Linux (games & apps)
 

alrighty my fellow linuxeers time to discuss the baddess tastiest OS ever: linux
a couple of questions:

what are your top 10 softwares (non games) that you use?
and what are your fave linux game(s)?

games: frogatto and one late night
softwares? clementine and smplayer oh and 4k video downloader

whats yours? ( also what type of linux do you use? I use Lubuntu)[drool]

I don't really use it for gaming, I prefer to use it for programming and web development.

My favorite softwares would be Gimp, Apache2, Geany for text editing and scripting, Risretto for image viewing because I like it the best, SMplayer as a frontend for Mplayer, Firefox for browsing and any Terminal or console program for utility things.

I've used Ubuntu but I don't like it , and most of the other versions are just the same thing with different things I don't like about them. Mint is okay, I've used 3 versions with different desktop environments, but I really prefer to keep it small and do everything as root, so I use Puppy Linux now. I like the LXDE desktop, though it takes a little messing with to make it work at its best with everything.

I've used several different versions of Puppy Linux, and each has its own problems based on what computer hardware you have and all of the attendant differences, and the Linux distro it was made out of. The one I use now I made out of Debian, but I still like one that was made out of another Puppy distro, Wary, and parts of Racy.

Linux is buggy, but I kind of like that, because then I get to fix it and make it work. I like making things work.

I like doing everything as root, because it's less to type, and all of the security vulnerabilities are sort of silly because all you have to do is configure it properly to prevent exploiters from having access.

Configuring it to login as root at startup prevents the most common Linux exploit from being possible at all, and strong passwords take care of the rest, and a good firewall completes the security.

If you like Linux, you should learn bash, it makes things really easy if you do it all in the Terminal instead of using applications that then have to call on bash scripts anyway. Graphical interfaces get in the way a lot and make things less easy sometimes.