Software Snapshot
I want to capture an annual snapshot of software I am using on my computer. This info is sort of embedded in other notes where I talk about setting up Ubuntu, but I thought it would be interesting to regularly record a snapshot to compare over time. I have noticed a significant decrease in software I actually use, moving more to either browser or text editor.
Jan 2021
- Distro: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - I used to really enjoy installing the latest releases and completely wiping my laptop every 6 months, but lately LTS seems less work…
- Desktop:
- GNOME 3.36.8
- Extensions: Caffeine
- GNOME Tweaks
- Browsers:
- Firefox 85 - I use firefox for every thing. Interesting to have work access to office365, Word is just as terrible in browser as on desktop.
- uBlock Origin
- Multi-Account Containers
- Facebook Container
- Chromium 88 (snap) - I use chromium just for testing web development. I prefer the dev tools to Firefox’s.
- Firefox 85 - I use firefox for every thing. Interesting to have work access to office365, Word is just as terrible in browser as on desktop.
- Text editors:
- VS Code - used constantly, but getting more annoyed by each update. It seems like it is getting constantly more features, with debugging and information popping up everywhere. I don’t need or appreciate that stuff. I spend a lot of time trying to turn it off, but seems harder…
- TextEditor / Gedit - used as extra scratch pad constantly.
- Atom - installed, but not used. I want to like it (it seems like it should be slightly better than VS Code), but just seems slow and not quite right. Not having a good integrated terminal is a big draw back for me.
- Other GUI software:
- GIMP
- OBS Studio
- VidCutter
- KeePassXC
- Etcher
- OpenRefine
- LibreOffice Calc
- Pandemic work from home has introduced some new every day tools:
- Zoom - not great on Linux, has less features, freezes up on screen share.
- Cisco VPN
- Remmina
- Command line tools:
- git
- ImageMagick
- ExifTool (via
libimage-exiftool-perl
) - ffmpeg
- Pandoc
- LaTeX (via
texlive texlive texlive-fonts-extra texlive-xetex texlive-extra-utils
) - mainly just for use with Pandoc. - Ruby (via rbenv) - used to do more with Python, but recently just using commandline, OpenRefine, or Ruby + Rake for anything.
- Jekyll (via Ruby)
- Java (via
default-jre
) - just for use with OpenRefine. - tlp tlp-rdw - laptop battery utilities.