Kodewerx

I haven't used Windows for about three years now, and I think I'm finally just starting to get the hang of Linux. So tell what you use and why, as well as what it's for. Or feel free to ask "hey, what can I use to do [this]". Or tell me all the programs I use suck. I don't care. Just window shopping for new and better programs. Because there's more than one book in the library.


- RULES -

1) Don't talk about WINE



- FLAVOR -

There are lots of distros.

Ubuntu
-- fucked up Debian; Ubuntu was easy to install, and still supported packages via apt. Reasons why I quit using Fedora and Red Hat.



- GUI -

Yeah, that's right. I'm not that hardcore to do everything by command line. Go fuck yourselves. I hate you people that think midnight commander or ratpoison are awesome.


windows manager: enlightenment 0.16.999
-- both Gnome and KDE are bulky, XFCE and blackbox/derivatives were nice but too limited. Beryl is too much eye-candy and uses too much RAM. Enlightenment is really customizable, fast as hell, stable, small, and almost as sexy as fluxbox for windows. Mouse shortcuts out the ass, a plethora of keyboard shortcuts (I had to disable a few to not interfere with Firefox), there's really nothing bad about this except it's still in development and a pain in the ass to download -- I'd really recommend getting this through a package manager.

web: firefox 2.0
-- Really, what other option is there?

RSS: liferea
-- Haven't used a RSS reader in awhile actually, so not sure why I included this, but this is the one I liked the most.

audio: rhythmbox
-- simple; easy to browse your library/ipod/podcasts. I've got about 16K songs, and once rhythmbox loads (takes 20 seconds or so) I can find that song I want as fast as I can type it.
-- downside: playing a single file not in my library is kind of annoying.

media: VLC
-- Of course.

file browser: thunar
-- Small, light-wieght, fast, easy. Perfect. Oh, and it's got that right-click context shell like "open in VLC" and whatnot.

P2P: ktorrent
-- azurues uses too much RAM.

AIM and whatnot: GAIM
-- Yeah. Change the options until it doesn't hurt, and you'll use it too.

burning media: k3b
-- does CDs/DVDs. Doesn't suck like xcdroast. And can do audio CDs. And it's better than Nero for Linux.

And I use standard programs like Open Office (school), GTKam (camera), GIMP (photos), gtkpod (iPod),



- NOT GUI -

Because some things just are better without a mouse.


terminal: Eterm

screen is screen.

IRC: IRSSI

text editor: vim

Flavor: Kubuntu
GUI: KDE (I was raised on it, heh)
Web: Firefox 2.0.0.3
RSS: I just use Firefox bookmarks, actually.
Audio: Amarok (pwnz0r)
Media: Kaffine
File Browser: Konqurer, but I want to change
P2P: ktorrent
AIM: GAIM (now Pidgin)
Burning Media: k3b
IRC: konversation

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