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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! sankara-salute

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[–] hottari@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Flatpak for all *possible installs of user apps. But if there's an app I respect most, it has to be MPV.

[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do you respect it the most, or why is it better than vlc?

[–] hottari@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Aside from the fact that I've used it long enough without encountering any breaking issues or bugs, it is very powerful and highly customizable.