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- Parcelite clipboard history - very useful for various reasons. It's such a basic tool for me now I don't know how people live without one.
Not a tool, but for any shell work learning the readline key bindings is a good time saver: Ctrl+a/e/n/p/b/f. It's just so much more clunky using other keys
Shutter for screen shots
parsec for streaming a local windows box
I suggest: - AutoKey (key shortcuts) - Conky (desktop widgets) - lsyncd (syncing files)
lsync looks really good. Currently I was using rsync with a custom gulp script to mimic similar functionality.
I suggest: - AutoKey (key shortcuts) - Conky (desktop widgets) - lsyncd (syncing files)
I was using Conky for a todo list on my second monitor, then I added another more specific todo list called "weekdo", one for notes(like how to spell certain words that consistently stymie me). After growing to four lists, each a Conky instance, I wrote a more specific purpose displayer. That was worse on resources, but a rewrite incorporating all the lists into one process was an improvement, even on Conky.
But this is about Conky. Conky pretties up your desktop, displays useful information, and inspires you to take more control of your desktop. Long live Conky.
I'm also shamelessly addicted to guake (drop down terminal). I know there are more robust alternatives, but having grown up with Quake/CS, it just feels right.
From the website's description:
Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system.
I just copied some of the set-up from here[1]
[0] - https://orgmode.org/
My Ubuntu box (an Ubuntu-approved Dell tower IIRC) required constant attention and ultimately died after two years while my mid-2011 Mac Mini went through 4 major Mac OSX/MacOS versions and countless security patches without a single issue and all the company-provided MacBooks I've had since 2010 have been zero-maintenance.
Redshift for blue light filtering, although KDE now has that built-in.
zsh and the oh-my-zsh suite has been really helpful
A bunch of cli tools are nice. Ripgrep is a super fast grep tool that comes in handy for searching inside of files... can basically search your whole filesystem at lightspeed.
Switching back to Mac OS X is what really boosted my productivity as it allowed me to forget all about constant fiddling, broken drivers, breaking updates, inconsistent UX/UI, amateurish applications, etc. My Ubuntu box (an Ubuntu-approved Dell tower IIRC) required constant attention and ultimately died after two years while my mid-2011 Mac Mini went through 4 major Mac OSX/MacOS versions and countless security patch…
However, linux has improved over time for desktop use, and more things have moved to the web. So really I feel like I rarely leave the browser. And if I do, it is just to a text editor or IDE.
Having a lightweight setup eliminates a lot of problems. I try to install almost nothing, honestly.
The less you have installed, the less attack surface you have, the less updates you need, and the less chance for breakage.
Usually if something breaks in desktop linux for me, it is because I know I was doing something non-standard. Trying to use unstable packages, custom settings, etc.
Apple solves that problem by barely letting you do anything at all, thus removing the PEBKAC.
Switching back to Mac OS X is what really boosted my productivity as it allowed me to forget all about constant fiddling, broken drivers, breaking updates, inconsistent UX/UI, amateurish applications, etc. My Ubuntu box (an Ubuntu-approved Dell tower IIRC) required constant attention and ultimately died after two years while my mid-2011 Mac Mini went through 4 major Mac OSX/MacOS versions and countless security patch…
Osx breaks my dev environment at every update. there's just news on this site saying it dropped support for some nvidia card.
In the meantime, I've had the same debian install for 5 years, and zero trouble.