Genesis said:
smalpierre said:
I try to not use the command line when possible, because remembering a bunch of option switches for a million and one things is kind of silly when there's a gui. I do use it when it's necessary or convenient though.
Haha .... and here I thought all those Linux geeks had to be brilliant to remember all of the commands. Which Linux distribution are you using?
Just checked the one I'm using and indeed there's a GNOME for it:
http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Unix/Linux/LINUX_AddGNOMEToCentOSMinimalInstall.shtml
There's gui tools for gnome and kde. If I'm using xfce window system as I do on remote machines because SPEED!!! I install the gnome ones.
I'm not THAT much of a linux geek - but I'm thinking about moving to Linux for desktop with Windows in a VM as a permanent thing.
Commands are important, and they are in windows too but not as important. Still, when I need to know my IP address, it's easier to flick open a command shell and ifconfig or ipconfig than it is to dig through the gui tools. I do find myself using apt-get on the command line more often than using the gui tools in Linux.
I keep an browser window at the ready to look up commands and options. If I'm ssh'd into a remote box, I'm using the local gui browser. Usually though I connect with RDP and get a gui and open a terminal window.
Oh - I'm using Debian. In theory, I'd LOVE to be using Gentoo but I just don't have time to wrap my head around that much geekyness, and haven't for a long time. Maybe one day ... Debian and CentOS are the next best thing. I don't use CentOS as much as I should maybe, but Debians packages aren't quite as stale. Every time I look at CentOS I look at the stable package list and think ... no I CAN'T use PHP 5.1 ... I used to, but why deprive myself of features? The advantage to CentOS is that it strives to be binary compatible with RHEL which is what the big corps use - so if you're trying to exercise your skill set for job interviews CentOS makes more sense. I don't think I'll ever work as an employee again. I like the flexibility of being able to say F it, I'm going fishing today - so I use what works best for me.
Funny, because the last corp job I had working on Linux boxes they used SuSE ... So in a way it doesn't really matter. They are all very similar, and Google-Fu is more important than geeking out on a particular distro. I'll work on any of them as long as I get paid
There was a time when I installed everything from source because I HATED the package managers. They are all different in sometimes not so subtle ways, and then I control exactly what is on my system. It's just more convenient to have an installer for the OS, and use a package manager that handles dependencies.
The Gentoo package manager is entirely source based which seemed to be exactly what I was looking for. The problem I've run into is manually installing the OS - THAT is a royal PITA. I think I succeeded maybe 1 time out of 10 even on the same system - and I was taking notes during the process. Maybe I was drunk ... that seems like a good excuse haha
Gimp is the best Linux has to offer to compete with Photoshop afaik. As for Dreamweaver - If you're using the design mode, you're not going to find something all that similar. People that use WSIWYG gimmicks to build sites generally don't use Linux.
If you're looking for a good IDE for coding webapps there are several. PHPStorm runs on win / lin / mac, also NetBeans PHP version, and I think Brackets will work in Linux too - it's just Javascript run in a browser - although it might not exactly be the browser you use for the internet - maybe an embedded one. In that case, it wouldn't be too terribly difficult to make it run in whatever.
