The Apps That I Use (Most Available on Windows, Mac and Linux!)

recently I've had some viewers of the channnel ask me what are the programs that I use on a regular basis what are my most frequently used programs what applications does DT use all the time and I thought this would make a pretty cool video because most of these applications you guys have seen me use on camera some of these not so much so today I'm going to share with you 10 programs that I actually use on a daily basis or almost daily basis and all of these programs are going to be Gra iCal applications gooey apps with one exception I'm going to make one exception I have a reason for that when I get to it but today I'm going to share with you my 10 most frequently used applications so let me switch over to my desktop the first application people want to know about of course is the browser that I use and for those of you been following the channel for a while you guys know I love the brave browser for a variety of reasons partly due to the built-in ad block because I make YouTube videos and I'm often recording my desktop I need built-in ad block because I don't need especially multimedia ads playing when I'm recording my desktop because there could be copyright issues and things like that so I like having a browser that has that ad block built in I also really like uh just some of the Privacy features that are already baked into Brave I also like the fact that it's quite minimal there's not a lot going on as far as a whole bunch of toolbars and menus and things it's it's quite basic and I'm a basic guy people often ask me about the uh start page here in my Brave browser why do I have this weird looking start page that's you know not the standard Brave homepage well that's because I'm using an extension this extension is called tablist I actually made a video about tablist it is available as both a Chrome extension and a Firefox extension so you can pretty much use it on every web browser but if I go to uh the tabl extension in the Chrome Store you can see this is that customize tablist homepage here you you it's got a variety of settings so that is one my Brave homepage looks a little differently by the way when I did that search here in the URL bar for TBL list you guys notice it defaults to the brave search engine that's another thing I really love about Brave the company this privacy respecting search engine they've built the brave search engine is actually quite good I actually prefer Brave search over duck duck Goo uh especially Duck Duck Go because it uses Bing search results I found that duck duck goo is really pretty bad it's search results so by far the most used application on my Linux desktop is the brave browser probably the second most common program that I pull up on a regular basis is emac uh you guys see me use emac all the time on camera so emac is many people will say it's a text editor but emac is more than a text editor it is its own environment its own framework you can really think of emac as a way of setting custom key Bindings that should work universally across multiple applications as long as they're emac applications it's almost its own operating system it can be a file manager matter of fact I can go to the emac file manager there's the dear Ed file manager inside emac it can be a web browser if I wanted to uh do a meta X and go to eww for the browser and go to dr. tube which is my website you know I've got a web browser inside emac I want to read some R SS news feeds inside emac I can launch L feed inside emac and I can you know just start reading you know various news items here inside L feed I could listen to music inside emac I could do all kinds of things pretty much anything you can do on a computer you can get done inside emac but by far the most common thing I do on emac is actually edit text so even though it's not strictly a text editor that's probably what most people use it for for 99% of the time that's what I use emac mainly for as a text editor so probably the third most frequently used application on my computer would be the terminal so after the browser and after emac probably the most common program that I enter is a terminal now a terminal now a terminal is a gooey application but I do want to also stress that it's not just the terminal that's running it is also the shell that is running in the terminal and and of course this is the fish shell the fish shell is really nice because I can start typing something for example maybe I want to type some random said command I guess this was a said command that is in my history I don't know when I ran that thing but I get up Arrow I get a lot of history and if I start typing something uh here in the Shell maybe it's a a command that is not really a command for example maybe I want to launch the brave browser I could type b r a and you know it will autocomplete if I want it to but if I start typing something that doesn't make sense like b or VA a right you can see that command is red because that's not a real command if it was a real command the fish shell will turn it blue so you know these are you know I end up in a terminal all the time so alacrity along with the fish shell those are probably my third and fourth most frequently used applications now the next group of applications because I typically use these in conjunction are the applications that I use anytime I'm recording and making a video so number five on the list is OBS OBS is the program that I use to record all of my videos right now you guys are looking at the desktop on one of my computer monitors if I went ahead and open the brave browser on this Monitor and this is my far-left