For most basic users I recommend using Gnome desktop environment
2- Softwares
Browser --> Firefox π (It's recommended to tweaks and the settings and use custom user.js (Explanations about user.js))
Librewolf β€οΈ (For an out-of-the-box great experience)
I've tried every FOSS QR scanner, and unfortunately, binary eye is total crap. They don't fully support all formats, and you need to get a near perfectly illuminated shot of the code. Also doesn't scan regular barcodes whatsoever.
Why do you have this bad impressions of binary eye? Its maybe not the most feature rich, but it's working perfectly for me. And I wouldn't suggest this app from the play store.. So I'm going to search a bit more and maybe find something interesting
Like I mentioned, I tried every available FOSS app (on f-droid that is, plus a bunch of github releases, many sadly abandoned), and none of them was able to scan all QR and barcodes I tested it with.
I think I had, but it was crashing when scanning regular barcodes, which I'm doing at work quite a bit since our ERP prints them for version control on our quality documents.
I've just tested it again and it seems to work, will be using them in parallel for a while. Thanks!