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Post by beardyboy40 on Mar 28, 2021 10:14:56 GMT
Hi all
Given a Bodhi standard install is so minimal in terms of software, I would be interested to know what software choices you have made (and why) for the basics?
For my own setup i tried to keep it as lightweight as I could without compromising on the look and features that I need on my not-that-old but very under-powered Bodhi laptop (2gb ram, N3050 Celeron processor) :
Web Browser - Firefox (and yes, I added Bodhi DuckDuckGo search to it  )
Email - Geary
Office - Abiword
PDF Viewer - Atril
Password Manager - Keepass XC
Music Player - Audacious
Video Player - Gnome MPV
System monitor - Htop
Accessories - Engrampa, BalenaEtcher, GTKHash & GDebi (cos I am a noob/lazy so haven't learned the terminal commands yet)
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Post by Hippytaff on Mar 28, 2021 12:59:24 GMT
My current setup on BL6 pre-beta is -
Chromium browser
Remmina Remote Desktop effort (that I’m currently having issues with)
Git
Gimp
Geany
And frozen bubbles game. (I can not get passed level 70 for the life of me. If anyone can get passed level 70 don’t tell me)
Neofetch
And some other bits and bobs that can’t currently remember.
Edit - htop and some other random cli stuff
For office software I use google docs. For my sins
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Post by pandastyle on Mar 28, 2021 19:12:18 GMT
Hi, here's what I use.
Chromium Browser, and Firefox as a "backup"
Thunderbird Mail
LibreOffice for office stuff
Qalculate! as calculator
GIMP and Inkscape for creating graphics stuff
VLC media player
Calibre to manage ebooks
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Post by Hippytaff on Mar 28, 2021 20:11:33 GMT
Forgot to mention cherry tree for note taking. Suggested by the awesome Ryenigma. I’m trying to be good at taking notes as my memory sucks.
Edit: and virtualbox. Don’t know how I forgot virtualbox.
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Post by ylee on Mar 28, 2021 22:26:18 GMT
Hi all Given a Bodhi standard install is so minimal in terms of software, I would be interested to know what software choices you have made (and why) for the basics? For my own setup i tried to keep it as lightweight as I could without compromising on the look and features that I need on my not-that-old but very under-powered Bodhi laptop (2gb ram, N3050 Celeron processor) :
I notice you are using 2 Mint Mate applications do these offer any advantages compared to the programs they forked? Anyways my list: Web Browser - Firefox and Chrome ... different browsers for different tasks Email - web browser Editor - geany eclipse Calculator - Quick launcher (Run Everything) and python altho Qalculate! is installed Notes - Cherrytree Graphics - GIMP, Inscape, GeoGebra classic, Kazam Office - LibreOffice altho i seldom use for anything other than the occassional document I find in Office format PDF Viewer - Evince Password Manager - a custom solution Music Player - Audacious Video Player - vlc, smplayer System monitor - Evisum Htop File Manager - thunar pcmanfm nemo (nemo and thunar I have custom patched myself) Terminals - terminology, lxterminal, alacritty Accessories - Gourmet Recipe Manager, FreeCAD, File-roller, Fillezilla, Calibre, Virtualbox, Vmware Player, Hexchat and of course a collection of command lines tools I am rather reliant upon. |
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Post by enigma9o7 on Mar 29, 2021 1:19:06 GMT
I have more than one pc, so on my pain pc my goal isnt always light, although I'm not excessive. File Manger: Thunar+xarchiver (recent convert from pcmanfm following bodhi 6's example) Terminal: Terminology. Liking it more and more as I learn new tricks. Browser: Firefox+ublock origin, Google Chrome
Text: Sublime, leafpad, Retext
Task Monitor: lxtask (I know its simple but I like simple sometimes) htop conky Office: LibreOffice writer & calc. PDF: Evince Video: VLC, Plex Media Server, OBS, Handbrake Art: MTPaint & just started using Krita Chat: Discord Telegram Riot HexChat Utils: plank, picom, nm-applet, blueman, gparted, synaptic, virtualbox, timeshift, neofetch, ssh, nano, wget, git, find, dd
Moksha Modules: systray, mixer, cputemp, battery, screenshot, shot, settings, tclock, forecast, start, everything, settings, calendar
My 2 older PCs for kids games I do tend to try to stay light on the few additional apps I've installed:
Terminal: lxterminal & still have terminology installed but dont use cuz its slow especially mouse paste
Browser: Palemoon+ublock origin+h264ify, Google Chrome Task Manger: lxtask & htop Text: leafpad or mousepad
Office: Abiword & Gnumeric Video: VLC & Minitube Art: MTPaint
Utils: ssh, neofetch
Moksha Modules: systray mixer clock start ibar tasks engage shot
Games: Retroarch (for snes/gba/psx), Aisleriot, Supertux, Extreme Tux Racer, Gcompris, Childsplay, Tux Math, Tux Paint, Pingus, Frogotto, Frozen Bubble + More
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Post by beardyboy40 on Mar 29, 2021 18:46:43 GMT
Hi all Given a Bodhi standard install is so minimal in terms of software, I would be interested to know what software choices you have made (and why) for the basics? For my own setup i tried to keep it as lightweight as I could without compromising on the look and features that I need on my not-that-old but very under-powered Bodhi laptop (2gb ram, N3050 Celeron processor) :
I notice you are using 2 Mint Mate applications do these offer any advantages compared to the programs they forked? Anyways my list: Web Browser - Firefox and Chrome ... different browsers for different tasks Email - web browser Editor - geany eclipse Calculator - Quick launcher (Run Everything) and python altho Qalculate! is installed Notes - Cherrytree Graphics - GIMP, Inscape, GeoGebra classic, Kazam Office - LibreOffice altho i seldom use for anything other than the occassional document I find in Office format PDF Viewer - Evince Password Manager - a custom solution Music Player - Audacious Video Player - vlc, smplayer System monitor - Evisum Htop File Manager - thunar pcmanfm nemo (nemo and thunar I have custom patched myself) Terminals - terminology, lxterminal, alacritty Accessories - Gourmet Recipe Manager, FreeCAD, File-roller, Fillezilla, Calibre, Virtualbox, Vmware Player, Hexchat and of course a collection of command lines tools I am rather reliant upon. I assume you mean Atril and engrampa?
