I've been using Ubuntu for several years now. My frustrations with Fedora culminated with the lost of LTS support. Generally I love Ubuntu. Probably easiest distro to install on machines, best support for nonfree drivers, one of if not the best set of repos. There are a few things I miss however.
The services command. Made it really easy to know what services are running, stop and start them and change their run level. Ubuntu has no equiv.
ifconfig is another tool I really miss. Ubuntu's implementation never really seemed to work.
Web Browser: Chrome, Firefox
Email Client: Primarily web based but I still use Kmail from time to time. I'd love to see a grand conversion tool as I have emails stored from Eudora, Kmail, Thunderbird, Exchange, procmail, etc. Literally millions of email that I need to convert and pare down to the few hundred that still mean anything too me. I'd be happy to work on the project.
Terminal: Konsole
IDE: Depends on the language.
File manager: Krusader
Basic Text Editor: For GUI text editors where I do 99% of my edits any more. I truly miss Kedit. A port of Text Wrangler on the Mac would be awesome. I wind up using the Mac for most basic text stuff simply because Text Wrangler is light years ahead of anything i can find on Linux. Kate is buggy and a memory hog. It's also clumsy. Gedit is REALLY buggy and the odd keystrokes it uses difficult to remember. Gwrite is OK. I loved Kedit because it had the features I needed but was so light I could literally have 100s of kedit windows open at the same time and barely use any ram. It autosaved so if the system crashed I didn't lose my changes.
IRC/Messaging Client: Rarely use IRC any more.
PDF Reader: Okular does a pretty good job. But I'll defer if there's another light PDF reader that folks prefer.
Office Suite: Open Office. Libre was insanely buggy in Kbuntu 14.04. Way too buggy to use. It crashes every 2 minutes and doesn't autosave even though I set the autosave to 30 seconds because it crashed so often. Office Libre seems to lack some of the features of Open Office that I use as well.
Calendar: Looking for a good one.
Video Player: VLC, Dragon Player, Kaffine
Music Player: Not really enamored with any at this time. Amarok and Juk tries to do everything and all I want to do is play music. Clemintine is OK. XMMS plays music quite well but it truncates so much info that it's really difficult to tell what is playing sometimes. There are other frustrating aspects of XMMS.
Photo Viewer: Gwenview, Gthumb this can reverse depending on what I am doing.
Screen recording: No preference.
Software management - Synaptic !!!! VERY first thing I do in a new install after security updates is install Synaptic.
Ebook management - Calibre
Yes they could. Drivers of flimsy cars should pay the higher premiums. I personally am tired of all the SUV bashing going on. I drive a smaller SUV that gets better MPG than many passenger cars. I drive a standard instead of automatic which makes a noticable difference there. I drive an SUV for many reasons. One being I need the room. In fact my only regret is not getting a bigger SUV. I play in a band and need to haul my gear on frequent occaisons. I do handyman work at home, so I need the cargo space to haul supplies and tools on many occasions. I have friends and ex-inlaws that live on dirt roads which are inaccessable to most cars during parts of the year. I like to go camping and when I camp it's not at some campground. That's not camping, thats just a hotel without room service or clean sheets. That means driving off road periodically. I live in an area which sees very heavy rain at least two or three times a year, often more. I am able to get places and to ferry friends and family through high water on those occasions. If I want to jump a curb I can. For me SUV's reprsent freedom. They give me the ability to do things. To not be stopped by much.
Personally I feel ALL cars of any type should be required to have a roll over bar. Roll overs are one of the biggest killers of any kind of vehicle. I've seen just as many sports cars flat up on their roof as I have seen SUVs. Vans are the most suceptable to roll overs. They are also generally worse at fuel efficiency than any other commonly used car except really high end sports cars and the dreadnaught SUVs. However they are not the evil SUV so nobody cares about the fuel efficiency of a sports car or a van. Even pickups which are almost identical to SUV's, often having the same frame, same engine, same fuel efficiency, height and safety records escape the SUV witchhunt.
But lets talk safety for a minute. SUVs ARE different and need to be driven differently than a sports car. Most people drive a car like a car reguardless of what they are driving and the weather conditions. Vans are prone to high wind, are not real good at cornering and have a tendancy to get out of control at high speed if you have a cross wind. Vans also have a high roll over rate. Pickups have light rear ends and are prone to fishtailing if there is nothing in the bed of the truck. They also do not corner like a sedan. SUVs share the same high center of balence pickups and vans do. SUVs drivers should take curves slower and be more aware of the wind than sedan drivers.
Sports cars generally corner extremely well but are normally have very low centers to give that cornering abilty. This means while driving a sports care you are almost blind in traffic and invisble to many cars. Sport's car's low clearence make them more vulnerable to road debris and more prone to lose control when hitting debris, huge potholes and other obstackes. They are poor off road vehicles. High water is death to a sports car. The same design that allows them to go fast makes them light enough that high winds can become just as dangerous to a sports car as to a van. Typcially traction in adverse weather is poorer with sports cars than heavier makes of vehicles. Sports cars shed size to gain speed and fuel economy. This makes them more vulnerable in crashes.
