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Software reviews
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| org.kde.kate "This is the amazing text editor that I know and love, it also does not seem to be impeded Flatpak's sandboxing at all!" |
5 |
| kate "This looks incredibly messy with a dark theme as parts of the UI are dark with black text (illegible) and other parts are completely in a white theme. A lot of the text is near-impossible to read and the UI looks incoherent and feels painful to the eyes. UPDATE: As of 2024-11-16, this package is about 3 years out of date. This should not be acceptable!" |
1 |
| org.gnome.Evince "This renders heavy PDFs much, much, MUCH faster than the apt version of Evince and xreader! By far not as fast as MuPDF, and the UI isn't as good as xreader's, but the feature-set is there from what I can see!" |
4 |
| org.kde.okular "Renders awfully slow even compared to xreader, and lacks features compared to Evince and xreader" |
2 |
| okular "Renders awfully slow even compared to xreader, and lacks features compared to Evince and xreader." |
2 |
| zathura "I did not get an interface with Poppler. I'm with Crimson_Raven on this." |
1 |
| mupdf "Well. This has no interface. No viewing options, either. It's freaking fast, though, so I will be using this as a default PDF reader for heavy PDFs such as some TTRPG books, but with a better reader&editor; on the side." |
3 |
| evince "It's xreader but slower and with a more difficult to navigate interface, hard pass." |
2 |
| xreader "This is a very full-featured PDF reader (I especially like the inverted colours-mode at night), although not a full-featured editor. It seems based off GNOME's Evince, but putting more buttons into the main interface which is an improvement in my book! It can be very slow on heavy PDFs, a browser renders those much faster." |
4 |
| io.github.trytonvanmeer.DungeonJournal "It has some forms for filling in your stats, skill proficiencies etc. It does not calculate anything for you nor does it know anything. It's just some forms exercise, I guess, but not useful at all in this state." |
1 |
| dev.zelikos.rollit "It's a very simple application that rolls one die of your choosing at a time. It does not offer rolling multiple dice (e.g. 3d6) nor dice pooling (e.g. roll 2d20, only use highest roll), which loses a lot of its usability for me. Furthermore, it uses fastrand, which does not randomise as well as some other options." |
2 |
| org.mozilla.firefox "This is the latest version of the Firefox browser, packaged in a Flatpak. Due to this, it's a tad slower and it can't access all files in your system (which may be a problem if you're working with local HTML files), which may make you feel more secure about using it. I still recommend the system package, though, as they're both equally up-to-date and because the system package version is slighty faster and can open local HTML files." |
4 |
| firefox "This is the fully up-to-date version of Firefox, the only difference between this and the Flatpak version is that this one is a bit faster, while the flatpak version can't access all the files on your system. The last one can be a problem if you're working with local HTML files, so I recommend going with this version of Firefox." |
5 |
| org.kde.kwrite "This is listed as the Flatpak version of Kate, but this program is actually Kwrite. Kwrite is a simpler text editor with colour coding, while Kate is an advanced IDE based on Kwrite. If you want Kwrite, you've got it, but these are not the same." |
2 |
| retroarch "It keeps crashing when trying to set the button mapping for my controller. Installing cores doesn't do anything." |
1 |
| mrrescue "I loved YEETING, I mean rescuing, civillians! Jokes aside, the game plays well, has a fine tutorial screen explaining you what to do, is simple enough to understand to even use as a party-game and I'm loving the well-made graphics and sound! It supports controllers pretty well, although remapping the buttons was a bit off with a d-input controller. x-input controllers seem to be supported 100%." |
4 |
| io.gitlab.osslugaru.Lugaru "It chrashes for me any time I try to launch the tutorial or a level. Basically, I can't "play" anything except for the main menu and settings." |
1 |
| org.hikounomizu.HikouNoMizu "It's a cute, small fighting game! It's Double Dragon-like, but only with PvP. Has good controller and keyboard-support and allows for many players and/or AI's at the same time! There are only two playable characters and I'm not sure what the difference is, aside from the different sprite, and there are a handful of stages which also feel like background-swaps. Still, it's a neat game!" |
