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| Favourite Apps; Revisited.(Again!) 29-09-2020 |
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Posted by: Moltke - 12-03-2018, 04:37 PM - Forum: On Topic
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Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life! 
My fellow "Linuxers", what are your favourite apps? I'm asking for those ones you have a preference for, I myself have developed a certain preference for quite a few ones which I always install in any distro I try either as a VM or the real thing, as well as have learnt about a few ones to avoid. So, these are the apps I like the most so far based on ease of use, features and performance:
Multimedia
QMplay2
It can play all formats supported by FFmpeg, libmodplug (including J2B and SFX). It also supports Audio CD, raw files, Rayman 2 music and chiptunes. It contains YouTube and Prostopleer browser and a bunch of other modules. The application is created by Błażej Szczygieł. You'll have to download a .deb file in order to install qmplay2, which you can find here http://zaps166.sourceforge.net/?app=QMPlay2 link no longer works, at least not the way it used to, instead, go here https://github.com/zaps166/QMPlay2 By the way, there's now an appimage so you don't need to install it, unless you want to.
Clementine
A free and open-source audio player. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework. It is available for Unix-like, Windows and macOS. Clementine is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Available in Lite Software.
Subdownloader
A program for finding and downloading/uploading subtitles for your movies/series (MKV,MP4,AVI,etc).
In LL simply do Code: sudo apt-get install subdownloader
No longer works, or at least it didn't last few times I tried, such a shame cause it was really a nice app for bulk subtitles download. I use subliminal now instead and/or download subs from opensubtitles.org.
VLC
VLC has proven me wrong since I didn't like it and thought it was kind of short on features but after playing a little bit more with it I just realized is just the opposite; has tones of features. VLC comes preinstalled in most distros and LL is no exception. Been playing with VLC 4, which is still beta in a VM and looks promising.
Word/Text processors, editors
Synonymful
An app that helps in finding suitable synonyms for improving your writing. It's an appimage, so you don't have to install anything. You can find here http://synonymful.com
Zim
A graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images. Pages are stored in a folder structure, like in an outliner, and can have attachments. Creating a new page is as easy as linking to a nonexistent page. All data is stored in plain text files with wiki formatting. Various plugins provide additional functionality, like a task list manager, an equation editor, a tray icon, and support for version control. And now it's installed by default in LL!
Sublime Text
Sublime Text is a proprietary cross-platform source code editor with a Python application programming interface (API). It natively supports many programming languages and markup languages, and functions can be added by users with plugins, typically community-built and maintained under free-software licenses. For a text editor I really like this one; nice interface and some handy features. It reminds me a bit to Kate but without all of those KDE dependencies.
To find instructions on how to install sublime visit its website https://www.sublimetext.com/
Graphics Editors/Viewers
Krita
A free and open-source raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital painting and animation purposes. It features a low-distract UI, high-quality OpenGL accelerated canvas, color management support, advanced brush engine, non-destructive layers and masks, group-based layer management, vector artwork support and switchable customization profiles. It runs on Linux, Microsoft Windows, and macOS. I also like gimp, and to be honest since I discovered Krita I always install it but I'm so used to Gimp that I don't use it that much, that being said, I'm a complete noob when it comes to using it. 8) You can install Krita throught your terminal just typing
Code: sudo apt-get install krita
or go to its website and download the appimage https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop/
Mirage Image Viewer
Is a fast and simple GTK+ image viewer. Because it depends only on PyGTK, Mirage is ideal for users who wish to keep their computers lean while still having a clean image viewer. You can install it via apt-get. Here's the link to it's website so you can know more about it http://mirageiv.sourceforge.net/ It's not availbale in the Ubuntu 20.04 repos, though it is on 20.10's. You can get the one for 18.04 from here https://pkgs.org/download/mirage
Internet
Chromium
Is an open-source Web browser project started by Google, to provide the source code for the proprietary Google Chrome browser. The two browsers share the majority of code and features, though there are some minor differences in features and logos, and they have different licensing. Unlike its brother Chrome, Chromium performs better; loading pages faster while using less system resources. You can install it using Lite Software tool. Not anymore thanks to all that snap nonsense, however, you can follow instructions from here http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2020...ntu-20-04/
Corebird
A modern, easy and fun Twitter client. Simple and it serves its purpose quite well. In LL simply do Code: sudo apt-get install corebird
There's no more corebird and haven't found a realiable alternative other than the webapp which installs via chromium by clickin the "+" symbol that appears on the search bar on sites that offer WPAs.
