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Software reviews
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| com.viber.Viber "The settings "start viber automatically" and "launch viber in the background" are disabled and cannot be turned on. Nobody on the entire freaking internet knows how to fix this. As a workaround, I use "startup applications" of Mint. The result is, viber starts as a window at boot. I have to minimize it EVERY time, along with some other spoiled apps. ALL of them flatpaks" |
2 |
| gimagereader "Guess it's ok. I open a scanned pdf, got a dialog message: "The file you have opened already contains text, are you sure you want to proceed?" I mean wtf dude, I know there's text in this pdf, but I can't edit this crap, so you bet I want to proceed. If you want any language other than english DO NOT install package "tesseract-ocr", it has only english. Install package "tesseract-ocr-all" instead. You are welcome. Not very intuitive UI: You can't scroll up and down your pdf, you have to select each page separately. As strange as it sounds, I could not locate the button that starts the OCR. It was hidden in plain sight: it is the language selection button itself, just don't click on the arrow. It crashes sometimes. BUT BOTTOM LINE: after messing with it for an hour or so, installing languages and dictionaries, I managed to get plaintext off a 35 page pdf. And that's what counts in the end, isn't it? You don't really have much choice anyway" |
3 |
| tesseract-ocr " tesseract --list-langs returns only english, with absolutely no direction on where to find and how to install other languages. Generally this is only for programmers. If you are an ordinary person and you think you are going to give a simple command with a source file and a selected language and get results, this ain't gonna happen." |
1 |
| org.kde.okular "As it is amazing application, I feel obliged to rate it with a 5. I will forever hate flatpaks though. I wish the package version wasn't outdated" |
5 |
| okular "Why does the package version always have to be the outdated one? Why is everybody pushing us to the stupid flatpak / snap absurdity?" |
1 |
| qtqr "Works great on my Huawei Matebook D16 with linux mint 21.1. Also with the webcam, which I really did not expect. Small installation, quick to launch, simply works, great piece of software" |
5 |
| com.rtosta.zapzap "It works as intended, and that's the important thing. It also has many customization settings, which I love. But I really f...ing hate these new UI design trends, I mean where is my minimize button? Why do I have to enable it in the settings, just put it there. Yes I know that closing it does minimize it to tray, but cmon guys this is a Desktop client, you don't need and you SHOULD not reinvent the wheel, the wheel is working just fine, leave it alone" |
5 |
| kid3-qt "Not very intuitive UI with various minor bugs and undesirable features that you can't turn off and persist through the years. Still haven't managed to find a way to NOT have the folder name as my id3 "album" tag. But if you compare it to what your alternatives are in linux ecosystem, don't even think about it. This nice little proggie will do" |
3 |
| org.gnome.Cheese "The package version never really worked with any of my cameras and pcs. This one is a flatpak, which I really hate. But it works" |
5 |
| cheese "Never really worked with any of my cameras and pcs over the years. With my old hp laptop's camera, as well as with my old crypto camera, it achieved VERY low framerate (like 1-2 fps). With my new microsoft modern camera, it doesn't show any picture at all. All three cameras always worked fine with any camera-using app (whatsapp, viber, zoom)" |
1 |
| us.zoom.Zoom "Camera does not work with my Huawei Matebook D16, linux mint 21.1. Camera light is on, but video image displays for 1 second and then goes black. Tried playing with settings, but after restarting the app, settings are lost. The "remember me" checkbox does not work either, so you have to login every time. Keeping this thing on my disk costs 2 GB. Uninstalled immediately. Tried the .deb version from https://zoom.us/download. Camera didn't work either (didn't expect it to - these things rarely work with linux anyway). Initially happy to see that zoom troubled itself to make a linux client, but end result is as usually disappointment" |
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| sysstat "Useful when copying large files into a usb flash drive, copy reaches 99% within a few seconds, then everything stops and after 10 mins you are left wondering if anything is still being copied. You all understand what I'm talking about. Iostat -h l will show you what is being written on your usb drive in real time. Please make this installed by default in Mint" |
5 |
| imagemagick "Warning: DO NOT INSTALL. Sucks as a program for a thousand reasons, has unscaled UI, hijacks "open-with" menus, refuses to close its process, hangs the system, and if you try uninstalling it, it takes a bunch of unrelated stuff with it, such as: playonlinux, shutter, and a ton of libraries. CAREFULLY READ the packages that are being uninstalled before proceeding. Please remove this from the repositories, it damages people's systems" |
1 |
