15 AWESOME Linux apps for GNOME

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00:00 Intro
00:23 Sponsor: The best Open Source Office Suite
01:17 Getting Things GNOME - Todos
02:59 Shortwave - WebRadio
04:06 Fragments - Torrents
05:14 Cozy - Audiobooks
06:12 Deja Dup - Backups
07:13 Boxes - Virtual Machines
08:04 Drawing - Paint for Linux
09:01 Pitivi - iMovie for Linux
09:55 Mousai - Shazam for Linux
10:31 Text Pieces - Text Manipulation
11:06 Font Downloader
11:35 Curtail - Image Compression
11:54 Identity - File comparison
12:16 Blanket - Sound Ambiance
12:43 Metadata Cleaner
13:31 Sponsor: Get a Linux laptop or Desktop
14:06 Support the Channel

Let's begin with Getting Things GNOME, a productivity app to enter all your todo lists and make sure you actually do something. It lets you create tasks, of course, with start dates, and due dates, as well as tags, that you can create on the fly by preceding any word with the @ symbol.

Shortwave is a handy app that lets you browse webradios, and listen to any music genre you want, for free. It shows you the top voted stations first, as well as trending radio stations, but of course you can search for anything you might want, whether it's a genre or a station name.

If you like books, but reading makes you sleepy, maybe you have some audiobooks lying around? In that case, Cozy is going to be amazing for you. Just point it to the directory where you store them, and it will auto detect them, or you can simply drag and drop files. Cozy will auto detect the metadata for each book, and add some nice cover art. You can filter books by recently listened to, by author, or by the person reading the book, or search through your library.

Fragments is a torrent client. It lets you download these nifty little files using that wonderful peer to peer network.

For Backups, we have Deja Dup. It's made to backup your home user directory, not your whole system, but it's still pretty important to have backups of all your personal files.

GNOME Boxes lets you run virtual machines. Not only does it let you create a VM from the ISOs you already have in your downloads folder, but it also lets you download some ISOs directly from the app, or select one yourself.

Sometimes you just need a very basic app for drawing a few thins on top of a screenshot, or create a pixel art masterpiece. Drawing does just that. It's basically Microsoft Pain, but for Linux.

If you want to start your own videos, but don't want to use something super complex, Pitivi should be right up your alley.

Mousai is basically Shazam for your Linux desktop.

If you have to interact with text a lot, Text pieces might come in handy.

If you're a graphic designer, or you just like fancy fonts, Font Downloader will be a cool program to add to your applications grid.

You might want to compress images, and for that, Curtail is perfect.

If you want to check how much that compression process has affected your picture, you can use Identity.

If you prefer working with a bit of noise, but music distracts you too much, Blanket might have a solution. it lets you select a few "white noises" like rain, storms, wind, waves, or birds, and tune each one of them to get the ambiance you want to work or relax.

Let's finish this with metadata cleaner, a super handy tool to let you remove any metadata from any file type you have.

[KeithBoehler]

I am always taken away by how many apps and utilities can be found. Just when you think your workflow is complete. Thank you for the video!

[oha_der_erste]

I'm daily driving gnome on Arch for a Month now and I love it!

[cnr_]

I love this video series!

Could you also make an episode for KDE? Or maybe even more obscure DEs like Enlightenment.

[_ianjms]

I have an idea for a video, how about reviewing Pitivi? Like you'll make a video making a video on it. What are the drawbacks and positives etc..

[Gornius]

I love how productivity-focused gnome apps are.

[iodreamify]

Very nice. I've always felt like the linux desktop was in dire need of quality native apps and such showcases like this one to make people aware of them.

[ximplex]

The Gnome app ecosystem is part of the reason I stay with Gnome and GTK.

[nootums]

Touche is also a great app, the trackpad gesture expansion it gives is amazing

[mihailoa]

Suggestion for next video: undervolting on Linux.
Laptop bios-es are often really locked down, so the only option is to do it in software. Windows has many good options but they are not available on Linux. Undervolting can really increase performance of your machine

[maxmaurer]

I love your Content! The Quality of the content evolved over time. Thank you for the great work! 👍

[pelletized]

love this video! i'm in the process of switching over from windows now and getting overwhelmed by choice on discover, so seeing reviews of good apps is super helpful!

[Caio_]

Nice video! I was used to the Windows 10 video editor, and Pitivi is really similar to it. Thank you for the recommendation.

[atemoc]

Most of these apps work great on none-gnome desktop, but of course look a bit out of place on QT/KDE Plasma-based desktops
I use some gnome apps on my minimal installation with a standalone window manager, I would like to use some KDE Plasma apps but the problem with them are the tons of dependencies and also some of them have very buggy theming compared to normal QT apps, like Dolphin for example, which is a shame

From this video, I use :
- Deja Dup
- Boxes (sometimes instead of virt-manager)
- Pitivi (mostly for testing)
- Blanket

[tstcikhthys]

Wow! Tons of golden nuggets in this one. I've never heard of any of these despite using Linux for over 15 years now. Thanks for these.

[bazurk_dot_com]

You have wonderful content and make using linux so much easier. Thank you.

[BartFlossom]

I've installed a couple of gems from this list. Drawing is a fantastic substitute for Paint. And Font Downloader is a great find.
Thanks Nick.

[TS-fhun]

アリガトウゴザイマス
05:14 Cozy - Audiobooks
06:12 Deja Dup - Backups

[RaymondDale]

This, and simple tutorials is exactly what I need as a Newbie. Thank you. Now can you make more like this?

[paulg]

5:08 Oh yes there was
plumb: (transitive, figuratively) To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of.

[peteryates]

The two small GNOME apps I like most are Contrast for checking the contrast ratio between two colours and Spot, a small clean Spotify client.