Claws Mail
A very lightweight email client (and news reader), based on GTK+, featuring:
Quick response, graceful, and sophisticated interface, easy configuration, intuitive operation, abundant features, extensibility, robustness and stability. The appearance and interface are designed to be familiar to new users coming from other popular email clients, as well as experienced users. Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. Still my favourite; easy to use and featureful, at least for my needs It's been available in the repos for some time now.
Tixati
I used it in Windows and now it's available in Linux too, so I'm using it in LL. There's no official repositories but you can install it via .deb file which you can download from its website https://www.tixati.com/download/
Frostwire
A free and easy Downloader, BitTorrent Client and Media Player for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. Search, Download, Play and Share Files. Like tixati, you'll have to install it by downloading a .deb file from its website http://www.frostwire.com
I no longer nor tixati neither frostwire but aria2 and it works great. It's available in the repos https://aria2.github.io/
System
Guake
A drop-down terminal for GNOME Desktop Environment. Like similar terminals, it is invoked with a single key - F12 -, and hidden by pressing the same key again. It's in the repositories so all you have to do is Code: sudo apt-get install guake
1. Since I learnt how to make xfce4-terminal behave in a queake-like fashion, drop-down and
2. Since xfce4-terminal's such a great app, there's no need for installing more terminals.
Apt-Fast
A small shell script wrapper that can drastically improve apt-get & aptitude download speed using multi threaded tool such as axel and aria2 which is simultaneously downloading packages with multiple connections per package. If you want to use apt-fast you'll have to add its PPA to your system:
Code: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/myppa
Code: sudo apt-get install apt-fast
I no longer use this, apt's become pretty fast and the need for this wrapper is no more, so ...
Recoll
Is a desktop search tool that provides efficient full text search (from single-word to arbitrarily complex boolean searches) in a friendly GUI, with minimum technical sophistication and few mandatory external dependencies. It runs under many Unix-like operating systems, and is mostly independent of the desktop environment. I like catfish, but Recoll is quite better since it offers the possibility to have a preview of the file, so in case you enter a word that you know is that text you can preview among the results so you can find the one you're looking for. Recoll is in the repositories so you can install it via Code: $ apt-get install recoll
New apps:
Ksnip
Ksnip is a Qt-based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots. Despite being a QT based app, it has very few dependencies and it's a fine app, quite useful to tell the truth. It's not available from the repos, so you'll need to download the .deb pkg from here https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip
Megasync
Megasync's the desktop client for the popular cloud service offered by Mega.nz. To install it you have to download the .deb pkg from Mega's website https://mega.nz/
Some of the apps' descriptions I copied/pasted them from either their websites and/or some articles on blogs all over the web as well as from the wikipedia.
Well, I didn't mean to make it this long but while I was wrting I thought "this and that" so...I'm hoping to hear - read - what your favorite apps are people. Don't be shy! lol
Cheers!
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| Why Chrome? |
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Posted by: trinidad - 12-02-2018, 04:41 PM - Forum: Desktop Customization
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Many Linux Lite users seem to think that Chrome and/or Chromium is a better browser choice than Firefox. Personally, concerning Linux Lite (Ubuntu based), I doubt there is a single real reason why Chrome or Chromium is better choice. In fact Firefox is now actually integrated into Ubuntu to manage resources much better than Chrome/Chromium and better aimed at the future concerning web extensions. I doubt there is a single technical real reason to use Chrome/Chromium in Ubuntu anymore, and in fact Firefox is technically superior in Linux. Don't answer this thread with opinions, anecdotal experiences, personal preferences, or suggestions for alternative browsers. This is not a request for your opinions. Answer with a technical real reason why Chrome/Chromium is a better choice. Good luck, because it definitely is NOT a better choice. The pseudo-tech Web is fueled by misinformation and poorly drawn preferences and opinion. LL is beautiful system, and Firefox is wonderfully integrated into it. On 64bit hardware with 4G of RAM or more there is no sensible technical reason to add alternative browsers to it.
TC
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| Auto-mount not always working |
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Posted by: marcerickson - 12-02-2018, 01:57 AM - Forum: Hard Drives and SSDs
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I have a Dell PowerEdge 1800 server running Linux Lite 4.2 as the OS. It has three storage volumes that are RAID1 arrays, each consisting of two 1 TB drives. The storage drives are on a Dell CERC 1.5 RAID controller. It has a separate OS drive that is on the motherboard controller. (I don't think that the issue is caused by the RAID card but I've been wrong before.)
When rebooting, sometimes one or more of the storage volumes doesn't mount. Going to Settings > Disks (manage drives and disks) shows the unmounted drive, its filesystem type and that's all. I'll attache a screenshot the next time it happens.
