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And over here in Linux-ville...
My main distro is Arch Linux 64. Straight Compiz WM, no KDE or GNOME bloat; LXpanel and Tint2 systray.
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I run Ubuntu on my desktop, and Ubuntu and Puppy on my notebook.
Desktop Ubuntu uses Gnome. Notebook uses Xfce4, as does Puppy. (NB:
not Xubuntui. That was painfully slow on the old limited notebook. Ubuntu installed bare bones to a CLI interface from MinimalCD, then Xfce4 and friensd installed via apt-get works a lot better.),
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I'm fortunate enough to have two monitors, so I don't have to get into the whole command-line-vs-GUI debate, I have both simultaneously. For CLI stuff I have Terminator, which allows me to split my terminal into multiple windows; in one I have htop as a sysmon, in another I exec
to keep tabs on temps (I OC), in a third term I have centerim for chat, and a fourth term for...well, terminal stuff. With transparency the whole thing looks straight out of Minority Report.
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I like Terminal and Sakura, both of which do tabs instead of multiple windows and can do transparency. (Under Windows, I use Console2, which is similar.)
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OpenOffice.org has been kind of getting on my nerves lately; I have to keep a copy of MS Office in a VM anyway because school "officially" calls for .docx.
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Open Office 3.2 doesn't offer sufficient support for docx?
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PCManFM for a file manager, Transmission for a bittorrent client, nano/gedit, FF/TBird but probably switching to Opera, and...umm, that's pretty much it. My VMs have all the usual stuff; Ubuntu does some things better (or easier) than, say, Mandriva, and PCLinuxOS might be better still; since I test all these distros for my site I already have them handy. For the most part I take Linus Torvalds' advice and use the best tool for the job, open-source or otherwise.
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I like Xfe for file manager, though I have PCManFM installed. Nano is here, but my preferred editor is Geany, a lightweight IDE based on the Scintilla edit control. It does code folding and syntax highlighting for a host of languages.
I prefer FF/TB, but use Opera 10.10 on the notebook for faster loading and lower resource usage.
(The notebook is an ancient Fijitsu Lifebook with slow IDE 4 HD and 256MB RAM. It technically runs FF 3.6, if I don't mind waiting 30 seconds for it to load...)
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Dennis