There are some excellent applications on Ubuntu which come handy frequently. I have listed some:
- Baobab: Graphical disk usage analyzer.
- BleachBit: Free up your system by removing temp files, history and other cruft.
- eboard: If you play on FICS eboard is indispensable.
- FSlint: Remove duplicate files. It can find things like duplicate files, problematic filenames, temporary files, bad symlinks, empty directories and nonstripped binaries.
- galculator: A better alternative to the gnome-calculator which still seems buggy/user-unfriendly to me when converting between Hex to Dec etc.
- GCstar: A collection manager for almost everything you collect.
- gFTP: Tiny multithreaded FTP, FTPS (control connection only), HTTP, HTTPS, SSH and FSP transfer client.
- Glipper: A very handy clipboard manager that can remember entries across reboot. It can be accessed using a keyboard shortcut beside your pointer (like right click) and you can choose the copied text.
- Gpick: Pick any color from the screen.
- GtkOrphan / RpmOrphan: The omnipotent clean-up utility of to get rid of unused libraries, packages etc.
- HandBrake: The best video encoder ever written!
- Leafpad: A great relief the bloated gedit editor is removable on Ubuntu 12.04. I use the lightweight Leafpad. When I need power, I use vi.
- localepurge: remove unnecessary locale files.
- Marlin: Lightweight and superfast file manager. To make it faster:
$ sudo mv /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tumbler-1/tumblerd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tumbler-1/tumblerd.bak
- nautilus-image-converter: Resize and rotate images from nautilus.
To customize it, edit:
/usr/share/nautilus-image-converter/nautilus-image-resize.ui - PCManFM: Ultra-lightweight and fast file manager.
- qBittorrent: µTorrent for Linux. Supports torrents, magnets and DHT.
- Subtitle Editor: Do anything with movie subtitles.
- rar & unrar: Frequently needed to extract downloaded rar files.
- wget: A very very powerful cmdline downloader (a good multi-threaded alternative is axel).
As an example of the power of wget, a whole website can be downloaded using the following command (instead of installing HTTrack):$ wget -r -mirror -p -convert-links -P ./mydir URL
-r: recursive
-mirror : turn on options suitable for mirroring.
-p : download all files that are necessary to properly display a given HTML page.
-convert-links : after the download, convert the links in document for local viewing.
-P ./mydir : save all the files and directories in ./mydir. To resume a partial downloads (if server supports), run the following command in the same directory:$ wget -c file_URL
- xpad: A tiny sticky notes application. (#9a99ff is my preferred bg colour)
I used to use wine 3 years back to run some Windows applications but Google helped me find much better alternatives for all my needs on Ubuntu.
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