Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

Post by benibela » Tue, May 19, 2020, 4:10 PM UTC

sigmonsays wrote: post #211

kabacha wrote: post #36

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jq is yet another bloated syntax to learn and I'd definitely refrain from suggesting it to anyone whos not working with json everyday.

i dont know if i'd call its syntax bloated at all. jq is something i've hated learning but powerful beyond tying grep and awk together. jq is a tool, and like every tool, requires some upfront learning. Once mastered its much more productive than the grep/awk/friends solution. Take this example JSON { "code": 42, "items": [ { "type":"color", "name":"red", "rgb": [120, 2, 2 ]}, { "type":"color", "name":"green", "rgb":…

Post by ce4 » Tue, May 19, 2020, 4:13 PM UTC

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…

Post by BatmanAoD » Tue, May 19, 2020, 4:24 PM UTC

_kst_ wrote: post #29

gen220 wrote: post #4

Its table of contents doesn't do it justice. this is a great deck! super dense and straightforward. my tiny tip to contribute: for those who could never be bothered to remember the ctrl-commands for traversing words, but are familiar with `vi`-style movements: you can go one step above the suggestion in this deck with `set -o vi`.

I'm a heavy vim user, but I still prefer the emacs-style key bindings for bash. If I want to do vim-style editing on the command line, I sometimes use Ctrl-X Ctrl-E to edit the line in my default editor (which is vim). YMMV, of course.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 19, 2020, 4:31 PM UTC

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.

Post by dvirsky » Tue, May 19, 2020, 6:15 PM UTC

philwelch wrote: post #122

dvirsky wrote: post #31

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jq doesn't come pre-installed with every OS, python's json.tool does. So it's always there when you need it, no installation required, which is why I put it the same category of all those classic command-line tools.

I don’t actually believe my last Linux install came with a system Python. And as a Python developer I always end up using some tool or another to manage installations of multiple Python versions anyway. Furthermore jq just works as a classic command-line tool.