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

On Sun, 17 Nov 2024, Phillip Frabott wrote:

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! =)

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I am a headless C developer (Sometimes C++). I develop code that must run on

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law (I may or may not have been responsible for it. But I'll plead the 5th if you ask me.)

Thank you very much for sharing, sounds like a very nice job given
todays sh*tty development environments and "devops"-tooling.

 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.

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While I'm sure that Vim an Groff and others are capable of converting/using these formats back and forth, WordGrinder is a more dedicated purpose application. Trying to use multi-purpose editors just adds more complexity not to mention the fact that you have to build additional addons and configurations to get the feature set that WordGrinder provides out of the box. So that's why it was ultimately chosen.

Makes sense.