I recently switched to #Linux Mint.

[alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space]

@Some_Emo_Chick

Mint is a very good distro (as is LMDE) although I am on Ubuntu, mainly due to hardware compatibility on my MacBook Air

[idahobucks@mastodon.social]

@Some_Emo_Chick I use Obsidian for now to track notes I need.

[mensrea@freeradical.zone]

@Some_Emo_Chick my goto text editor is Kate

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@Some_Emo_Chick
Older Notepad++ does work on WINE (I don't know about newer ones).
KATE is very similar and maybe better. I used Notepad++ on WINE (2017), and then changed to KATE.
Deleted Windows partition in 2017.
I used this (instructions are wrong)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd
on an 2002 XP Laptop and a 2015 Win7 tower (Legacy boot) to make files for Oracle Virtual Box on Linux, but I hardly use them. I also used the BIOS Win10 Key (can be read in Linux) as key to install Win10 also as a VM.

[angela@tech.lgbt]

@Some_Emo_Chick I left Mint as I had an AMD graphics card, and the kernel they used at the time didn't support it. So now I use Cinnamon on Ubuntu.

[ranx@mastodon.social]

@Some_Emo_Chick Linux Mint is probably the only one which never gave me problems (i installed it only in my VM), apart from the constant need to clean old version files.

[lxskllr@mastodon.world]

@Some_Emo_Chick

I like geany for an editor that reminded me of notepad++. I'm not a programmer, and my needs are modest, so it may have failings I didn't notice, but I liked it.

I now use whatever my desktop provides. Mousepad on xfce, and kate on plasma.

[mina@berlin.social]

@Some_Emo_Chick

I'm not a newcomer (on Linux for almost 30 years and on Unix on Uni workstations before).

I recently installed Mint on a computer, and it's nice and easy. Almost full recommendation.

The tiny things, I don't like is that, it doesn't restore my windows after a shutdown and that cinnamon is not as customizable as KDE-Plasma.

However: These are truly First World Problems.

[db_geek@norden.social]

@TimWardCam @Some_Emo_Chick I'm using https://kmymoney.org/ for around 20 years or so.

If it is needed, I'm not using online banking with it, so I can't say anything about this topic.
But the double-entry accounting principles helps to keep a good financial overview.

If you maybe are looking for other alternatives on Linux for example for Quicken here some other suggestions:
https://alternativeto.net/software/quicken/?license=opensource&p=2&platform=linux

[blotosmetek@circumstances.run]

@Some_Emo_Chick you could actually use Notepad++ on Linux thanks to Wine. But if you don't need any particular feature that is endemic to Notepad++, I guess there's more than enough sensible Linux editors.

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@Some_Emo_Chick Rofl, I love that meme image.

I do not in any way disagree with it.

[some_emo_chick@mastodon.social]

@blotosmetek I am well aware of emulation and translation layers. My goal was to try to use as much native apps as possible. I went with Sublime for text editing / coding.

[hellomiakoda@pdx.social]

@Some_Emo_Chick It's amazing how thoroughly Mint dethroned Ubuntu as the default entry point.

[shadowdrakken@mastodon.social]

@Some_Emo_Chick oh dude, you don’t need a Notepad++ replacement in Mint. Mint comes with Xed

[some_emo_chick@mastodon.social]

@TimWardCam I think GnuCash and Homebank are both viable options but I don't have a recommendation yet.

[some_emo_chick@mastodon.social]

@lxskllr I am using Sublime. Works well for coding and text editing.

[some_emo_chick@mastodon.social]

@raymaccarthy I am using Sublime as my text editor and coding app

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@blotosmetek @Some_Emo_Chick Using stuff through Wine can be a pain if you have to, for example, open external files.

Which, uh, is kind of Notepad++'s thing.

(My biggest complaint isn't so much that you're using Z:\ to access stuff by a full path in most configurations, but that awful dialog it uses to do so.)

I've found alternatives for most things these days, but there are just a handful of very specialized tools I rarely have to use (things like game modding tools are never made for *nix sadly — I sure wish they were) and that file open/save dialog in WINE is the absolute worst. Clearly a total afterthought where they didn't think people would use it very often...

Anyway, whenever a native option will do it's always preferable. WINE is always a stopgap for tools.

[timwardcam@c.im]

@db_geek @Some_Emo_Chick I looked a few years ago and didn't like what I found. I may have missed things I suppose - I was essentially looking for a Quicken replacement for Windows at the time. (I'm now using JioSoft Money Manager which is OK so far as it goes - reporting is rather limited but as you can get directly at the database you can in theory generate your own reports.)

[some_emo_chick@mastodon.social]

@idahobucks I use obsidian as well but for text editing and coding I am now using Sublime.

Several people have suggested Kate which looks interesting and I am checking out.