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Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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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…

In your opinion, what's the best GUI for QEMU/KVM?

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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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

I'll also add Olive[1] as an alternative video editor. I tried shotcut this weekend for just a simple clip/split mashup of videos and it was so slow and cumbersome. Olive on the other hand was extremely responsive.

[1] https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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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.

Maybe I should have just downvoted and left it at that, but it's late at night, so here goes. How exactly do you think a comment like this contributes to the discussion? Someone posted a list of tools they use. You reply with this. The world would be better off without this type of information-free negativity.

Twenty-five-year Linux user and lover here, and heck, I got a good chuckle out of the guy's comment.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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post #88

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> How many desktop environments actually let you switch the window button side? KDE does. And Gnome used to.

So use KDE then? Last time I tried it I found it to lack the polish that gnome has.

Give KDE a try. Gnome has steadily dumbed down and removed features; KDE is delightfully customizeable and very, very polished in current form.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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As much as I like httpie, in my view it's not a strict improvement like fd or ripgrep. This is unfortunately due to it being written in python.

Well I use it all the time and it's a huge improvement to my life. The elegant and simple syntax makes testing endpoints so much easier than the verbose curl and wget alternatives... curl curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"some": "content"}' / httpie http / some=content

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Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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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…

See also xournal++ - https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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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

locate relies on indexing crons. This has killed several production servers until I disabled it.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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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…

Not affiliated in anyway. Just a very happy customer, but want to plug PDF Studio [1]. I've used Atril, Evince, Adobe, PDFXChange (through WINE) and this PDF Studio (not FOSS) is worth every penny. It even interfaces with docusign (but you don't need it since you can import real digital signature) their support is amazing, and linux is first class there.

[1] https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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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

Have you tried FZF? [1] Fuzzy matching. It's loaded as a vimplug but binds to bash. It even fuzzy matches your bash history (CTRL-R).

[1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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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

Relying on a database which gets updated nightly is problematic for some usage though in at least 2 ways: I don't leave my computer on if I'm not using it so there's a good chance the db will simply never update (I guess?) plus it's only usable for locating files with confidence if you know they're system files or else they were on the system yesterday. Or, you run updatedb manually all the time and weep because that's not something instant, at all.

All in all, the idea is good, but I'm almost sure there are better implementations (even Windows has tools like 'Everything' which use a database but which gets continuously updated).

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