Justine HauptInterview
Science associate
Adapted from Justine Haupt's interview on Uses This, published 30 June 2020. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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Main computer: 2013 Dell XPS 9530 ultrabook (7 years old at the time of this writing) Computers in my office: Two Dell boxes.
Pen: Pilot G2 with the .38mm ball
Productivity
Lately I've been using Google Docs more and more but I don't like relying on the cloud one bit.
Considering that all new software seems to be cross-platform, that Wine/CrossOver runs MS Office without any bugs and at native speed (really), and that a virtual machine works perfectly for any programs that really can't be run any other way, there's fewer and fewer reasons not to switch to Linux full time IMHO.
Notes
Coding & Development
It's wonderfully customizable thanks to the Lua configuration scripts, and one realizes how silly (e.g.
For text editing and programming it's Vim, though I admit to using the arrow keys to move the cursor around instead of hjkl.
Design
Media
Other
On my laptop and one of the two work PCs I run Debian Linux, which I switched to as my sole OS when I spilled cranberry juice on my previous laptop in 2014.
You see, the refurbished Dell XPS 15 I bought at the time came with Windows 8 (!) on it.
The software that makes that magic happen is called Synergy.