so back to the Linux discussion.
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I use Linux almost exclusive except when I can't. And then I just Remmina(RDP) into whatever I need to do or spin up a VM. So today I got a new lappy and immediately put a flavor of Linux Debian on it. So far on my default I have the following installed. What would you add to yours. Curious to see the answers. Joplin Notes Brave Web Browser - Personal Stuff only Firefox - Work related only Remmina for RDP to Windows Servers Microsoft Teams client (I know but I must) notepadqq cisco anyconnect - which was a pain to get working. WPS 2019 Office for dealing with Microsoft Business Central Config Packages. Works wonderfully vsCode Android Studio
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
Evolution as e-mail client. I use it not only for work related stuff (Exchange Server connection for one customer via EWS, works sooooo much better than Outlook) but also to connect to my personal e-mail (Proton Mail). And it is a standard package. Other things depend on what you do. I also use Remmina as RDP-client For Teams I use the flatpak version, it seems more stable than the native package. Perhaps OnlyOffice as Word/Excel replacement if you only need the basics, it does all that I need, otherways I'd suggest LibreOffice. If you need to edit pdf-files you should take a look at MasterPDF Editor (not free but doesn't cost too much).
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I use Linux almost exclusive except when I can't. And then I just Remmina(RDP) into whatever I need to do or spin up a VM. So today I got a new lappy and immediately put a flavor of Linux Debian on it. So far on my default I have the following installed. What would you add to yours. Curious to see the answers. Joplin Notes Brave Web Browser - Personal Stuff only Firefox - Work related only Remmina for RDP to Windows Servers Microsoft Teams client (I know but I must) notepadqq cisco anyconnect - which was a pain to get working. WPS 2019 Office for dealing with Microsoft Business Central Config Packages. Works wonderfully vsCode Android Studio
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
Teams - I tried to add some years ago but then it was much crappier than the web version. I use web for Teams and Outlook Terminator - a pretty nifty terminal emulator, open src and free Vivaldi - the least annoying web browser I could find LibreOffice - for all dox Slack - for work chat Spotify - for music vs code - ofc goes without saying ffmpeg & other video apps - for my job
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I use Linux almost exclusive except when I can't. And then I just Remmina(RDP) into whatever I need to do or spin up a VM. So today I got a new lappy and immediately put a flavor of Linux Debian on it. So far on my default I have the following installed. What would you add to yours. Curious to see the answers. Joplin Notes Brave Web Browser - Personal Stuff only Firefox - Work related only Remmina for RDP to Windows Servers Microsoft Teams client (I know but I must) notepadqq cisco anyconnect - which was a pain to get working. WPS 2019 Office for dealing with Microsoft Business Central Config Packages. Works wonderfully vsCode Android Studio
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
rnbergren wrote:
What would you add to yours. Curious to see the answers.
zsh zsh-autosuggestions (this will change your life) tmux (don't ask why, just install it... you'll thank me) build-essentials (gcc, make, etc.) maybe clang or cmake, just depends vscode sublime text git beyond compare libre office, for the word and excel knock off vlc, not to play videos but just to help convert an audio player (like rhythmbox) a video player (default is fine) nvm & node flatpak (if it's not installed already) a calculator app if one isn't installed already, just depends on distro openssh if not already installed a color picker vim-gui-common package, for my themes... themes be nice For the browser I typically use Firefox. No particular reason besides it's just already installed by default.
Jeremy Falcon
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I use Linux almost exclusive except when I can't. And then I just Remmina(RDP) into whatever I need to do or spin up a VM. So today I got a new lappy and immediately put a flavor of Linux Debian on it. So far on my default I have the following installed. What would you add to yours. Curious to see the answers. Joplin Notes Brave Web Browser - Personal Stuff only Firefox - Work related only Remmina for RDP to Windows Servers Microsoft Teams client (I know but I must) notepadqq cisco anyconnect - which was a pain to get working. WPS 2019 Office for dealing with Microsoft Business Central Config Packages. Works wonderfully vsCode Android Studio
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
Oh, and here recently... zig.
Jeremy Falcon
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I use Linux almost exclusive except when I can't. And then I just Remmina(RDP) into whatever I need to do or spin up a VM. So today I got a new lappy and immediately put a flavor of Linux Debian on it. So far on my default I have the following installed. What would you add to yours. Curious to see the answers. Joplin Notes Brave Web Browser - Personal Stuff only Firefox - Work related only Remmina for RDP to Windows Servers Microsoft Teams client (I know but I must) notepadqq cisco anyconnect - which was a pain to get working. WPS 2019 Office for dealing with Microsoft Business Central Config Packages. Works wonderfully vsCode Android Studio
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I use Linux almost exclusive except when I can't. And then I just Remmina(RDP) into whatever I need to do or spin up a VM. So today I got a new lappy and immediately put a flavor of Linux Debian on it. So far on my default I have the following installed. What would you add to yours. Curious to see the answers. Joplin Notes Brave Web Browser - Personal Stuff only Firefox - Work related only Remmina for RDP to Windows Servers Microsoft Teams client (I know but I must) notepadqq cisco anyconnect - which was a pain to get working. WPS 2019 Office for dealing with Microsoft Business Central Config Packages. Works wonderfully vsCode Android Studio
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
Depends on what you use your PC for. For work, I'd consider Typora or Obsidian for markdown editing. At home I use LyX rather than LibreOffice, but some kind of office product is probably a good idea. For gaming, and for the odd thing that arises, perhaps Wine. If you edit movies, KDEnlive, if you write CD's K3B, if you edit images Gimp, etc. Oh, and something to do backups. DejaDup is what I use, but I used to use Rsynch and later Unison.
