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Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by schaefer »

duhminick wrote: post #30
rietta wrote: post #28

I do my development work and run most of my agency (with multiple employees) with Linux. For some of the business things that most people don't assume Linux can do, I use: 1. Xournal to annotate PDFs (aka sign contracts without printing them and scanning them back). 2. LibreOffice of course for most document related work 3. OBS Studio for recording webcam videos along with screen sharing 4. Audacity for audio editing…

Could try out Blender for your video editing. It also appears that DaVinci Resolve has support for Linux.

Does anyone know of some modern blender tutorials aimed specifically at video editing?

if possible, including capturing footage form the screen (screen casts).

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by schaefer »

Brakenshire wrote: post #8
scep12 wrote: post #5

This is an awesome deck. I'll be bookmarking this as a great resource to pass along. Tangent: although the portability and consistency of PDFs is nice, I'd love a browser extension that gave me a nicer view of slides that were exported as a PDF. I find there's something more satisfying about discrete pagination vs continuous scroll for these types of things.

Are there any good parsers to convert pdf to html/epub? It would rely on the pdf being well structured.

Pandoc has worked for me.| it literally does everything.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by masnao »

Barrin92 wrote: post #69
new_realist wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This sort of sounds like a vegan/vegetarian telling me that the veggie chicken tenders taste a lot like regular chicken tenders.

this analogy works on a deeper level than you think because you can make some really great vegan meat replacements although the majority of people just stubbornly refuses to believe we're there yet

vegetarian meat (usualy from industrial satay, made with dissolved soy in whatever chemical bath) is what drives me away from pretty much every vegetarian/vegan place.

this is why opensource that is just a cargo cult to copying even the bad decisions of commercial software harms more than help.

id be fine tasting a nice indian meal made with vegetables. but instead I get gnome changing the side of the window close buttons (while at the same time removing the options dialog to change it back) just because the designer du jour liked copying osx instead of windows. it's fake-meat all over again.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by arminiusreturns »

rietta wrote: post #28

I do my development work and run most of my agency (with multiple employees) with Linux. For some of the business things that most people don't assume Linux can do, I use: 1. Xournal to annotate PDFs (aka sign contracts without printing them and scanning them back). 2. LibreOffice of course for most document related work 3. OBS Studio for recording webcam videos along with screen sharing 4. Audacity for audio editing…

For those asking about video editing, don't forget about Shotcut. I keep an eye on most gpl projects in github and I see consistent updates and communication from them, on top of it really advancing in features lately. Shout out to the shotcut team.

https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by rckoepke »

rietta wrote: post #28

I do my development work and run most of my agency (with multiple employees) with Linux. For some of the business things that most people don't assume Linux can do, I use: 1. Xournal to annotate PDFs (aka sign contracts without printing them and scanning them back). 2. LibreOffice of course for most document related work 3. OBS Studio for recording webcam videos along with screen sharing 4. Audacity for audio editing…

This feels off topic. I agree with these suggestions and appreciate the suggestion for Xournal, will look into that.

But TFA focused on fundamental command line tools and shells, not office productivity apps.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by asicsp »

nextos wrote: post #21

Nice slides. I missed him covering ripgrep and friends, which is very useful to avoid slower find-grep queries. Along with ripgrep, I think GNU Parallel (covered in the slides) and htop (briefly discussed) are great additions to any Unix development environment. The rest of the standard utilities have stood the test of time surprisingly well. But top is a bit wonky, xargs has many pitfalls and, as I said, ripgrep is…

I have a chapter on ripgrep [0], and I'm currently updating the book.

[0] https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnugrep_ripgrep

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by cookiecaper »

This is an awesome intro, thanks! Will definitely share.

I can't recommend fish-shell highly enough for anyone spending significant time in the CLI. It can't completely replace bash et al, but it's not really meant to. Just install it and give it a try and you'll get addicted pretty quickly.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by dav »

The main thing I miss from OS X is Droplr (pain free sharing of annotated screenshots) and Jumpcut (pastebuffer history tool). Can't find anything on Linux for either of those that works nearly as well. I can still go to an old Mac for occasional needs like Final Cut Pro but those are tools I used several/dozen of times every day before.

I'm on PopOS.

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