15 Best Linux Applications that You MUST HAVE!

there are a ton of Linux applications out there and a good number of them are absolute gems then there are some that you unquestionably need to have installed on your system what's get up this is Linux Dex and today I will give you 15 minutes applications that you absolutely love starting off we have RAM box on number 15 RAM box is an open source multi-platform messaging and email application what makes Ram box unique is it supports more than 100 messaging and email services in the free edition you can use whatsapp telegram Gmail Facebook messenger slack and many more services all from within one application the app is built with professional standards and is no less than official apps in terms of quality and functionality I can even say it's better than the official apps of some services it is one of those apps that you should just have on your system personally I use Ram works and I love it it is so organized and easy to use the tab layout makes using it a pleasure it is highly secure and Dee's used by more than 50 thousand users it is a multi-platform app available on Linux Windows and Mac the download link for RAM box is given in the description of this video next on the list is Cody Cody is the ultimate entertainment powerhouse take a Smart TV and multiply its awesomeness by 100 and you get Cody plus it's free cody can turn pretty much any screen running any ways into a media center to be clear Cody is not a media provider like Netflix rather it's a tool that organizes and allows you to play your own media or media from supported third-party services you can store your media like music movies and TV series on a computer and stream that on all your other devices like your mobile phones and tablets the real power of Cody is in its huge library of add-ons these add-ons are the biggest reason Cody got so famous there are hundreds of them and the major ones include YouTube and SoundCloud these add-ons greatly enhance what Cody can do by allowing access to vast libraries of media like TV shows and video Koni add-ons have great content with many adults offering TV services movies and music installing these errands is really easy the possibilities with Cody are just limitless you can download and install Cody from the default software store on your Linux list or I personally recommend that you check out Cody number thirteen on the list is stay sir stay sir is a system cleaner and optimizes are built for Linux stay sir has a straightforward interface it has a clean dashboard which shows the system status in terms of resource usage stay sir allows you to scan your computer for different kinds of junk files and clean them you can manage the applications that automatically start at boot up from stay sir which i think is a great feature if you have a lot of applications running you can also manage the system services from stay sir it also provides you with the minimal yet informative monitor for CPU and memory usage in my opinion stay sir is not something that you need every day but running it to monitor the health of your system and to optimize it once a month is a really good practice you can download and install stay sir using the link given in the description of this video as a longtime bookworm I've experimented with a number of software to read books on my PC including some Windows software and I must say calibre is just a perfect match for me calibre is not just an e-book reader but also a great tool to manage ebooks on PC it supports pretty much any eBook format there is calibre has a simple interface or grid font rendering and highly flexible options to customize your reading experience I read a lot of my ebooks using calibre and I'm really satisfied with it when you compare paid ebook managers you see that calibre is on the same level with no price tag though caliber also allows you to design and create ebooks in fact calibre is the most powerful tool for ebook creation on Linux and if you need to convert an e-book from one format to another yep calibre can do that too calibre can be installed from your software store on number 11 we have time shift Time Shift is one of those apps that should come pre-installed on all the Linux distros timeshift is the ultimate backup and recovery tool for Linux time shift is so powerful that even if you delete the entire operating system away you can still restore the whole thing and it'll work flawlessly for someone like me who messes around with the a lot timeshift is a must-have timeshift is really easy to use using it you can take full snapshots of your system and then you can restore that snapshot in case something goes wrong with your system usually once I install an OS I install all the drivers all my day-to-day apps and then configure it according to my needs after which I make a backup with time shift now let whatever happen to my voice I can always roll back to a completely working state it also allows me to explore and experiment with Linux without fear time shift can also automatically make daily and weekly backups of your system so that's an added bonus there is no excuse for not having a backup the link to the guide video that explains the installation and usage of time shift is given in the description of this video do check it out if you are running the gnome desktop environment then gnome click tool is an absolute must-have gnome is a greatest off enrollment which can be customized to a high degree and gnome tweak tool makes this customization work really easy the tweak tool is extremely powerful and has a wide variety of options that can change the basic working of your desktop you can modify even the smallest detail of gnome desktop here all the options are laid out in an organized manner and even the complexities are represented in an easy-to-understand manner you can change the themes icons cursors modify the fonts to your liking change the keyboard and mouse behavior the top bar can be reworked from here the windows appearance and behaviors can be changed extensively from here to top it all off the tweak tool also acts as the extension manager from here you can manage and adjust all the extensions installed if you like my desktop I should let you know that I have customized that using this tweak tool there are a number of really powerful audio-video additives available for linux and Cainan life is number 9 on this list because of its simplicity while also being power packed if you need something simple something that doesn't need you to watch tons of tutorials on youtube to edit a simple birthday video then kdenlive is for you now don't get me wrong Caden life is not something that just cuts and paste videos together it is a full-fledged video editor with support for a wide range of video and audio matze it has a simple multitrack editing setup kdenlive has a pre-built library of many animations effects and transitions that are up-to-date and can be used in professional-grade videos kdenlive uses proxy editing so you can use it on even slightly lower end computers on with generally other editors crash if you are going to spend a lot of time editing then kdenlive has a very customizable and t-mobile interface allowing you to make cannon look the way you like personally I use kdenlive to make all these YouTube videos I've tried many editors but I always come back to care and live on number eight we have synaptic synaptic is a software manager that you can install and use on Ubuntu and Debian and the derivatives if you don't like the way the software store on Google to looks and if you're not really into all the snap apps that the store has synaptic offers you hire