- Start words
- Antivirus software
- Ubuntu workspace
- Screen sharing and remote desktop
- Terminal window and text editor
- File and system backup recovery
- E-mail software
- Run Windows applications
- Disk Management
- Power Management
- Office software
- DVD burning software
- Image file writing software
- Communication software
- Browser
- application launcher
- Art and photo management software
- 3D drawing and animation
- 3D CAD/CAE software
- EDA software
- Video editing software
- FTP software
- VOIP software
- Video conference and web meeting
- Team communication platform
- Media Player
- Listen to music and Podcast/Audio editing
- Cloud Drive
- Multilingual support
- Game
- Screenshot software
- Wi-Fi/Bluetooth
- Print and File Share
- IP Camera viewer
- Live streaming and recording software
- Screen saver control software
- Multimedia creation
- VPN
- Software development
- Application Package format
- Network management tools
- Virtual machine and container
- Web editor
- OpenGL 3D graphics performance
- ERP/accounting software
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Conclusion
Install antivirus software?

Plank - Application Pinning Dock

For those who have used a MacBook, the Dock pinned by frequently used applications will be a familiar mode of operation. When the cursor is moved to the icon, it will naturally be enlarged. At this point you can be sure to open the application. The position and behavior of the Dock can be adjusted. It's not a problem to have it auto-hide. I personally feel that it helps to improve work efficiency to a certain extent. Just execute the following command when installing Ubuntu Desktop.
sudo apt install plank


Screen sharing and remote desktop
Of course, some people are still accustomed to using teamviewer to connect to the desktop, this is not a problem.
Terminal window and text editor





System backup and recovery
E-mail
Ubuntu Desktop use thunderbird or Mailspring. If the company uses Exchange Server, you can also use Hiri or typeApp's ActiveSync to send and receive messages. Ubuntu Desktop supports various cloud mailbox services such as Gmail or Office 365. But in fact, we like to use Zimbra Webmail, you can send and receive messages with a browser, you don't need to use mail client software, and you can use it across different devices.





Run windows application
Also use playonlinux to install some Windows programs on Ubuntu. Basically playonlinux allows you to easily manage and install these Windows programs, but playonlinux does not guarantee that every Windows program can be successfully installed. I recommend using more alternatives to replace the usual Windows programs on Ubuntu Desktop, it may be a better experience!
Disk Management


sudo apt-get install smartmontools
sudo smartctl -t short -a /dev/nvme0n1
sudo apt install tlp
Slimbook Battery installation
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:slimbook/slimbook
sudo apt update
sudo apt install slimbookbattery



Office software
DVD burning software


Image file writing software
Communication software

Browser

Brave is a free and open source web browser based on the Chromium web browser and its Blink layout engine, announced by Brandon Ike, co-founder of the Mozilla Project and creator of JavaScript. It claims to block website trackers and remove intrusive web ads. The browser also claims to improve online privacy by sharing less data with advertisers. If you have old computer hardware or insufficient internet bandwidth, I highly recommend using Brave instead of other browsers, because on a computer with very limited resources, too many intrusive ads and website trackers can significantly slow down browsing speed , using Brave can save you a lot of time. In addition, if you don't want to share too much information with advertising companies, using Brave can greatly improve your online privacy.

To install Brave on Ubuntu Desktop just use a snap install.
sudo snap install brave

ULauncher quickly open the application
Art software
Art software commonly used in Ubuntu Desktop is GIMP (an alternative to photoshop) and Inkscape (an alternative to coreldraw). For ordinary beginners, GIMP and Inkscape are sufficient. Of course, the design logic of each set of software is different. Using alternative software ,you have to change your mind. If you must use the software with the previous thinking, it may not work in many places, causing the software conversion to fail.



