Voice of the Masses: What software combination do you run?
Are Arch users more likely to use Vim? Or are Emacs users more likely to run a tiling window manager? Those are the questions we put to Reddit a few days ago, and the response was tremendous. It even kicked off a good old-fashioned bit of Reddit drama, with Arch users being downvoted en-masse.
Anyway, we’re still really interested to see what kind of overlap there is amongst Linux users, so we wanted to ask our podcast listeners as well. Let us know your answers to the following in the comments, and we will talk about the results in our next podcast, which we plan to record tomorrow.
- 1. What distro do you use?
- 2. What window manager or desktop?
- 3. What text editor?
- 4. What email client?
- 5. What web browser?
- 6. Do you use screen or tmux?
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About The Author
Mike Saunders
Mike stores his data by printing out hex dumps and laminating the sheets. He's the author of The Haynes Linux Manual and the creator of MikeOS, an operating system hand-built from assembly language.
My work box is as follows:
1: CrunchBang
2: i3
3: Vim
4: Roundcube (webmail)
5: Chromium
6: Screen for server sessions etc
1. What distro do you use? Ubuntu
2. What window manager or desktop? Unity
3. What text editor? Gedit or Nano
4. What email client? Thunderbird
5. What web browser? Firefox
6. Do you use screen or tmux? Neither – looks interesting though, so I’ll try them both
1. Linux Mint
2. Mate Desktop
3. Pluma
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. No, I do not.
1. Fedora (also debian and ubuntu)
2. MATE
3. vim
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. screen (with byobu)
1. Fedora
2. XFCE
3. Vim
4. Claws mail/Thunderbird (Home/Work)
5. As many as i can get my mits on… (I am a web dev….)
6. Screen
1. Arch & Debian
2. GNOME
3. Vim
4. mutt
5. Firefox
6. tmux
1. Debian
2. i3
3. Emacs
4. Emacs (Gnus)
5. Chromium
6. Tmux
1. What distro do you use?Xubuntu
2. What window manager or desktop?XFCE
3. What text editor?Gedit or Nano
4. What email client?T’bird
5. What web browser?Chromium-browser
6. Do you use screen or tmux?nope
1. Arch! Yeah, I know 😀
2. i3 (i3wm.org)
3. vim. There are others?
4. mutt. Same question. I also use notmuch for tagging my mail and have that nicely integrated with mutt. Also vim-like keybindings 😉
5. chromium. Mostly because one site we use at work crashes firefox. The next release of it fixes the bug though so I’m intending to move over. I use the Vimium plugin for vim-like keybindings (detecting a theme yet?)
6. I was a long-time screen user but switched to tmux recently for reasons I recently blogged about – http://offend.me.uk/blog/46/ 🙂 Oh and .bashrc starts tmux for me and means I never lose work from accidentally closing something.
Basically, my setup is amazing and I have the exact same arrangement across all my machines. In fact, I use a tool I wrote to syncs my configs using git because I am so used to the way I work now.
I consider myself an expert user though so I do most of my work inside terminals and so a tiling window manager is perfect.
1. Debian sid
2. xmonad
3. Emacs
4. gmail / Icedove
5. Iceweasel
6. screen
1. Manjaro
2. KDE
3. Kate
4. Kmail
5. Chromium
6. No
1. arch on desk/laptop (debian on servers)
2. xfce
3. scite & emacs
4. claws mail
5. firefox, links
6. screen
1)Solyd K, Crunchbang and Arch at home Fedora for work
2)KDE and Openbox
3)Kate and Nano
4)Claws Mail
5)Firefox/Iceweasel, Qupzilla and Chromium (sometimes Iron Browser too)
6)Tmux
1. openSUSE 13.1
2. KDE
3. Kate & Vim (Dependent on task)
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. No
1. Lubuntu
2. LXD
3. Sublime Text and vi
4. Thunderbird, occasionally, usually just webmail
5. Firefox. Chrome starts faster but I like NoScript and trust Google as little as I can get away with.
6. Hadn’t heard of them before this question. I used to like Guake when I was using Unity and Gnome 3, though.
Oops. 2 was supposed to be LXDE.
