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Favorite (Linux) software?
Posted: 12 Jun 2014, 21:07
by matt3o
Spin off of the
windows version
Please NO Desktop Environment, Window Manager, Desktop Manager.
just a few that come to my mind
- pidgin
- audacity
- blender
- draftsight
- aseprite
- inkscape
- pidgin
- handbrake
- transmission
- webstorm
- VLC
- Sublime Text
Posted: 12 Jun 2014, 21:17
by scottc
vim

Posted: 12 Jun 2014, 21:44
by ne0phyte
I think those are my most used ones:
- vim
- tmux (terminal multiplexer)
- ranger (file manager)
- chromium
- irssi (irc)
- zathura (pdf reader)
- dmenu (launcher)
- git, gcc, make
- find, grep, ls, cd, kill, ps, cat, netcat, touch/mkdir/cp/mv/rm/rmdir, wc, hexdump, tar
Posted: 12 Jun 2014, 21:49
by scottc
I'll just borrow your list, minus a few:
ne0phyte wrote:I think those are my most used ones:
- vim
- tmux (terminal multiplexer)
- ranger (file manager)
- chromium
- irssi (irc)
- zathura (pdf reader)
- dmenu (launcher)
- git, gcc, make
- find, grep, ls, cat, netcat, cp/mv/rm, wc, hexdump, tar
Posted: 12 Jun 2014, 21:49
by ne0phyte
Aww. I just added touch, mkdir and rmdir like a second ago

Posted: 12 Jun 2014, 21:53
by Muirium
We're going low level, I see! What, no love for cd? I like file, myself, is that in the Linux side of the Unix family tree, too?
Posted: 12 Jun 2014, 21:54
by ne0phyte
How could I miss that lol. It feels so natural that I didn't even think of it haha

Posted: 12 Jun 2014, 22:09
by Icarium
vim, emacs
oh yeah bitches :p
Posted: 12 Jun 2014, 22:15
by Muirium
Transmission's a good one. You know, for, um, "downloading .iso distros". I remember when it was just a Mac client, and always on the banned list at various trackers. Come a long way over the years.
Posted: 12 Jun 2014, 22:21
by Icarium
We should probably share not-so-obvious things.
So: fdupes is hands down the best tool for finding duplicate files. There are tons of programs but not one other works reliably. I know this because I recently cleaned up some old drives with this.
Posted: 12 Jun 2014, 22:53
by JBert
Hmm, I tend to use a lot of software which is multi-platform, but here it goes:
- Vim
- Zsh
- wxHexEditor
- Kupfer (Launchy alternative, though nearly unmaintained)
- git cola
- guake or tilda, depending on what I fancy at some point.
- Clementine (GTK alternative for Amarok)
- DoubleCmd
- qBittorrent
- ELinks
Posted: 12 Jun 2014, 23:16
by wheybags
cmake - best build system evar (srsly though, an order of magnitude better than the cancer that is autotools, and raw makefiles are... well)
also, y no wm ;_;
But yeah, also irssi, and +1 to tmux, git and vim
Posted: 12 Jun 2014, 23:26
by Hypersphere
ChemAxon Suite
Crossover/Wine
Cytoscape
Dropbox
Gedit
Gimp
GLChess
GOLD Suite
ImageViewer
LibreOffice
Mathematica
Matlab
MOE
Mendeley
Nano
OpenEye Suite
R
Rstudio
Stata/SE
Synergy
VMware Workstation
YASARA Suite
Posted: 12 Jun 2014, 23:56
by SL89
vim
chromium with vimium
zim
transmission but i am liking deluge so far
libreoffice
bittorrent sync
clementine
Konversation
pidgin
vlc
Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 00:11
by matt3o
imagemagick, I really couldn't live without it. optipng is also a good one.
of course node.js and rsync.
Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 01:20
by wheybags
plz no js ;_;
plz noooo
Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 02:25
by Muirium
The cool kids are all on Node. Before that it was Rails. It ain't in fashion until it's down to a one-word name. The shorter and less descriptive the better.
Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 08:33
by matt3o
apart from the fact that Rails sucks of course
PS: what's wrong with JS?
Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 08:48
by Mrinterface
vim
tmux
pushd/popd
Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 12:21
by wheybags
matt3o wrote:apart from the fact that Rails sucks of course
PS: what's wrong with JS?
Js is an absolute mess ;_;
The whole thing is so inconsistent - maybe you can not put a semicolon here, maybe not it depends lol
The object syntax feels even more tacked on than c++
Callbacksfor FUCKING EVERYTHING even when I actually really want to just goddamn block
Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 12:44
by matt3o
reminds me of binary code developers arguing about assembly and assembly developers arguing about C and C developers...
but yeah I mostly agree.
Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 12:50
by Muirium
Sounds like the mainstream Linux user to me…
Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 13:19
by matt3o
it just happened with Apple's Swift, developers are lazy, they want to use the same code and the same language forever.
Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 13:26
by DerpyDash_xAD
tmux, pacman, ttytter, irssi, zsh, ranger and elinks
I love eLinks and tmux soo much, I only wish for tmux graphical interface

Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 14:10
by wheybags
People actually use elinks? O.o
Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 14:20
by Muirium
Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 14:33
by wheybags
http://mosh.mit.edu/ is amazing btw, like ssh but uses udp and is optimised for a shit connection.
No more typing lag - it local echoes characters underlined immediately when you type them, and the underscores disappear as it arrives at the server.
Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 15:25
by Icarium
wheybags wrote:http://mosh.mit.edu/ is amazing btw, like ssh but uses udp and is optimised for a shit connection.
No more typing lag - it local echoes characters underlined immediately when you type them, and the underscores disappear as it arrives at the server.
That seems dangerous.
Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 15:33
by SL89
Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 20:36
by Chrishas
dwb browser
vim