The DL Triforce brings to your our Must Have Linux Apps, the applications and software we can’t live without. We discuss the latest big GNOME release with GNOME 3.38. In the Gaming section this week we reveal our new DLN Xonotic Server and show you a way to get some table-top gaming back in action on Linux. Later in the show we’ll give you our popular tips/tricks and software picks. Plus so much more, coming up right now on Destination Linux.
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Ryan’s Must Have Apps
| OBS Studio | Audacity | CodiMD | Standard Notes |
| Pycharm Suite | Firefox | Steam | Lutris |
| Telegram | OnlyOffice | Bitwarden | Thunderbird |
| AppImage Launcher | PopShell | PIA VPN |
Noah’s Must Have Apps
| Kate | Sublime Text | Thunderbird | Xiphos |
| Firefox | Terminator | QMMP | VLC |
| Remmina | Virt-Manager | Element | Telegram |
| OBS Studio | Inkscape | Audacity | Bitwarden |
| CodiMD | EasyAppointments | NextCloud | Seafile |
| osTicket |
Michael’s Must Have Apps
| OBS Studio | Kdenlive | Bitwarden | Firefox |
| Super Productivity | Sublime Text | MPV | KDE Connect |
| CodiMD | Zoom | Joplin | Thunderbird |
| Telegram | Lossless Cut | FileZilla | MintStick |
Segment Index
- 00:00 = Coming up on DL191
- 00:34 = New Intro Music (thoughts?)
- 00:42 = Welcome to Destination Linux!
- 00:58 = What Noah has been up to
- 04:14 = What Michael has been up to
- 06:44 = DLN News: Sudo Show Live Q&A Event
- 07:17 = What Ryan has been up to
- 07:49 = Discussion on Netflix’s The Social Dilemma
- 12:32 = Digital Ocean – VPS / Cloud Hosting ( https://do.co/dln )
- 14:01 = Community Feedback: FISH as default instead of Bash / ZSH from Tracey
- 17:05 = News: GNOME 3.38 Released
- 21:58 = Security Advisory: Don’t Trust Public WiFis
- 23:13 = Bitwarden – Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln )
- 24:12 = Our Must Have Linux Apps
- 43:32 = Gaming: DLN Xonotic Server!
- 44:20 = Gaming: Fantasy Grounds Unity
- 47:36 = Tip of the Week: /opt
- 51:10 = Software Spotlight: Bandwhich
- 52:45 = Become a Patron to Join the Patron Post Show
- 53:34 = DLN Merch at DLNStore.com
- 54:14 = Join The DLN Community
- 54:53 = Go To DestinationLinux.Network
- 55:08 = The Journey Itself . . .
- 55:18 = Explaining Who Ted Is
Weapons grade preview image. +1, look forward to watching.
Excellent episode as always! I was really glad to hear shout outs for some good software that I don’t hear much about on Linux podcasts like Standard Notes and MPV. As far as the /opt and /usr discussion goes, /usr is /UnixSystemResources and not /User if I remember correctly so, that might shed some light on the conflicting information Ryan had on what goes where in the file system…Though maybe not for the developer
You got me. I will try out Standard Notes. It is time to use an encrypted service.
You guys mentioned Fantasy Grounds Unity. There’s also FoundryVTT (https://foundryvtt.com/). It’s what my group uses now. It’s a one time purchase and completely DRM free. You simply run the server (on Linux naturally
) and players connect to it in their browser.
There’s also the Open Source MapTools (MapTool | RPTools). It has the best mapping system of all the options but is weak in just about every other element.
I purchased Fantasy Grounds pre Unity for $150 after asking the devs how much the upgrade would cost on release. They said a nominal fee of $10-$20. It’s actually $90. It might be petty but I feel a little slighted by them.
FoundryVTT is nice and has made strides in the D&D community to integrate some real professional looking modules, maps and map assets. It suffers from a tiny dev team which, if it wasn’t so cheap, would scare me off.
Fantasy Grounds held some aggressive sales that were imho poorly timed before the reveal of Fantasy Grounds Unity which just so happens to not be covered under the lifetime licenses. It’s a great app but that left a bad taste in my mouth.
Im still looking for a competent open source VTT that is web based.
Edit
To echo a sentiment from a recent DL episode: I would be willing to pay actual hundreds of dollars for a self-hostable, free and open source, web based VTT, which has a client for mobile tablet devices.
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