1. Ubuntu.
2. Unity.
3. Gedit.
4. None, browser only.
5. Firefox.
6. Neither.
1. Debian
2. XFCE
3. Vim
4. Gmail/Web
5. Chromium
6. tmux?
1. Arch
2. KDE SC
3. Vim
4. KMail
5. Firefox
6. Tmux
On ye odle desktop.
1. What distro do you use? lubuntu.
2. What window manager or desktop? lxde.
3. What text editor? leafpad / vi.
4. What email client? thunderbird.
5. What web browser? firefox.
6. Do you use screen or tmux? neither.
On the laptop.
1. What distro do you use? opensuse 13.1.
2. What window manager or desktop? kde.
3. What text editor? kate / kwrite / vi.
4. What email client? none.
5. What web browser? firefox.
6. Do you use screen or tmux? none.
1. Mint Debian Edition (went off Fedora years ago due to update cycle)
2. Mate (but considering dropping down to openbox as using very old hardware)
3. Nano
4. Thunderbird
5. Opera (Chromium as a back-up)
6. Neither
1) Kubuntu
2) KDE
3) emacs
4) Thunderbird
5) Firefox
6) screen
1. Manjaro/Debian
2. KDE/Xfce/CLI
3. VIM/Sublime
4. Gmail
5. Chrome
6. tmux (with zsh)
Manjaro
– XFCE – the nibmle mouse rescued my jurrasic era laptop from the opressive clutches of fat cat desktop environments
– I’m trying to use Vim but when I loose patience I switch to Gedit (which by the way looks absolutely alien on my XFCE desktop, that combination is WRONG)
– Evolution – I don’t know why, but whenever I have to deal with Thunderbird, I feel a little ping of hatred deap in my heart.
– Firefox (no pings there…)
– nope
1. What distro do you use?
CrunchBang
2. What window manager or desktop?
Openbox
3. What text editor?
Geany
4. What email client?
Webmail – Gmail
5. What web browser?
Chrome
6. Do you use screen or tmux?
I have used screen rarely.
1. Arch
2. i3
3. Vim
4. mutt
5. uzbl/Chromium
6. tmux
1. ubuntu 12.04.2
2. MATE
3. Vim
4. Gmail
5. Firefox
6. Tmux
1. What distro do you use? Manjaro
2. What window manager or desktop? XFCE
3. What text editor? VIM
4. What email client? Thunderbird
5. What web browser? Firefox
6. Do you use screen or tmux? Screen
1. Ubuntu
2. Xfce (with the occasional foray into Unity)
3. Gedit
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. Neither
(though that’s my desktop PC – when it comes to my music laptop it’s Ubuntu Studio with Xfce, and Manjaro with LXDE on my little netbook)
1. Ubuntu
2. Unity
3. Gedit
4. gmail
5. Firefox
6. neither
1. Slackware
2. Fluxbox
3. Emacs
4. Gnus / Thunderbird
5. W3M / Firefox
6. Screen (although rarely)
1. What distro do you use? Crunchbang/Mint
2. What window manager or desktop? Openbox/Mate
3. What text editor? Geany/Nano
4. What email client? webmail/Thunderbird
5. What web browser? Chrome/Iceweasel
6. Do you use screen or tmux? nope
1. What distro do you use? Ubuntu 14.04 (and 12.04… And 12.10, and 13.04 on various others)
2. What window manager or desktop? Unity
3. What text editor? gedit or nano
4. What email client? Thunderbird
5. What web browser? Firefox
6. Do you use screen or tmux? Screen
1. distro: Gentoo
2. window manager: i3
3. text editor: vim
4. email client: webmail, mutt
5. web browser: Firefox, uzbl
6. screen or tmux: neither
Laptop
1. Debian Sid
2. Openbox
3. vim
4. gmail / claws
5. Chrome
6. tmux
Work desktop
1. Ubuntu
2. XFCE
3. vim
4. google apps
5. Chrome
6. tmux
Main laptop:
1. What distro do you use? Ubuntu 14.04
2. What window manager or desktop? Unity
3. What text editor? vim
4. What email client? Thunderbird
5. What web browser? Firefox & Chromium, task dependant.
6. Do you use screen or tmux? tmux
cheap and portable netbook:
1. What distro do you use? elementary OS Luna
2. What window manager or desktop? not too sure.
3. What text editor? vim
4. What email client? webmail clients
5. What web browser? Midori
6. Do you use screen or tmux?
1. Kubuntu
2. KDE
3. Kate
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox and Chrome, mostly
6. No
1. Netrunner OS
2. KDE
3. Nano, (sometimes Kate)
4. Alpine, (sometimes Thunderbird)
5. Firefox
6. screen
My choice of desktop environment (which leads me to the choice of distro) is rooted in my old Unix-days at University. The only cool desktop environment around was KDE. In those days Gnome was to buggy to even get running. And the philosophy behind KDE also agrees with me, letting the user make the settings to get the experience he wants.
Regarding both editor, mail client and screen, those too have been my choice since those days. The easiest way to do social media, IM, IRC and mail on a server, so that I could access it from any phone or computer. And I’ve stuck with my choices.
Back at University I used Netscape. When Phoneix/Firebird/Firefox appeared, I switched immediately. The dominance of Internet Explorer made me as a web developer a bit sick. Mozilla was (and still is) the great saviour. I love Firefox. I know Firefox. It is not slower or worse than the alternatives, so I have no reason to change.
Besides the OS I run, I have kept on using the same software for as long as possible. Even though I try a lot of new things out, I usually return to the tried and true.
Regarding distros I’ve jumped from Slackware -> Mandrake -> Debian -> Kubuntu -> Netrunner, and I run only Linux nowadays.
1. Linux Mint
2. Cinnamon/Muffin
3. Geany
4. Gmail
5. Google-Chrome
6. Screen
1. Ubuntu and RedHat
2. Unity and Gnome
3. Emacs
4. Gmail
5. Google-Chrome/Firefox
6. Screen
1. Debian Sid
2. KDE 4
3. vim
4. Gmail, webmail, occasionally Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. Neither
1. KaOS
2. KDE
3. Vim
4. Firefox
5. Mutt
6. Tmux
I discovered KaOS in Linux Voice issue 4. It’s based on Arch and has a repository of about 1500 packages built from scratch. The default KDE setup is quite different to Ubuntu’s, focusing more on usability than flashy effects. I had found KDE quite annoying to use when I installed the Ubuntu packages, but it feels a bit closer to my other preferred desktop, XFCE, in KaOS.
I use Ubuntu but am shifting some of my machines to Arch linux. My old desktop ran Arch Linux and Xmonad and I miss that tiled triumph tremendously. Unfortunately, I had some problems running Java applications like Matlab and QGIS on that setup so I ran Ubuntu while I was finishing up some schooling. Verdict: coding in Ubuntu is like riding a Brachiosaurus whereas Arch + Xmonad you kill bugs with the speed of a techno-velociraptor. (Don’t place too much weight on the dinosaur-linux similies…)
Regardless, of distro I always use emacs with a solarized-dark theme (along with installing node.js and solarizing my terminals this is the first customization I do on a new machine). I use Gmail and Chrome as I sold my soul to Google a long time ago. And finally, TMUX! Screen IS a dinosaur.
My work box is as follows:
1: Debian
2: Gnome3
3: Vim
4: gmail (unfortunately)
5: Chromium
6: oh-my-zsh with tmux
1. Gentoo (home)/Ubuntu (work)/Debian (server)
2. i3
3. Emacs
4. Emacs
5. Emacs^H^H^H^H Chrome(ium) (day to day)/Firefox+ABP+NoScript (dodgier web)
(although I do occasionally use ewww from emacs to jump to build status/log pages linked in IRC (via Emacs) or mail (via Emacs)
6. tmux
1. Fedora (home and work)
2. KDE
3. kwrite
4. kmail
5. Chrome
6. No
Hello and great work (bla bla bla bla), but I have to state: LinuxVoice podcast is AWESOME!!
1. crunchbang (HDD install and USB live+persistence)
2. OpenBox
3. CLI: nano GUI: geany
4. opera
5. opera
6. screen
Cheers from Portugal! 😉
Mário
1, Fedora
2, Mate
3, CLI vim, GUI, geany
4, Thunderbird
5, Firefox
6, Screen.
I suddenly feel like an old stick in the mud!
