essentialsoftware.md: add YouTube clients under flatpaks

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- [Flatpakked Steam for the flatpak-unaware](#flatpakked-steam-for-the-flatpak-unaware)
- [General purpose](#general-purpose)
- [Office](#office)
- [YouTube](#youtube)
- [Snaps](#snaps)
- [Discord rich presence ipc socket](#discord-rich-presence-ipc-socket)
- [Other essential atomic/kinoite/flatpak/gayming reading](#other-essential-atomickinoiteflatpakgayming-reading)
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- LibreOffice is world-famous office suite
- Voikko is Finnish spellchecking support for it
#### YouTube
A too popular video/streaming service with ads rampant and Google fighting
adblockers. When sharing devices and not wanting to log in (I am paying for
YouTube Music Premium), a desktop client is starting to be more practical and
these show promise to my eyes:
```bash
sudo flatpak install --assumeyes flathub jp.nonbili.noutube org.kde.audiotube org.kde.plasmatube rocks.shy.VacuumTube
```
- `NouTube` is a wrapper for both YouTube and YouTube Music including adblocking
and not requiring login.
- `AudioTube and PlasmaTube` are KDE desktop clients for both services, however
the latter requires a Invidious or Piped instance so it has a bit of technical
setup. It also functions as a PeerTube client though.
- `VacuumTube` is YouTube TV client with adblocking and controller support and
may be practical for bigger screens or Steam Deck that is always connected to
TV.
### Snaps
I heavily prefer flatpaks since they allow multiple simultaneous repositories as