Essential Apps

Eraph · 2016-03-10 01:05:29

damo wrote:

BTW Blender is an install option in the default BL graphics sub-menu. See - I already thought of that O:)

I did actually notice that, sometimes it's quicker to type if you know what you're looking for... I wasn't aware that the version in the repos was behind though, that's good to know, although for my needs it's probably sufficient. My Blender knowledge is about 10 years behind anyway.

damo · 2016-03-10 01:21:46

Eraph wrote:

.... My Blender knowledge is about 10 years behind anyway.

It must be a pain using 2.49 and earlier, and the internal renderer! There are lots of bugfixes and add-ons included in recent releases, so in my experience it is always better than the version in the repos.

Back on-topic... fsarchiver. I often apt-get this in a Live session, to restore a partition from a backup.

ohnonot · 2016-03-10 06:20:12

Eraph wrote:

You guys sure like your CLI apps...

be warned - it's a fad.
some of those cli apps are made fairly recently (long after the advent of gnome and kde, maybe thought to be counter-revolutionary), and aren't more lightweight than a comparable gui app.

that said, i tend to use the terminal more and more, but much depend on e.g. the visual representation of the files on my system.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-03-10 07:55:43

Eraph wrote:

I don't expect the likes of Blender would work so well in a CLI environment

I take it you haven't tried povray then?

Ironically, I find that the text-based interface of POV-Ray is easier to work with than the GUI of Blender 8)

demifiend · 2016-05-17 12:47:33

I've come to find rxvt-unicode-256colors + tmux preferable to Terminator. It's probably irrational, but if I were consistently rational I'd write bodice-rippers under a feminine alias instead of sci-fi under my own name.

The rest of these are command line apps. You might have heard of these. I've been trying to simplify my computing life by selecting tools that I could use on any machine capable of running Linux and managing configurations with git and GNU stow.

vim
dictd/dict
aspell
aiksaurus
moc
weatherapp
gcal
concalc
mutt
w3m
offlineimap
msmtp
pandoc
ranger
taskwarrior

What I've decided is that I don't ever want to be in a position where I must buy a new computer. I think there are plenty of perfectly good computers that can be bought used at very reasonable prices and put back to work with the right software.

Last edited by demifiend (2016-05-17 12:48:23)

ohnonot · 2016-05-18 06:15:38

^ you have an interesting concept of what is rational and what is irrational!

i find matured software coded in C more rational than a clunky python blob.
i do not hate terminator per se, i just find it rather heavy.
maybe because of this:

demifiend wrote:

What I've decided is that I don't ever want to be in a position where I must buy a new computer. I think there are plenty of perfectly good computers that can be bought used at very reasonable prices and put back to work with the right software.

word.

demifiend · 2016-05-18 07:46:59

ohnonot wrote:

^ you have an interesting concept of what is rational and what is irrational!

Man, you have no idea.

ohnonot wrote:

i find matured software coded in C more rational than a clunky python blob.

I'm not going to argue C vs Python, but I'd rather use software that's been around a long time and had most of the kinks worked out. Isn't new for new's sake part of the problem?

ohnonot wrote:

i do not hate terminator per se, i just find it rather heavy.

I don't think I've had trouble with insufficient memory since RAM got cheap enough that even shitty machines have at least 4GB, but the thing with Terminator is that it requires X. If I learn tmux instead, I can use it over SSH. Or, I can decide that I don't want antialiased fonts and dispense with X altogether.

jalexander9 · 2016-05-18 14:21:07

If you are tired and frustrated with brasero or xfburn not writing your CD or DVD, then I would suggest using a GNU/Linux CLI tool named xorriso. Sure you actually have to read the manual, but it will work if used correctly..:)

SejmL · 2016-05-30 23:18:40

cmus - terminal music player
HoN - best moba game
Quassel - IRC

brontosaurusrex · 2016-05-31 20:06:50

In no particular order
................................
bash
tmux
urxvt
ffmpeg (with x264)
rtorrent
minidlna
ssh client/server
firefox
blender
sheepit service (java)
geany
vim
mpv

Last edited by brontosaurusrex (2016-06-04 07:44:40)

redcollective · 2016-06-01 12:39:23

ceni - network config - anyone else using it?

red

Snap · 2016-06-02 09:21:57

Always

dhalgren · 2016-06-03 10:57:26

hmm... LaTeX and LyX, for the production of beautiful documents and print ready PDFs.
That's about all I do these days.

And, just bye the bye, Lyx 2.2.0 is really rather marvellously better than the 2.1.x release.

Also Textmaker (Softmaker Office), because it has significantly less clutter and unwanted nonsense than LibreOffice, and is more functional than Abiword.

nandi · 2021-11-26 16:47:03

gtk-pipe-viewer

The best Gui YouTube viewer/downloader ever

Colonel Panic · 2022-03-19 12:35:51

I miss qalculate! (the "queer calculator"), which as well as being a more than decent scientific calculator also had a good range of unit conversions.

Fortunately I've now discovered a utility called ConvertAll, which is based on Python and Qt5 and does much the same job as the unit conversions utilities in qalculate did. Here's an article introducing ConvertAll and containing a full set of instructions for installing it;

https://linoxide.com/convertall-complet … ter-linux/

or, if you want to go straight to the download link, here it is;

https://sourceforge.net/projects/convertall/

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2022-03-22 23:19:04)

jeffreyC · 2022-03-20 02:07:09

Colonel Panic wrote:

I miss qalculate (the "queer calculator"), which as well as being a more than decent scientific calculator also had a good range of unit conversions.

It is available in Bookworm, maybe backport it?

Colonel Panic · 2022-03-22 08:32:51

Thanks for replying. I didn't know what Bookworm was; it's the provisional name for the next release of Debian 12 apparently.

I've managed to install it in Mint 20, so I at least have it somewhere, but creating a backport is a bit beyond my knowledge of either Debian or Linux unless I can find a good recipe somewhere for doing it.

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2022-03-22 08:54:08)

brontosaurusrex · 2022-03-22 09:17:25

^ Self-contained binaries can be unpacked and run (qalculate-gtk).

Last edited by brontosaurusrex (2022-03-22 09:21:49)

jeffreyC · 2022-03-22 12:50:22

Colonel Panic wrote:

Thanks for replying. I didn't know what Bookworm was; it's the provisional name for the next release of Debian 12 apparently.
I've managed to install it in Mint 20, so I at least have it somewhere, but creating a backport is a bit beyond my knowledge of either Debian or Linux unless I can find a good recipe somewhere for doing it.

I have also found it in the MX Linux repos, for Debian 11 grab the MX21 package then install manually by your preferred method.
The MX team backport a lot of packages.

Colonel Panic · 2022-03-22 23:18:31

jeffreyC wrote:

I have also found it in the MX Linux repos, for Debian 11 grab the MX21 package then install manually by your preferred method.
The MX team backport a lot of packages.

Thanks (and brontosaurus too). I decided to go with the MX suggestion and now have qalculate! (and seamonkey, which is also in the MX repos) installed.

P.S. The name apparently has an exclamation mark at the end, so I'm editing my previous post to include it too.

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2022-03-23 10:05:58)

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