1. Archlinux
2. KDE
3. nano, kate
4. Gmail, Thunderbird
5. Firefox, Chromium
6. No
1. Ubuntu
2. Unity
3. Nano
4. Alpine, Geary and/or browser depending on what I am working on
5. Chromium
6. No
1. What distro do you use? Ubuntu Studio / Lubuntu
2. What window manager or desktop? KDE and RazorQT for desktop PC / LXDE on Netbook
3. What text editor? Kate
4. What email client? Thunderbird
5. What web browser? Firefox
6. Do you use screen or tmux? Nope
50 Answers, all on topic and polite. Must be some sort of record. In the spirit of not ruining the trend I will post my setup on a secondary computer (to avoid conflict with my reddit answer):
1) Lubuntu
2) LDXE
3) Geany
4) Gmail
5) Chromium and Firefox
6) No
1. Arch Linux
2. KDE (and sometimes cwm)
3. vim/nvi/vi
4. none, just Gmail web interface
5. Chromium
6. tmux rules!!!
1. Mint
2. Cinnamon
3. Mcedit
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. Nope
Laptop:
1. Debian Testing on Desktop, OpenBSD on laptop and server
2. Mainly GNOME 3, sometimes cwm
3. Vim
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. Tmux
1. Antergos
2. Gnome shell
3. Gedit
4. Gmail, Evolution
5. Firefox
6. neither
1. Debian
2. KDE
3. Nano
4. Kmail
5. Chrome
6. screen
Slackware, Debian, Mint, Mageia
Enlightenment
Vim
Opera, Claws, learning Mutt
Opera
Neither screen not tmux–don’t need them in my workflow
Crunchbang
whatever crunchbang runs!
vim
mutt
chrome
hmm, what?!
1. Ubuntu 12.04
2. Unity
3. Vim
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. screen
1. Ubuntu LTS / Mint
2. Gnome Fallback / Cinnamon (depends on GPU)
3. gedit on Linux / notepad++ on Windows
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox / Opera Mobile
6. Neither. I use ‘nohup bashScript.sh &’.
1. Manjaro
2. XFCE / Openbox
3. nano, geany
4. Thunderbird
5. Chromium, Firefox
6. None
1. What distro do you use? (K)Ubuntu
2. What window manager or desktop? KDE
3. What text editor? Sublime Text
4. What email client? Thunderbird
5. What web browser? Google Chrome
6. Do you use screen or tmux? Screen
1.arch
2.openbox
3.geany
4.geary
5.google-chrome-stable
6.neither
Slackware
KDE
vi
Thunderbird
Firefox
neither
1. What distro do you use? Mint
2. What window manager or desktop? Mate
3. What text editor? Vim / Sublime Text
4. What email client? Claws Mail / Mutt
5. What web browser? Chrome
6. Do you use screen or tmux? Screen
1. Distro: Xubuntu
2. WM: Xfce4
3. Editor: Sublime Text
4. Email: FastMail (web based, great client)
5. Browser: Firefox
6. No
1. Kubuntu
2. KDE
3. Kate
4. Thunderbird
5. Chrome
6. Neither
1. Linux Mint (also Elementary on netbook)
2. Cinammon
3. Gedit or nano
4. Thunderbird and Geary
5. Chromium and Chrome
6. Neither
1. Ububtustudio
2. don’t know
3. Ardour?
4. Gmail
5. Whatever
6. Ardour?
1. Ubuntu (with Xubuntu on my netbook)
2. Unity (with XFCE on my netbook)
3. Vim
4. Mutt (although I have one account I have to use Thunderbird for due to a need to send HTML messages – yuk; one that uses Gmail – although I could use Mutt with IMAP; and one that uses webmail to Exchange – double yuk; I have multiple personalities – eleven of my accounts are Mutt though, so that wins!)
5. Firefox (I keep trying Chrome/Chromium but it still feels unfinished and slow so I end up back with Firefox which I’ve used in various forms since Netscape Navigator 1.x bar a brief flirtation with Opera in the wilderness years around 2000)
6. I was going to say screen since that’s what I started with, but having checked my Buyobu config it seems I’m using tmux; the key bindings are the same though, so I hadn’t noticed the switch!
1. Mint 17
2. Mate
3. pluma
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. No
1 slackware
2 kde or dwm
3 kate or vim
4 gmail
5 firefox
6 screen
1, Arch.
