What are your must-have programs?

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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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EDIT: realized this was for desktop, so removed the original list of mostly android apps. Here's my go to desktop apps:

Lollypop - music player
Invoiceninja - open source invoicing service
Meld - file/folder comparison
Librewolf - hardened Firefox
Joplin - notes
QEMU/Virt-Manager - virtualization for that one windows app you still need
KeepassXC - password management
Element-desktop - Matrix client
Gparted - no fuss partition management
Lutris - game launcher that works with epic games (among many others)
PDFarranger - best PDF management I've found on Linux Soundconverter - easy to use file converter
Restic - backups
Fdupes - duplicate file finder
Freetube - privacy respecting YouTube client
Paperless-ngx - very well built electronic document storage. Must be run as a server.

On linux?

Whoops, didn't notice the /c this was posted to 🤦‍♂️

Hahaha if Aegis was available on Linux I'd switch to it instantly.

I second that. It's been brutal trying to find a good FOSS 2FA app for desktop.

You could try https://2fas.com/ open source mobile application with browser extensions and cloud sync for backups.

Or www.bitwarden.com password manager is also open source and for a small "premium" supports 2FA for mobile/desktop/browser.

I haven't heard of 2fas before, they seem pretty interesting. I'm inclined to keep my password and 2fa vaults out of the cloud (thus Aegis and Keepass) so I'm interested in how the browser extension syncs data with a phone. If it uses a shared network or ephemeral data transfers that would be pretty nice.

If you're already using keepassxc, you can import OTP codes and use that. That's what I do when my phone is not around to use aegis. It's not as pretty, but it works.

I have a few codes duplicated in my keepass vault for the services I log in to often on desktop. The autotype is super nice in those cases. Other than that I do generally prefer having a separation between password manager and 2fa data though. Probably only a theoretical safeguard in my case, but simple enough to keep in place for the time being.

If you’re in the GNOME ecosystem, you could give Authenticator a shot. It’s worked quite well for me so far.

I'm on KDE 🥲 That Gnome app has been almost enough to get me to switch though. There's a few Gnome apps that KDE doesn't have a comparable parallel to.