Linux @lemmy.ml Croquette @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

Coders, what is your workflow on Linux

Hello,

I installed Ubuntu a few months ago on my work laptop and I've been running and loving it since.

However, I am used to VsCode, so this is what I am using in Ubuntu as well.

So I am curious, what kind of coding so you do? And what is your workflow.

I am an embedded firware developper and mainly use C. I am cross compiling my code in VsCode for a FPGA from Xilinx (dual core arm + PL)

Never dove into make files and cmake more than what I needed in the past, but I had an opportunity to learn CMake and build a project from it.

So my workflow is :

Code in VsCode
Build in CMake
Transfer the app through scp on the target with a custom script (target is running petalinux, which is yocto + Xilinx recipes)
Use gdb server to debug the code.

It's a pretty simple workflow, but I'd like to know what you guys are running so that I can maybe upgrade my workflow.

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Java dev, running opensuse Tumbleweed with KDE.

IntelliJ IDEA, maven, git, postman

Kate for quick edits and note taking works very well

Konsole is my terminal of choice

Teams for Linux because I have to

docker on the command line because there's no docker desktop for Linux. There is for windows and MacOS tho, although Linux is literally the thing where it runs on the kernel and whose concepts the whole thing is based upon. Fuck them.

Kind of sad to see still lack (for Linux in general) of apps that are often used in companies. E.g. Teams and docker desktop
- Teams for Linux sucks and is not maintained anymore. Devs recommend using the web app and this is what I'm using in Chrome, works really well. Otherwise I'm also on Tumbleweed KDE :)
  
  There's an unofficial cliënt that I've used in the past. Works well even on Wayland (where screen sharing can be an issue sometimes): https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux
  
  If I'm not mistaken, this app is just a wrapper for the web app.
  
  I had a lot of issues with wayland and that app.
  
  Indeed this is the description I find on Discover:
  
  Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux using Electron. It uses the Web App and wraps it as a standalone application using Electron.
  
  The advantage compared to teams.microsoft.com (at least when I load it in Firefox), is that it has many more features, since I guess it's using an "Edge" user agent, which unlocks stuff that is not enabled for FF. For example, I can have 1:1 calls (yeah, I know...) and blur my background or even set a background pic, all things I can't really do on FF.
  
  On the other hand, screen sharing works unreliably (at least in a Wayland session, X11 is fine). I've reported a bug to KDE since I assumed it's a kwin issue, but I should test it with a gnome wayland live medium as well...
  
  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472471
- Hey how are you liking Opensuse? I've always observed that OS from a far but never had a good opportunity to sit down and tinker with it.
  
  I've been in the Debian or mint/pop os camp squarely for awhile now so the cost of time to learn it is somewhat high since all my stuff just works.
  
  You mentioned lack of packages, I feel like I have an abundance in my ecosystem. The store on pop os has so much stuff.
  
  Maybe this is worth looking at? https://docs.docker.com/desktop/install/linux-install/
  
  For a personal PC I love it, never had any issues, package selection is great and bleeding edge.
  
  You may raise your eyebrow since this is in contrast with my previous comment, but I've rephrased the final sentence since then (I was rather annoyed by the lack of some official apps on Linux, rather than packages for my specific distro. And that's 100 on Microsoft/Docker).
  
  To be honest I'm not sure TW is the best choice for a workstation because of its rolling nature, but I just recently turned my personal PC into my (also) work PC, therefore I sticked with what I already had.
  
  An LTS kernel would probably be the safest option, but with snapshots out of the box (if you use btrfs), I still feel quite safe right now. If an update should break something crucial for my work, I'd just roll it back.
  
  Transitioning from debian based shouldn't be hard, zypper is quite intuitive and fast. You also get OBS which is kinda like pacman user packages.
  
  If you need some obscure app which was packaged years ago in binary for Linux, you'll probably have much more luck with Debian based since apparently .deb is the first package you wanna target.
  
  But it hasn't happened in a while now that I needed to download such obscure binaries, typically I could find a repackaged version or an alternative app all together, so...
- docker on the command line because there's no docker desktop for Linux. There is for windows and MacOS tho, although Linux is literally the thing where it runs on the kernel and whose concepts the whole thing is based upon. Fuck them.
  
  You could wrap the Docker/podman commands in a Makefile or create bash aliases/functions.
- Have you checked out podman desktop or rancher desktop?
  
  I have now and I'm loving podman desktop! All I wanted was a quick and easy way to stop/start/delete running compose clusters, and podman desktop detected all my running docker compose containers and displayed them with the familiar tree-like UI with individual or global controls to play/stop or delete.
  
  Thanks! :)
  
  Sweet, I'm glad the recommendation is working for you!
  
  Sweet, I'm glad the recommendation is working for you!
  
  If any of those can be used with docker, I'm sold!
  
  I cannot move to podman because our projects are shared and the rest of me team is on Windows or MacOs and they all use docker desktop. We also use docker compose files.

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