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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 traviscj »

smorrow wrote: post #259
hikarudo wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, you described my workflow exactly. Using "<" might be shorter and faster-for-the-machine, but it's less readable and breaks the left-to-right order. I also frequently start with `cat x`, see what's in the file, move on to `cat x | some filter` etc.

' grep <file -opts 'regex'

This is why I walked back my claims a bit in my tldr — basically started trying stuff out and had a “whoa not used to the way that looks, but it does _work_...” moment.

I think I still have the “wrong” preference, but I appreciate learning some new stuff!

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Post by mraudiobook_com »

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…

There are people that don't know Linux can run anything? Yikes.

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Post by ketanmaheshwari »

dvirsky wrote: post #23

The python utils section missed the very cool json.tool that can pretty print JSON files (and exists on your OS if it includes Python): cat /tmp/foo.json | python -m json.tool https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html#module-json.tool

Thank you for this suggestion -- it is now included in the slides.

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Post by gspr »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #121
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…

I use Ledger for double entry accounting. https://www.ledger-cli.org/

Ohh this seems SO much nicer than Gnucash! Thank you!

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by BatmanAoD »

enriquto wrote: post #253
BatmanAoD wrote: post #236

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Wow, that seems like a rather questionable feature for a "portable document format".

If you use pdf for making slides for a presentation, it is a legitimate use case to want some automatic animations or videos. It is actually possible, and adobe's viewer certainly supports it, but no program on linux does. You could argue that we shouln't be using pdf for making slides in the first place, and maybe you are true. But if I want beautiful math typography (which is even more important than animations), a…

I understand; I used Beamer back in college. It just seems like that's not really a good fit for the original purpose of PDF files. If they wanted to support presentations, maybe they should have created a new file type based on PDF but with extra capabilities.
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