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Episode: 2738
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Title: HPR2738: My Applications
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2738/hpr2738.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 16:02:25
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This is HPR episode 2,738 entitled, My Applications.
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It is hosted by Tony Hume K810H1212 and is about 4 minutes long, and Karima Clean Flag.
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The summary is just a short show on the application I own on my Linux Mintbox.
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Hi again, this is Tony Hughes from Blackpull in the UK.
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I'm still short of shows, so here's another quick one to help out with the queue.
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This one's going to be about the applications I use on my Linux Mint 19.1 install.
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I've been using Linux for over 10 years now, and during that time I've never felt that there was anything particularly lacking in the software department for day-to-day productivity and general day-to-day use.
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So this is just a list of some of the things that I suspect most computer users need to make electronic life a reality.
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So for internet browsing I use Firefox.
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I've been using this since my Windows XP days, and it was just natural that as it's the default web browser in Linux Mint, this is what I would continue to use when I moved over to Linux.
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I occasionally use Chrome, but for most part Firefox is what I continue to use, and it works for me.
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Email wise, I've got several web-based accounts.
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This means that they're particularly operating system agnostic.
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I can access them from whatever computer I'm using.
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But for the ISP I use, they provide me with account, and I use Thunderbird for accessing and downloading to store my emails offline on the desktop PC.
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I can also use this to access web-based accounts if I want to and store those emails offline when needed, but I don't necessarily always do that.
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Office productivity wise, this is provided with Libra Office, which is a very mature and comprehensive office suite, comprising of all the main tools needed, such as a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software.
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It also has a database and drawing package, and for math geeks, an advanced math formula creating program, which I'd never use personally, but could be very useful for students and scientists.
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As far as audio and video play back, again, I've been using VLC, which is a native programming Linux Mint, but it was also something I started using back in the Windows days.
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It works with all the audio and video codecs that you can throw at it.
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If you have the Lib DVD CSS codecs, you can use and play DVDs that you've bought.
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For recording shows and editing audio, I use Audacity, which again is a cross-platform program, and it's a very powerful piece of software, as myself and many others can attest to.
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I've been using it quite considerably in recording and editing HPR shows, but recently I've been recording and using it to edit the Mint Cast podcast, which I've got involved with.
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That's a great piece of software to use.
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Anyway, that's the end of a short list of some of the programs I use on a day-to-day basis on my PC, and I hope you found it useful.
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If not, it doesn't really matter because Ken's still got a show out of me, so that's it for this one. This is Tony Hughes signing off HPR, and I'll see you down the road.
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Again, bye!
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