2, Gnome 3.12.
3, nano. I just don’t have enough time to learn Vi.
4, Geary. evolution and Thunderbird are just over complicated and slow.
5, Firefox.
6, none or one of them I don’t know.
1. Ubuntu
2. Awesome
3. Gedit
4. Thunderbird
5. Google Chrome
6. Screen
1- Mint, SolydK, a host of others
2- Cinnamon (Main Desktop), XFCE with Cairodock tweaked to a 10ft interface (HTPC), KDE Plasma Netbook (netbook)
3 No preference, whatever comes with the distro I’m using.
4 Webmail, I don’t use an email client. Should I be? Really, I’m asking.
5 Gotta have Firefox. I try out alternatives periodically but have never been tempted to switch.
6 I don’t know what Tmux is, but my screen is a 19″ Hewlett Packard LCD. It’s quite nice.
1. What distro do you use?
Arch
2. What window manager or desktop?
i3 (I also enjoy Gnome Shell)
3. What text editor?
Vim
4. What email client?
Gmail (via web, like)
5. What web browser?
Keep switching between Chromium and Firefox. They’re both currently very very *very* good.
6. Do you use screen or tmux?
I use Screen because I’m used to it. Tmux does look better in some ways but… yeah, used to Screen.
1. What distro do you use? CrunchBang
2. What window manager or desktop? Openbox
3. What text editor? Geany
5. What web browser? Iceweasel
6. Do you use screen or tmux? No
1. Arch!
2. i3 (sometimes cinnamon)
3. nano / gedit (depending on task)
5. Chromium / Firefox (no loyalties)
6. no thanks
1. Fedora 20
2. Gnome 3
3. g/vim, gedit, light table
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. neither yet
1. Distro? Mageia.
2. Desktop? KDE4.
3. Editor? Vim & Kwrite.
4. Email client? None (webmail).
5. Browser? Firefox.
6. screen or tmux? Neither.
1. What distro do you use? Manjaro 0.8.10
2. What window manager or desktop? KDE
3. What text editor? Geany
5. What web browser? Firefox
6. Do you use screen or tmux? Neither
1. Ubuntu & Debian
2. MATE
3. Nano & Vim
4. Thunderbird or Webmail
5. Firefox & Chrome/Chromium
6. Screen
1. Many distros, mainly Debian.
2. Xfce or a tiling WM, like rat poison.
3. Vim
4. Thunderbird or Mutt
5. Chrome/Chromium, Firefox
6. Screen and terminator
1. What distro do you use?
Slackware 14.1 – easy to get the newest software with SlackBuilds.
2. What window manager or desktop?
Openbox – with a transparent Lxpanel. No menu, but launching everything from keyboard shortcuts or the excellent dmenu_run.
3. What text editor?
Without X I use Vim, with X I use Medit.
4. What email client?
Claws Mail – handles my ~58,000 emails at an impressive speed.
5. What web browser?
Firefox, a trusted companion of many years.
6. Do you use screen or tmux?
Occasionally use screen, but rarely.
I also keep a Mint Cinnamon setup on a separate partition for my wife.
As for all the setups above… no screenshots, really? But I guess that would make for a later neurons of the masses (or whatever). For me, it looks like this: http://syntaktisk.dk/grphcs/desktop160714.png .
1. Debian
2. LXDE
3. Vim
4. Mutt
5. CLI: elinks; GUI: Firefox
6. Screen
1. Mythbuntu, Mint (lmde)
2. Xfce, openbox
3. Gedit, vim
4. Thunderbird
5. Chromium, chrome, firefox, opera
6. Screen
1. Mostly ArchBang
2. Openbox with tint2 panel
3. nano, I try to use vim more often
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. Since I don’t really use either, I’m leaning to screen because I at least know of it.
1. Ubuntu 14.04: I like a hassle free installation. But follow these post-installation instructions however: https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject
2. Unity
3. Leafpad
4. Evolution
5. Chromium. Firefox as backup (for Citrix Receiver integration with my work)
6. ????
