Software Loadout

[lxskllr]

What do you guys consider essential for your software? Maybe if we list them, someone will get hipped to something new. Here's what I've got...

Gimp - image editing
Gcolor2 - color picker
Specimen - font previewer
LibreOffice - office suite
DeaDBeeF - music player
VLC - movie player
convert all - unit conversion
Grpn - RPN calculator
Xarchiver - compression utility
Gnome games - :^D
qBittorrent - torrent client
IPblock - IP firewall
Pidgin - chat client
Gufw - graphical frontend to ufw firewall
Calibre - Ebook manager
Unetbootin - live USB creator
conky - system monitor display

The rest of my stuff's obvious, or I don't care that much.

 

[Jodell88]

Clementine - music player
Gnome MPlayer - Video player
LaTeX - Office suite
Blender - 3D creation
Gimp - Image creation / editing
Luxrender - For physically accurate renders
Yafaray - Another render engine
TeXStudio - For LaTeX editing

 

[mv2devnull]

GNU Emacs - multipurpose editor
Imagemagick - image manipulation
SSH - for being there
TeX Live - LaTeX implementation

 

[MrColin]

qalc & the its' gui sibling qalculate - the best unit converter/calculator you can find.
dnsmasq - the perfect DHCP/DNS/PXE-TFTP server when you don't really need BIND.
shorewall - firewall with all the features your kernel supports, not overly simplified like ufw.

 

[ArisVer]

I am using Gnome.
gnome-terminal, gedit, leafpad, nautilus, transmission, epiphany, chromium, iceweasel, vlc, totem, rhythmbox, screenshot, calculator, dictionary, sticky notes, system monitor, and two games.

 

[lxskllr]

LaTeX seems like something I'd like to learn, but I have little use for word manipulation :^/

 

[IGemini]

XBMC
LibreOffice
VLC
Pidgin
Firefox
Teamviewer
Minecraft

Working on adding conky to the list, need to get it configured well enough to work with Mint's desktop...the default console-type display isn't very aesthetic.

 

[mv2devnull]

LaTeX is more more than just plain text: equations, drawing, posters, slides, even some calculation (and reference management). After all, there is a programmable language under the hood. For me one of the main selling points was the fact that I can edit plain ASCII source code with any editor.

 

[theAnimal]

On my Linux boot, only F@H & Firefox nightly.

 

[VinDSL]

Maybe if we list them, someone will get hipped to something new.

Heh! I'm getting "hipped to" Tomahawk...

Won't even try to describe all the things it does -- still trying to wrap my mind around the concept.

Linkage: http://www.tomahawk-player.org/

 

[Jodell88]

Heh! I'm getting "hipped to" Tomahawk...

Won't even try to describe all the things it does -- still trying to wrap my mind around the concept.

Linkage: http://www.tomahawk-player.org/

They lost me at social. I'll stick with Clementine that has everything but the social aspect TYVM.

 

[insect9]

dwm, vim, openssh, rxvt-unicode, screen, irssi, mutt, bitlbee

 

[Jodell88]

dwm, vim, openssh, rxvt-unicode, screen, irssi, mutt, bitlbee

You sound like an Archlinux user. :hmm:

 

[insect9]

You sound like an Archlinux user. :hmm:

I am

 

[LCTSI]

xmonad, claws-mail, xterm, openssh, cssh, screen, parallel

 

[Chaotic42]

jed (text editor)
Firefox
ssh

I'm not a huge GIMP fan.

 

[zokudu]

I can't say I have a lot that I love enough to swear by it. I use GIMP but don't like it. I use Libreoffice but only because MS Office is not on linux.

What I can say I swear by would be:
lftp
eclipse (Not a linux thing but w.e)
openssh
rtorrent + rutorrent on my server

That's about it. The rest of my day to day Linux stack I could take or leave.

 

[VinDSL]

They lost me at social. [...]

I had the same "gut feeling" when someone badgered me into signing up for Facebook.

3 years later, FB makes sense now... sorta... LoL!

 

[irishScott]

For me:
vim, g++, make, gdb. About the only thing I use linux for is c++ coding.

 

[Kwatt]

So Far
Ubuntu 12.04 packages I use:
LibreOffice - don't care for it much might switch to Open Office which I like.
Thunderbird
Firefox - have installed Chromium to check out.

Addons:
conky - system monitor display
Ubuntu Tweak 0.7
VirtualBox
DOSbox emulator
Activity log manager
Cinnamon - installed working on issues


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[Jodell88]

LibreOffice - don't care for it much might switch to Open Office which I like.

Why go back to something that has less features?

 

[Kwatt]

Why go back to something that has less features?

Familiarity, been using it since about 2004.
I don't need a Office Suite much.
The first document I tried to open LibreOffice shut down and sent an incendent report. The .odt document was created with Open Office less than a month ago.
In the last week (my first week with LO) two documents disappeared when I tried save them and LO shutdown. When I restarted LO I got a screen asking If wanted to recover the document I did, LO didn't they recovered blank.






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