Linux software

Linux users (anyone out there?), what nifty things have you learned to do with Linux software? Which software is your favorite?

Also what's your favorite text editor and why?

I removed Windows from my laptop a few months ago. I'm now using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I decided I just really didn't need Windows anymore and programming on Linux just seems much more sensible. Of course by configuring and customizing your software you can get desired behavior anywhere but I found the experience was much better on Ubuntu right out of the box.

Still I'm pretty much a Linux noob and I love learning practical things I can do. I'm trying to learn how to do more and more things via the terminal. I'm okay at it but I'm sure there's still a billion things I don't know about.

I had mint for awhile back ago. I use to be able to bootstick load it back when i had my old vista era laptop with win 7 loaded, but my new win 8.1 amd lappy DOESN'T LET ME DO IT ANYMORE. I always install it on build computers back when i volunteer for a low income computer program, but people rather have windows since that what they know.

I mainly like messing around with various DE's and stuff. My favorite is XFCE. Nice and lightweight. I also enjoy tiling managers.

I use Arch and Mint in a VM.

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Using Elementary OS Luna (Built on Ubuntu 12.04) and I really like it. I would move up to the Elementary OS Freya beta(Ubuntu 14.04) but with it being in beta and all I'm too lazy to fix it. It was a hassle to get EOS Luna running properly in beta and I doubt Freya is any better.

If I weren't so lazy I'd just fix up the Pantheon DE on a proper Ubuntu 14.04 and use that, because it was, and still mostly is, the sleek UI of Elementary that makes me come back to it.




Anywho, yeah. Linux is great, Lunix is the future, it just sucks that Adobe hasn't realized that yet.

EOS would be wonderful if they ever update it.

Using Arch with xfce. Mainly use it for badblocks, dd, autopsy and testdisk on my toughbook cf-30 for work. Okular for a pdf reader with touch support and wine to run landrex for schematics and board views.

On my notebook I use Arch Linux with BSPWM, compton, sxhkd and dzen2. Vim for an editor, dwb for a browser, ncmpcpp for music, mpv for video, pinta for image editing and conky for system monitoring piped to dzen. Plus standard dev shit like a lamp stack, git etc

Only scrubs use desktop environments.

(Insert more elitist Arch faggotry here)


Knoppix is my main live distro when I'm running diagnoses on and repairing Windows systems.

I'm really enjoying Linux as an OS but the fact the I grew up working on windows severely stunts my professional abilities on linux.

My fav is Debian. A classic. It's fast and simple.

In my job i have to navigate by various systems to catch results and stuff. All are more or less the same thing if you're using the terminal (at least in my experience).

:)

I mostly use academic software on Linux for my thesis, like NVMSpice, NVSim, HP CACTI, ngSPICE, GEM5 and DRAMSim.

Avoid systemd.

+1 to Debian Linux.

I'm using Debian-based distro for 4 years. My favorite was Debian itself, then Kali Linux. I'm also using CentOS for server shits and anything.

I'm currently using Debian 8 with MATE, and it was somehow nice. My only issue was xorg related stuffs. But it was somehow stable.

What I love in Linux was the virtualization platforms. You've gotta need to try Xen and KVM, not VirtualBox, when your using Linux as host machine.

As for my editor, I'm using Geany. It's just like Notepad++ with less feature. But I don't mind since I'm not into programming anymore.

And all hail "VI". The best text editor in terminal. Not that I already mastered all the keyboard shortcuts. Its a pain anyway. All you need to learn in "vi" was to edit, save, search and delete, and you're all ready to go!

Sorry for my rant, since I'm a little geek when it comes to Linux. Pardon me LOL