[Hackers]

I use Linux every day on CLI and via SSH or WSL but I don’t use it as my personal OS as often,

What are the best picks for GUI software for the following?

FTP
SSH / Putty
Web browser
Torrents
IDE
Video editing
Audio editing
Adobe or equivalents ?

Any other types of recommendations are helpful. I just use CLI with apt packages mostly and grab the repos for anything I need… just not sure about GUI on Linux.

[Bastille]

That's a really good thing to think about moving to Linux. Since I'm using it as my daily OS I've learned a lot.

These are my recommendations from my experience :

FTP : FileZilla
SSH / Putty : Putty / MobaXterm / Remmina (ssh)
Web browser : I love Firefox, otherwise Brave for anonymity ?
Torrents : Qbittorrent
IDE : VSCode (but I'm not an advanced coder)
Video editing : KDEnlive
Audio editing : Audacity ?
Adobe or equivalents : GIMP for Photoshop / Inkscape for Illustrator / Davinci Resolve for Video / Color

[Klonopin]

Torrent: QBittorrent
SFTP/SSH/SCP: Putty and normal commands
Editor: Visual Studio Code or nvim
Browser: Librewolf or Firefox (Firefox can be hardened really easily) here's a guide
GFX: Gimp is very nice.

[Hackers]

That's a really good thing to think about moving to Linux. Since I'm using it as my daily OS I've learned a lot.

These are my recommendations from my experience :

FTP : FileZilla
SSH / Putty : Putty / MobaXterm / Remmina (ssh)
Web browser : I love Firefox, otherwise Brave for anonymity ?
Torrents : Qbittorrent
IDE : VSCode (but I'm not an advanced coder)
Video editing : KDEnlive
Audio editing : Audacity ?
Adobe or equivalents : GIMP for Photoshop / Inkscape for Illustrator / Davinci Resolve for Video / Color

Torrent: QBittorrent
SFTP/SSH/SCP: Putty and normal commands
Editor: Visual Studio Code or nvim
Browser: Librewolf or Firefox (Firefox can be hardened really easily) here's a guide
GFX: Gimp is very nice.

Great answers…
Sounds like much of the GUI Linux options are my same picks for Windows. That’s good to hear

This makes me feel much better about considering a full Linux rig for part of my setup. I’m adding a new machine and wanted to go with Mac but what I really need is Unix/similar - sounds like Linux distros have more than I thought. Been years now since I really used GUI Linux. Truly just daily CLI server work for me there.

I think you guys both gave me my answer. No need for a Mac, I can just refactor this PC

[Infinity.]

Screen Recording and Live Streaming - OBS Studio

FTP: Ranger file manager with curlftpfs

IDE? More like text editor neovim

SSH: ?? why?

Audio: Audacity

Adobe Photoshop --> GIMP

[Yani]

Don't be scared to just jump right into it. For me it felt different in the beginning and I had to google around sometimes, but after a while it becomes just as easy as Windows. For many things even much easier.

FTP : The default file browser (Gnome Files) for most such things as it supports FTP. (I think the default KDE one also has it). FileZilla just in case.
SSH / Putty : PortX. But personally I started just using the terminal and write 'ssh [email protected]'. (I have aliases for my common servers)
Web browser : LibreWolf (With a bit less strict settings)
Torrents : QBittorrent
IDE : VSCode. (I also use Qt Creator)
Video editing : I guess Kdenlive (but I have almost no experience with it so can't compare it)
Audio editing : Tenacity. It's an Audacity fork without tracking. I don't use anything more advanced.
Adobe or equivalents : GIMP, Inkscape, but also PhotoPea.com because I actually think it's a decent webapp that is easier to use than GIMP.

(I stole the markdown from Bastille, hihi)

Some others I think are worth mentioning:
- LibreOffice
- Vesktop (custom Discord client with Vencord. They even had Wayland screensharing for a long time before Discord finally added it)
- Thunderbird for mail
- PulseAudio volume control
- OpenSnitch (GUI firewall with popups asking if you want to allow connections. It has a little bit of a learning curve)
- DBeaver CE for database stuff
- VirtualBox
- Flatseal for managing flatpaks
- Nicotine+ (SoulSeek client)
- Piper (for logitech mouse profiles)
- Lutris (makes it much easier to play Windows games that are not on Steam)

If you end up using Gnome (desktop manager):
- ArcMenu (start menu like windows)
- Dash to Panel (taskbar like windows)
- Gnome Tweaks

There's a lot more, but those are the GUI ones I recommend.