VCoolio
January 24th, 2010, 12:57 AM
I was a little amused by the thought that I hardly use any of the apps that come with ubuntu by default. I even switched to zsh instead of bash. I still use gedit (but heavily extended with extra installed plugins, eg for latex), nano (both soon to be replaced by emacs that I installed this week), gimp, sometimes openoffice, and sometimes nautilus but for network browsing only, and gdm (because I can't get anything else to run properly, otherwise it would have gone down the drain also long ago). So the only firm standing standard app I use is gimp and guess what is removed from the standard apps in Lucid?
My replacements:
file browser: thunar (instead of nautilus)
internet: uzbl, opera, seamonkey (instead of firefox)
text: latex, emacs (also gedit, nano, openoffice)
mail: claws-mail (instead of evolution)
pdf: epdf (instead of evince which is broken on my system for unknown reasons)
music: ncmpcpp (is mpd standard in ubuntu? not sure about that one)
sound: alsa (instead of pulse)
video: smplayer / vlc (mplayer is already there of course)
im / irc: irssi (instead of empathy / pidgin)
terminal: urxvt or roxterm (instead of gnome-terminal)
shell: zsh (instead of bash)
wm: e17 (instead of metacity / compiz)
system monitor: htop (instead of system-monitor or top)
Yes, I'm considering switching distros, but I'm not fixing something that's not broken.
Edit: I do use cron and osd-notifications; but even the latter I've replaced with a hacked osd that is positioned in the top right corner instead of an inch lower. Also I remembered I use gnome-screenshot.
My replacements:
file browser: thunar (instead of nautilus)
internet: uzbl, opera, seamonkey (instead of firefox)
text: latex, emacs (also gedit, nano, openoffice)
mail: claws-mail (instead of evolution)
pdf: epdf (instead of evince which is broken on my system for unknown reasons)
music: ncmpcpp (is mpd standard in ubuntu? not sure about that one)
sound: alsa (instead of pulse)
video: smplayer / vlc (mplayer is already there of course)
im / irc: irssi (instead of empathy / pidgin)
terminal: urxvt or roxterm (instead of gnome-terminal)
shell: zsh (instead of bash)
wm: e17 (instead of metacity / compiz)
system monitor: htop (instead of system-monitor or top)
Yes, I'm considering switching distros, but I'm not fixing something that's not broken.
Edit: I do use cron and osd-notifications; but even the latter I've replaced with a hacked osd that is positioned in the top right corner instead of an inch lower. Also I remembered I use gnome-screenshot.