Linux on Desktop

Here are my random notes on Linux on Desktop (see also GNOME and KDE).

Virtualization

• still best is virt-manager

Failure:

• gnome-boxes is big joke - it randomly freezes, sometimes it is unable to display running VM properly (especially when using 3D acceleration). Focus problems...

RDP client

I have serious issues with these clients:

• gnome-connections - after Alt-Tab forth and back random modifier keys (including Alt) get stuck
• KDE: krdpc (?) - totally corrupted screen on Fedora 41 Wayland - unusable

Winner:

• Remmina (notice 2 "em"!) - works perfectly, has every feature I image to use

KeePass

I use:

• Mono + original C# KeePass for Windows (under openSUSE LEAP 15.6)
• or KeePassXC (on Fedora 41).

MS Paint equivalent

It is tricky:

• I use gThumb for Crop & Resize

For anything advanced I use Krita (it support Texts, Rectangles and even arrows in Vector layer).

Failed programs:

• myPaint - does not offer Crop (only weird Frame)
• mtPaint - does not allow drawing arrows and/or rectangles

Video player

• mpv - fastest best acceleration (there are also various GUI frontends for it)
• vlc - second best when mpv fails

Total failure:

• Totem - forces you to maximize Video on screen, does not allow 1:1 (original size playback), because its authors are...

Audio player

Mostly using:

• Audacious
• QMMP

Terminals

• xfce-terminal (under openSUSE LEAP 15.6 + XFCE)
• Konsole under KDE (yes, it is good enough)
• Terminator (I like handy tiled layout presets).
• gnome-terminal - NOTE: to set bold font on terminal, you have to set bold font in system with GNOME tweaks and then configure GNOME Terminal to use system settings
• Ptyxis (Fedora default)