Light economy cars are the most dangerous in my opinion. They are typically light enough that wind will be a problem, espeically on bridges or when there is snow, ice or heavy rain on the road. They sacrafice weight for fuel economy which makes them more prone to damage in accidents. Often economy cars with thier small size are difficult to see by many other drivers. Unlike faster sports cars and SUVs economy cars tend to be underpowered so they cannot get out of the way as easily. Economy cars are often hazards when entering busy freeways. Unable to get up to highway speed on the on ramp, especially uphill onramps they enter freeways at unsafe speeds. They are as vulnerable to road debris as sports cars but do not have the cornering ability of a sports car. I see as ma
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I've been using Ubuntu for several years now. My frustrations with Fedora culminated with the lost of LTS support. Generally I love Ubuntu. Probably easiest distro to install on machines, best support for nonfree drivers, one of if not the best set of repos. There are a few things I miss however. The services command. Made it really easy to know what services are running, stop and start them and change their run level. Ubuntu has no equiv. ifconfig is another tool I really miss. Ubuntu's implementation never really seemed to work. Web Browser: Chrome, Firefox Email Client: Primarily web based but I still use Kmail from time to time. I'd love to see a grand conversion tool as I have emails stored from Eudora, Kmail, Thunderbird, Exchange, procmail, etc. Literally millions of email that I need to convert and pare down to the few hundred that still mean anything too me. I'd be happy to work on the project. Terminal: Konsole IDE: Depends on the language. File manager: Krusader Basic Text Editor: For GUI text editors where I do 99% of my edits any more. I truly miss Kedit. A port of Text Wrangler on the Mac would be awesome. I wind up using the Mac for most basic text stuff simply because Text Wrangler is light years ahead of anything i can find on Linux. Kate is buggy and a memory hog. It's also clumsy. Gedit is REALLY buggy and the odd keystrokes it uses difficult to remember. Gwrite is OK. I loved Kedit because it had the features I needed but was so light I could literally have 100s of kedit windows open at the same time and barely use any ram. It autosaved so if the system crashed I didn't lose my changes. IRC/Messaging Client: Rarely use IRC any more. PDF Reader: Okular does a pretty good job. But I'll defer if there's another light PDF reader that folks prefer. Office Suite: Open Office. Libre was insanely buggy in Kbuntu 14.04. Way too buggy to use. It crashes every 2 minutes and doesn't autosave even though I set the autosave to 30 seconds because it crashed so often. Office Libre seems to lack some of the features of Open Office that I use as well. Calendar: Looking for a good one. Video Player: VLC, Dragon Player, Kaffine Music Player: Not really enamored with any at this time. Amarok and Juk tries to do everything and all I want to do is play music. Clemintine is OK. XMMS plays music quite well but it truncates so much info that it's really difficult to tell what is playing sometimes. There are other frustrating aspects of XMMS. Photo Viewer: Gwenview, Gthumb this can reverse depending on what I am doing. Screen recording: No preference. Software management - Synaptic !!!! VERY first thing I do in a new install after security updates is install Synaptic. Ebook management - Calibre
Yes they could. Drivers of flimsy cars should pay the higher premiums. I personally am tired of all the SUV bashing going on. I drive a smaller SUV that gets better MPG than many passenger cars. I drive a standard instead of automatic which makes a noticable difference there. I drive an SUV for many reasons. One being I need the room. In fact my only regret is not getting a bigger SUV. I play in a band and need to haul my gear on frequent occaisons. I do handyman work at home, so I need the cargo space to haul supplies and tools on many occasions. I have friends and ex-inlaws that live on dirt roads which are inaccessable to most cars during parts of the year. I like to go camping and when I camp it's not at some campground. That's not camping, thats just a hotel without room service or clean sheets. That means driving off road periodically. I live in an area which sees very heavy rain at least two or three times a year, often more. I am able to get places and to ferry friends and family through high water on those occasions. If I want to jump a curb I can. For me SUV's reprsent freedom. They give me the ability to do things. To not be stopped by much. Personally I feel ALL cars of any type should be required to have a roll over bar. Roll overs are one of the biggest killers of any kind of vehicle. I've seen just as many sports cars flat up on their roof as I have seen SUVs. Vans are the most suceptable to roll overs. They are also generally worse at fuel efficiency than any other commonly used car except really high end sports cars and the dreadnaught SUVs. However they are not the evil SUV so nobody cares about the fuel efficiency of a sports car or a van. Even pickups which are almost identical to SUV's, often having the same frame, same engine, same fuel efficiency, height and safety records escape the SUV witchhunt. But lets talk safety for a minute. SUVs ARE different and need to be driven differently than a sports car. Most people drive a car like a car reguardless of what they are driving and the weather conditions. Vans are prone to high wind, are not real good at cornering and have a tendancy to get out of control at high speed if you have a cross wind. Vans also have a high roll over rate. Pickups have light rear ends and are prone to fishtailing if there is nothing in the bed of the truck. They also do not corner like a sedan. SUVs share the same high center of balence pickups and vans do. SUVs drivers should take curves slower and be more aware of the wind than sedan drivers. Sports cars generally corner extremely well but are normally have very low centers to give that cornering abilty. This means while driving a sports care you are almost blind in traffic and invisble to many cars. Sport's car's low clearence make them more vulnerable to road debris and more prone to lose control when hitting debris, huge potholes and other obstackes. They are poor off road vehicles. High water is death to a sports car. The same design that allows them to go fast makes them light enough that high winds can become just as dangerous to a sports car as to a van. Typcially traction in adverse weather is poorer with sports cars than heavier makes of vehicles. Sports cars shed size to gain speed and fuel economy. This makes them more vulnerable in crashes. Light economy cars are the most dangerous in my opinion. They are typically light enough that wind will be a problem, espeically on bridges or when there is snow, ice or heavy rain on the road. They sacrafice weight for fuel economy which makes them more prone to damage in accidents. Often economy cars with thier small size are difficult to see by many other drivers. Unlike faster sports cars and SUVs economy cars tend to be underpowered so they cannot get out of the way as easily. Economy cars are often hazards when entering busy freeways. Unable to get up to highway speed on the on ramp, especially uphill onramps they enter freeways at unsafe speeds. They are as vulnerable to road debris as sports cars but do not have the cornering ability of a sports car. I see as ma