What's your favorite Linux Desktop software?
What's your favorite Linux Desktop software?
For me, it's hands down Flameshot. The best screenshot tool in the world - I've got it hooked up to my PrtScrn
key for super easy screenshots.
I also love Kwrite as a Notepad++ alternative, and KolourPaint as a MSPaint alternative
Excuse my silly question, but what does mpv do that vlc doesn't?
MPV has automatic native wayland support, VLC doesn’t (yet, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VLC_media_player#Wayland_support)
I haven’t found any other large differences in functionality when it comes to simply playing video (only thing I use either one for).
Both are comparable in terms of video playback (both use hardware acceleration and ffmpeg) but mpv's appeal is that it's ultimately a minimal (as in lack of apparent GUI) command line tool rather than a fully featured application like VLC. I like mpv because of it's non-features which is why it's the backend for a lot of Desktop environment video players.
I have MPV setup to play any YouTube link when I press ctrl cmd m with a YouTube video url in my clipboard.
For those who don’t know: Celluloid is a GTK4 frontend for MPV that mostly just makes it look neater.
I use Lollypop for music, well in reality i just use MPV for that too lol but i downloaded that "just in case"
How does Amberol hold up with libraries in the high thousands? So many nice looking music played keep struggling with my music folders.
Really makes me miss Winamp sometimes.
Amberol does hold up really well with high threshold music folders in my experience. I had a 24+ hours worth of music that loaded successfully in less than a minute.
Amberol has a "restore playlist" feature which loads your last playlist quickly.
Why not Audacious if you want something like Winamp?
Mpv is a good engine, but I prefer something like smplayer+mpv for all the extra functionality. I also like that VLC has tons of features, like full file/codec info and stats. I know there are other ways to get that info, but it's very easy in vlc.