bartlbee@lemmy.sdf.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•What CLI apps you use to do common tasks like editing (pdf, audio, video, image) files.English
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1 year agoI’d add:
- ghostscript - with some basic perl scripts, works great for pdf flattening/compressing, merging, splitting, adding bookmarks etc.
- poppler - pdfseparate, sometimes pdfunite
- zathura - pdf viewing
- feh - images
- sshfs - prefer it to rclone
- cheat
- emacs - org-mode, latex, dired/wdired, capture, eshell, vterm, tramp
- mc/midnight commander
Autocad. This is the main (only?) reason I continue to use Windows. Professional 2d cad for architectural drafting has been lacking in Linux for a long time. There are a few commercial alternatives, Bricscad being the big one, but due to (cheap) grandfathered licensing cost for Autocad, I"ve been unable to push for a purchase. Qcad (professional) was another option I looked at but, despite being a good program at an amazing cost, had enough differences in work flow that I couldn’t find a good way to integrate it into a shared workflow.
Every once in a while I switch to Linux and either run a W10 vm or RDP just to work around the issue but, inevitably, get frustrated with performance. Freecad and Blender both seem to be working on the problem -but- from a BIM perspective, not detailed drafting . . .