control or package management and no snap apps to begin with synaptic is a power tool it has no glitter it has an old-fashioned find packages and install packages workflow what more does synaptic offer other than what is available in the software store you can find and fix broken packages with a single click same with the missing recommends using it you can clean out often packages you can browse software using variety of filters such as category of apps package status origin and a lot more all these give you a fine control over packages and help you solve package related issues very easily and snap apps are completely absent from synaptic and that itself is a reason good enough for me to use synaptic you can install synaptic by opening a terminal and running sudo apt install synaptic Realty is a video player that needs no introduction we all see is probably the best video player out there VLC has been around for a long time many competitors have come and gone but no one has been able to challenge the sawn-off VLC VLC is just that good firstly we all see is a very old software with valuable experience now to talk about the features of VLC if a media format exists then we LC can play that not many media players can claim to have this capability VLC is a free and open source project with no spyware no ads and no user tracking it is a multi-platform tool on all major operating systems with hardware acceleration enabled giving you a richer viewing experience Google - and some who would debase distros don't even come pre-installed with media codecs to play all types of videos installing VLC just solve this in a hassle-free way VLC offers both simplicity as well as a superior control it has advanced options like audio video synchronization subtitle synchronization aspect ratio control and many many more features finally even if you don't use all these videos VLC is a media player that can play all the media formats on earth I guess that makes real C Media Player a must-have application number 6 nitro share recently I built a new desktop and had to transfer terabytes of data from my old PC to the new one my tool of choice for the operation was nitro share nitro share is a lightweight ridiculously simple to use software that is capable of transferring files and directories over Ethernet cable and wireless LAN nitro share is a multi-platform app that works on Linux Windows Mac and Android and it allows cross-platform file sharing this makes sharing files between my PC and my phone so easy nitro share is really easy to use you start the nitro shake lines on both the sender and receiver device and make sure they both are connected to the same network then you select the files that you need to send and select the receiver done for anyone that needs to send and receive files wirelessly nitro share is a must-have because wires are so 2018 next we have chromium browser Google Chrome might be the world's most used browser but Linux users in general are more privacy conscious and understand that Chrome browser sends a lot of coastal data over to Google servers and the fact that Chrome is an open source doesn't help either so we have a look at chromium browser today chromium browser can be looked at as the mother of Chrome browser as far as the interface and usage is concerned chromium is pretty much the same thing as kro chromium 2 uses your Google account to sync your stuff up with your Android device it is fast fully compatible with all the Chrome extensions and provides a great web browsing experience that is similar to what you get on Chrome talking about the advantages chromium is fully open source it doesn't send use statistics to Google servers the way chrome does data collection is very limited on chromium browser so you get the Google ecosystem advantages plus a better privacy chromium gets newer features and innovations much before they make it into Chrome browser you can install chromium browser from the software store on all the Linux distros on number 4 we have jimp whether you need to crop your pics for install or or need to retouch the smudge on the wall behind you jimp can do it all jimp which stands for GNU image manipulation program is a free software that is basically Photoshop follow NX jim has a number of advanced as well as simple tools that provide a great environment for image editing and image manipulation what you can do using Jim is only limited by your own imagination there are tons of tutorials and learning resources on the internet that will help you get good with Jim jim has an active development with feature-packed updates being released very regularly these updates keep Jim on the same level as it's paid alternatives such as Photoshop and did I mention Jim is free you can download and install Jim from the software store mega offers 50 GB of free cloud storage per account and it has an official client for Linux mega is really straightforward to use with no advertisements and since it provides 50 GB even for the free deal it's a great backup solution for the important stuff mega conveniently creates a folder called mega sync on your PC anything you put there will be automatically synchronized with the cloud and any other PC that is connected to that account this can simplify things a lot if you use multiple computers like at work and at home I absolutely love this feature mega has high security and fast transfer speeds it is a reliable service with end-to-end encryption implemented out-of-the-box mega is a stark choice for personal as well as business use number two on the list is simple note simple note well is a very simple note-taking app with no additional military stuff simple note takes and saves notes and if you have multiple devices then syncs your notes across all devices simple note is a free and open source application and there are no premium and paid subscriptions and no ads too simple note is available on the Windows Mac Android and iPhone for me Simplenote is an amazing app as of creator it allows me to jot down notes and ideas on my phone pretty much anywhere anytime as soon as I get home and start my PC those notes are made available there for me to continue working on them simple note is very organized with tags available to help you keep things sorted there is also a quick search to speed things up simple note has pretty good sharing features which makes it a great tool for communication between teams project members and family you can download simple notes from the link given in the description below and finally the number one spot on this countdown is taken by steam steam revolutionized gaming on Linux before steam gaming on Linux was not really recommendable as of today steam has a huge catalogue of games for Linux counter strike rocket League Team Fortress 2 Borderlands are all brought right to your Linux PC true steam steam recently has released a feature called proton using which you can pretty much play any windows only games like fallout shelter do battlefront 2 and more on Linux - whether you are a hardcore gamer playing seriously or want to play something casual on Linux steam has got you covered and the prices of games are also really good you can get major games at really low prices on offer days I highly recommend Steam as it opens up a whole new avenue of entertainment on Linux if you would like to see videos on Linux gaming topics do let me know in the comments below well that's it for today if you liked this video do consider subscribing to my channel for more Linux videos this is Linux Tex signing out

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Length: 14min 46sec (886 seconds)

Published: Sat May 04 2019