The 12 Linux Apps Everyone Should Know About 

1:13 Mozilla Firefox (Browser) 4:09 VLC (Media player) 5:27 Libre Office (Microsoft office alternative) 6:24 JITSI (Confrence call, Zoom alternative) 7:30 GIMP (Image manipulation, Photoshop alternative) 8:24 Stacer (System Monitor) 9:24 Htop (System Monitor) 11:03 Notepadqq (Text editor) 12:13 App outlet (App store) 14:07 Deadbeef (Music player) 15:23 Virtualbox (Virtual Machine) 16:54 Vim (Highly configurable text editor)

BTW: In Germany, in one of its 16 states called North Rhine-Westphalia, Jitsi is the standard for video conferencing at schools.

Love it! Notepadqq was one of the first things that I used daily when I moved over to Linux. Perfect for editing YML files.

15:45 "What is a virtual machine?" "It not a physical machine, it is a virtual machine" LOL

I saw SuperTuxKart in the thumbnail and now I just played it for a whole 7 hours. Dang it man!

It's amazing that these community funded opensource alternatives can be better than their proprietary counterparts in many ways. The opensource world does a lot more with less!

Thanks for the heads up on App Outlet. I didn't know it existed. I like how it categorizes the different installers much more clearly compared to others.

What's fantastic about cross-platform FOSS is not only making your transition to Linux easy, but it improves your experience on proprietary systems.

Gimp and VLC are amazing. I used them even back in my Windows days. I also really like glabel for label printing. It's so versatile, and I don't think Windows has anything even close to it, definitely not for free.

Addressing video calling apps was really cool, maybe you can explore it more in a later ad. I feel like video calling has to be one of the most dangerous things to use privacy wise.

Hey DT. I watched this video v.recently where you introduced me to FOSS "Jitsi Meet". I broke my ankle so cannot go to school to teach. Some of my classes are >40 mins so Googul Meet, Zoom etc would have caused me 'financial stress'. So I tried Jitsi Meet with my class today. I was able to do a continuous 90mins session and the students reported the session was fine. So a BIG THANKS :) for recommending this, and thanks to the Jitsi team.

I still don't understand why folks don't ship htop de facto with every linux distro.

As a Linux n00b, thanks for explaining what VIM is. I learned the hard way to use nano if I just need to make a simple edit to a config file. People who post step-by-step guides on edits to config files in Linux and assume everyone is advanced enough to know vim are the type of Linux users that discourage n00bs from learning it.

Apps I think ought to be on the list because they are free and open source, and the best at what they do: Blender 3D : 3D editing software that is free and open source. Godot Engine: As a game developer, I also think Godot deserves a place on the list... it could of course quickly turn into a top 20 then, but I do not see a problem with that. So much great free open source software out there that people should now about I think. Midnight Commander: Personally I would also put Midnight Commander on the list. Its just a great file manager program that can run in a shell and reminds me of Norton Commander for DOS, but there are alternatives and some prefer a pure command prompt / shell. It can be configured so that left and right arrow goes in and out of directories, but also you can click ctrl-o to just hide Midnight Commander and use the shell again, and then click ctrl-o again to bring up Midnight Commander. Its just such a time saver, especially if you are wanting to delete, copy or move a lot of files around. Especially with its left and right view. OBS Studio. Free and open source video recording / streaming software. I had to check but it is for Linux, Windows and MacOS. I do not think there is any free and open source alternative that comes close to this... unless maybe you want something that does not have as many features as OBS Studio. OpenShot: Free and open source video editing software. I have been using DaVinci Resolve but it is not open source. I might switch to OpenShot because I do not need advanced features much, its pretty simple video editing I do, mainly to just take a few things out of videos and maybe do voice hours or adjust the audio if its out of sync. But I guessing fixing some out of sync audio might be too advanced for OpenShot, so I would have to test to see how that works. But there are also Kdenlive and Shotcut, both have more features than OpenShot and are closer to DaVinci Resolve, while still being open source. I guess 7zip is also worth listing. Its free and open source and... not sure what alternatives there are since I think they are mainly not open source.

