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Check out Spectacle, another screenshot tool. It can be opened by hitting the PrtSc button. I have Shutter too but ended up preferring Spectacle.

I liked slimjet but had read that it was made by the Chinese. I just did a web search for slimjet + china and got zilch so I don’t know ... google hiding that?

Only other thing in the way of email clients somewhat like outlook is kmail as well as accompanying PIM(personal information management) programs but to get kmail plus another 4-7 accompanying would probably require the whole KDE package which is quite large. Kontact is actually the mother program of the suite.

> Kontact is the integrated Personal Information Manager of KDE, but can be used with other systems as well.
> It supports email, address books, calendars, tasks, news feeds and much more.

> These programs together form Kontact:

> Akregator - Read your favorite feeds
> KAddressBook - Manage your contacts
> KMail - Mail client
> KNotes - Sticky notes for your Desktop
> KOrganizer - Calendar and scheduling, Journal
> Summary - Summary screen in Kontact
> KJots - Your ideas organized in a Notebook

https://userbase.kde.org/Kontact

KAddressBook, KMAil and KOrganizer are the three that would equate to Outlook. IIRC, KNotes and KJots are kinda hokey. In fact the entire bundle was a little buggy last time I used it but it might depend on the desktop that’s being used. Caveat of linux/ubuntu.

The KDE people are ‘supposed’ to be revamping all their applications and Kontact is ‘supposed’ to be a priority but it’s open source so all that stuff takes time. Volunteer work tends to be that way and I don’t think they’ve done much monetization to support things. (and to name all the programs starting with a K is just Kgoofy)

Just realized that since I’m running Mint KDE, I have Kontact/Kmail etc installed. I’ll have to go through it and see if it’s improved. Seems like I couldn’t get it to connect to certain email accounts now that I think of it(and opened the prog).

Just decided to check for a calendar program and actually found Lightning, a calendar extension for thunderbird. I found it in synaptic which is sort of like Software Center/Manager but with fuller, albeit techie, results. The real name is xul-ext-lightning and short description, Calendar Extension for Thunderbird. Ah. I see it in Software Manager too by searching for “lightning”.

Just installed. It adds Events & Tasks to the menu bar and clicking on that shows Calendar menu item, that opens the a calendar in a new tab. cool

You can get themes for thunderbird too, just like firefox since it’s also made by mozilla.

So Kontact if it works for you or Lightning extension and maybe a theme for thunderbird. Pretty much it.

It’s either LibreOffice or OpenOffice, both of which are completely MS Office compatible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice

Now of course the question is, when/if you upgrade from 18.3 to something newer, will networking break?

Take care and congrats