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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What's your favorite Linux Desktop software? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me, it's hands down Flameshot. The best screenshot tool in the world - I've got it hooked up to my PrtScrn key for super easy screenshots.

I also love Kwrite as a Notepad++ alternative, and KolourPaint as a MSPaint alternative

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[–] merthyr1831 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Being a flutter dev (and shameless fanboy) I will suggest people try:

appflowy - a FOSS near-clone to Notion.

spotube - FOSS music streaming using the spotify API for metadata and youtube for music playing/downloading. Completely free of ads and works surprisingly well as long as the music you like is mirrored to YouTube.

honourable mentions:

Plex, Nextcloud, Radarr, Sonarr, qbittorrent. Not your usual apps for these kinds of threads but they're absolutely top-tier for linux home servers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never know spotube, this is first time! WOW!

I think I can start put it into my uncle smartphone.

I do still pay for spotify premium, because their service is awesome. Welp...

[–] merthyr1831 3 points 1 year ago

It's not a drop in replacement for spotify, of course. It just uses Spotify's public API for fetching playlists and routes them through Youtube to play the audio of music videos hosted there, but as a free option it's one of my faves :).

If you want podcasts or certain spotify-only remixes you'll still need spotify.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow it's available for Android too, it's even on the Play Store (which I didn't expect)!

[–] merthyr1831 1 points 1 year ago

Yup, it's Flutter so it's easy to port to other platforms. There's Mac, Windows and iOS builds too!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How I never heard of Spotube?