The App Outlet is the one thing i have been looking for and criticizing Linux distros for not doing, thank you for showing me

Thanks for information on app-outlet. That looks like something I will definitely use!

Another outstanding video! I watched on LBRY but came here to like & comment.

Thanks man, i been thinking a lot about trying out vim for programming, i will check your tutorials✌🏻

Good list. This prompted me to dig much harder into firefox settings to try to come up with a more private setup.

Great video, DT. Didn't know about notepadQQ and Stacer. Both are great!!!

I switched to Linux 2 years ago because I wanted more control over my computer. I guess its open-source nature is playing some part in that, but I feel like it's less relevant than privacy and security issues. I came to embrace the open-source philosophy anyway after 2 years of experience with Linux. :)

have a nice weekend DT !!

Thank You DT Awesome Picks! 🥳

Between you and KeepItTechie I'm learning (relearning) a LOT of things. Thank you Sir.

Good video, but I personally switched from Windows to Linux mainly because I had to format the system every year literally. But I'm very passionate about open-source too. As I always say, the future is open-source! :)

»I forgot to add Emacs to the list« I really was wondering about this! 😁 Great list!

I like your well mixed and practical approach to the topic. It can be useful for new members.

Really nice picks. Having been away from Linux and computing scene for years now there were some really nice things I never even knew about like, that AppOutlet but also some oldies and goodies I remember from days past.

Nice to hear that both my main browsers (Firefox and Brave) are recommended. By the way, Stacer ditched Electron in 2019; it's been rewritten in C++.

Good video, I would like to see Blender 3d in that list but it's a good list, thank you.

I have found this to be your most useful video so far. I have used Linux for years but there were several apps that I had never heard of. Thanks.

I'm only six minutes into this video, but I thought I should point out that my brain is auto-completing every time you say "proprietary software" with "proprietary garbage"!

Awesome video dude, really enjoyed it. I've 'dabbled' with Linux on and off for a few years, but I now use it as my every day OS. I only keep Win10 (dual boot on a separate drive) for a few games. I might switch completely next year, who knows. Keep up the good work!!

If you are looking for a couple other good symphonic pieces, I would recommend: Gustav Holst Suite in F major, Four Scottish Dances, and Seville Suite (preferably a version that replaces the oboe solo with an accordion). They were really fun to play in and a good listen too!

Thanks for the discussion of your top 12 Apps. I am considering setting up a couple Linux machines for general use and internet access. It would be helpful to have the name of the App on screen for the duration of your discussion of it.

Some I have used for Evah, but VIM is what I need. Thanks. I really like your presentation, and above all your good attitude.

I looked at the LaTeX capability of notepadqq - pretty cool for a basic text editor.

I like your list. Unfortunately, Brave still communicates a lot with Google. On first start, it generates a "BraveServiceKey" which is unique to your PC, Google is still the default search engine and the setting to transmit full product analysis data is turn on by default as well. Brave also loads a lot of JavaScript and Fonts from Google and Facebook and Twitter to keep those things working, and this is loaded when you start the browser without user interaction. So it might be a good browser, but there is still a lot of things you need to tune by hand to make it more private than the developers claim it is. Beside that, you can turn on adds to earn brave credits or whatever they are called to buy things in games. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have to say, your content is super useful, and informative. Thank you so much. Please continue doing this great support, and stay safe! :)

This is by far my favorite OS channel.

Oh man I didn't know you can kill a process using htop. Oh man, love you so much

Been using Nano for text editing, installed notepadqq after learning about it here. Thanks!

Great video. I do use many of them but will look into the others. Thanks for suggestions.

I just found your channel, and I'm gradually watching all your videos. Good Stuff. It's nice to see someone actually Recommend Vi. I've been using *nix since the 90's and started on the good old Green Screen serial terminals, where the keyboards didn't have Arrow keys. Hence hjkl for movement through the file.

What's the difference between flatpack, appimage and snap?

Hello Derek, Greetings from Belgium! I've ditched VLC and went for mpv, a month or 7 ago. I'm forced to use Windows at work and I've noticed many VLC updates on my work pc. Most probably bloath, I think. I don't think that is secure software anymore. I use Debian for my personal computers. Fan of your channel, btw! Best regards, Philippe

nice summary. I replaced vlc by mpv because less resource consuming. checkout glances instead of htop. audacious with the winamp classic interface is a MUST.

