The application starts up almost instantaneously, and unlike other more veteran RSS readers like Akaregator, updating the channels is done with surprising speed. Likewise, we can catalog the type of content we are reading through predefined tags, or we can create our own from the application options, which I repeat, brings a lot. QuiteRSS also offers the possibility of exporting our subscriptions or backing up all its content in a folder that we can freely choose. By the way, for those who do not know if we are using Feedly, we can export our sources by accessing the link. Well, like any other application of its kind, RemoveRSS allows us to add channels to which we want to subscribe, or import from an.
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We can also open the news in tabs, and in the lower right, we can choose three options: AdBlock, Auto-load images and full screen mode. Selecting Local RSS presents a list of RSS feeds you may be interested in such as Planet GNOME and Planet KDE.įeedReader does allow you to have categories such as News, Games and so on but you are not allowed to have sub-categories.In addition, all the bars can be customized and we can change the style of the application to adapt it to the graphic engine of our system. The first thing FeedReader is to prompt you with the question "Where are your feeds" and a list of botnet RSS services such as Feedbin and DecSync. It follows the GNOME UI guidelines of being "user-friendly" by having very few options. These exist but aren't really worth consideration.įeedReader is a RSS reader which follows the latest GNOME design guidelines. While Akregator would be a great choice if it didn't crash all the time it's not because it does. All in all that's irrelevant: You want a news feed reader which doesn't crash. It is not stable on Fedora either but the crash problems on that distributions are less frequent. It appears to be specially prone to crashing on Ubuntu. Akregator as of version 5.10.3 is not stable and crashes frequently during normal use. It would be a better program than Liferea if it did not crash all the time. What did they mean by this?Īkregator is, in theory, a really good RSS reader. Ubuntu does not have this plugin or any plugin support for it at all. Enabling it causes it to crash as of version 5.10.2 on FC30. Akregator has, in theory, a adblocking plugin which can be enabled. If you're fine with black on light gray then Lifera is for you.Īkregator is built on the KDE framework and can be used as an integrated part of the "personal information management" application Kontact. You can customize this area in QuiteRSS - but you don't really need to since it and every other reader for that matter defaults to a white background. There is no configuration option to change this to another color such as white. The biggest downside to using Liferea is the gray background in the newsfeed content area. The features it has is largely the same as QuiteRSS apart from that. You can organize them in categories and sub-categories with ease. Liferea is easy to use and it's easy to add and manage feeds. Liferea' is a fast and strait-forward RSS feed reader based on GTK+. Unless, of course, you are using Fedora in which case your out-of-the-box experience will be 0/10 - unless you bite the bullet and compile QuiteRSS yourself. Supports organizing your feeds in categories and subcategories.
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Installing QuiteRSS with dnf -y install quiterss on Fedora 30 installs a program which outputs this informative text when executed:Īpt-get install quiterss pulls 122 MB of mostly QT5 dependencies and installs a full working version on Ubuntu-Disco-Dingo. The best RSS reader for GNU/Linux desktops is. It is very useful if you are into live-streaming that kind of thing it's not very useful as a newsreader.
It is not a traditional RSS reader, rather Tickr shows an overlay with a single line of news headlines scrolling across your desktop.
One alternative which really stands out in it's functionality is Tickr. AmphetaDesk also exists but it hasn't been updated since 2002. Alduin is built on the node.js/electron platform is kind-of a desktop program. Then there's FeedReader and RSS Guard.Īdditionally there's webserver-based RSS readers like Tiny Tiny RS, selfoss and Nextcloud News. The most mature desktop RSS readers are QuiteRSS built on Qt, Akregator built in the KDE libraries and Liferea built in GTK+.