Now that Win7 no longer has an updated browser, I am learning to love Linux. Favorite Linux Distro (after trying 11 others): Zorin Favorite apps: Browser - Chromium, by far Email : Evolution Cleaner: Bleachbit System Backup: Timeshift (additionally, I always retain a bootable flash drive with Zorin on it. Unneeded. so far.) Personal files backup: Backups* Disk Manager: Disks* Password Manager: KeePassXC System Information: System Profiler & Benchmark Journal & Quick Notes: Zim Antivirus: ClamTK (NO other choices. This app scans on-demand only. Oh well, my fingers are crossed.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Those are VERY blah app names ("Backups" for backing up, & "Disks" for working with disks). Even so, they do their job very nicely. It's sort of like naming your dog "Dog" or naming your first son "Boy."
Favorite Linux Distro: Xubuntu Favorite apps: Browser: Firefox Email: Thunderbird Cleaner: no need System Backup: no need, just keep /home in a different disk Personal files backup: luckyBackup Disk Manager: Disks Password Manager: KeePassXC System Information: Psensor Journal & Quick Notes: - Antivirus: no need P.S. I'm not saying my options are better, they're just my options.
Favorite Linux Distro: MX-21, followed by Manjaro Favorite apps: Browser - Firefox Email : Thunderbird Cleaner: MX Cleanup (already built-in to OS) System Backup: MX Snapshot (already built-in to OS) Personal files backup: N/A Disk Manager: GParted Password Manager: KeePassXC System Information: System Load Viewer (already built-in to OS) Journal & Quick Notes: Geany Antivirus: Nothing - not required Security: Apparmor, UFW and encrypted /Home partition BTW @bellgamin, I'm impressed that you've already gained a comfortable grasp of Linux and that you are loving it
I'm still running Ubuntu (nearly a decade now). Default browser is Brave, but I have Chrome and Firefox too. Default Media Player: SMPlayer Email: Proton in the browser
@wat0114 -- I like your set-up, especially Snapshot. AFAIK, Snapshot will not run on Zorin. Further, I have heard that it's superior to Timeshift. Ergo, I have a spare laptop so I am going to give MX Linux another go. Also, I hadn't heard of Apparmor so I read about it. I shall give it a go, 4 shur ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ No one opted for Chromium. I ran Firefox (FF) for several days. I found that using bookmarks on FF seemed a bit more convoluted than Chromium so I went for Chromium.
I haven't tried that many distros but of the ones I have tried I like Kubuntu (22.10). I did like Solus Plasma too, but I don't have much faith in their development these days: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/solus-in-decline.443725/ Default browser = Firefox and I occasionally use Brave browser. Favourite app? Can't really say I have one, probably because Windows is still my most used OS. That may change when Win10 goes EOL.
Interesting, how are you embracing Linux? It's far safer than Windows. I love Linux. Although I rated Win 7, I ran it for a while. I have stuck with Ubuntu for years, I'm not much of a distro hopper, and I'm pretty happy with Ubuntu LTS.
@Daveski17 -- Ubuntu with which desktop? @Krusty -- Ubuntu has a desktop designed for Aussies. It's called Mate, mate. @zapjb -- TY? YW!