3D drawing and animation
3D CAD/CAE software





Video editing software

FTP software


VoIP software
Video conference and web meeting
A commonly used web meeting software, Zoom, is also supported by Ubuntu. Although the version written on the official website is 16.04 LTS, it can be used in the 20.04 LTS version.





curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teams.list
sudo apt update sudo apt install teams


Media player
sudo flatpak install flathub com.github.rafostar.Clapper
Listen to music and Podcast





Cloud drive
For people who are accustomed to using cloud drives for file backup, Ubuntu Desktop can also support it very well. For example, I use Google Drive more often because there is nearly 15GB of free space available. The setting is also quite simple, as long as you select Google to log in in the online account settings, you can synchronize Google's services to your desktop, including the cloud drive. After syncing, you can find your Google Drive data in your folder. All changes in the folder will be synchronized to the cloud. If you need to read Google Drive directly from the Linux file system, then you also need to install a software google-drive-ocamlfuse. In addition, commonly used cloud drives such as Dropbox are also supported. After installation, a Dropbox directory will be created in your home directory, so you can directly access the cloud drive on your desktop.
Multilingual supportFor people who work in different languages, it is a great thing to be able to switch between different language interfaces on a single desktop.Ubuntu Desktop has built-in languages from all over the world. Even if you select a single language such as Traditional Chinese at the beginning of the installation, you can add other languages such as Simplified Chinese or Japanese to the settings afterwards. When switching languages, just log out and log in to complete the switch. Unlike Windows, which requires a complete reboot, it saves a lot of time.



Screenshot software


In addition, sometimes I want to use my laptop to connect to the bluetooth speaker to listen to music, just turn on the bluetooth search device. If you need a better sound quality microphone for podcasts or OBS for live streaming, it is recommended to use the Razer Seiren X microphone, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS can find the hardware immediately, and the sound quality of input and output (through headphones) is good


Print Share
Although the company's pace of digitization is accelerating, the need for printing still exists. Just like the current fax machine, even though email is very popular, it still needs to be faxed or printed occasionally. Ubuntu does a pretty good job of supporting printers. Some usb printers even plug and play, saving a lot of time. For people who often use Ubuntu Desktop for word processing, good printing support is still helpful.
In addition, printer sharing is the same. As long as Ubuntu Desktop releases a shared printer connected to this system, other people, whether using Windows or Ubuntu Desktop, can easily find this printer and add it to use.
In addition, printer sharing is the same. As long as Ubuntu Desktop releases a shared printer connected to this system, other people, whether using Windows or Ubuntu Desktop, can easily find this printer and add it to use.

Caffeine screen saver control software



VPN

Application package formatFor more and more Linux Desktop applications, it is very important to be able to develop an application and then run it on all Desktop versions. The commonly used application packaging formats in Ubuntu Desktop are snap and flatpak. Both of these use container technology and a central library for cross-version support and automatic updates of programs. So you don't have to worry about the application cannot be executed after the system is upgraded. The program can also be automatically updated to maintain the best condition. Compared with the Windows operating system, XP/Win7/Win10 applications are incompatible, causing many people to stay on Win7 for a long time and do not want to upgrade to Win10. Is the Linux desktop version more advanced now?



sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install obs-studio



Virtual machine and Container
You can install VirtualBox on Ubuntu Desktop to run any operating system you want. Or you want to run Docker containers on VM directly, that's not a problem. For example, some programs must operate under Win10. You can choose to install Win10 in VirtualBox.
QEMU/KVM
In addition to VirtualBox, you can also use QEMU/KVM to run virtual machines on Ubuntu Desktop. QEMU is an emulator and uses KVM and Intel VT-x and AMD -v to achieve computing speed close to the actual host. But by default, you need to use command management to manage KVM virtual machines. You need skilled commands to manage virtual machines, but you can install Virt-Manager (Virtual Machine Manager) on KVM to achieve graphical interface management. I personally think that QEMU/KVM is better than Virtualbox in terms of execution speed and function. You can also remotely manage virtual machines across machines, or let virtual machines start together with the host computer (suitable for environments that double as servers). Here are the instructions on how to install the KVM management interface:

sudo apt update sudo apt install qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients bridge-utils
Then install the management interface Virt-Manager, after rebooting, you can run the virtual machine administrator
sudo apt install virt-manager sudo reboot


Web editor
can install the Bluegriffon program on Ubuntu Desktop. The other set is Brackets published by Adobe, which supports rich web editing tools, but this open source software will soon be discontinued. It may be that the sellers of licensed software vendors are not interested in the open source service model. But open source is open source, and interested developers will develop it very well.



OpenGL 3D graphics performance
ERP/accounting software
At present, many ERP and accounting software are already web-based, and there will be no problems in use if the operating system platform is replaced. We ourselves use the open source Odoo ERP.





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