monitor but OBS is on the middle monitor I can record you know if I wanted to record what I was doing which is exactly what I'm doing right now I'm recording this video in OBS so OBS is really really cool has a lot of transition effects which this would normally be my camera but my camera is being taken up on a different instance of OBS right now but you guys have seen my transitions such as these patreon cards and end screens and and various things so OBS is probably one of the most popular pieces of free and open source software on the planet and it is the standard it is the defecto standard when it comes to uh recording video and streaming video OBS Fant fantastic so OBS is number five on the list of my most frequently used applications number six has to be Kaden live because after I use OBS to record a video the next step is to use Caden live to edit a video and I've already opened up one of my most recent projects that I've done something in here and if I scrub through the video you can see this effect that I had here as the dro tube logo slides onto the screen and you get some fading effects with the wipes here so these are compositions and effects you got a lot of different compositions and a lot of different effects here in Kaden live for a piece of free and open source software Kaden live is actually I think one of the best video editors on the planet I know a lot of professionals are going to say you know especially these days Da Vinci resolves kind of the standard in that field and of course a lot of people still use Adobe Premiere Pro but honestly you know as far as Freedom respecting software and also software that I don't have to pay a ridiculous yearly subscription to to you know like Adobe I I want no part of adobe subscriptions I want no part of adobe as a company and you know what it's Caden live as good as premere Pro I don't know I'll never know because I'll never use Premiere Pro but honestly Kaden live is is more than enough for what I do to create these fantastic videos on YouTube and odyssey and then number seven on the list has to be kind of goes along with Kaden live and with OBS because I record the videos OBS I edit the videos and Caden lime and then I create the thumbnails here in if I go to open recent here is a thumbnail for that video that I had just opened up in Kaden live this was the thumbnail I created here in y if I go to some other recent uh thumbnails here was the one for the uh Brave Leo Chad assistant that I did a video on a few days ago Y is one of the most popular pieces of free and open source software on the planet it's also available on Windows as well I was actually a user you know 20 years ago before I switched to Linux because is also available on Windows is essentially a free and open source alternative to proprietary Solutions like Adobe Photoshop and again I don't want to subscribe to I don't want to be held hostage by a evil corporation like ay I use for all the thumbnails Channel headers all the artwork for the channel everything you guys have ever seen on my channel as far as any kind of images and artwork was created with the number eight on the list I'm going to share with you my favorite multimedia player and that is VLC now I have several different multimedia players installed on my system as far as various audio players various video players but the thing I love about VLC it's free and open source software it's available on Windows Mac and Linux so it's crossplatform like most of the programs I've Shar today most of these are also available on Windows and Mac as well but the thing I love about VLC is it handles pretty much everything you throw at it as far as various multimedia codecs and formats audio formats video formats DVD Blu-ray uh streaming audio and video and one of the things I love about VLC from some of the work I do sometimes I record these videos using something like OBS for example and maybe I'm interviewing a guest you know maybe it's a collaborative video me and one other person and a lot of times I record my audio on one audio stream and their audio on a second audio stream that way I can adjust the levels easily and sometimes I want to I want to be able to just play one audio stream in a multimedia player and VC has this ability if I go to audio and it's not highlighted right now but there is this menu called audio track and if you go to audio track on a audio track that has multiple tracks you will see track one track two track three however many tracks and you can just select that track and only hear that track of audio and that is really nice I also use this sometimes in my music playing as far as you know playing the trumbone playing the recorder and things like that you guys know I am essentially a classical musician I was classically trained I actually have two music degrees I have a bachelor's and a master's in music performance and sometimes I play along with DVD accompaniment you know when I'm playing uh some of these instruments and sometimes these DVDs or CDs they will have an example of a soloist playing the actual solo part that I would of course be playing and then the accompanyment on a second track so you can actually have the CD play the entire piece you know that way you can listen to it and then go back and you can turn off one of the tracks that way it eliminates that soloist playing and then I can play along with it and be The Soloist so VLC a pretty damn cool piece of open- source software I love it number nine on my list of most frequently used programs now this is much more of a specialty item for me because honestly most people probably are not going to be playing around with virtual