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Libre Office Chrome VLC Handbrake PeaZip Pinta (for basic graphics editing, simpler than GIMP) Pika Backup Gnome Boxes (to host a couple VMs)
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Evolution as e-mail client. I use it not only for work related stuff (Exchange Server connection for one customer via EWS, works sooooo much better than Outlook) but also to connect to my personal e-mail (Proton Mail). And it is a standard package. Other things depend on what you do. I also use Remmina as RDP-client For Teams I use the flatpak version, it seems more stable than the native package. Perhaps OnlyOffice as Word/Excel replacement if you only need the basics, it does all that I need, otherways I'd suggest LibreOffice. If you need to edit pdf-files you should take a look at MasterPDF Editor (not free but doesn't cost too much).
for Teams, I did mean the flatpak version. Sorry wasn't clear on that. For some reason LibreOffice doesn't work well with alot of what we do here. I have found that WPS works amazingly well. But it doesn't work with my old LibreOffice files. So I end up using both. MasterPDF never heard of it before. But I must say after checking it out. Very nice. Not sure I want to buy it yet. But certainly going on the list.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I use Linux almost exclusive except when I can't. And then I just Remmina(RDP) into whatever I need to do or spin up a VM. So today I got a new lappy and immediately put a flavor of Linux Debian on it. So far on my default I have the following installed. What would you add to yours. Curious to see the answers. Joplin Notes Brave Web Browser - Personal Stuff only Firefox - Work related only Remmina for RDP to Windows Servers Microsoft Teams client (I know but I must) notepadqq cisco anyconnect - which was a pain to get working. WPS 2019 Office for dealing with Microsoft Business Central Config Packages. Works wonderfully vsCode Android Studio
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
I have Ubuntu installed in Virtual Box on my workstation-laptop. I really like it as it has come a long way from when I first began tinkering with it. However, as a developer, Visual Studio is still the best IDE available, and I have tried quite a few, including Jet Brains' "Rider". I have Rider installed in Ubuntu and was tinkering with it when it crashed the entire VM. Jet Brains has some great products. I have both their Python IDE, PyCharm, and PHP IDE, PhpStorm. I love the PyCharm as it just works both under Windows and Linux when you get used to its interface. Unfortunately, I believe Jet Brains took on more than they could chew with Rider. As a WPF developer, Rider is not all that mature as it still doesn't have a control toolbox, which I use just to get the basic XAML generated. Everything else, I do manually in the editor. So for me, as of now, there is still no real quality C#\VB.NET IDE under Linux and with the complexity of my work I am not interested in rewriting everything in Python, though it is tempting. As for WPS, it was my go-to MS-Office alternative until they implemented their AI spellchecker, which was a major annoyance so a lot of us WPS users complained and dropped the product. I switched to LibreOffice, which I have under Ubuntu as well. This software has come a long way from its early days making it now a stand-up tool for what we need it for. I would like to eventually switch over everything to Linux, or at least make my development cross-platform. As a result, I am experimenting with the Avalonia-UI software to see how it runs under Linux with .NET Core 8. Microsoft still has no plans to make a version of Visual Studio for Linux but hopefully the pressures will mount and they will eventually have to...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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I use Linux almost exclusive except when I can't. And then I just Remmina(RDP) into whatever I need to do or spin up a VM. So today I got a new lappy and immediately put a flavor of Linux Debian on it. So far on my default I have the following installed. What would you add to yours. Curious to see the answers. Joplin Notes Brave Web Browser - Personal Stuff only Firefox - Work related only Remmina for RDP to Windows Servers Microsoft Teams client (I know but I must) notepadqq cisco anyconnect - which was a pain to get working. WPS 2019 Office for dealing with Microsoft Business Central Config Packages. Works wonderfully vsCode Android Studio
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
Switched to Linux about a month after Windows 8.0 came out. Here's my list which is pretty much what I ran under Windows: Libre Office Thunderbird Vivaldi Firefox jEdit g++ I do run a Windows VM for games that don't yet work under Linux, Affinity Photo (I just hate Gimp) and TurboTax. I'm retired so all the work related stuff I use to have is gone!
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I use Linux almost exclusive except when I can't. And then I just Remmina(RDP) into whatever I need to do or spin up a VM. So today I got a new lappy and immediately put a flavor of Linux Debian on it. So far on my default I have the following installed. What would you add to yours. Curious to see the answers. Joplin Notes Brave Web Browser - Personal Stuff only Firefox - Work related only Remmina for RDP to Windows Servers Microsoft Teams client (I know but I must) notepadqq cisco anyconnect - which was a pain to get working. WPS 2019 Office for dealing with Microsoft Business Central Config Packages. Works wonderfully vsCode Android Studio
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
I always go Debian Testing for desktop. Reading the replies, I feel like a troglodyte. - Editor: neovim - Webbrowser: qutebrowser - Email: Thunderbird - Window manager: bspwm - Launcher and custom menus: jgmenu - Terminal: st - Sync: NextCloud Desktop - VPN: wireguard - a bunch of developer tools - other things But I'm tied to Windows at work in a walled garden setting, so WSL is the sad workaround there.