This page aims two goals:
- Be a list of alternatives (commands and utilities) to reduce the “Bloat”
- Inform the reader about tools that performs tasks better than more commonly known methods
Multimedia
Players:
- VLC
- mplayer
Image viewer:
- Feh (can also be used to set wallpaper, read the manual)
Screen capture:
- FFMPEG — example
File Managers:
- I still use nautilus, because of nautilus-dropbox.
BUT:
- Thunar
- PCManFM
Terminal emulators
- urxvt
process managers
- (Console) htop
- (GUI)
xterm -e htop(htop in a window LOL)
Programming tools
- ack (ubuntu: grep-ack)
More coming over time…