Apparmor works just fine in Zorin, as does Firejail, sort of the "Sandboxie" of the Linux world. Acadia
I'm used to Debian. It has sufficuent ammount of packages in repository, but some Gnu/Linux distros have event more. Some are also not up to date. My habits of using personal laptop changed, so I might switch to other Linux distro im a year or so Browser: Firefox (updated via Snap) Secondary browser: Vivaldi in Firejail Desktop envitonment: custom built around Openbox. It is simple, useful, but not pretty Password manager: KeePassXC for all stuff, Bitwarden via browser for some low to medium important stuff that I also do on mobile too Backup: i have made some scripts around tar and zstd commands. I wonder wherher I should start using dar or btrfs snapshots to replace or complement it. Cleaner: Bleachbit (I use it only for Firefox) Spreadsheet: LibreOffice Calc, I rarely use rest of LibreOffice Simple Text editor(notes etc): featherpad Command line text editor: vim IDE: IntelliJ IDEA, vim for minor things Encryption: gpg for backup, dm-crypt/LUKS for /home file system, built-into-programs: KeePassXC, Bitwarden, Libre Office Calc E-mail: Thunderbird Photo viewer: Viewnior Photo cropping, resizing etc: Darktable
Kubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Some/most favorite applications: Browser: Firefox (snap) E-mail: webmail Text editor: Kate Office: LibreOffice PDF viewer and editor: Okular (LibreOffice Draw, Scribus, and Inkscape also offer options for basic PDF editing). Split, merge, rotate, rearrange PDF documents: PDF-Arranger (other options would be PDFsam Basic, PDF Chain, PDF Mix Tool). Document scanning: Document Scanner (= GNOME Simple Scan) (gscan2pdf would be another good option). Screen-capture: Xfce4-screenshooter (Shutter, or ksnip for more advanced screen captures). OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images: NormCap Image viewer and simple editor: Gwenview (XnView MP, and Pinta (snap) for slightly more advanced edits) Media player: VLC media player Specifically for Disney/Pixar DVD (or other DVD with difficult to play copy protection): Kodi Video/audio downloader: 4K Video Downloader Audio converter: soundKonverter (N.B. not to be confused with SoundConverter) Chess game: KNights Command line tool for checking the printer ink level: ink System cleaning: sudo apt autoremove, sudo apt autoclean, and occasionally Muon Package Manager to remove any leftover Residual Configuration. Create bootable USB flash drive: balenaEtcher (alternative: USBImager) System imaging: Clonezilla /home backups: Grsync to several drives. E-mail backup: run Thunderbird (with setting 'Check all folders for new messages': Menu\Preferences\General\Config Editor\Advanced Preferences\ mail.server.default.check_all_folders_for_new --> true) and next copy ~/.thunderbird/xxxxxxxx.default-release to several drives for backup.
Good luck with Apparmor. Just try to obtain a decent level of understanding with it first before you confine any application with it.
Except it isn't supposed to be pronounced mate, Mate. https://www.google.com/search?q=linux mate pronunciation "mah-tay" But as I'm an Aussie I'll go with Mate. I have it installed on a low-end laptop and it is indeed stable. Kubuntu just looks prettier to me.
10Q to the nth for telling me about AppArmor & Firejail. Presently there is no real-time antivirus for Linux. Many folks say none is needed. I hope history proves them right. In the meantime, I am very eager to learn of any security apps that ARE available. I am a "minimalist" when it comes to security, but (as a newbie to Linux) I do appreciate learning about whatever is available. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @Krusty -- mate is mayte or mah-tay? || potato is poh-tay-to or poh-tah-to? || Gnome is guh-nome or (silent G) no-me or nohm? I could go on & awn but let me end by saying: Linux is great but Windows is a pane. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @Stupendous Man -- I'm glad you mentioned a screen-capture app -- gotta get me one of those. As for KNights -- I was a fairly dangerous chess player in my days of youth & vigor -- long ago, when dinosaurs roamed the streets of Waikiki. How tough a game does KNights play? Can you specify which classic opening or defense Knights will use? BTW -- thanks for the settings needed to get T-bird to check all folders (I have over a dozen email accounts). I use a T-bird offshoot called Betterbird, but it works 99.4023% the same as T-bird.
This is what attracted me to Linux in the first place. I'd had enough of AV's eviscerating my hard drive. Windows was a security nightmare (at least for me).
I'm very embarrassed to say, I selected KNights based on several chess games reviews, enthusiastically, but next, I never took the time to play! There's always something else to do. If I'm not mistaken, the setting that I mentioned is not to check all accounts, but to check all folders of your account(s). This is to download not only new inbox messages from the server, but to grab messages from all IMAP folders. See under "Configure Thunderbird to Download All Messages" in this article.
Thank you for reminding me of Clonezilla. I remembered how fast and efficient it is. Minutes ago I burned the latest stable release to a usb drive and backed up my sda6 and sda 8 MX-21 partitions with it No need for sda 7 as it is the swap partition. Not really beginner-friendly but it "just works"!
I'm using ESET Endpoint Antivirus for Linux on Kubuntu 22.04 LTS. The AV pickings on Linux are definitely slim, though.
