Vista Who?

Submitted by Chad on Wed, 05/30/2007 - 9:35pm.

• Tech

So I've pretty much made the switch over to Ubuntu on my home desktop flawlessly. I have not run into an instance that it can't do what I need it to do. I really thought I would miss Dreamweaver a lot. I know I can mess with crossover office or wine to get it working, but I've not missed it enough yet. The truth is, most of the web work I've been doing has been over SSH, which I have grown to love and rely on so much, that a lot of times I'm just editing php right in SSH using nano. No, I'm not talking about an ipod nano, though I do have one of those and love it. I'm talking about the linux text editor, nano. Many true linux heads say that vi is laptop battery the bomb, but I have not had the time to break through the learning curve in Vi, so for now, I'm happy with nano. You can find out more about nano here.

This would probably not work for someone who was heavy into html editing or CSS, though I seem to do all of that by hand now-a-days too. I guess it just comes with the territory.

Interestingly enough I think I'm working more efficiently doing things this way. It also makes me revisit the way I structure my pass drug test /var/www files and I keep them much more organized.

Random Thought: I can't find all the fonts that i want on GIMP. What up with that??

I did run into an interesting predicament today, which interested me about Ubuntu Studio. I do not see a good video editing suite. Not a one. I need to do some investigation on how I can splice 3 small movies onto one disk with a menu that will play in DVD players. I'm sure I'll find something, but we'll see. If anyone has any suggestions for Linux I welcome them.