1. What distro do you use? ArchLinux / Debian
2. What window manager or desktop? Cinnamon / Openbox
3. What text editor? vim / sublime-text-2
4. What email client? Thunderbird / mutt
5. What web browser? Firefox / Chrome
6. Do you use screen or tmux? Yes, I use both, though I prefer tmux over screen
1. What distro do you use? Debian
2. What window manager or desktop? Awesome
3. What text editor? Vim – Geany
4. What email client? None
5. What web browser? Firefox
6. Do you use screen or tmux? Tmux
1. Arch
2. Gnome3
3. Vim
4. Webmail
5. Firefox
6. No.
1. Arch
2. KDE
3. Vim
4. GMail/Chrome
5. Chrome
6. Only when messing around
1. Kubuntu
2. KDE
3. Kate
4. Kmail
5. Firefox
6. Tmux
1. Debian
2. Mate
3. Pluma
4. Icedove
5. Iceweasel
6. Screen
1. Fedora (though possibly switching to Arch)
2. Gnome Shell (it’s the bizz, seriously I don’t know what you have against it, I’ve been happily using it since it came out)
3. Vim/Gedit
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. screen
Machine 1
1. What distro do you use? Kubuntu
2. What window manager or desktop? KDE
3. What text editor? Vi / KWrite
4. What email client? None – webmail
5. What web browser? Firefox
6. Do you use screen or tmux? Neither
Machine 2
as per 1 but with PCLinuxOS as the distro
Work:
1. SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
2. herbstluftwm (tiling window manager)
3. Emacs (been using for 20 years now)
4. Outlook on Windows (sigh)
5. Chrome
6. Screen (very customized)
Home:
1. Fedora
2. Xfce
3. Emacs (been using for 20 years now)
4. Thunderbird
5. Chrome
6. screen
1. What distro do you use? => Wheezy / Ubuntu
2. What window manager or desktop? => Gnome / Unity
3. What text editor? => geany / gedit
4. What email client? => thunderbird (I’d like something better looking !)
5. What web browser? => chromium
6. Do you use screen or tmux? => neither
1. What distro do you use? crunchbang waldorf
2. What window manager or desktop?openbox
3. What text editor?geany
4. What email client?no
5. What web browser?iceweasel and chrome
6. Do you use screen or tmux? screen
1. Fedora (as of a few weeks ago)
2. i3
3. Vim
4. Mutt (as of a week ago)
5. Pentadactyl! (firefox)
6. tmux
1. Ubuntu 14.04
2. Unity
3. vim
4. None
5. Firefox
6. Dunno – what is that?
1. What distro do you use? Work:OpenSUSE & Ubuntu Home:OpenSuSE
2. What window manager or desktop? KDE & Unity
3. What text editor? Kate,Vi and Gedit
4. What email client? Thunderbird
5. What web browser? Firefox
6. Do you use screen or tmux? Tmux though infrequently.
1. Linux Mint
2. Mate Desktop
3. Pluma
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. Neither.
1. Debian Wheezy
2. KDE
3. Kate and Vim
4. Icedove
5. Iceweasel
6. tmux, but only with Vim-R-plugin
1. Linux Mint 17, Ubuntu 14.04 & Raspbian.
2. Cinnamon, Unity & LXDE.
3. geany & nano.
4. web-mail
5. Firefox, Chromium, Opera & Midori
6. No.
7. Programming languages: Sketch, C, Python.
1. Arch Linux
2. MATE
3. Geany
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. screen
1. Arch, any other distro usually makes me go into chronic distro hopping mode.
2. Cinnamon & Openbox(only with crunchbang)
3. Geany(I’m still learning in this department)
4.Gmail & Thunderbird
5.Firefox
6.None, haven’t tried them
1. What distro do you use? Ubuntu14.04
2. What window manager or desktop? Unity
3. What text editor? Gedit or libre writer for posh stuff
4. What email client? Evolution
5. What web browser? Firefox (sometimes Chromium)
6. Do you use screen or tmux? none
1. Arch Linux
2. KDE
3. Vim and Sublime Text
4. Thunderbird
5. Chrome and Firefox
6. Screen
1. What distro do you use? OpenSUSE 13.1 (MS XP at work)
2. What window manager or desktop? xfce (XP at work)
3. What text editor? Gedit
4. What email client? Thunderbird (Outlook at work)
5. What web browser? Firefox/ Chromium; IE at work -none other permitted!
(Different security settings!)
