Linux

If you enjoy KWrite & KolourPaint, give Spectacle a go for screenshots. Works amazing on my end and it's built into most KDE OS spins along with KWrite and Kolour. While I know the name Flameshot, I've never actually needed it as Spectacle is solid!

I really like the disk usage analyzer in gnome. The ui/visualization is really intuitive and useful, and I often wish for something similar on windows.

I can't decide which one is my favourite. But thanks for the tipp, flameshot seems really amazing!

I guess it's probably also available for servers but the most innovative and interesting peace of software I used in years is Distrobox, I like the AUR and love Debian and Fedora so that's a bridge I have been waiting for!

Carla and QJackCTL for me. So much easier than having to haul around all my amps, pedals, etc.

I'd say the terminal, although its not linux exclusive and kind of a cheat answer. Flameshot is also a staple for me, I use it everywhere.

MPV comes to mind, although its also available in windows.

The most popular that I use are:

• • -Firefox
• • -Librewolf
• • -Jellyfin (i was astonished that this piece of software wasn't mentioned before)
• • -SMPlayer (imho the best front end for MPV)
• • -shutdown command (i use it daily)
• • -Lutris
• • -Wine
• • -Piper (to manage keybings on the mouse with a gui) (is also the only one that I found that works with my G502, if you have an alternative please tell me, i want to check it out)
• • -ckb-next (for managing leds and keybindings for my keyboard)
• • -openRGB

Honorable mention: Molly (the FOSS version, a privacy focused client for Signal)

Reaper, OBS, and Davinci Resolve.

Neovim.

Does Hyprland count? It's so effortlessly slick

I really like Setzer. It does everything I need from a latex editor and looks much nicer than other editors I have used on windows imo

Off the top of my head, currently it's WezTerm. https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/

• Newsboat Lightweight, custom rich, with very cool look on terminal.
• Doom Emacs Very hard to use. But once you got it, nothin can beat its multi-function note!
• Freeplane Must have software to mapping everything you want perfectly and very lightweight brain-mapping.

• vim / neovim
• Signal desktop
• thunderbird & evolution
• firefox & vivaldi
• VL frickin C!
• qbittorrent
• docker
• axel
• zsh & bash
• vscode
• wireshark
• Konsole / Terminator
• Standard notes
• xed or geany

Telegram Desktop is pretty good.

• Firefox
• Jellyfin
• (when I get it to work) KDE connect
• krita
• aMule
• riced xfce
• riced kde plasma

The Caja file manager. Hell the MATE desktop environment in general is just perfect for me. Xfce is acceptable too, though the inclusion of CSD in recent Xfce releases has made me a bit more wary of it when it comes to theming.

I also use Waterfox as my browser. A Firefox fork that has the option to put tabs below address bar (where they belong imo) out of the box without needing to muck around with the userChrome.css file.

Pinta. It's like paint.net but works on Linux. Quick and simple way to edit images on Linux.

Nothing Linux only but:

• Firefox
• OnlyOffice
• mpv
• DoubleCommander

Whenever I use gnome I install the material-shell extension. I love the tiling.

Easy Effects is such a great program. Very good for doing all sorts of effects on audio. Great for filters and EQ.

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Kubernetes, Docker and mpv.

Zathura, Firefox, VS Code, Remmina, Virt-Manager, hexchat, drawing, Master PDF, PlayOnLinux+Wine, LibreOffice, GVIm, Pragha, XFCE Terminal (But font broken in Fedora)

• Blender for 3D modeling/sculpting + rendering.

• ArmorPaint for painting on 3D Models, but I learned recently about 3DCoat, and it has a Linux version…

• I like listening to Podcasts (while I work on my PC) with KDE's “Kasts”. Use my Nextcloud provider to sync my listening status on the Desktop with my Android Podcast App (AntennaPod) for a flawless continuation on mobile.

Well, the permanently open applications on my system are: claws-mail, Pale Moon (browser forked from Firefox), konqueror (TDE file manager), konsole (TDE terminal), and Aqualung (music player). Other good friends include kate, Inkscape, and OpenSCAD (despite its flakiness). And I get a lot of mileage out of DOSBox.

If the OP hadn't specified desktop software, I'd also name Portage.

Thanks for the recommendation, I installed Flameshot on Windows and it's quite a bit better than the built-in tool.

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