{"id":506,"date":"2010-02-12T16:03:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/?p=506"},"modified":"2010-02-12T16:03:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:03:49","slug":"favorite-linux-apps-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/intro\/favorite-linux-apps-intro","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Linux Apps: Intro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far, we&#8217;ve been talking about using the command line to download files or make some repetitive work simpler.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve also seen how to upgrade a Firefox Web browser in Ubuntu.<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;ll discuss general &#8220;tools&#8221; that a Linux user might need on a daily basis.\u00a0 Most of these tools are (believe it\/not) GUI applications.\u00a0 You can lose time by slogging through a CLI solution only to learn you could have gotten the job done quicker with a GUI app.\u00a0 But when the GUI app is clumsy or lacks a reliable batch process\u2014I consider command line solutions.<\/p>\n<p>So, with that, here are some tools\/apps that I install to my Linux desktops.\u00a0 Since I prefer Debian-based package management, GUI installs will reference &#8220;Synaptic&#8221; while command line install instructions will be &#8220;aptitude&#8221;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"K3B CD and DVD burning software\" href=\"\/blogs\/linux-apps\/favorite-linux-apps-burning-disks\" target=\"_self\">Burning CDs, DVDs, or iso files &#8211; Install K3B<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Linux GUI Text Editing Applications\" href=\"\/blogs\/linux-apps\/favorite-linux-apps-text-editors\" target=\"_self\">Text Editing and Scripting\/Web Development Coding<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Linux GUI Photo and Image Applications\" href=\"\/blogs\/linux-apps\/favorite-linux-apps-photo-image\" target=\"_self\">Photo Albums and Image manipulation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Tools for Setting up a local web server\" href=\"\/blogs\/linux-apps\/favorite-linux-apps-web-coding\" target=\"_blank\">Web page design and development &#8211; Install XAMPP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Audio and Video Applications for Linux\" href=\"\/blogs\/linux-apps\/favorite-linux-apps-audio-video\" target=\"_self\">Working with Audio, Video, and Multimedia Files<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, we&#8217;ve been talking about using the command line to download files or make some repetitive work simpler.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve also seen how to upgrade a Firefox Web browser in Ubuntu. Today we&#8217;ll discuss general &#8220;tools&#8221; that a Linux user might need on a daily basis.\u00a0 Most of these tools are (believe it\/not) GUI applications.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3,24],"tags":[30,29,44],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-apps","category-intro","category-freedom-choice","tag-apps","tag-freedom","tag-gui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}