I know we have a lot of hackers and experimenters on board, but I'd like to just round out perspective by telling you how I use my Artix systems day to day. It is my complete computing solution at this point: I edit, code, publish, play games, network, talk, listen to radio and TV, publish, create new art, marketing, and more.
Hacking:
Apache, Modperl, Perl, C++, Antlr compiler development engine, Java Development, Dia and systems programing and design, VIM, HTML, Make, GCC, Git, Eclipse, CLIPS, Gradle, SSH
Video:
Openshot, Bender, Flowblade, FFMPEG
Photo Editing:
Gimp, viewnoir
Publishing:
Scribus, Libreoffice, inkscape
Entertainment:
VLC, WINTV, Kaffiene, https://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_linux.html for over the air TV and FM radio, dvdrip to rip dvd, gtk-transmision, pop corn time
Games:
Crossfire (realtime)
Phone service:
Skype in the browser to call Israel overseas
vlc, pidgen
communications: hexchat, Pidgen,
Printing: Guttenberg, Cups
Scheduling:
thunderbird
Business:
libreoffice calc
Dictionaries: look
Hobbies:
open-numismat
Okular to read comics
Porn: We don't do porn...sorry.
Asktisks and openslip for phone systems.
Email - Postfix, Dovecot, Mailman, Thunderbird and Mutt
all running on windowmaker and keep up atrix mirrors with rsync, bind, dhcpd.
flatbush:[ruben]:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
run 16G 2.2M 16G 1% /run
efivarfs 118K 45K 69K 40% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/sda2 898G 470G 429G 53% /
shm 16G 15M 16G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3 499M 296K 499M 1% /boot/efi
tmpfs 3.2G 12K 3.2G 1% /run/user/1000
home2:/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/ 900G 616G 238G 73% /home/ruben/mnt4
/dev/sdb1 4.6T 3.7T 954G 80% /home/ruben/mnt
/dev/sdc1 1.9T 1.7T 133G 93% /home/ruben/mnt3
/dev/sde 235G 203G 20G 92% /home/ruben/mnt2
I'm not really missing anything. It is all a blessing.
Hello,
I have been using Artix OpenRC XFCE on different PCs since 2019.
Here is what I add after updating the system:
sudo pacman -Syu alacarte amd-ucode audacious audacity avidemux-qt bash-completion bzip2 catfish cups-openrc cups-pdf dvd+rw-tools easytag faac ffmpegthumbs ffmpegthumbnailer filelight firefox firefox-i18n-fr geeqie gimp gimp-help-fr grsync gsmartcontrol gutenprint gzip inkscape intel-ucode lame librecad libreoffice-fresh-fr libreoffice-fresh lximage-qt meld mjpegtools mtpaint neofetch openshot p7zip pamac pdfarranger pitivi pstoedit qastools screenkey scribus simplescreenrecorder smplayer tex-gyre-fonts thunderbird thunderbird-i18n-fr trizen viewnior volumeicon vorbis-tools xsane xsane-gimp xsensors xournalpp zim
If you want to install everything that goes with XFCE4:
sudo pacman -Sy xfce4-goodies
I add the very useful Dolphin file manager to Artix xfce
sudo pacman -Sy ark dolphin kdegraphics-thumbnailers kimageformats5 oxygen-icons qt5-imageformats
Personally I use Oxygen icons and Adwaita themes in xfce4 settings manager
For Artix, from the AUR repositories, I added:
kim4 (very practical for dolphin) and xfce4-kbdleds-plugin (for a keyboard without LED)
Beforehand:
sudo pacman -Sy base-devel linux-headers
To find and install a package using trizen (kim4 for example):
trizen kim4
Most of the time :
Internet, video playback and screen capture (simplescreenrecorder / avidemux) for my YouTube channel.
Graphics: Gimp, FreeCAD, LibreCAD.
No games.
It all boils down to personal preference, but there are 2 pieces of software in these categories that set the standards:
Kdenlive
mpv
Also, I can't really understand why people torrent media instead of paying for it! </sarcasm>