4 |
| fonts-noto-cjk-extra "The main package includes Regular and Bold versions of the fonts, this package includes Thin, Light, DemiLight, Medium and Black weights, which you probably won't need." |
2 |
| fonts-noto-cjk "This ends up rendering absolutely every single CJK character through Firefox and in documents, it is nearly 100 MiB of fonts, which might be much for you." |
4 |
| com.github.micahflee.torbrowser-launcher "The Flatpak version (this one) does not install on Mint 20. The version from their site runs well, but I cannot set that as my default browser. So I am not very happy about this." |
2 |
| qbittorrent "At the time of writing, this is version 4.1.7 which is several years out of date!! Version 4.4.1 was already up by now, use the flatpak one if you're on Mint or download from the official website, otherwise you could be at a great secuirity risk!" |
1 |
| numix-gtk-theme "One of the slickest and easiest to read themes I've come across! The icon theme does have to be installed seperately." |
4 |
| p7zip "This doesn't support all the file types, while P7zip-full does... Why this is still around is beyond me." |
1 |
| smplayer "One of the better front-ends for mkv, I do recommend installing smplayer-themes along. @vlc enthusiast; this is the videoplayer you actually want!" |
4 |
| vlc "Almost every video player nowadays "opens everything" and is able to stream online video, so VLC doesn't have that going for it anymore. VLC does stutter, display rendering artifacts, and does not work well with limited RGB as well as other colourprofiles. SMPlayer with the mkv backend is far superior in every way." |
3 |
| de.manuel_kehl.go-for-it "It works splendidly in Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.3! I can easily add a task and set timers, such as Pomodoro's, per task! It's full-featured, quick to use and I encountered none of the issues surrounding font size and dark mode that WBaggette ran into! I do miss having a list of exercises that workrave has, but I can get my own exercises list for that matter ;)" |
4 |
| gnome-shell-pomodoro "It pomodoro's fine, but I don't get why all the inputs are sliders rather than number inputs. It looks and behaves like a badly-designed mobile app rather than a proper Linux desktop program." |
3 |
| workrave "This just to be my favourite app to get me to take breaks and work more productively, but it depends on the XFCE panel now so you can't install it on Mint Cinnamon or MATE anymore." |
2 |
| minecraft-launcher "This is simply the launcher for the Java edition (as well as Minecraft Dungeons) except this version is often a bit out of date and thus doesn't launch the game until the apt-team approved of the new version. Which I think is not worth it, personally. You can download Mojang's own Linux launcher from launcher.mojang.com/download/Minecraft.tar.gz as of writing." |
3 |
| org.raspberrypi.rpi-imager "I downloaded an Ubuntu Server ISO beforehand, but the Raspberry Pi Imaging Utility can already download the Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu Server, several Ubuntu Desktops, Manjaro, (headless) Arch etc. on itself! So whatever you're planning to boot on your Pi, check to see if this Imaging Utility already has it or not!" |
5 |
| pokemmo-installer "It seems to run perfectly on Mint Cinnamon 20.1, and it's perfectly up to date as well!" |
5 |
| onionshare "Launch the program, drop files into a box, click "Share", send someone the .onion link and BAM they can download anything from that box they want! As alper_034 stated, they can only visit it via Tor (it's an .onion link, after all) which is exactly why it's the most anonymous way of sharing! Easy to use, maximum anonymity, love it!" |
5 |
| midori "Quite some of the settings don't work ("open new window with a specific page", always opens new windows with the same tabs; "only remember 1 day of history", never removes any history; "use these ad-blocking lists", doesn't use any of those lists...). Also, this version (7.0-2.1) is 5 years old and completely discontinued, the "up to date" version is just a Chromium browser and thus not light-weight anymore at all. You could go with Palemoon for lowering power consumption / using less CPU and RAM." |
1 |
| gnome-todo "It's simple but everything I need from a todo list! Loving the functional design!" |
5 |
| torbrowser-launcher "You need to run Tor Browser Settings first, check "Download over system Tor" and click "Install Tor Browser". THEN it works, and out of the box! And it's the exact same browser version as from their site as well!" |
