Season 2 - Episode 11: Feck It, We're Doing It Live

Chitchat

• Conor: Using Gnome on his laptop. 💻
• Shane: Using Ubuntu on 🔛 everything.
• Mike: Playing with the Debian build for the upcoming 🌲📘💪 Pinebook Pro.

Discussion

This episode was recorded live at FOSS Talk Live

How much do you use the command line?

• Yay is a Pacman wrapper 🛠️ and AUR helper on Arch-based distros. It stands for "Yet Another Yogurt" because of course it does.
• Synaptic had been a GUI package manager before it was cool. 🐱‍👓
• Let's Encrypt provides SSL certificates for the 👥 masses.
• cPanel is a proprietary web 🕸️ hosting control panel.
• VisiData is an open source command line spreadsheet that outexcels Excel when it comes to ginormous CSVs and speed of use.📊
• Sed and AWK are 🐱‍👤 ninja-grade CLI text processing tools.
• If you've never used Stack Overflow, 📚 then you must be omniscient. Just like Stack Overflow.
• Browsh is like Firefox on the command line. You know 👩‍💻🌐 you want it.

What are you missing in Linux?

• 🎛️ Pavucontrol is a GUI for PulseAudio.
• This podcast is usually 🤓🎙️🤓🎙️🤓🎙️ recorded and edited 🤓🎚️ in Audacity. We are grateful to it, even when it's messing 😈.
• WPS Office tries to compete with LibreOffice 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

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