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crosscourt

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Essential applications for desktop Linux users

Look here,  https://itsfoss.com/essential-linux-applications/

Last edited by crosscourt (2025-05-14 19:28)

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tlmiller76

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Re: Essential applications for desktop Linux users

I find it humorous they're recommending stacer.  Software that's last release was 6 years, has been fully abandoned by it's developer and creator, and is being removed from a lot of repos due to it's issues with newer libraries.

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crosscourt

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Re: Essential applications for desktop Linux users

A lot of the lists always seem to have some older apps with issues, who knows why.

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Midas

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Registered: 2017-12-15

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Re: Essential applications for desktop Linux users

AI generation comes to mind -- equating past popularity with present day worthiness...

crosscourt

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Re: Essential applications for desktop Linux users

@ Midas  Thats certainly possible , but some of the apps that come up at times are really crazy.

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