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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 everybodyknows »

locate is not mentioned -- two orders of magnitude faster than find for searches from '/' on my laptop, e.g.

  find / -name \*bashrc\*

  locate bashrc
Faster because reading from a single binary cache file, updated nightly, rather than opening every directory inode under /. To force an immediate synchronous update of the cache:

  sudo updatedb

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by dav »

brightball wrote: post #90
dav wrote: post #80

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.

Have you tried Flameshot for screenshots?

I had not, just installed it though and it looks fantastic, thanks! The best I'd found previously was a no-annotation script that failed most of the time with a vague "something went wrong" error.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by Erlich_Bachman »

gitgud wrote: post #45
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…

1. "Xournal" is amazing, small install footprint, simple interface and can do everything you need with pdf's. 5. You should try [1] "Kdenlive", it has it's quirks (as all linux tools do) but it's probably the best open-source Linux video editor out there. [1] https://kdenlive.org/en/

"Quirks" is an understatement. Last I checked, you couldn't even have multiple timelines in the same project, every bit of editing had to be in the one same timeline.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by Erlich_Bachman »

coronadisaster wrote: post #59
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…

> 5. Technically I've tried video editing with OpenShot, but do find myself back at Final Cut Pro X on my now 6 year old Macbook Pro for that for now I wish that there was a better video editing alternative for a non-mac... Openshot and the others I tried crash too much (Openshot crashed for me today while trying to do simple trim)

Have you tried Davinci Resolve? It is one of the top 3 video editing suites, and it actually even runs on Linux native! It is even supported on redhat (but works on others too). Very stable as well (unlike Adobe's jokes).

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by yewenjie »

everybodyknows wrote: post #91

locate is not mentioned -- two orders of magnitude faster than find for searches from '/' on my laptop, e.g. find / -name \*bashrc\* locate bashrc Faster because reading from a single binary cache file, updated nightly, rather than opening every directory inode under /. To force an immediate synchronous update of the cache: sudo updatedb

There is also `fd` [1] which is written in Rust and very fast alternative to `find` with a simpler syntax.

1. https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by semi-extrinsic »

gitgud wrote: post #45
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…

1. "Xournal" is amazing, small install footprint, simple interface and can do everything you need with pdf's. 5. You should try [1] "Kdenlive", it has it's quirks (as all linux tools do) but it's probably the best open-source Linux video editor out there. [1] https://kdenlive.org/en/

For video editing, Blender is the best FOSS tool I've tried.

But you now get Davinci Resolve for free on Linux. It blows the FOSS competition out of the water, being a software with probably millions of dev hours funded by Hollywood studios behind it. Blackmagic decided to go the way of providing the basic tool for free in order to build user base amongst hobby video editors, and it's not a bad move IMO.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by atsider »

schaefer wrote: post #71
duhminick wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

This us a great addon I discovered recently, but nevertheless they have an introductory video about the Blender editor: https://github.com/GDQuest/blender-power-sequencer/blob/1.5....

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by ddispaltro »

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…

Although it's difficult to use, I've found Natron for video editing to be not terrible, https://natrongithub.github.io/

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by blt »

This is great! I might add a slide or two about Makefiles. Probably the topic is too big and out of scope, but inexperienced Unix users may not realize that they are useful for so much more than compiling multi-file C programs.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by ekianjo »

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 5, good alternatives: Shotcut and Kdenlive.

and 13. Krita for digital painting

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