Linux Apps Alternatives

This page aims two goals:

  1. Be a list of alternatives (commands and utilities) to reduce the “Bloat”
  2. 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:

 

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…

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