RytronII
Ireland
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Software reviews
| Software | Score |
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| vrms "A must-have app for me. I like to keep my system as free as possible from closed-source programs. (:" |
5 |
| 0ad "Magnificent RTS. Alas, the blissfull gameplaying hours pass too quickly!" |
5 |
| mednaffe "Very much overlooked multi system emulator." |
5 |
| mediainfo "A must have as I do many encoding of videos files." |
5 |
| ice "I can see this being handy for the odd website." |
4 |
| sakura "Decent terminal emulator." |
4 |
| xed "Maybe even better than Gedit." |
5 |
| nemo "Only second to Caja, IMO. Awesome file manager! :)" |
5 |
| featherpad "Excellent, light yet feather rich text editor. :)" |
5 |
| firefox "My go-to web browser of choice now for many, many years. I prefer the ESR version." |
5 |
| hotot "My tweet app of choice." |
5 |
| opera "Good browser. It's a pity it's proprietary." |
4 |
| mintupdate "The Ultimate Update Manager!" |
5 |
| medit "Loses 1 star for lack of a spellchecker." |
4 |
| pluma "Lacks a save session plugin." |
4 |
| geany "Fine text editor." |
5 |
| luckybackup "Has many options." |
5 |
| quiterss "This has just replaced Liferea as my #1 RSS reader." |
5 |
| pyrenamer "Equally as great as gprename." |
5 |
| pyroom "Ideal for getting things done." |
5 |
| vokoscreen "My favorite screencaster." |
5 |
| kazam "Goodbye gtk-recordMyDesktop." |
5 |
| key-mon "Very handy for video tutorials." |
5 |
| epiphany-browser "Underrated solid browser." |
4 |
| gufw "Ace GUI." |
4 |
| terminator "Very handy." |
5 |
| gnome-do "Kupfer and Synapse are far better." |
2 |
| guake "I wish it had a drag and drop text feature." |
5 |
| mintmenu "The best menu ever!" |
5 |
| scummvm "Compliments DosBox." |
5 |
| burgerspace "Retro bliss." |
5 |
| supertux "Akin to Super Mario Bros." |
5 |
| frozen-bubble "Great for short bursts of entertainment." |
4 |
| calibre "Used for all my ebook needs," |
4 |
| hexchat "Ace xchat replacement." |
5 |
| synapse "Akin to Kupfer." |
5 |
| virtualbox-nonfree "Invaluable!" |
5 |
| youtube-dl "Works very well with Youtube-dlG." |
4 |
| xfburn "My #1 burner." |
4 |
| supertuxkart "Akin to Super Mario Kart." |
4 |
| gparted "Easy to use powerful partitioner." |
5 |
| gpodder "I'd give it 5 stars if it could also download videos from Dailymotion and YouTube. All in all though an excellent app. Kudos to Thomas Perl." |
4 |
| gedit-plugins "The gedit 'Session Saver' plugin is an invaluable tool." |
5 |
| brasero "Has never let me down." |
4 |
| steadyflow "Very simple but also very fast." |
5 |
| multiget "Turbo charged download manager!" |
5 |
| e-uae "It is time to play those old classics again!" |
4 |
| fuse-emulator-sdl "The Speccy lives!" |
4 |
| yakuake "Very nice but better suited to KDE since it has loads of dependencies - try Guake for non-KDE setup." |
4 |
| mupen64plus "Too many problems with this one so I use Project64 in WINE instead." |
2 |
| tilda "Quick as lightning but needs a lot more improvements." |
3 |
| mplayer "Powerhouse open source media player." |
5 |
| totem "Almost perfect." |
4 |
| vinagre "Sweet remote desktop viewer." |
5 |
| lightning-extension "This calendar makes my Mozilla Thunderbird setup complete." |
5 |
| hardinfo "Gives info packed reports." |
5 |
| gprename "No need to use any other rename program." |
5 |
| gnome-search-tool "Very useful." |
5 |
| gnome-system-monitor "The ultimate monitoring tool." |
5 |
| gdebi "Much faster than Software Manager for installing deb files." |
5 |
| file-roller "Top marks!" |
5 |
| googleearth "Font issues but still very good." |
