Which software/apps do you use most on MX?

[namida12]

Google Chrome, Hangouts
Pale Moon,
Galculator,
GIMP,
qBittorent,
Screenshot,
Leafpad,
Orage Calendar,
Antix Conky,
Gparted,
LibreOffice Writer, Calc, Impress.
Mirage,
Xfburn,
HPLip - HPPrinter,
Synaptic,
Live USB Maker,
Package Installer,
VLC,
Kdenlive,
MX Live Unmounter, YAD,

JR

[Sparky]

VLC
SMPlayer
Libreoffice
OBS studio
VirtualBox
FireFox
SublimeText
Python (I'm working on a self posting app that looks for content in a few sites and makes its own post)
Bibisco
Gparted
DosBox
NoMacs
Clementine
E-book reader
Calibre
last but not least MX Package Installer

[galaxysurfer]

Palemoon
Thunderbird
Thunar
Conky
Libreoffice
Gpdfview
Pdfshuffler
KeepassXC
MxTools
Lifeograph
Terminal
Mx Package installer
Synaptic
Grub customizer
Gnome disk Utility
VLC

[figueroa]

bash

[rs55]

my first post on this great forum! Love MXLinux -have moved from Mint. Main harware Thinkpad W520 and X230.
Apps:
Chrome browser
R-Studio ( took a bit of effort getting everything installed including RStan for Bayesian models
Anaconda/Python( also took a bit of effort)
WXMaxima - computer algebra system
Libreoffice Calc
Galculator

VLC ( I use this for my music collection as well as video)
Darktable and Shotwell for photography

PCManFM and SpaceFM file managers - I use SpaceFM when I want todo stuff in Root
KeepassXC - for keeping notes on various personal accounts etc

Timeshift for recovery on localmachine
MXTools - Snapshot/Live USB works brilliantly to have your configured OS+Apps on USB and installation various machines - I have a few!
TLP and TLPUI for power management - needs acpi-call-dkms

All in all I am very pleased now that I have everything set up. The machine runs cool. Ram usage after boot is a bit under 300MB.

[rs55]

A couple ofadditional points:
- Thunar was verrry slooow in starting up and behaved erratically - thats why I switched to PCManFM and SpaceFM
- text editor:I am using gedit
- pdf viewer: qpdfview

- Also for MXtools - in Snapshot I tried lz4 compression and the live boot failed. So went back to the xz compression.

- The Archive Manager is superb for storing old tax and financial stuff securely.

[rs55]

So finally - Iam currently on the road and using my Thinkpad X230 which I bought for $95 on ebay! With MXLinux - it is blazing fast and does everything I need from a laptop.

[KBD]

So finally - Iam currently on the road and using my Thinkpad X230 which I bought for $95 on ebay! With MXLinux - it is blazing fast and does everything I need from a laptop.

That was a good deal on the X230. I've got a X220, T410, and just picked up a 11e Thinkpad. These are great machines :)

[rs55]

So finally - Iam currently on the road and using my Thinkpad X230 which I bought for $95 on ebay! With MXLinux - it is blazing fast and does everything I need from a laptop.

That was a good deal on the X230. I've got a X220, T410, and just picked up a 11e Thinkpad. These are great machines :)

yeah - and it has the IPS screen as well. I have a X220 which I bought new in 2011. Recently bought two X230s. Also have a couple of W520s ! I dont like the new laptops-so I stocked upon the last good generation!

[rs55]

I was on Windows 7 until a few months ago. Hearing the horror stories about Windows 10 and the subscription/ads/spyware model that MS seems to be moving to - I decided tocheck out linux. Was happy with Mint-mate. Then I came across MX and here are the big reasons I am excited by MX:
- MX Tools -superb. Especially the snapshots/liveUSB tools. Also the boot management tools and boot repair ( this might come in handy in case windows borks the machine and messes up grub -I have a couple of my machines on dual boot).
- The Debian 9 base seems pretty solid and has long term support. Mint seemed to get updates every day ,not MX.
- The package installer is better than Mint's( not as pretty,but more powerful).

Life is better without windows!