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Do You Know These 10 Rare Linux Apps?

Added 2021-11-12 09:00:00 +0000 UTC

Matt and Tyler participate in the 5 App Challenge, where we had to find 5 apps the other guy hasn't ever heard of.

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[show notes]

What have we been up to Linux related this Week?

Tyler – I've been focused on making better thumbnails, trying to get ahead on videos, make more cool designs for merch, and find some time to work on the wagon.

Matt – I've been watching the guy behind Asahi Linux work on making it work on M1 Pro Macs. I have no clue what he's doing but it's kind of fun to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5V4EJXPq6Q

NEWS Links (One each) (What's in the News?)

Matt - https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/11/system76-is-building-its-own-desktop-environment

Tyler - https://linuxinsider.com/story/more-open-source-jobs-remain-vacant-with-scarcity-of-skilled-linux-talent-87280.html

Main Topic - 5 App Challenge

— Find 5 apps that you've never used before (or just barely used) and share them.

Tyler's Apps

1) TestDisk - https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk A free and open-source data recovery tool for recovering deleted data.

2) Brackets - https://brackets.io/ Brackets is a lightweight, yet powerful, modern text editor.

3) Subliminal - https://github.com/Diaoul/subliminal An easy-to-use program that searches and downloads movie subtitles.

4) Laverna - https://www.fossmint.com/laverna-keep-your-notes-private/ A modern open-source Markdown editor with a sleek UI and a focus on user privacy.

5) Lollypop - https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Lollypop While Rhythmbox looks out of place on a default GNOME desktop, Lollypop feels right at home. It takes design cues from the simple GNOME player, but it doesn't skimp on features

Matt's Apps

Deluge - Deluge is a free, lightweight, cross-platform BitTorrent client that intends to seamlessly enhance the μTorrent experience and make it easily available for the users. It is secure and feature-rich clients with many plugins. It allows users to manage the application remotely over the web. It helps in authentication, bandwidth tweaking, reverse proxy, and setting of VPN.

https://deluge-torrent.org/

Giver -Giver is an app that lets you share files between computers on the same network without the hassle of samba or ssh, kind of like snapdrop.

Available on Ubuntu, has no website. NOT IN THE AUR.

Eagle Mode - Eagle Mode is a zoomable user interface (ZUI) with file manager, file viewers, games, and more.

http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/

GPlates - GPlates is a plate tectonics program. Manipulate reconstructions of geological and paleogeographic features through geological time. Interactively visualize vector, raster and volume data. PyGPlates is the GPlates Python library. Get fine-grained access to GPlates functionality in your Python scripts.

https://www.gplates.org/

Bookworm - A simple ebook reader for Linux

https://babluboy.github.io/bookworm/