4 |
| soundconverter "Can massively shrink down a mp3 to ogg and retain near the same quality." |
5 |
| htop "Lightweigtht but info packed." |
5 |
| gtk-recordmydesktop "Has improved immensely." |
5 |
| pavucontrol "A must have for audio recording." |
5 |
| skype "VOIP at its finest." |
4 |
| openshot "Almost perfect and my new favorite video editor." |
4 |
| gramps "Tricky to get the hang of but still a decent family tree tool." |
4 |
| pyneighborhood "Decent network tool." |
4 |
| recoll "Really handy utility." |
5 |
| firestarter "Old but very easy to use and sturdy." |
4 |
| speedcrunch "Nifty calculator." |
5 |
| kompozer "Could be awesome if it was more polished." |
4 |
| easytag "Easy and very useful." |
4 |
| convertall "Very useful." |
5 |
| clamtk "Needs more polishing." |
4 |
| chromium "Fast but I still prefer Firefox." |
4 |
| checkgmail "Very handy." |
4 |
| catfish "Damn fast!" |
5 |
| libreoffice-calc "I use this and writer the most." |
5 |
| libreoffice-writer "I use this and calc the most." |
5 |
| acroread "Not needed since Evince and many other apps do a far better job." |
1 |
| handbrake-gtk "HandBrake brings the video size down considerably whilst keeping the quality very high." |
5 |
| turpial "Finally, a proper Twitter client." |
5 |
| simple-scan "Basic but very dependable." |
4 |
| gnome-terminal "My favorite terminal emulator." |
5 |
| kupfer "A must have!" |
5 |
| caja "Very good file manager. It is catching up to Nautilus slowly but surely." |
4 |
| nautilus "The ultimate file manager!" |
5 |
| pcmanfm "This has the edge on Thunar." |
4 |
| thunar "Needs more work but still good." |
4 |
| synaptic "I still prefer this to the Software Manager." |
5 |
| bleachbit "The CCleaner for GNU/Linux." |
5 |
| keepassx "The auto-type hotkey feature is the icing on the cake!" |
5 |
| unetbootin "I love the boot from ISO option." |
5 |
| stella "Nice!" |
5 |
| gfceu "Simple but works very well." |
5 |
| vice "The C64 lives on!" |
5 |
| dosbox "Old school bliss." |
5 |
| zsnes "I can re-live my SNES days. ^_^" |
5 |
| openarena "Out of this world! Akin to Nexuiz." |
5 |
| nexuiz "Out of this world!" |
5 |
| mousepad "Lite but does the job. Akin to Leafpad." |
5 |
| leafpad "Lite but does the job." |
5 |
| openoffice.org "Still great but I prefer LibreOffice." |
5 |
| guvcview "Far better than Cheese." |
5 |
| cheese "Average for videos but fine for pictures." |
3 |
| clementine "My favorite music player bar none." |
5 |
| playonlinux "I prefer POL far more than Crossover." |
5 |
| libreoffice "5/5 Who needs MS Office?" |
5 |
| audacity "Very powerful audio editor." |
5 |
| filezilla "The ultimate FTP app." |
5 |
| gimp "5/5 Who needs Photoshop?" |
5 |
| blockout2 "This is seriously addictive." |
5 |
| gedit "There are many great text editors in GNU/Linux but this is still my fave." |
5 |
| wine "Sometimes buggy but still great." |
4 |
| liferea "I tried many RSS clients including Google Reader but I've stayed with Liferea now for some time." |
5 |
| thunderbird "Who needs Outlook Express? Superb email client." |
5 |
| pidgin "I've yet to find a better IM client." |
5 |
| gwget "I like this just as much Uget." |
5 |
| uget "I use this with Gwget." |
5 |
| deja-dup "Perfect for both encrypting and incremental backups. The plain appearence belies just how great this utility is." |
5 |
| xchat "My one stop for IRC. ^_^" |
5 |
| exaile "Nice music player." |
4 |
| artha "Even better than Wordnet!" |
5 |
| korganizer "This is by far my favorite calendar app in GNU/Linux." |
4 |
| grsync "I use this for all my syncing needs." |
5 |
| vlc "Best video player by far!" |
5 |