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Telegram works great, Slack works fine as does Discord. LibreOffice is descent, there are a few Money Manager apps. I'm not a huge fan of GTK or KDE-based apps,
by techntoke 7y ago
Telegram works great, Slack works fine as does Discord. LibreOffice is descent, there are a few Money Manager apps. I'm not a huge fan of GTK or KDE-based apps, but ones developed in React Native and Qt with static binaries, then I really enjoy the quality and having the latest version integrated into my package manager. It is much cleaner to install and remove overall. Containers would help isolate this even more. I really also enjoy having most of my dotfiles in a single location to manage application settings that can be shared for other installs.
- crispinb 7y agoYou're adding to my list of cross-platform apps. I agree that most of the important ones are fine under Linux, but I still haven't seen many (any?) great linux-specific ones. There are obviously reasons to use Linux (I do), I just don't think unique (end-user, GUI) app availability is amongst them.
- techntoke 7y agoI guess it depends on what distro you're using.
- crispinb 7y agoPerhaps I misunderstood you. If you meant that lack of software isn't the Linux deal-breaker it used to be, for many types of use I'd agree. It has all the main generic apps I need except for a proper Google drive client. What it doesn't seem to have is any linux-specific apps compelling enough to drive one to use it. This used to be one of OS X's big strengths, diminishing in recent years I think.