though. I'm using an old phone as a sort of wireless external hard drive to back all my documents n' stuff up, but still sync some things (e.g. PDFs, not GIMP files lol) to my new phone.

[@TMCsw]

Great stuff but but why put yourself through vim hell when you can use VS Code?

[@melonhead122908]

vim is an essential punishment.........errrrrrrrrr I mean productivity tool :) :)

[@gregorydcollins512]

Timeshift looks interesting.

[@guytech7310]

Nah, not really a good list (sorry), here is mine: 1. VirtualBox: Run windows, linux VMs 2. HeidiSQL: Graphical interfaces for SQL (My SQL, Postgress, MS-SQL, etc) Its nice to have a GUI for review query results. 3. VSCode (Visual Studio Code): Great for editing files (html, c\cc++\python, bash scripts, conf files, etc) Has autocomplete to assist with coding\scripts 4. KODI: Streaming, DVDs, Movies, etc 6: FileZilla: Graphical Interface tool for downloading\uploading files via ssh\ftp 7. XRDP: Access your Linux Desktop remotely. You can also access your Linux desktop from any Windows machine using the Standard Windows RDP client (No need to install a third party client) 8. Wireshark: Network packet inspection with GUI

[@vadymmudryi7978]

KeepassXC ❤

[@luciusrex]

Hey I thought you were on holidays in Chicago!? Lol thanks for this!

[@LearnLinuxTV]

I was! The filming for that video wrapped about 3 weeks ago. It took a while to get the edit done. Typically people see my videos 3-4 weeks after filming wraps.

[@motoryzen]

11:39 I've never been able to get gnome boxes working in Linux Mint, but then again..maybe ..it's not meant to work in Mint? (shrugs). I"m not a VM expert ftr.

[@lyndonkessler4766]

Smart Phones made me Stupid. I only use the phone to get into my apartment. I'm almost 80 years old - I can't afford to shed brain capacity.

[@704Productions]

Thanks Jay! You sir have a gift for teaching! It would be nice if you kept this list updated throughout the year, I’d definitely watch!

[@BRBTechTalk]

10:40 I am pretty sure I could write a script that does the same thing with Grsync.

[@thenortherner3890]

Timeshift - mixed bag for me - used Timeshift, had to roll back and machine total trashed. Had to do a complete reinstall, so wasn't duly impressed.

[@Darekx2]

Are you using standard teminal app or some 3rd party?

[@LilaHikes]

Anything requiring a subscription is a hard no. Especially all these note taking apps that keep nearly all their features locked behind a paywall. It's ridiculous. A spiral notebook and pen is more cost effective and your data isn't held hostage when a company decides to change a policy.... Evernote, I'm looking at you. Exceptions to a monthly recurring bill is if if I'm renting a service. Place to store offsite backups, etc.

[@EkShunya]

tailscale video please :)

[@castawaydotcom]

Cosmic Terminal spotted😇

[@dorukozerr]

I own and use macbook air but I really miss the linux experience. If I had spare money I would buy a ThinkPad or something lol.

[@LearnLinuxTV]

Buy a used one on ebay!

[@middle_pickup]

I found the other one Linux user with a UA Apollo.

[@kalayarna6121]

How r u, sir!

[@anasouardini]

I find `scrcpy` to be more helpful than kdeconnect.

[@thomasbrehm7739]

Of course you know that by mentioning vim you are going to have to give a shout out to emacs or risk a holy war. LOL

[@moussaadem7933]

> Top 10 > Productivity I don't think these two go together

[@catcherxuefeng8516]

linux mint xfce4 + cortile = yyds

[@lukastram4990]

Tailscale Vid yes

[@tridens6708]

Bit warden keepassxc😊

[@xdhruvtara]

east or west Mint is the best..:P

[@MarkLKahnt]

Vim is the full screen version of ex, which is what you have with vi(m)’s command mode. Ex was an extension of ed, which was the editor AT&T created for UNIX on teletype terminals (with em and en as interim improvements). Various UNIX/BSD/Linux commands derive from the ex or even ed commands - think of grep (g/{regular expression}/p to list the lines with the offered expression). I’ve escaped to a shell to compile a file I was working on if uncertain whether a piece of code would work. Emacs is the other powerful terminal originating editor (originating from a tape editing program but extended with macros that make it a desktop environment (and window manager) including games, web browser, email and shells within its buffers. Learning the multitude of key combinations, macros and the like leave it too complicated as my primary driver.

[@thesattary]

tmux? oh man! mankind developed sth new called zellij.

[@cetilly]

tmux is out of date. Just use a modern terminal like Warp or ghostty

[@sengoku2662]

Instead of 500 ads you should add more 2000 ads I know you have to make a living but so many ads is just annoying af

[@LearnLinuxTV]

Then why not pay for the ad-free version of KZbin? It’s silly to complain about this when there’s an easy solution.

[@ebusdk]

Syncthing might sound smart, but I would NEVER in a million years trust anyone with my private files. You have zero knowledge of they also get a copy of the file

[@RogerioPereiradaSilva77]

They don't. Although Syncthing offers similar functionality of services like Dropbox, it doesn't work like Dropbox in the sense that they don't have a cloud storage server storing your files. It uses a peer-to-peer mechanism that copies files within the LAN or over the internet using an encrypted connection and only the machines that share a 'secret token' can decrypt the data and exchange files. Everything has been fully audited and is done above board. There is absolutely no middle man handling your data here. It is a _fantastic_ tool and more people should know about it!

[@michaelbuddy]

syncthing can work in an air-gapped network where there's no internet.

[@ebusdk]

@@michaelbuddy I'm not worried about using it in an airgapped setup, but if you study their setup (discovery and relay to be exact) - you have only "trust me bro, the relays are safe" ... no thanks

[@_ata_3]

Why suggest web apps and pass them as "Linux Desktop Tools"?

[@LearnLinuxTV]

Because none of them are web apps?

[@_ata_3]

@@LearnLinuxTV Todoist and Standard Notes are web apps.

[@321qazwsxedc123]

Thanks for the awesome video. I like tools like Bitwarden (especially for passkeys) and VIM

[@Dinuga2010]

Am I the first :)

[@e1woqf]

That's nothing special. But to be the 257th...😉

[@tango-pf2kw]

Totally disagree with you, sudo pacman -S coffee.

[@jamestakac8951]

dang it. wanted to be liker # 666. Only 665 LOL

[@Fred_73]

Qemu para VM

[@RanCham727]

Id buy a sudo pacman -S coffee shirt because I use arch btw

[@stasyssk]

Obsidian slaughters any note taking app. I am surprised it was not mentioned.

[@serros8888]

Hi Boss, why not a short summary at the end of the transcript, then we can copy for later use. Not going to watch again the video. Thanks, walk in peace.

[@kuwandak]

These apps suck

[@ndeta]

Second 🙂