Hi, many thanks for your tip App Outlet!!!! Best wishes from Germany, Ralf

Although I had tried Linux in 1998 (I had a win-specific modem) I finally switched completely to Linux by 2005 BECAUSE I was already using StarOffice/OpenOffice (now LibreOffice), Audacity, GIMP, FireFox and wanted to be completely FOSS.

Deadbeef :-) My favorite music player for years.

Ey DT! What program do you use to create/edit your videos? Openshot? KDEnlive? Flowblade?

Man!! The sound is incredible

Thanks for this video. Glad to see there's a notepad++ equivalent in Linux. It's a very useful app. Simple and efficient.

This really isn't for casual users but kvm, qemu, virsh, and libvirt (combined) are a way better alternative to VirtualBox. Since kvm is a part of the Linux kernel, it's a Type-1 hypervisor, which means it has fewer layers of abstraction between the VM and the physical hardware, reducing the performance overhead of the VM. So, VirtualBox is better for trying out something in an isolated environment, whereas qemu and kvm are better when performance matters.

Great list thanks!

Hey DT, I love your video's. I have been a heavy Mac user for years however I started in computers in the early 80's when everything was at the command prompt. Because of mainly you and other fine youtubers I have installed (on a brand new laptop, it came with windows and I never even fired it up) *Arch Linux* . I did it the hard way. I'm using sddm as a login manager, and qtile as a tiling window manager. I've been trying out brave but also have firefox. Now because of this video I have some other missing pieces. Next I"m exploring Dmenu. I love how your menuing in this video works. One question, do you know of any full screen zoom apps or code for qtile? Being an old guy my eyes are quite bad. I'll be supporting you on patreon. Keep up the great work and I'll see you over on your new chanel want to hear what you have to say about options trading. 🙂

Why this channel doesn’t have like a million subscribers at least?!

I had vlc for years until I heard about mpv. Vlc is great on Windows, but on Linux I couldn't even fast forward without everything being stuttery afterwards. With mpv i can go back and forth slow, fast, and it has a terminal like input system and uses config files where you can bind your own keys or write your own scripts. Don't know if that's possible in VLC as well, but just for the non-stuttering after skipping alone I'll go with mpv.

The background on your system is phenomenal

Cool ! I'm just starting to use Linux with Mint (alongside Win10 on a separate drive, dual boot), this is very useful ! A long time ago (in the 90s) I did some ol'Unix sysop and programming, seems that VIM is the grandson of vi :)

Stacer is an electron application in an appimage... sounds like a meme xD !

ungoogled chromium is the FOSS version of chrome, in case people are wondering if they need to use brave, which also has some "baggage"

I have not used VLC in years. Feeling nostalgic, I might install it again. Jitsi is one I have had an eye on but the problem is getting others in my circles to use it. I'm really surprised you mentioned Stacer. I don't think I have ever seen you recommend an Electron app. Regarding htop, what do you think of glances, gotop, bashtop, etc (maybe we could have a video on these in future)? Notepadqq was a nice surprise. I once installed Notepad++ on my Ubuntu box years ago but I hated the experience. App Outlet is something that I had never heard of until now. Interesting. Deadbeef is another new one to me. Never heard of it. I generally don't explore music players outside rhythm box or ncmpcpp. Vbox is very hit or miss for me. Just struggled to install Kali and Solus. But OpenBSD and MX ran perfectly. My USB now rests with an Arch ISO. Vim! Haha. I honestly thought you would say Emacs haha. Vim and it's keybindings are the only way I can code now.

Stacer is a Qt app. Because Qt has for example QML (a javascript kind of language) baked in it can be easily made to look a lot like electron app with fewer resources.

I'm trying to leave Windows because I can customize my pc to my heart's content. I love how beautiful linux can look and how productive in makes me.

To be honest I love Brave. Which was made one of the same founders of Firefox.

I've been watching you for a while, but didn't notice that I'm not subscribed. subbed. DO MORE VIDS, YOU'RE AWESOME. Also what wm are you using in this video?