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| Transferring large file quantities Window 10 to Lite 4.2 fails |
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Posted by: marcerickson - 12-01-2018, 11:46 AM - Forum: Network
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Transferring a large quantity of music, .jpg, and .URL files from a Windows 10 desktop via a mapped drive to a Linux 4.2 server fails after a partial transfer and all folders on the target drive and the files on the root of the target volume are locked. There aren't any files visible in most of the locked folders on the target volume and folders inside of the locked folders are locked. It appears that if a locked folder has files and folders in it, all files and folders at that level are locked and visible. It appears that if the locked folders only contain folders, none of the downlevel folders or files are visible. (I'm unable to definitely confirm this.)
Some terminal commands entered and the results are here:
Code: marc > / > media > marc > data3 > cd /media/marc/data3/Media/
marc> >marc > data3 > Media > dir
dir: reading directory '.': Input/output error
The other drives' files (two storage volumes and the OS drive) aren't locked. The three storage volumes are RAID1 arrays, each consisting of two 1 TB drives. The storage drives are on a Dell CERC 1.5 RAID controller. The OS drive is on the motherboard controller. (I don't think that the issue is caused by the RAID card but I've been wrong before.) The locked files are only unlocked after rebooting the server.
In the latest instance, I was trying to transfer approx. 15.4 GB of files ranging is size from ~200 bytes to ~117 MB. The transfer halted after transferring 3.68 GB (3,957,816,743 bytes) with the error "You need permission to perform this action". The <user> account on Windows 10 is a member of the Administrators group and has the same name as the <user> account on the server. The password for the <user> account on Windows 10 is the same as the password for the root account on the server. The source drive on the Windows 10 workstation is NTFS and the target driver on the server is ext4. SMB 3 has been disabled on the Windows 10 computer.
This has been a problem for months. I've previously had Ubuntu and Linux Mint on this box and the issue began happening either in Ubuntu or in Linux Mint.
If logs etc. are needed I'll provide them. Thanks to all.
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| Linux Lite 4.2 dualbooting on new desktop with windows 10 |
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Posted by: ronjnk - 11-30-2018, 10:25 PM - Forum: Installing Linux Lite
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Hello Forum,
I've been a Linux Lite user since the 2.? series. It has always been installed alone on a small desk top computer. I have bought a new Lenovo M720 with 240G SSD and 500G hard drive. It has not arrived yet. It has windows 10 on it. Linux Lite would be my main OS with windows sometimes used.
I've spent literally 20 hours researching, reading and watching youtube videos on partitioning schemes and dual booting windows 10 and Linux. I'm still baffled and have a few questions to start.
1. Is LL 4.2 compatible with windows EUFI? Or do I need to monkey with legacy BIOS?
2. My old computer has an 80G hard drive which is full. I have more to put on that drive but can't. No more room. (movies and photos take a great deal of the space) Since the new computer has both a 240 SSD and 500G HD I would value opinions on what partitioning schemes make the most sense with the hard drives I have available versus the large amount of data I will store versus having LL and windows as a dual boot.
3. I am not a computer whiz and don't want to get involved figuring out virtual machines etc. I simply would like my new computer to run LL4.2 mostly and when the need arises to use windows, I have that available. Ultimately, it would be wonderful if I was able to have one Home/Users folder where all my documents, videos, images were stored but available to both systems. Is this doable without smoking my new computer, frying my brain or hacking in the terminal? Is this all relatively straight forward to boot a dual system?
Thanks so much for any input you folks might have. All the best. Ron
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| Linux Lite freezes up |
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Posted by: TMG1961 - 11-30-2018, 10:17 AM - Forum: Other
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THe last 2 weeks i have experienced a freezing up of Linux Lite. It doesnt react at all and only option is to force a shutdown by holding the power button.
I have no idea what it is, never had this as long as i am using Linux Lite. Anhyone got an idea were to look? I tried menu/System/System Log but that wont show anyhting. Just a blank window that doesnt respond.
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| installing LL3.8 with CD ROM drive |
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Posted by: Gisch - 11-28-2018, 09:12 PM - Forum: Installing Linux Lite
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I`m afraid to ask as I know nothing about computers. I have a Toshiba satellite with Windows vista and I wanted to install
LL 3.8 32 bits. It doesn`t boot from USB so I`d tried many times with DVD but instead of opening to LL on DVD, it appears something like
CD ROM device driver for IDE (four channels supported)
driver version V340
device name BANANA
TRANSFER MODE PROGRAMMED I/O
Drive 0 port 170 (sec.channel) master IRQ =15
firmware version 1.10
MSCDEX Version 2.23
copyright C microsoft Corp 1986-1993. All rights reserved.
Drive R driver banana unit 0
A:
So I don`t know what to do next....
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