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Software reviews

Software	Score
kdeconnect "Not the prettiest app but it works if you're on the same wifi network as your phone. If you have your firewall enabled, you'll need to do the following: 1) Open your firewall app 2) click Rules 3) click the + button to add a rule 4) Policy: Allow. Direction: Both. Category: Network. Subcategory: All. Application: KDE Connect. 5) Click Add and you're done."	4
pinta "Thank you so much! Silly as it may be, I hestitated for months to come from Windows to Linux because I couldn't find a simple image editor like Paint.net. GIMP is a powerful tool, but it has a big learning curve. I haven't used Pinta much yet, but I'm able to do quick, simple things like crop an image, erase something, color things, etc., without watching an hour of tutorials. Thank you!"	5
io.freetubeapp.FreeTube "It does what it promises: enables you to use YouTube without ads. I can also add videos to favorites, save and download videos, etc. All without signing in. How much more privacy it gives you vs. going to the YouTube website is up for debate. But it works better than the YT website with my slow internet connection."	5
celluloid "Not the most amazing media player - in fact it's pretty basic. However, I have found that it works better with DVDs than VLC (at least for my system). If you're having trouble watching movies on VLC or some other media player, give this a go. "	4
virtualbox-qt "This is pretty amazing. I switched over to Linux from Windows about four months ago. It's been a bit painful because there are some apps that I just need to use - Microsoft Office in particular. I watched NetworkChuck's video "You need to learn virtual machines right now." It was extremely beneficial in seeing how to tweak some settings to make things work (even though he was running it on Win10 and I'm using Mint, most of the stuff applied). Once you get an OS installed, be sure to run Guest Additions under Devices to get more access to screen resolutions. It took a couple hours of tweaking but I now have a usable copy of Win10 that I can run in Linux to get access to apps that I need. I don't recommend for gaming - it'll be a bit too slow. But for light to medium tasks, it should be fine if you have a relatively fast and newer computer. One other note: my edition of Mint came with Vbox already installed. It's a much older version than the latest on the developer's website. But I recommend sticking with the version from the Software store in Mint. It's been tested and tweaked to work with your version of Mint. Anything else might be unstable."	5
brasero "For the ten of us who still use CDs, I'm glad they have this program. I used it with a USB CD-writer to burn an ISO image and it worked fine. "	5
com.bitwarden.desktop "Just recently switched over from LastPass to Bitwarden. Everything has gone well so far. My only complaint about it is the "Secure Note" section. When editing a note, it only shows a tiny portion of it. That makes it hard to edit if you have a long note (which some of mine are very long)."	5
io.github.giantpinkrobots.bootqt "It's a simple utility that I used to make a bootable Linux drive. Nothing fancy but it works."	5
io.gitlab.o20.word "One of the most difficult things about migrating to Linux from Windows is missing MS Office. There's really nothing that compares to it if you frequently use advanced features. I came to this hoping it would at least be close to a "MS Word 2019 Clone," but it's not. The thumbnail in the software store shows you nearly all the features it has, which are about 20 (if you count things like, left, center, and right align as three different features). The look and feel of the program is nice for those coming over from Office 365. But this is basically the old MS WordPad for Linux, not MS Word. LibreOffice has hundreds of more features and capabilities than this. If you're looking for something feature-rich, stick with LibreOffice or O365 online. If you want a WordPad-like tool, than this ain't bad."	3
thunderbird "I've been using Thunderbird for years. It works better than MS Outlook, which has a lot of trouble connecting to email servers with my slow internet connection. It's customizable and gets the job done. I also got its calendar integrated with my iPhone's calendar. Yay!"	5
com.brave.Browser "My go-to browser. It blocks tons of ads without having to install plugins that may or may not be spying on you. I'm in an extremely remote area with no high-speed internet - only a mobile hotspot that gets mediocre reception and speed (about 50kb/s). This browser saves me time by not loading ads. Works well in blocking ads in YouTube also."	5
kolourpaint "I miss paint.net on Windows, but this is something. It can do a handful of simple tasks like crop, increase contrast, add text, etc. Many of the abilities can be seen in the screenshot above. There's additional tools under Image -> More Effects... It's nice to use when I want to crop something real quick but don't want to spend 30 minutes looking up tutorials on how to do that in Gimp."	4