Top 5 Most Important Linux Apps

Technically FOSS apps, but here are the apps that I think are the most important for Linux growth.
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0:00 Intro
1:00 Vim
2:34 Thunderbird
3:59 Kdenlive
5:16 LibreOffice
7:45 GIMP And An Honorable Mention
11:29 Conclusions

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[keylowmike]

There is one "app" that I would like to add to the list, and that's Steam. Gaming can be a deal breaker for some, and Steam (with help from Proton, of course) made it possible to play your favorite games on Linux, which over 10 years ago was nearly impossible.

[DanCanning]

I've thousands of hours in Photoshop under my belt and whilst it is still probably a better option for professional photo editors, the average non-professional will find that Gimp is more than capable of fulfilling their needs. As for Krita, I would take it every day and twice on Sunday over Photoshop when it comes to digital art. Like your channel, it is staggeringly good.

[linuxmench]

I bought my first computer in 1991 and I've used all kinds of software. Gimp is the #1 hardest program to learn. Vim was a walk in the park. I can install Arch the manual way faster than it takes me to create a simple thumbnail in Gimp. Is there a user friendly app for creating thumbnails in Linux? There must be an easier way. Gimp is the most frustrating software I have used in over 30 years of using computers!

[Sjoerd]

My experience with LibreOffice and formatting compatibility with Microsoft Office is that it simply isn't good enough for scientific papers at least.

It works good enough initially, but small things pile up and eventually you just get a document that ends up cursed. Like my references suddenly broke for instance, and I've had certain deleted pictures/graphs that kept reappearing when switching between Microsoft Office and LibreOffice. Combined with small stuff like tables and equations just having small inconsistencies that get worse as the document gets more complicated. Eventually you'll turn into an incompatibility that cannot get reverted for some reason and you'll have to redo part of the document.

Maybe it works better if you turn off tracking changes, I feel like that added a lot of extra issues, but it's a feature that we use a lot specifically for collaborations.

[spstiles]

I have heard a lot of times people say that Office isn't a problem on Linux, but, I think the most important aspect of Microsoft Office for me is Outlook. Professionally, every company that I have worked with has used Exchange Server or Office 365. Calendar sharing and office meeting requests have always been in Outlook. As far as all the other aspects of Microsoft Office is pretty easy to replace in Linux. (Unless you use a lot of VBA). Please correct me if I'm mistaken. I would love to use something other than Outlook as the best way to do this on my Linux computer is in a web browser tab.

[Tezzajg]

When I switched to Linux, which did take a few years, the software I needed the most was Photo editing, and Audio editing, I was already using Libre Office, Thunderbird, Firefox, but for photo editing I used Adobe Lightroom for years untill they went sub based the switched to ON1 PhotoRaw, and finding a replacement for that was the hardest, Gimp was not it, that is more Photoshop, so I played around with Digikam for photo management and Darktable for Photo editing, and for Audio (DAW) I have been using Ardour, took several months to get used to them. For video editing I do use Kdenlive

[starkmouth]

Over the course of a decade, I was always okay with the open source alternatives for games, photo editing, and common accessories. Nothing, and i mean NOTHING I've found has been a suitable replacement for The music software I use (Reason.) There was a time when I could get version 5 running through wine, but these days I really try to keep my linux machine open source, and version 5 is long outdated anyways. This is the SOLE reason I must have a windows machine as my daily driver, and it completely sucks. I know there are options, but nothing has ever come close to the functionality I've become accustomed to, especially for VST plugins. If anybody here is an audio producer that has literally ANYTHING to suggest, and I'm willing to deal with learning curves, I would LOVE to know.

[DylanMatthewTurner]

The only one I don't use is Thunderbird (I just use Gmail and outlook websites)

[toranshaw]

I'll have to get around to learning Vim & Gimp, one of these days.

Surprised that there was no mention for Inkscape, as that's an important one for anyone who's creating graphics, especially for websites!

As for LibreOffice, I still have to create a file using Word online, for submitting my uni assignments, as when I submitted a .docx file from LO, the tutor said that the file was corrupted...

[thingsiplay]

My Top 5 Most Important Linux Apps:

1. Vim
2. RetroArch
3. Vim
4. Vim
5. Vim

[catafest-work]

I would also mention some very important applications for users: Krita, Blender 3D, GNU Midnight Commander, Visual Code, MonoDevelop ...

[jackelofnar]

I do prefer onlyoffice due to the better MS Office support

[tabascothsecondary]

Have you heard of the Olive Video Editor? It's fairly new and might be the next thing that replaces Kdenlive.

[dmiracle]

I've been using Joe for text editing for 20+ years. It supports various common key bindings along with its own.

[folksurvival]

A terminal emulator is the most important application.

[scottb]

Matt, I use Evolution and would argue that it comes as close as Thunderbird to Outlook. I actually like Evolution's interface better than Thunderbird's. I admit that I am not a fan of Outlook, but what feature does it implement that Evolution doesn't?

[SusanAmberBruce]

Appreciate your video's, lots of supper helpful info, wonder if you have done any video's on general config files use, how to create them how to use them, an example being redshift set up for manual location and colour temp etc.

[gimcrack]

I kinda like micro as the alternative text editor over vim or nano. It's simple and it's like nano with steroids.

[kjererrt]

i've been using gimp ever since i was on win7 or maybe even on XP, now i'm on win10 and still using the same old portable version of gimp.

[denizkendirci]

i haven't used an office suite for, at least, ten years, and i have never used an email client in my life. i do those things on internet browser.
i generally surf web, watch videos on browser and play games. i can do the first and the second on linux without hussle or any tweaking.

only important thing for me is the games. and i'm not talking about playing windows games on linux with an interpretation layer like proton. not everybody uses steam and epic store. i'm talking about "almost every game releasing a native linux version". if they can port their games on every on console on planet, they can also port it to linux, the issue is not technical, they don't make linux versions because it's not profitable. low user numbers prevent it to be profitable, but also when it's not being done it causes user numbers to stay low. it's a vicious circle.

i'm using three different distros (arch, void, gentoo) on three different laptop now, but i have windows 10 on a fourth one and it's my main laptop. i actually don't expect linux to support any games at all, i don't care because i already use windows for that. i use linux because i like using linux, just for the pure joy of it. i use windows because it's a tool for me.

if linux offered everything that windows offered, and i started to use it as my main operating system, it would also become a tool for me, and it wouldn't give me any joy to use it anymore. so, in short, i am happy that linux doesn't offer everything windows does, so that it can stay as my hobby. i like hobbies, i don't like them after they become jobs.