Re: [PLUG] Mon Oct 21 - PLUG West - "Where's my Notepad? Transitioning to Desktop Linux" by Walt Mankowski (7pm at ATS)

[JP Vossen via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Thanks for the interesting discussion Walt.

Tools that came up that I recall are:

* Geany & plugins as a light-weight IDE

* Zim, a "desktop wiki" for notes (Python3)
	Just moved to Python3 so a bit buggy but under active dev.

* Meld, an awesome graphical 1,2,3-way diff & editing tool (Python)

* LibreOffice Draw for simple diagrams
* Dia, the Gnome diagram editor

* xul-ext-lightning - Calendar Extension for Thunderbird
	Also a to-do list, but it's only in Thunderbird as noted

Also try the GUI package manager, just to see what's in there.  Dia is 
the first thing that came up with I searched my Mint-18 "Software 
Manager" for "diagram".  Huh, Sublime-text and Atom are both in there 
too, they may be worth a look.

Super useful tool we forgot to talk about:

* xsel - command-line tool to access X clipboard and selection buffers
	alias put-clip='xsel -bi'
	alias get-clip='xsel -b'


I didn't talk about ROXTerm, which is the term emulator I love, because 
it got dropped from Ubuntu 19.04 and is a PITA to install.  :-(

And we didn't talk about Evolution, which is the Outlook competitor.  It 
used to REALLY suck, but it has sucked less each time I've looked at it 
over the years.  I haven't looked since 2015 or so, so it might be 
better.  But that only matters if you are allowed to use it, and you 
more-or-less like Outlook...  The other GUI alternative is Thunderbird + 
Lightning, as above.

I'll talk about multiple in-line revision control in a separate thread.


On 10/21/19 9:26 AM, Walt Mankowski via plug-announce wrote:
> This month, PLUG West welcomes Walt Mankowski, who will be
> giving a talk entitled "Where's my Notepad? Transitioning to Desktop Linux".
>
>    I recently started a new job and my desktop is running Ubuntu. I've
>    been using Linux for over 20 years, but this is the first time my
>    work machine is running Linux. It's been about a week now and while
>    it's mostly great, there are a few things I'm missing. I'd like to
>    lead an informal discussion on finding open source apps to replace
>    things I've grown accustomed to on macOS and Windows.
>
>    Is 2019 the Year of Linux On the Desktop?
...


Later,
JP
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