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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 guggle »

semi-extrinsic wrote: post #96
gitgud wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Wow, thank you for that, I didn't know Resolve. I do use KDEnlive but I can't say I'm satisfied with it.

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Post by panpanna »

thayne wrote: post #88
Polylactic_acid wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This makes no sense. Gnome has its buttons on the same side as Windows. You are probably thinking about ubuntu which patched gnome to move the buttons to the left. And even ignoring that detail, the side the window buttons are on is entirely made up. Windows isn't the real OS with OSX as the fake windows clone. The gnome philosophy is to support a minimal number of configurations but to make sure they are all tested…

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

Gnome still does:

Gnome tweaks -> Window titlebars

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by canistel »

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…

In certain forms, text need to be filled in a series of square boxes. If there is an option to adjust character spacing, you can in fact fill such fields too using a monsospace font. But I am yet to come across an open source (or even free) tool (for annotating PDFs) which can adjust character spacing too. Can Xournal++ do it? If not, are there any other open source or free tools that can manage it?

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by enriquto »

The only thing that I miss in linux is a pdf viewer that can show inline animations (like those produced by LaTeX's "animate" package). I am still forced to run adobe's 32 bit pdf viewer because it is the only viewer available in linux that supports this kind of pdf.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by enobrev »

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 is an excellent list. I just want to add that jetbrains products (intellij, webstorm, etc) all run perfectly well on Ubuntu (and probably other distros?), with regular releases using their toolbox app.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by c1c2c3 »

RMPR wrote: post #142
matthewhartmans wrote: post #81

Another good productivity hack is having a good clipboard manager. I highly recommend Green Clip: https://github.com/erebe/greenclip You can assign custom shortcut keys to pull it up and it can fuzzy search through your clipboard items.

Clipboard managers are probably the thing I miss the most on Wayland.

Haven't tried this yet but worth looking at? https://github.com/yory8/clipman

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Post by barbs »

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)

I've not had an issue with openshot personally, though I haven't had to much more than trimming.

I use arch linux, so whatever the latest version released on that.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by ketanmaheshwari »

blt wrote: post #99

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.

OP here -- thanks for the comment. I actually had 2 slides dedicated to "program development tools" that included gcc tools and makefile. Had to remove them due to time constraints -- had only 90 minutes to talk.
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