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Software reviews
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| clamav "It works well once you know how to use it. For anyone who might need it: To run a scan, you need to run the command called 'clamscan' (without the speechmarks surrounding it) in the terminal, which without any other commands or options, will scan the user's home folder. If you type 'man clamscan' into the terminal, you get the manual for clamscan, where you can see the info and the options, and the options with a '*' by them in the manual page are the default settings, as mentioned at the bottom of that page. For the scan to include all subfolders, you need to use the '-r' option (which means scan recursively and means you type 'clamscan -r' then press enter on the keyboard to run it). If you wish to scan a specific file or folder, you do 'clamscan' then add the options if you are going to use them, then add the path to the file or folder you wish to scan. If you don't wish to type the file path into the terminal, you can copy and paste it into the relevant section by going to the file manager and doing rightclick > 'copy' on the file or folder you wish to scan, and then going to the terminal and doing rightclick > 'paste as filenames', which puts the file path into the terminal with speechmarks on either side to better ensure it is read properly by the clamscan command. If you have scanned a lot of files, rather than going through it all manually, you can go to the menu at the top of the terminal, and click 'search' > click 'find' > type 'found' into the box > and press enter, which should allow you to then use the arrows to cycle though anything of concern that has been found. Or you can just run the scan with the option '-o', which means skip printing OK results, and will only show what you need to see. At that point, if anything is found, it is up to you to investigate further and decide what action to take regarding it. If the 'known viruses' section that prints in the info after a scan is above eight-and-a-half-million, then it is a sign that it has downloaded the antivirus signature database correctly, and that tells you the number of signatures that it can scan for. The program that downloads that is called 'freshclam', which should, by default, download and update the antivirus signatures automatically, and no action is usually needed to be taken by the user regarding that, but if it is not updating automatically, then you need to run the command 'freshclam', in order to update the signatures manually. Just some friendly advice, but of course you are responsible for what you do and you need to look into what things do in the manual with 'man clamscan' in the terminal before using it." |
5 |
| clamtk "It is/was a great program and the GUI interface is very helpful, though the developer is no longer maintaining it when I recently checked, according to their github page, since March 2024. They did a great job with this app, in my opinion. A fork of this program, which would ideally be available on the Linux Mint Software Manager, or new devs on this project is likely now needed, hopefully one of these or both happens soon. Either way, it is a good idea for a user to familiarize themself with using ClamAV in the terminal, as ClamTK is based on that anyway." |
5 |
| com.github.xournalpp.xournalpp "To get the Flatpak version to run on Linux Mint, it seems it it is currently necessary to run this Flatpak in the command line the first time with the following command (without the full stop/period at the end of it): flatpak run com.github.xournalpp.xournalpp --disable-audio. Then disable the audio from within the running app via: preferences > audio recording > disable audio > click OK. This then allows the app to open normally from that point." |
5 |
| com.gitlab.davem.ClamTk "It is nice to have this as a flatpak version and the flatpak versions are normally more up to date for several reasons, but when I was using it, I found that it was only downloading and using a small portion of the signatures that the regular version of ClamTK does, and there was no way I could find, at least, to fix it. Maybe an update will fix it but I will not be using it until then." |
3 |
| org.chromium.Chromium "I was happily using this for some time and it worked like one would expect, but unfortunately I kept finding malware in the .var files of it, and it came in right after the first time it was opened when connected to the internet, again and again. I suggest you look into fixing it/changing the code to stop this kind of thing, but I will not be using it anymore." |
2 |
| com.calibre_ebook.calibre "The app can both read and make ebooks. Working perfectly on LM21.1" |
5 |
| org.gimp.GIMP "Great app, Flatpak version is working perfectly for me on LM21.1. Much appreciated." |
5 |
| com.rafaelmardojai.Blanket "I have used this app daily since I first found it, to provide background sound as a concentration aid, and I very much appreciate it, especially as a Flatpak." |
5 |
| com.github.paolostivanin.OTPClient "Working perfectly on LM21.1. Great app for TOTP" |
5 |
| org.mozilla.firefox "Great Flatpak, highly recommended." |
5 |
| com.github.tchx84.Flatseal "Great app, works well." |
5 |