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| title | date | draft | tags | ||
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| Gushing about KDE | 2024-01-28 | true |
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This is my anti-rant post, today I wanted to shine a light on the fantastic KDE software that I use daily. You can do similar things with GNOME and whatever else, but that's for someone else to write. There's bias here because I have contributed to several of these applications, but that doesn't detract from the point that I depend on them daily.
I check my work and personal mail using KMail. I keep track of tasks, events and meetings using Merkuro. I can keep tabs on my calendar regularly because of the calendar applet in KDE Plasma, which is synced thanks to Akonadi. My work uses Rocket.Chat, and I use Ruqola for interacting with that. There's two programs I use in my day-to-day that's unfortunately not KDE applications. One is my web browser, which is Firefox of course. Another is my IDE, JetBrain's CLion which I depend on a lot and unfortunately KDevelop doesn't even come close to it. Sorry 😢
Even when I'm not working, I still use KDE software in my hobbies. One of them is drawing, which I use Krita for (which is a great application in general, you should use it!) When I have to do video editing, my program of choice is Kdenlive (which is a great application in general, you should use it!) I even use Krita when sketching on-the-go or in bed now instead of Procreate, since my Lenovo Yoga runs Linux and KDE Plasma.
My primary chat platform is Matrix, so of course I use NeoChat as my preferred client everywhere I can. I chose Mastodon as my Twitter-replacement, and I use Tokodon so much that I don't even open up the web interface anymore! The less I have to run in the browser the better, in my opinion.
There's also lots of small utilities that I use, such as Spectacle for screenshots and quick screen recordings. I use Kate for all of my text editing, such as this post right now! Gwenview is my image viewer of choice too. Of course I use Okular for reading the occasional PDF. Can't forget about Okteta when I'm trying to dissect some binary file.
For consuming media, I use KDE applications for that too. I use PlasmaTube to feed my YouTube addiction. I have started listening to some podcasts, and have been using Kasts for those. Apparently it has a NextCloud sync feature, so now it's even more useful to me!
Upcoming
Here's some software I recently learned about, and want to start using in the new year:
- Accessibility Inspector, which is a KDE-based alternative to GNOME's Accerciser.
- Codevis, a code visualization program, I used it once before but I need to try it again.
- Fielding, a REST API client. I plan to expand it's features further so I don't have to depend on Insomina.
- Powerplant, something to help keep your plants. I only have one plant to keep right now, so this is the perfect time to learn how to use it!
Hope this sheds some light on my favorite applications, and gives you ideas for using them!