6. Do you use screen or tmux? What does this mean??????
Fedora 20
KDE
Nano
Thunderbird
Firefox
None (just a plain terminal)
1. Currently Ubuntu. But lots of others in Virtualboxes
2. Prefer Enlightenment, but currently Unity.
3. Vim &/or Gvim on all platforms
4. Prefer nmh, but: gmail, webmail, Office 365, & Outlook. Don’t like Tbird or Evolution
5. Chromium and Firefox
6. Mostly screen. Sometimes tmux.
1. Archlinux
2. Openbox
3. {g,}vim, Geany
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. tmux, but only over ssh on my Raspberry
1 – Linux Mint 17 on my desktop and girlfriend’s laptop, Ubuntu Server 12.04 on home server (which is actually an old netbook), RaspBMC on Raspberry Pi, and Raspbian on the other Rapsberry Pi
2 – Mate
3 – Vim
4 – Webmail (fastmail.fm)
5 – Firefox with Pentadactyl
6 – Tmux
1. archlinux
2. awesom
3. vim
4. thunderbird
5. firefox
6. neither
1. Arch
2. Xmonad
3. Vim
4. Gmail/Web
5. Firefox
6. None (tmux on few occasion)
1. Xubuntu LTS
2. XFCE
3. gedit + nano
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. screen
Home:
1. Xubuntu
2. XFCE
3. Vim
4. Mutt
5. Firefox
6. Screen
Work:
1. Crunchbang Waldorf
2. Openbox
3. Vim
4. Outlook Webapp (Makes me feel unclean …)
5. Iceweasel
6. Screen
1. Ubuntu
2. Unity
3. JEdit
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. No
Server:
1.Crunchbang
2.Openbox
3.Nano
4.None
5.Chromium
6.Screen
Chromebook/crouton:
1.Ubuntu saucy
2.Xfce4
3.Geany
4.Gmail Web (in chromeos session)
5.Chromium (Ubuntu session) chrome (chromeos session)
6.none
So many answeres. Nice reading.
1. Desktop: Ubuntu, Laptop: Mint, Server: Debian
2. Currently Fluxbox. But if set up correctly XMonad is just the best. 😉
3. VIM
4. mutt
5. Firefox (Pentadactyl for Vi-bindings)
6. Screen.
1. linuxfromscratch
2. icewm
3. vim
4. mutt (over ssh),
but gmail in a browser for things in html
5. mostly, firefox
6. no
Fedora 20
Xfce
dont
dont use email
Firefox
Yes, I have a screen attached to my computer
1) Kubuntu
2) KDE
3) vim
4) thunderbird
5) firefox
6) screen
1 Crunchbang
2 Openbox
3 gedit
4 none.. prefer browser
5 chrome
6 errr.. what???
1. Debian
2. Xfce
3. gedit
4. thunderbird
5. firefox
6. No
1. Debian
2. i3+GNOME3
3. GNU Emacs
4. mutt
5. Google Chrome
6. tmux
1. Linux Mint
2. Cinnamon
3. None
4. None. I deal with email on my tablet.
5. Firefox/Opera
6. Neither
1. Debian GNU/Linux
2. Gnome 3
3. Emacs
4. mutt for many years, recently mu4e (a new Emacs-based client)
5. Iceweasel (Debian’s rebranded Firefox)
6. screen
1. Mint 17 (desktop), Arch & Lubuntu 14.04 (dualboot netbook), Mint 13 (laptop)
2. Cinnamon on Mint and Arch, LXDE on Lubuntu obviously 😉
3. nano or Gedit dependiny on mood
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. No
1. mint on laptops, ubuntu on desktops. slowly moving to mint.
2. I3
3. emacs
4. thunderbird
5. firefox
6. no
1. Mint
2. Cinnamon
3. vim
4. mutt
5. Firefox
6. tmux
1. Mint 13
2. Mate
3. Pluma
4. None, webmail through browser
5. Chromium
6. What’s that then?
1. Ubuntu
2. Gnome
3. vim
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. neither
1. Manjaro
2. Xfce
3. vim
4. Thunderbird
5. Firefox
6. neither
on my second machine