I wish to have the same environment on all of my computers (desktops,
portables,..). Of course it is not possible as I use SGIs, Linux machines of
different ages, Mac OS X machine (not a macOS one!) and sometimes even the
Windows.
Here is the list:
* text editor: Vim / gVim (or the old VI in soe cases)
* math: GNU Octave
* graphs: Gnuplot (both from octave and standalone)
* finite element analysis: my own uFEM
* visualization: MeshTV (trying to use VisIt on new computers)
* 2D sketches: XFig
* typesetting: (La)TeX
Of course not everything can be done: as a shell I do use both GNU Bash and the
Zsh and there is no comon 2D CAD tool. So for simple things (sketches,
illustrations) I use the XFig but also the LibreCAD (and the older QCAD on
SGIs). For visualisation I have been using also the Paraview but it has some
stability issues on some of my computers. For office works I use MS Office (I
do this only at work) but I prefer to use the LaTeX where possible (for
teaching and scientific texts but also for my private documents). For e-mail I
use the Thunderbird (for work stuff) and the Mutt (and even the mailx one
place).
The calendar application is an another problem but it should be a topic of a
longer story.
