Title suggestion: A few great terminal based applications. Or Three great terminal based applications.
“Best Linux apps” suggest that there has been a conclusion on the topic and that the following apps mentioned are the best which does not jive with the actual content of the article.
nnn, aerc, neovim, micro
gdu is one of my favorites. It is an intuitive disk usage analyzer that is wicked fast; on a SSD gdu can analyze more than a terabyte of files in just a few seconds.
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I’ve always found detox one of the most simple and elegant commands. It does one thing only (cleans up filenames), and does it very well.
Thanks, I’ll check that out.
spell & aspell are also nice ;-)
joplin #outliner take notes cmus #musicplayer gotop #nicer htop (syste monitoring) bat #nicer cat youtube-dl / yt-dlp # save a local copy of onlinemedia dog / doggo #dig replacement qrencode -t ansiutf8 #generate qrcodes in cli
bash alias: alias weather=‘_weather() curl -s wttr.in/“${1:-YOURCITY}” ; _weather’ # nice weather report
I’m pretty sure everyone knows about the those apps, but I guess it’s helpful for the newbs
It’s not helpful for newbies either.
The article does a poor job with its pitch, except perhaps ranger—why would I choose vim over any other terminal editor? For a supposed best terminal app, just having keyboard shortcuts isn’t a selling point. I happen to have recently started learning vi, so I now know what modal editing is, albeit just insert and command mode so far, but the article just mentions and drops it without explaining why that is useful or even what that means. No newbie will intuitively grok how it functions, and vim-aware folk learn nothing new.
Rtv is fun if your still using reddit. Tmux and htop are nice to haves too.
