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What's your favorite Linux Desktop software? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me, it's hands down Flameshot. The best screenshot tool in the world - I've got it hooked up to my PrtScrn key for super easy screenshots.

I also love Kwrite as a Notepad++ alternative, and KolourPaint as a MSPaint alternative

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Excuse my silly question, but what does mpv do that vlc doesn't?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

MPV has automatic native wayland support, VLC doesn’t (yet, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VLC_media_player#Wayland_support)

I haven’t found any other large differences in functionality when it comes to simply playing video (only thing I use either one for).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

VLC is also less accurate to the source than mpv is.

See the notice on this wiki that contains some comparisons.

I don't know the full details but this is a quote I have seen from reddit about VLC:

uses wrong matrix for RGB conversion (results in wrong colors)

uses point upscaling for chroma planes

introduces strong banding

wrong chroma location (MPEG-1 for everything)

Old subtitle renderer that in more Typesetting heavy situation will say fuck you

all the other bugs (including some that haven't been fixed in years) make it equally unsuitable media player.

It is probably possible to get things in order by digging into the settings in VLC, but mpv prioritizes accuracy by default.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me I got mad at VLC cause it was opening video track in separate window for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

MPV handles decoding much better than VLC, in my experience trying to watch fansubs

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Both are comparable in terms of video playback (both use hardware acceleration and ffmpeg) but mpv's appeal is that it's ultimately a minimal (as in lack of apparent GUI) command line tool rather than a fully featured application like VLC. I like mpv because of it's non-features which is why it's the backend for a lot of Desktop environment video players.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you want minimalism I advise you to use a tiling window manager instead of Gnome. If you want Wayland absolutely, use Hyprland.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use POP!_OS right now so I'm waiting for System76 to release their cosmic-epoch to have the definitive non-GNOME/KDE wayland desktop environment.