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What are your must-have programs? (lemmy.ml)
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Trying to discover new/unheard Linux desktop programs (Sorry for the confusion).

Edit: I apologise for confusing a lot of people. I meant Linux desktop “programs” coming from Windows/Mac. I'm used to calling them “apps”.

Edit: 🙌 I’m overwhelmed with the great “programs” people have recommended in the comment section. Thank you guys.

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[–] Ramin_HAL9001@lemmy.ml 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

Emacs.

Emacs is an app platform in and of itself, and the vanilla installation comes with dozens of its own apps pre-installed. Like how web apps are all programmed in JavaScript, Emacs apps are all programmed in Lisp. All Emacs apps are scriptable and composable in Lisp. Unlike on the web, Emacs encourages you to script your apps to automate things yourself.

Emacs apps are all text based, so they all work equally well in both the GUI and the terminal.

Emacs comes with the following apps pre-installed:

  • a text editor for both prose and computer code
  • note taking and organizer called Org-mode (sort of like Obsidian, or Logseq)
  • a file browser and batch file renamer called Dired
  • a CLI console and terminal emulator
  • a terminal multiplexer (sort-of like "Tmux")
  • a process manager (sort-of like "Htop")
  • a simple HTML-only web browser
  • man-page and info page browser
  • a wrapper around the Grep and Find CLI tools
  • a wrapper around SSH called "Tramp"
  • e-mail client
  • IRC client
  • revion control system, including a Git porcelain called "Magit"
  • a "diff" tool
  • ASCII art drawing program
  • keystroke recorder and playback

Some apps that I install into Emacs include:

  • "Mastodon.el" Mastodon client
  • "Elfeed" RSS feed reader
  • "consult" app launcher (sort-of like "Dmenu")
[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It comes also with a doctor, you can invoke it with "M-x doctor". I discovered Emacs in the 80s, used it a lot in uni in the 90s, Emacs is a religion, or an OS, it's so powerful it's incredible. Nowadays I'm mostly using code for coding, or simply nano for small scripts/text.

[–] Ramin_HAL9001@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Emacs is a religion, or an OS

Philosophy is a subset of religion, and there is a definitely an Emacs philosophy about making absolutely all software hackable, and controlling the computer using text.

App platforms are a subset of operating systems. People confuse the two because most app platforms are inseparable from the operating system on which they run. But some software, like the Web, or Java, or to some extent .NET/Mono, are app platforms that run the same apps across multiple operating systems. Emacs is an app platform.

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