| imagemagick-6.q16hdri "Warning: DO NOT INSTALL. Sucks as a program for a thousand reasons, has unscaled UI, hijacks "open-with" menus, refuses to close its process, hangs the system, and if you try uninstalling it, it takes a bunch of unrelated stuff with it, such as: playonlinux, shutter, and a ton of libraries. CAREFULLY READ the packages that are being uninstalled before proceeding. Please remove this from the repositories, it damages people's systems" |
1 |
| imagemagick-6.q16 "Warning: DO NOT INSTALL. Sucks as a program for a thousand reasons, has unscaled UI, hijacks "open-with" menus, refuses to close its process, hangs the system, and if you try uninstalling it, it takes a bunch of unrelated stuff with it, such as: playonlinux, shutter, and a ton of libraries. CAREFULLY READ the packages that are being uninstalled before proceeding. Please remove this from the repositories, it damages people's systems" |
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| gparted "I've been on dual-boot systems for the last 12 years. Needless to say, I've been through countless nightmares because of this. Gparted has always been my light in the darkness of dual booting. My map and my compass through the treacherous waters of UEFI and GRUB2. My sword and my shield against the terrors of the filesystems. You get the meaning. I've lost count of how many times it has saved my ass. What would I ever do without this. Whoever the developer is, thank you friend." |
5 |
| sudo "-Make me a sandwich. -What? Make it yourself. -Sudo make me a sandwich. - OK" |
5 |
| l3afpad "I love this little text editor. I'm surprised it is so unfamous. Just double click a text file, and it opens in a millisecond. Just open, save, print and find-replace functions. Only preference is to change the font used. No syntax / spell checking, no sidebars, no projects to start, no tabs, no useless stuff nobody asked for. Just click multiple times, open multiple windows, copy paste from one to another ultra-fast and effectively. If you are looking for a windows notepad on linux, this is it." |
5 |
| qstardict "no. This is not how software is made. It gave me a panic attack" |
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| openshot-qt "it does not launch. Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon. Like pg82 says, it opens two processes in the background, but nothing else happens. The other package is Flatpack, which I am also not a fan of. Pity, I loved this video editor, it has been with me for years. EDIT: as is usually the case, the repository version is to blame. Just get the original from the website" |
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| com.github.miguelmota.Cointop "I used to love this for being fast, efficient, lightweigh. Now I see it's a flatpak package. What's the reason? No." |
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| pdfmod "I've been using it for years, and just realized I have never taken the time to thank the authors. I've been using this professionally, having scanned literally tens of thousands of documents, after which I need to remove blank pages, rotate falsely scanned ones, get rid of useless material, extracting the most valuable one etc. My job would be impossible without this tool. I've yet to find anything nearly as simple, fast and effective for windows, while being free at the same time, and believe me, I've searched a lot. Unlike others, I don't believe that the program could get much better, as the addition of new features would risk bloating it, or making it less effective. This tool is a merit to the linux community. PS: Working perfectly for me on Linux Mint 20.2 Cinammon" |
5 |
| qemu-kvm "I installed it, or so the software manager says. Guess qemu got lost somewhere on the way" |
1 |
| mnemosyne "Did not install in Mint 20.2. Installation finishes, program appears in start menu, I click, nothing happens. Running from terminal, I get: An unexpected error has occurred. Please forward the following info to the developers: Traceback (innermost last): File " |
1 |
| org.telegram.desktop "One of the best messengers there is, and, unlike crap like whatsapp, the developers respect the linux community and maintain a linux desktop version. Like others wrote, go to desktop.telegram.org for a more recent version. The app you will get will be a portable version, just uncompress, double click, scan the QR and you're done." |
5 |
| anki "Greatly overrated. Horrible UI, unnecessarily complicated. Must spend many days studying on how to use it, instead of just focusing on what you want to study. Had to read a guide on how to make reverseable cards. Now I have to create all cards from the beggining, so they are reversable. Horrible. Having tried anki, mnemosyne and countless others, only anki installed and run, all others never launched. I ended up buying actual paper cards for memorizing. Super cheap, super effective, don't have to read a guide or fight with unsatisfied dependencies" |
2 |
| gthumb "opens everything instantly. Currently the only program in Mint 19.3 to open Webp images. I HATE the interface however. I will never agree to hiding the menu bar for desktop apps, (and with no options to bring it back). Even more importantly I will never get used to the fact that scrolling the mouse will cycle images. SCROLLING SHOULD ZOOM OR PAN THE IMAGE, not cycle through images. Scroll the mouse wheel, and you're 15 images away from what you were viewing. An inexplicable developer choice that persists through the years. 3 because of that" |
