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crouse
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2025 5:02 am    Post subject: What Linux applications do you use the most ? Reply with quote
What 10 applications gui/or terminal apps do you use the most?

1. Firefox
2. vi
3. emacs
4. konsole
5. irssi
6. bitlebee
7. bash 4.x
8. python 3.x
9. Handbrake
10. K3B

Probably in that order for me.



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2025 8:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
1. iceweasel
2. rox-filer
3. screen (with urxvt, rtorrent, moc, irssi, htop and newsbeuter)
4. claws-mail
5. xmms
6. abiword
7. leafpad
8. mplayer
9. Gnomebaker
10. torcs



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2025 9:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
1. Iceweasel
2. Kmess
3. Pidgin
4. Icedove
5. Tmany of the games in the gnome-games pacakge
6. Juk
7. Dolphin
8. Gqview
9. Ksnapshot
10. Smplayer



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2025 10:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
1. urxvt
2. firefox
3. mpd/sonata
4. evolution
5. pacman / portage
6. thunar
7. nano
8. irssi
9. gtkam
10. pidgin

Based that on what happens after booting and then leaving on for a couple of days



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2025 3:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
1. Firefox
2. Kmail
3. Quanta
4. Gimp
5. Gwenview
6. Thunderbird
7. Cron/Rsysnc
8. Kongueror
9. apache/php/mysql
10. Kaffeine

others of note
Kwrite. K9copy, Openoffice, K3b, Gftp, Kompare, digiKam



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2025 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Firefox
Amarok
Thunderbird
Konqueror
Kate
Mplayer
Konsole
PySol
PokerTH
Klipper
Frostwire

And....
k3b
OpenOffice
Glabels
audio-convert
GoogleEarth



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2025 8:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
vi
midori
evolution
pidgin
epic5
mpd/sonata
sudo

and lately

while true; do
make;
-- run
-- segfault
swear -9;
gdb;
done



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2025 8:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Firefox
OpenOffice
Terminal
Gimp
Gwenview
Mplayer
K3B



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2025 10:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Iceweasel
Open Office
WICD (when travelling)
Terminal
nano
Apt-Get
Pacman
Gnome games:
.....Free Cell
.....Shisen-sho
.....Majhong
Aumix (for Pandora - Bluegrass stations)

Not necessarily in that order, and depending whether I'm on the box or the lappy Wink



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2025 12:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
firefox
xchat
thunderbird
pidgin
freenx
ssh
opera
acrobat reader
htop
k3b
kcalc

The top 4 are generally used everyday.



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 26, 2025 1:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
In no particular order:

Seamonkey browser/mail
naim on top of a "special" instance of rxvt
Thunar
Openoffice.org

Huh. That must be it. I would have thought there would be more than that on a regular basis.



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 30, 2025 12:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Not in order:

konsole
konqueror
dolphin
firefox
kontact
gkrellm
bash
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 30, 2025 3:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Firefox
bash
evolution
k3b
pidgin
gizmo
hulu for linux
google earth (for work)
bbips
k9copy



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 30, 2025 8:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn wrote:


while true; do
make;
-- run
-- segfault
swear -9;
gdb;
done


lol'ed



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 06, 2025 8:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Useful applications that others may not know of



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