I picked Atril cos I found it was lighter than Evince and I wanted to stick with GTK apps (I did wonder whether Qt apps might have theming issues on Bodhi so didn't consider Okular for instance - maybe this wouldn't have been an issue? I still find the whole GTK/Qt thing a head scratcher but assumed I was safer with GTK given the setting options in Moksha).
Engrampa was just the first one I thought of. I suppose I should have went with xarchiver as outside of Bodhi I am an xfce man but it does the job.
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Post by ylee on Mar 29, 2021 21:57:51 GMT
Understand now. Yes QT apps can be problematic getting them to look right when everything else is more or less GTK. With work it can be done but confuses me even sometimes. BTW with BL6 we are going with thunar instead of pcmanfm by default. As a "xfce man" maybe you can appreciate that  |
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Post by R0bur on Apr 2, 2021 14:16:01 GMT
I found a nice office suite: www.onlyoffice.com/It is free and open source (AGPLv3) as desktop solution (https://www.onlyoffice.com/download-desktop.aspx), works smooth enough on a legacy PC. Unfortunately, only 64-bit Linux version is present. |
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Post by beardyboy40 on Apr 3, 2021 18:44:47 GMT
Understand now. Yes QT apps can be problematic getting them to look right when everything else is more or less GTK. With work it can be done but confuses me even sometimes. BTW with BL6 we are going with thunar instead of pcmanfm by default. As a "xfce man" maybe you can appreciate that
I would be interested to know why the switch to thunar. Is this because of pcmanfm (I don't know, lack of development or something)? Or is it because of the new features the latest thunar has?
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Post by ylee on Apr 3, 2021 19:06:25 GMT
OK on thunar, it was a compilation of factors: - Štefan has been wanting this change for several years now.
- LXDE has switched to qt and now have a qt version of pcmanfm and the gtk version has little if any active development now.
- I like the breadcrumb navigation thunar supports and most other modern file managers. Hence thunar looks more modern.
I would also like to mention I saw an online review of Bodhi and they did not recognize pcmanfm, that is they did know the name of the application. And said it reminded them of the windows 98 file manager. As said above thunar looks more modern and is also almost as light weight. Also note the qt version of pcmanfm, while supporting breadcrumb navigation and looking more modern, is no longer light weight for Bodhi as it pulls in all that qt library stuff when you install it. Also it is still a little buggy IMHO. A file manager like a web browser is a personal choice so install whatever you want. Just be sure to set up moksha, the places module and EFM (Desktop Icons) if you use it to support your FM. |
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Post by beardyboy40 on Apr 3, 2021 20:08:34 GMT
OK on thunar, it was a compilation of factors: - Štefan has been wanting this change for several years now.
- LXDE has switched to qt and now have a qt version of pcmanfm and the gtk version has little if any active development now.
- I like the breadcrumb navigation thunar supports and most other modern file managers. Hence thunar looks more modern.
I would also like to mention I saw an online review of Bodhi and they did not recognize pcmanfm, that is they did know the name of the application. And said it reminded them of the windows 98 file manager. As said above thunar looks more modern and is also almost as light weight. Also note the qt version of pcmanfm, while supporting breadcrumb navigation and looking more modern, is no longer light weight for Bodhi as it pulls in all that qt library stuff when you install it. Also it is still a little buggy IMHO. A file manager like a web browser is a personal chose so install whatever you want. Just be sure to set up moksha, the places module and EFM (Desktop Icons) if you use it to support your FM.
yeah, that all makes. i did wonder if the qt port had meant less development on the gtk version and can understand the desire to avoid pulling in all the Qt libraries. In any case, Thunar is A-OK for me |
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Post by wimc on Apr 4, 2021 19:36:24 GMT
My list:
AisleRiot Solitaire Calculator Evisum FileZilla Firefox Geany GIMP GParted LibreOffice Openshot Video Editor PCPacFM Terminology Update Manager VLC Xfburn |
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Post by cooler on Apr 4, 2021 21:54:38 GMT
My list:
Firefox - browser
Doublecommander - file explorer
gdebi - for installing deb files
Deadbeef - music player
Gnome system monitor/ Stacer - system monitor / cleaner
Evince - pdf
Libreoffice - office tools
VLC - video player ; rage would be nice but kinda beta and no progress lately
Nomacs - for images though not great... haven't found yet an equivalent to irfanview and tried a lot of stuff (xnview MP reasonably close but not good enough)... ephoto could be good if more basic features would have been added
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Post by kev392 on Aug 20, 2021 9:39:08 GMT
browser: Chromium, Opera, Vivaldi, Brave, Pale Moon
text editor: Leafpad
terminal: Terminology
music: Audacious, VLC
video: VLC
sound editor: Audacity
file manager: Thunar
file search: Catfish
image viewer: Ephoto, Document Viewer, Okular
image editor: Image Magick, GIMP
ftp: CrossFTP, Filezilla
chess: Arena GUI
office: LibreOffice
software installer: Update Manager, Synaptic Package Manager, GDebi, Bodhi AppCenter
system monitor: htop, Task Manager
games: AisleRiot Solitaire, Mines, Extreme Tux Racer, Frozen-Bubble 2
math: Calculator, Qalculate
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