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| abcde "Ripping is super fast and easy ONCE YOU DO SOME READING and setting up first. Create a ~/.abcde.conf file to store your settings once and for all, without having to give the same command every time or remember what the correct settings were.Search the website for examples. Remember to change the line "CDDBURL=" to CDDBURL="http://gnudb.gnudb.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi" because I think it's the only one that works. If something's going wrong chances are you HAVE made a mistake in the command or the settings file. Look again. If you do everything correctly, this little thing will detect your cd drive, detect any music cds inside, search online cd databases for the track names, rip, encode into any format, create ID tag and playlist with just ONE command: abcde" |
5 |
| mintstick "It does NOT create UEFI-compatible usb sticks. Moreover, it does NOT clarify that. If you download, you will never find out why your usb stick is not booting. I lost 2 days of my life trying to figure out. Other usb boot programs come in UEFI and non-UEFI versions. Do NOT download, and uninstall the already installed version. UPDATE: In Mint 20.1, indeed it does create UEFI-compatible USB sticks" |
5 |
| vlc "Used to be my favorite player for 15 years. Unfortunately, it has fallen behind in many ways. Hundreds of bugs have been plaguing it the last years. Moreover, it NEVER had decent subtitle finding capabilities. VLC relies on a shitty plugin called VLSub which is ABANDONWARE - has been in beta version since forever. The buggy thing constantly crashes, taking the player or the entire system with it. It's incredible that nobody has come up with a better solution for poor VLC all these years, given that multimedia players for windows like bsplayer just find the subtitle for you just in mere seconds just by opening the media file, since at least a decade now. No subtitle finding capabilities is a deal breaker for me. Not everyone is a native english speaker. More problems: Codec x265 HEVC does not play reliably but crashes often. But even with other videos types, player crashes randomly, a steady behavior through the years. Latest version 3.0.9 has a new feature, it now freezes in the system tray (what's it even doing in the tray? -I can't recall previous versions being there). Generally, VLC is getting worse and worse with every version. Someone needs to work on this player seriously. For the first time since the last 15 years, I no longer use it as my primary video player. Fortunately, the lowly SMPlayer has saved the day for me. Give it a try, it deserves it. I did, and never looked back." |
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| smplayer "At last. A player that plays everything AND HAS DECENT SUBTITLE CAPABILITIES. A much needed and missing feature in video players of the linux ecosystem. Goodnight VLC. It's been a beautiful decade. IMPORTANT. The repository version is (as usually the case) outdated. The online search feature doesn't work. Download from the website instead, create an opensubtitles.org account, and tell SMPlayer your login details" |
5 |
| mps-youtube "In case you lack psychic capabilities, the command name is mpsyt, but it is not stated anywhere, unless you search online for it. Still, it doesn't work for me, says something about having exceeded my quota. Github page is dead -returns error 404. Really disappointed by ALL youtube players out there. Literally every one of them" |
1 |
| minitube "Search doesn't work. Don't know and can't find any "additional plugin" on the homepage, as suggested by Stefanzh. Downloading the latest deb package from the website, returns "unsatisfiABLE dependency" so this is the end of the story. Uninstalling" |
1 |
| co.headsetapp.headset "Important note: to use the app you need to obtain Youtube API (one for each machine you install to). You will also need to have a google account. Though techically not the app's fault, this is an annoying procedure, and there's no way I'm opening a google account" |
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| winff "Been using this for about 10 years, as there really is no alternative. Has not really evolved since the first time. Changing settings was and is a pain. No website, no documentation, no support, no forums. Ui is buggy with 4k upscaled displays. For basic operations, it is okay" |
2 |
| playonlinux "outdated. Error message: version 4.2 is too old to run, install version 4.3.4 instead or something like that. Version 4.3.4 from website gives warning that it cant find OpenGL drivers, then that it needs packet xterm, and when you install it, it crashes with error message Error in POL_Wine Wine seems to have crashed. 8 tons of bugs" |
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| tickr "Abandonware. Broken graphics: instead of the textbox with running rss, a white flashing box appears. It's been like that for a few years, over several different distros and pcs. Pity this has been abandoned and nobody has picked it up to continue. No other rss client like that. Don't search, you won't find any alternative" |
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