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Depends on what you use your PC for.
For work, I'd consider Typora or Obsidian for markdown editing. At home I use LyX rather than LibreOffice, but some kind of office product is probably a good idea.
For gaming, and for the odd thing that arises, perhaps Wine.
If you edit movies, KDEnlive, if you write CD's K3B, if you edit images Gimp, etc.
Oh, and something to do backups. DejaDup is what I use, but I used to use Rsynch and later Unison.
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I have Ubuntu installed in Virtual Box on my workstation-laptop.
I really like it as it has come a long way from when I first began tinkering with it.
However, as a developer, Visual Studio is still the best IDE available, and I have tried quite a few, including Jet Brains' "Rider". I have Rider installed in Ubuntu and was tinkering with it when it crashed the entire VM.
Jet Brains has some great products. I have both their Python IDE, PyCharm, and PHP IDE, PhpStorm. I love the PyCharm as it just works both under Windows and Linux when you get used to its interface.
Unfortunately, I believe Jet Brains took on more than they could chew with Rider. As a WPF developer, Rider is not all that mature as it still doesn't have a control toolbox, which I use just to get the basic XAML generated. Everything else, I do manually in the editor.
So for me, as of now, there is still no real quality C#\VB.NET IDE under Linux and with the complexity of my work I am not interested in rewriting everything in Python, though it is tempting.
As for WPS, it was my go-to MS-Office alternative until they implemented their AI spellchecker, which was a major annoyance so a lot of us WPS users complained and dropped the product.
I switched to LibreOffice, which I have under Ubuntu as well. This software has come a long way from its early days making it now a stand-up tool for what we need it for.
I would like to eventually switch over everything to Linux, or at least make my development cross-platform. As a result, I am experimenting with the Avalonia-UI software to see how it runs under Linux with .NET Core 8.
Microsoft still has no plans to make a version of Visual Studio for Linux but hopefully the pressures will mount and they will eventually have to...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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I always go Debian Testing for desktop. Reading the replies, I feel like a troglodyte.
- Editor: neovim
- Webbrowser: qutebrowser
- Email: Thunderbird
- Window manager: bspwm
- Launcher and custom menus: jgmenu
- Terminal: st
- Sync: NextCloud Desktop
- VPN: wireguard
- a bunch of developer tools
- other things
But I'm tied to Windows at work in a walled garden setting, so WSL is the sad workaround there.
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Switched to Linux about a month after Windows 8.0 came out. Here's my list which is pretty much what I ran under Windows:
Libre Office
Thunderbird
Vivaldi
Firefox
jEdit
g++
I do run a Windows VM for games that don't yet work under Linux, Affinity Photo (I just hate Gimp) and TurboTax. I'm retired so all the work related stuff I use to have is gone!
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And I tried, I really did: a full load in the washing machine, pressure cooker making bulk mashed potatoes, my hot evening meal swapped to lunchtime (beef stew and dumplings), a batch of ice cream in the maker*, loads of washing up, and a whole bunch of heaters because it's a bit on the cool side today.
And how much did I get for free? £1.15 (US$1.47) ... 
I guess it was worth it - it's all stuff I've been wanting to do but either hadn't got around to or didn't need to for a few days. But I do feel a little cheated, which is weird, because normally I want my electricity a whole load cheaper than I have to pay!
* Salted caramel if you are interested.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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and you were using the heaters outside while sipping your tea on the patio?
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Well, on the bright side, you got all those things done.
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Hmm... if you get other opportunities at this I might say up the thermostat on the water heater to overheat the water and turn the thermostat down on the fridge/freezer to chill it out more.
Most of the idea is just to 'bank' the hour's energy into those things not having to do anything the following hour(s).
Could you install a large bank of high density batteries like Musk did over in AUS?
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jochance wrote: Could you install a large bank of high density batteries like Musk did over in AUS?
You mean, without having your insurer insist you put that thing as far away as possible from your house...?
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Hmm idk about that angle. I've seen systems for sale here which will tie in solar panels and a generator run off natural gas.
I think they're meant more for the areas which do floating electric rates. The idea is you use solar and natural gas and pulling from the grid when it's cheap to keep the battery bank charged. Regular use comes out of the batteries as it's basically the energy at its calculated cheapest cost, however it got in there.
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I have a friend that does that based on a free night time electricity plan. Banks into a few battery packs at night and runs off the packs during the day.
He estimated a three year break even on the packs, then he is into the gravy! (as long as he can find a similar power plan)
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Oh. . . I get it now.
From the message title, I thought you had no power for an hour. Been reading about the fragile condition of the Australian power grid and was probably primed for that thought.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: I present to you
but when you present to her...stand back!
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Ah, but the best chicks have a sense of humor.
Jeremy Falcon
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That site is blocked here at work. Is it a picture of a Stepford Wife?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Stepford Wife
Dunno what that is, but it's a pic of a book called "The Perfect Wife" in a bookstore. However, it's in the fiction section. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Quote: The Stepford Wives is a 1972 satirical "feminist horror"[1] novel by Ira Levin. The story concerns Joanna Eberhart, a talented photographer, wife, and young mother who suspects that something in the town of Stepford is changing the wives from free-thinking, intelligent women into compliant wives dedicated solely to homemaking. As her friends slowly transform, Joanna realizes the horrific truth.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Safe for work.
But NSFH !
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Get one today!
Humility, and fine taste, combined.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Not many that I know.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I know it's a popular word these days but...
This is super weird
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Yeah, it is like "hmmm, is this satire?"
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Anybody asking what a husband wants?
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Everybody already knows that, and it's not safe for the lounge. 
Jeremy Falcon
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