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Software > Video editing >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.avidemux.org/
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

I don’t really care about this, but I do use it occasionally to cut apart videos.

Quite straightforward to use for simple video editing and appending. It took me almost no time to learn.

Good for transcoding and merging audio into video.

  • I use avidemux_gtk

    • there is also avidemux2_cli



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LILO image

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.joonet.de/lilo/

A boot loader, generally considered less used and less featureful than GRUB.

Although I had used LILO quite a lot in the past, and was doing some interesting things with it, like having multiboots with DOS and rearranging partitions to hide some or change what was primary, I tend to not use a bootloader like that anymore. I expect a distribution to be magical regarding a boot loader.

  • LILO = Linux Loader
  • When LILO breaks, I use boot-repair.



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Software >

(on Wikipedia)
http://openscad.org/

The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller

In general, this is a wonderful program. A great editor, and it’s quite easy to use.

Unfortunately, it really is for programmers. While I can muddle through everything, I’m not a programmer so it’s extremely time consuming for me to make anything.

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Internet > Remote controlling software >

SSH being enabled is also known as having “shell access” enabled. It’s generally considered a risk for various reasons, most notably because runaway processes can be an issue.

  • Secure Shell

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SpaceFM-logo cropped

Software > File managers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/IgnorantGuru/spacefm
http://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/

The current god of file managers.

It’s bloody amazing, and does so much “just right”. I can tell that the author has his head on straight. It ought to be the default in every Linux distribution which uses GTK+.



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