Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

Post by everybodyknows » Tue, May 19, 2020, 2:55 PM UTC

stinos wrote: post #120

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

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…

  $ time sudo updatedb
  real 0m0.501s
  user 0m0.247s
  sys 0m0.218s

Post by everybodyknows » Tue, May 19, 2020, 3:06 PM UTC

filterfish wrote: post #178

everybodyknows wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox has quite a nice interactive JSON viewer, built in.

Which doesn't help on the command line.

  $ firefox --new-window somefile.json

Post by cbpowell » Tue, May 19, 2020, 3:14 PM UTC

fiddlerwoaroof wrote: post #149

cbpowell wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

This. After the KDE 4 debacle, I gave up on KDE because they cut all the functionality I relied on. However, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how functional the newer KDE5/Plasma desktop is, especially once you change a handful of really ugly defaults (mouse cursors, window switcher and a couple other similar things)

Post by ufo » Tue, May 19, 2020, 3:20 PM UTC

voldacar wrote: post #111

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

Post by antb123 » Tue, May 19, 2020, 3:29 PM UTC

jpxw wrote: post #46

sytelus wrote: post #25

How much of these is really still relevant with now Python quickly becoming new scripting language across all platforms? I now tend to prefer 3 lines of Python vs 1 line of cryptic unmaintanable Linux-only bash. With new great subprocess module in Python, I feel bash scripting is really unnecessary except in few situations like .bashrc or really quick onliners.

I don’t think Python and bash solve the same problems at all. I don’t see how they could be seen as comparable, much less interchangeable.