Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux

On Sat, 16 Nov 2024, Phillip Frabott wrote:

On 11/16/2024 04:31, D wrote:

  On Fri, 15 Nov 2024, Phillip Frabott wrote:
 

nano
git
openssh
gnutls
links
bash
automake
autoconf
gcc
mutt
htop
iotop
gomuks
tmux
WordGrinder
 and that's it.
 When I'm done I go home and spend the evening with family.

 Wordgrinder is not a common choice. Could you please tell me a bit about it? Wat is it with wordgrinder that guys you joy when writing texts?

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I should probably note, if it's not apparent in the list above, I live in bash. I do not use a WM day-to-day. I'm a purist shell-only user. WordGrinder is the only shell program I was able to find that has support great support for ODT, a format that I have to be able to use at work since almost all of our documents are either ODT or MD (Mostly ODT). It has a pretty decent spell checker that you can add to it's dictionary and has pretty good formatting support within the limitations of shell (You won't be adding images, but I don't get paid enough to make documentation with pretty pictures anyways). It is probably the most feature-rich shell application I've found so far. You can look at it here if you want: https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/
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If you have a recommendation for something other then WordGrinder that works without any Xorg/X11 components installed though, I'd be happy to try it out. It has to support opening and saving (or importing/exporting) into ODT and MD formats and must be able to compile source-only and no docker.
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Before you ask, since you'll probably find me in another thread asking about Gentoo related to KDE, I do have Xorg installed on another machine but it's only for the small sliver of time where I have to test a desktop program I'm writing for the company I work for. And I use a separate machine for that. Most of my time is in headless code though so it's not often I have to boot it up.

Thank you for sharing! Very interesting. What type of work do you do where you are able to get by with only the shell? You must have a very kind employer! =)
As for word processing, the usual suspects are vim, groff, latex and for converting documents back and forth, I think that pandoc is very common.
But this is all hearsay, so I am sure there are others here in this group who know much more about it than I do.