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I made it to Linux! What is your must-have FOSS or Free Software for linux?

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Thank you so much, comrades! I am feeling pretty comfortable with linux mint, and now would like some suggestions for some absolutely necessary FOSS or free license software for the OS. So far I have the standard, Firefox, ThunderBird, LibreOffice, yada yada. Thank you again to everyone on the linux comm!

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Jacob@lemmy.sdf.org
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Another nice-to-have is KDE Connect, it connects your desktop with your phone to sync notifications, send files, control media playback, use as remote input, share clipboard, send commands, and more

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I’m not sure it will work with cinnamon.

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electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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I use it in Cinnamon.

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Good to know

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Jacob@lemmy.sdf.org
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It should work normally, there’s even cinnamon applets for controlling it from the panel

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