4 |
| org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent "A fast and full-featured bittorrent client with a nice, easy to use and yet very advanced interface! It's been my go-to bittorrent client for years and I have yet to find a better one!" |
5 |
| dmz-cursor-theme "Very clean and formal, though I personally prefer a "cooler" cursor for my personal computer, there is definitely nothing wrong with this as a standard! It's got a solid MS Windows feel to it!" |
4 |
| moblin-cursor-theme "It's a black cursor with an almost cartoony thick white outline which is... Very visible, I guess..?" |
3 |
| breeze-cursor-theme "Nice, clean and not as shiny as the Oxygen cursors! Also relatively light on storage size!" |
5 |
| xcursor-themes "Handhelds is obviously for handhelds, since it's too small for my screen to see. Redglass and Whiteglass are probably not really my type to be honest, and not very visible either if you have vision issues." |
3 |
| sublime-text "Severely out of date; 33 pushes (1> year) on 2018.06.23 || EDIT it's fully up to date on 2018.08.02, but I'd remain cautious" |
2 |
| redshift "Functions perfectly, super-low on resources, able to set both day and night temperatures and brightness, by location, no snoops... What more could anyone want?" |
5 |
| whatsapp-desktop "I dislike WhatsApp itself, but this app is really good; it can even give me my phone info and it stays in the tray after closing it while using Mint's native notifications... It's actually much, much better than the real Windows app." |
4 |
| ttf-mscorefonts-installer "Must have, for web browsing as well as office application usage" |
5 |
| spotify-client "Perfect funtionality, updates with Mint's Update Manager, Windows should have this version too!" |
5 |
| xbomb "Triangle MineSweeper is something that anyone who loves the genre should try at least once! (also I freaking love hexes!!)" |
5 |
| gnomine "Everything gnome-mines is, but uglier" |
3 |
| gnome-mines "Everything MineSweeper needs to be, along with fair starts and a UI that goes with your Cinnamon Theme!" |
5 |
| numix-icon-theme "Modern looking theme, I especially like the Shine and Square subthemes!" |
4 |
| oneko "Cat. Mouse. Freaking genius!" |
5 |
| oxygen-cursor-theme "A bit too shiny for me, but much much better than the default Aidawata!" |
4 |
| aseprite "Yes the program is amazing, this package just isn't. First off, this is an older version (1.0.9 and not being updated, current actual release is 1.2.6 on their website and being updated even for Linux). Secondly, for some reason I experience mouse lag in this version, while I don't experience that in the official trial of 1.2.6" |
3 |
| com.discordapp.Discord "Works fluid, cross platform, exellent quality audio (at least for me as a hearing impaired person), and it even keeps its Mint version up to date! Awesome, just awesome!" |
5 |
| synaptic "Mint Software Manager beats this one far and wide ;-)" |
2 |
| p7zip-full "Supports all the files, integrates with the already-existing File Roller in Mint!" |
5 |
| keepass2 "This one works with no difficulties (looking at the KeePassX package!), and seems to be the exact same one from Windows. Up-todate, no issues, not missing any functionality, although the GUI looks somewhat outdated." |
4 |
| keepassx "You're better off using this one: https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/discussion/329220/thread/17d1bd26/" |
2 |
| supertuxkart "The controls are unresponsive, the game looks uglier than Morrowind, while managing to take up more resources than Tekken 7! What kind of a joke is this?! By no exaggeration, better games have been made by 15 years olds!" |
1 |
| wesnoth "A deep and intruiging turn based strategic rpg, my only wish is that it could be played on a handheld but the game itself remains one of my favourites!" |
4 |
| minitube "Doesn't seem to do anything" |
1 |
| thunderbird "Feature rich with great add-ons!" |
4 |
| gparted "Windows needs this!" |
5 |
| gimp "The functionality reminds me of Photoshop though the accesability reminds me of a text-based adventure game..." |
3 |
| gthumb "Easy navigation of images, great tools, easy access to them via the GUI buttons! Hands down best image viewer on Linux!" |
5 |
| xviewer "A quick and simple image viewer, much like IrfanView!" |
4 |
| steam:i386 "It's the same, updated and fully featured, thing on Windows. It's got more games for Linux than GOG or any other platform and more coming (becuase Valve is pushing Linux gaming through SteamOS; Debian with drivers and Steam pre-installed) which is really neat!" |
5 |