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Software reviews
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| org.jellyfin.JellyfinServer "Jellyfin is a media sharing server with beautiful library organization and easy to use management tools. The video player's decent. I had CPU usage spike briefly (of note, but not of concern) when transcoding for certain client devices. The flatpak provides you a nice desktop icon to click and start the server, but also puts everything in a flatpak location. No errors encountered (on Mint 22.1 Cinnamon, Flatpak version). I used the flatpak version about half a year ago, but have since moved back to the recommended install as per Jellyfin's site. I find it's easier to manage multiple services that way. If you are running into the issue where you can't browse to your preferred directory, it is probably a permissions issue (all parent folders require +x). " |
5 |
| drawing ""Drawing" is a deceptively bad app. It appears simple and clean, with an excellent selection of tools (it really does), but it's not organized in a way that's intuitive to use. The menubar organization, tool icons, bottom bar options, and Undo/Apply buttons seem fine at first but when you actually need to use the app for something... you'll realize you don't know how to do complete any action, and buttons are not where you expect them to be. 30 second operations turns into a 10 minute ordeals. The crop tool seriously messes with your brain. And in what world does copy and paste belong in the bottom left? No errors encountered (on Mint 22.1 Cinnamon). Not a good default app. " |
2 |
| xed "Text Editor (xed) is a solid text and code editor with a very sensible set of tools and options (eg. syntax highlighting, alphabetical sort, word count, regex find and replace). I think it's just right as a starting/default app, even if you move onto something better later. I haven't looked at how it handles encodings. Xed will freak out if you try to give it large files it can't handle (on Mint 22.1 Cinnamon). Be aware that it does change your file's creation date, if that's something you care about. " |
5 |
| discord "Discord itself is a great app, but this .deb version will ask you to download another new .deb every week, and it's exhausting. Streaming with application audio doesn't work, even though streaming the entire screen with audio does (when mic isn't engaged). Occasionally text messages won't go through, even tough voice and stream do. The app is otherwise responsive and pleasant to use (on Mint 22.1 Cinnamon, Manually downloaded deb version)." |
3 |
| krita "For painting, it's just fantastic. Krita has a well organized interface, and a sensible selection of brushes, filters, and tools. The text tool is so atrocious, it brings the whole application down, so I suggest you look elsewhere for graphic design needs. No input lag with Wacom tablet. Takes a while to load with rare crashes (it does has autosave) (on Mint 22.1 Cinnamon, AMD integrated graphics), but it's still worth it." |
4 |
| steam-installer "Once you toggle on "Enable Steam Play for all other titles", it's smooth sailing. You can use its compability layer for a variety of local windows games and applications, so it's handy even if you don't use the store. No errors, but it's slow to launch the Steam client for me (on Mint 22.1 Cinnamon, using integrated AMD). Proprietary, but Proton is open. " |
5 |
| baobab "There are many ways to tell what files are clogging your disk space, but most don't give you a sense of where they are, and how big proportionally they are to other files. Disk Usage Analyzer (baobab) does so gloriously with its interactive pie chart. It's very useful for discovery of pesky leftover files (from installers that don't uninstall everything, particularly games). You can select specific directories to scan if you don't want to do an entire driver or partition. It works on external drives too. I haven't tried it on remote locations. No errors encountered (on Mint 22.1 Cinnamon). Thanks Mint team for including this by default!" |
5 |
| io.github.Qalculate "Qalculate can do it ALL. That's its strength as well as its weakness. Be prepared to be bombarded with a ton of options you don't need while you look for options that pertain to your specific needs. The keypad has a minimum width thats pretty wide, and I don't see an option to turn it into a "basic" calculator. No errors encountered (on Mint 22.1 Cinnamon, Flatpak GTK version). I switched from Mint's default calculator (I think it was gnome calculator?) to Qalculate because the former can't handle even moderately big numbers, which is completely unacceptable for students." |
5 |
| md.obsidian.Obsidian "While other journal and note taking applications move towards formats that make it difficult to inspect your own shit, obsidian takes editing plain text files to the next level with thoughtful features and a beautiful graphical interface. It can be as basic as you like, or can have all the bells and whistles using a plethora of community plugins. For formatted/beautified documents, I find the Mathjax (live latex renderer) particularly useful so I don't have to download a dedicated tex editor. Most importantly, it respects your file contents and doesn't try to sanitize anything. No issues encountered (Mint 22.1 Cinnamon, Flatpak version). Proprietary. Works well in conjunction with obsidian.nvim for terminal usage after some initial setup. " |
5 |
| celluloid "A simple video and music player. I'm of the opinion that the interface could use more menu/buttons instead of only having keyboard shortcuts, otherwise it's just mpv and not any easier to use for the average user. I use yt-dlp used to bring web videos into it without issue. Subtitle files work well too. I have not tried reading discs. No errors encountered (on Mint 22.1 Cinnamon). " |
4 |
| flameshot "Great screenshoter with many utilities. It can save to file and/or clipboard, and provides tools to annotate without having to get into a drawing app. Pinning screenshots and having them always on top saves a ton of time. It does fail to capture some tooltips that other screenshoters also fail to capture. I haven't tried uploading. No errors encountered after using for about a year (currently on Mint 22.1 Cinnamon). Use Flameshot with different options by creating entries in Mint's Keyboard > Shortcuts > Custom Shortcuts." |
5 |