Apple refugee here, please Linux Wizards can you share some of your knowledge?

Audio Player Media Player Music Player

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elementary OS

A fast and open replacement for Windows and macOS. Pay what you want or download for free.
Pricing:
- Open Source
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Fusuma Landing Page
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Fusuma

Build presentations easily using Markdown
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- Open Source
Fusuma allows macOS like gestures for trackpads. My laptop does not support 4 finger gestures but two and three finger work fine. You can find the script for macOS like fusuma config here. It can be run in daemon mode, which can let you run it at startup.

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Simplenote

The simplest way to keep notes. Light, clean, and free. Simplenote is now available for iOS, Android, Mac, and the web.
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I think simple note is a good note taking app. It looks simple and syncs with an account. https://simplenote.com/.

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FLATHUB

Apps for Linux, right here
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- Open Source
In general, all distros are secure enough, and many have an encryption option available during installation. As for GUI's, there are multiple to choose from, but since you're coming from macOS, I'd recommend elementaryOS which has it's own UI called Pantheon which resembles the look and feel of a Mac yet its minimalist and different underneath. Also it needs a bit of tweaking for ease of use such as sideloading a flatpakref file(a reference file for installing an app using the Flatpak package management method, can be done using the flathub.org website which is the official one) so that apps can be displayed inside its app store called AppCenter. For more core files, you can use the Synaptic GUI given elementary is based on Ubuntu, it can be installed using sudo apt install synaptic in basically any Debian/Ubuntu based OS.

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MPV

MPV is an audio and movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2.
Pricing:
- Open Source
If you're only playing videos with it, also check out Celluloid which uses mpv as a backend. For many users, including myself, they have switched-off of VLC in favor of mpv.

#Audio Player #Media Player #Video Player 227 social mentions
Celluloid Landing Page
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Celluloid

Celluloid (formerly GNOME MPV) is a simple GTK+ frontend for mpv. Celluloid interacts with mpv via the client API exported by libmpv, allowing access to mpv's powerful playback capabilities.
Pricing:
- Open Source
If you're only playing videos with it, also check out Celluloid which uses mpv as a backend. For many users, including myself, they have switched-off of VLC in favor of mpv.

#Audio Player #Media Player #Music Player 11 social mentions