I searched this sub and I saw a post that was about a year and figured maybe it is appropriate to get a more current consensus on the topic.
Used Linux way back when. Was my main OS for a period of time. Then I switched back to Windows. However, I’ve recently began using Linux again as my daily driver OS. free netflix tech news android 9
What do you consider must have applications? Aside from the apps that come w/ the distro I use, I’ve installed Anacona, VS Code, Atom, and Sublime on my box software.
What software do you download/install immediately after setting up your workstation?
Everyone has their own particular favourite applications and you appear to be heavily into text editing.
Over the years I have accumulated quite a variety of useful applications: Nero - like the original Nautilus file manager but better now that Nautilus has been “improved”. ImageMagick - for every conceivable image manipulation via the command line. Pinta - a simple but powerful GUI image editor. Audacity - for sound recording & manipulation. Pulse Audio - for managing sources of audio. VLC - media player. Gparted - partition manager. HPLIP - HP printer manager, for HP users.
etc…
For general text/spreadsheets I find the built-in LibreOffice is perfectly adequate.
To some extent ones choice may be limited by Linux version. What do you use?
PCLinuxOS comes with a good bundle of stuff, but I add
PaleMoon browser
Claws-Mail
OpenOffice — LibreOffice Writer doesn’t work well with a portrait-mode monitor. How stupid is that?
Gnucash
Inkscape
Fontforge
Pysol — my only game!
Wine — for just two programs: Morinus astrology and a QL emulator to run some old custom software
clearlooks-phoenix theme — I can’t stand the “modern” ones, dark and gloomy with skinny sliders!
David,
This might be a daft question, but…is your monitor set permanently (physically) in portrait mode? Or is it rotatable?
The reason I ask is that one can rotate the stuff displayed on screen to match ones screen orientation.
No, it is rotatable and obviously I can alter the display. But the whole point of portrait mode is for word-processing, so a word-processor which is a pain to use in that mode (and which seems to have been designed for wide-screen) strikes me as stupid. A lot of today’s design seems to divorced from practicality, like the theme with ultra-narrow sliders that I mentioned. Luckily, with Linux there’s always a choice — long live Apache Open Office!