Hi Derek, Fascinating and well thought out as usual, Thank you! I was wondering if you could *ahem* scratch an itch for me? :D I noticed in your HTOP, lots of 'obs' processes ... Can you tell me what they are please? Thanks again

For a replacement for Htop, maybe i suggest bpytop. I believe you covered an htop clone made in bash script. This is a port of that into python.

Worth mentioning: Byobu, Krita, Darktable, FFMPEG, OBS Studio, KdenLive, Olive (video editor), Qt Creator, Blender, FreeCAD, LyX

Since this video came out just now, and I haven't heard you talk about either text editors before, I think a notepadqq vs sublime text video is in order. I do remember my windows days, discovering notepad++ felt like Christmas. I don't miss it at all because the internet suggested sublime text at the time I was transitioning over and that was a major upgrade. This begs the question whether notepadqq is a 1-to-1 clone exactly, or if it's another/alternative improvement on notepad++ in a similar/different way to sublime text being a massive improvement.

Great video. Great tools!

I usually use MPV as my media player. It's more minimalistic than VLC it seems, but it works really well for anything you might want to play. Even music where it would put the wallpaper as a static image (maybe VLC does that too?).

Been using mpv instead of VLC for a while. I've had issues with the latter on Windows, most of which followed me to Linux as well.

I love how excited he got when he started talking about Vim 😄

hi, thank you for the recommendation. I was wondering which desktop environment you are using here and if you have any tips how to configure my desktop to look the same. which background picture are you using?

i don't use VLC because idk why every time i wanted to open the program again it didn't worked, so i just switched to MPV

All the applications you mentioned are essential and must-have applications. Keep up the great work!

Hey Dt. Thank you , for the movie Whats your todo list or task manager?

You can also use GVim which is an XWindows GUI version of VIM. The nice thing about GVim is it gives you a system cut and paste.

I've stopped using LibreOffice, OnlyOffice is way better when it comes to compatibility with MS Office. I HATE office and I write my documents in Latex, but most people will still write documents in Microsoft Word that I have to read, and libreoffice messes the formatting way too often, that's why I'm not using it anymore

now I know what will be included in dtOS

ahhh, you gotta love that openbox config.

Thumbs up for choosing Deadbeef... The best alternative to Foobar on Windows (imo)

Firefox, VLC, GIMP, and Blender for life!

Does Stacer clean itself?

DT I love your videos, hands down one of the best linux channels on the web. I have a question. I've recently installed Manjaro because I enjoy "working for my food" a bit. However, I cant seem to find my issue here. Maybe you'll have some thoughts. I've got an i9 11th gen CPU, AMD Radeon Red Devil 6600xt gpu, and 48gb of RAM. For some reason. Manjaro, (and most other linux distros), run decent. But nowhere near as well & snappy as Win10 did on my PC. I refuse to go back to proprietary, but I just cant sacrifice the performance for my gaming, streaming, recording, developing, calculating (I mine & work in IT, passwords / net sniffing etc). Any tips for a guy to get a snappy quick and enjoyable system back?? I've done all the driver work I can think of, i just cant get it figured out!

Great video. I would suggest you work on your microphone recording. With your voice,tthe setup is very clear but the top end has some very Sharpe edges,wwhich can be hard for long listening.II would advice taking that down some, whether it's with more base or less treble or just covering the mic better. Just a suggestion, I really enjoyed this video and others you've done.

What's the taskbar (or window manager) in this video?

I've found that VLC on linux tends to hang after you've played the first video file with it. Have to kill the process and relaunch.

thanks for information!

Great stuff thank u DT.

7:52 >inkscape >amazing program choose one

Big shoutout to VLC where ever you use it, since it's god tier software that will play anything you throw at it.

Recently i found out we can click and interact with htop using mouse. Select processes, kill processes, quit htop etc. Instead of F keys, you can click the the bottom row.

Hi DT I noticed you have some kind of custom menu opening on your desktop, from where you open all these applications. Can you please share how you made that possible? Thanx

This video packs so much freedom it ought to be illegal

I love how he always laughs when he does a linux trick like 19:04

Great video, thanks

What distro are you using? It looks really cool