machines as much as I do because of the nature of my YouTube channel I'm constantly creating virtual machines showing off virtual machines for example this Debian 12 virtual machine if I want to go ahead and launch it let me go ahead and make it full screen you know I can boot into Debian so vert manager has been my uh virtual machine environment of Choice here in the last few years because vert manager uses KVM and qmu so what this does is it leverages the power of the Linux kernel meaning uh there are kernel modules built in virtual machine modules actually built into the Linux kernel to make your virtual machines a little bit more performant if you will and vert manager can leverage that power where other virtual machine uh Technologies something like virtual box which I have virtual box installed if I can type it correctly they are not KVM right so it does not leverage that the the kernel modules for VMS the way vert manager does but virtual box is a really neat program too virtual box is crossplatform so you can actually use Virtual box on Windows Mac and Linux so that is the advantage of virtual box where vert manager is Linux only but honestly if you're on Linux you probably want to be using vert manager because those virtual machines they just run better invert manager on Linux so number 10 on my list of most frequently used applications is tasty trade now tasty trade is proprietary software of course because all software in this category of brokerage software all of it's propri the entire financial industry is proprietary software but I have a brokerage account with tasty trade I use their desktop client here that we're looking at tasty trade I use it to trade stocks options and Futures and things like that so I am a regular day trader I get up in the morning and every day Monday through Friday every day that the stock market is open which is typically Monday through Friday and not counting federal holidays that are special days where the market is closed about 220 days out of the year I spent about an hour or so using this program typically when the Stock Market opens which is 8:30 Central Time here in the US until about 9:30 central time that first hour that the Market's open is typically the busiest hour and I typically spend that hour every day managing my positions I probably put on about 2500 different trades every year so I'm very active Trader I have three monitors for trading so typically this is what is seen on the middle monitor which is the main tasty trade window but I have some pop out windows that I'll have on a a separate monitor where I have for example this grid of charts where I'm monitoring what's happening with the S&P 500 the NASDAQ 100 the Russell 2000 as well as the vix futures I also have a watch list uh several watch lists that I can switch between here or I could just view uh the minute chart that's going on with a particular stock or ETF or future whatever it happens to be that I'm monitoring so tasty trade fantastic brokerage they also put out fantastic educational content about how to actually trade options that's really what they're designed for is trading options which is mostly what I do if I go to my history here and I actually do year-to date let's see how many trades I've actually made on the year let's see I have made 2,263 trades because how many rows of information so about 2200 trades and the year is not quite over with we've still got about what five or six weeks so I'll make my usual amount of Trades that 25 200 trades on the year which is about how many I made last year so again I I make a lot of options trades and tasty trade is in my opinion the best platform for this if you haven't checked out tasty trade or their content Network tasty live which does have a channel on YouTube check those guys out so there you have it my list of my 10 most frequently used applications and again these most frequently used applications they didn't include command line applications because if I had included things like the G new cord utils commands like LS and CD and things like that obviously I'm going to use them all the time but we didn't need to discuss that I also didn't discuss applications that I use all the time but they're they're nothing special like I open up my file manager every day my graphical file manager PC man FM is the one I have on this computer but it's like any other file manager it's it's no different than any other file manager so why talk about it it's it's nothing special same thing with my email client I use Mill Spring as a email client but is it really that much better than something like giri or Thunderbird or any other email client on Linux no it's just a email client so the list of applications I showed you the 10 I focused on today were applications that I think are special I think they stand out in their particular category now before I go I need to thank a few special people I need to thank the producers of this episode and of course I'm talking about Gabe James Matt Paul Steve West Armor Dragon Commander angry George Lee Matthew methos Nate uran Paul peace watch VOR reality peress red profit Roland Soul a tools Dev war genu and abun 2 and Willie these guys they're my high steered patrons over on patreon without these guys this quick little episode about my 10 most frequently used applications wouldn't have been possible the show's also brought to you by each and every one of these fine ladies and gentlemen all these names you're seeing on the screen right now these are all my supporters over on patreon because I don't have any corporate sponsors I'm sponsored by you guys 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