2020 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners

[chimak111]

2020 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners

Desktop Environment of the Year - Plasma Desktop (KDE) (35.54%)
Video Authoring Application of the Year - KDEnlive (44.44%)
File Manager of the Year - Dolphin (29.39%)
X Terminal Emulator of the Year - Konsole (23.25%)
Clipboard Manager of the Year - Klipper (52.73%)
PDF Viewer of the Year - Okular (37.40%)

Text editor of the year went to vim.

[GreyGeek]

Too bad Kate didn't win text editor of the year. It's MY favorite.

[TWPonKubuntu]

I give a +1 for the Kate editor also.

[oshunluvr]

The comments below the post are worth a read. Some good opinions and points there I think. I for sure have some differing votes;

KDENLive? I stopped try to use that years ago so maybe it's better. I could never get more than a few minutes between crashes, even after trying multiple releases of it.

Kate is pretty good. Almost as good as Notepad++ for Windows, which is the best text editor I've ever used. I'd vote for it. I don't see how it's in the same category as vim. Is there a GUI version of vim? Only old or crazy coders use vim, LOL. At least that's what I tell my team at work when someone brings up vim. Every try to walk a illiterate computer user through a simple edit using vim over the phone? Almost impossible. Nano beats it hands down in my world.

Ocular is OK but still lacks some features. I end up using poppler utilities sometimes. I'd vote for it but there's not a lot of competition.

I freakin love Dolphin. I add many of my own features to it. I'll never understand why people stick to Krusader with its 1990s interface. I loved Xtree-Pro as much as anyone, but that was the 80s man, get over it.

I didn't know there were alternatives to Klipper. I guess that means I like it.

Yakuake is my terminal love. IDK know if it's actually a separate program from Konsole or just a different presentation. I use yakuake every single day. I reserve using Konsole for a big project when I need lots of desktop space. I have it set to fill my whole second monitor.

[verndog]

I still use vi/vim whenever possible, ever since the '70's at AT&T Unix PDP1170, on a VT100 terminal.

[oshunluvr]

...ever since the '70's at AT&T Unix PDP1170, on a VT100 terminal.

Thanks for validating my point! ROFL

[jlittle]

I still use vi/vim whenever possible, ever since the '70's at AT&T Unix PDP1170, on a VT100 terminal.

That makes me feel a spring chicken, only going back to the 80's.

[jlittle]

Kate is pretty good.

Yes, it improves every year, and what it does do, it tries to do really well. But there's still massive gaps. Scripting is still too hard and limited, and the ecosystem is minimal as yet. Macro recording? Python, Lua, etc. integration? Arbitrary mappings and text objects?

Is there a GUI version of vim?

Been using gvim since the 90s. Very clunky back then, still clunky now.

Only old or crazy coders use vim

I joined a team of four developers last year, all in their mid twenties, and two were using vim. Maybe we're all crazy.

[Fred47]

I only use vi when I can't get to the desktop and need to edit system files. Which to be honest hasn't happened in years. So Kate is my editor of choice.

[GreyGeek]

@Oshunluver, IMO, I've found that OBS is greatly superior to KDENLive.

[MoonRise]

Too bad Kate didn't win text editor of the year. It's MY favorite.

+1 on that!!