HPR1902: My Linux Tool Box

Tools I use:

1. Htop - Command line system monitor
2. Firefox - The best web browser
3. Pluma or Gedit - Great gui text editors
4. Yaourt or Synaptic - Simple yet powerful package managers
5. Gucharmap - Character map for all your unicode needs
6. Markdown - Distraction free, simple document writing.
7. VLC - The one true media player.
8. Cinnamon Desktop Environment - My favorite desktop environment.
9. LibreOffice - For my limited office application needs.
10. Evince or Atril - Simple, effective, reliable PDF readers.
11. mtPaint - Pixel art programme.
12. Inkscape - Vector graphics tool. Great for drawing.
13. GIMP - The Gnu Image Manipulation Programme.
14. Gnome Terminal or Mate Terminal - My preferred GUI terminals.
15. Redshift - Ease your screen viewing when the sun goes down.
16. Alarm Clock Applet - Used for the Pomodoro time management technique.
17. Gparted - My preferred partition management tool.
18. Steam - Lots of freedom hating games.
19. Play on Linux - Tool to play other freedom hating games.
20. Gpick - Simple colour picker and colour scheme generator.
21. Thunderbird - My preferred email client. The best of a boring bunch.
22. Skype - My nessecessity for human contact.
23. Transmission - Torrent client. Great for downloading lots of Linux Distros!
24. Uget - For when I need a large file that doesn't have a torrent.
25. Java - I use OpenJDK and OpenJRE as java is my first language.
26. Asunder CD Ripper - For ripping audio CD collections.
27. Audacity - For recording this podcast!
28. Music Brainz Picard - Tag, accurately, all those freshly ripped CDs.
29. Virtualbox - Try all those .iso Linux distributions you just downloaded!
30. GUFW - GUI Uncomplicated Fire Wall. Does exactly what it says on the tin.
31. Numix Theme - A very complete theme with a lovely icon set. Flat style, very modern.

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