!Rant

Hey I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for external software I should get for coding?

I've heard good things about git?
Any suggestions?

Git (or any other VCS) is kind of a must. That allows you to have different versions of your project in case you messed up or need a recovery. Github comes naturally after that.

A good IDE/text editor is always a great addition. I'm personally a big fan of JetBrains products but I think I'm going to get used to Vim asap.

A music player (like Spotify or similar) if you like some background music.

Dark themes if possible. Life savers!

Flux (https://justgetflux.com/) to stop your screen from emitting that annoying blue light. If you are on Win10 though you can use the built-in Night mode function. That will greatly improve your experience in front of a screen when it's dark outside.

@gjkf this is one of the best comments I've received!

This is what I got from it:

Dark theme = cool. You should get it.

Music player = must if you want to be more productive.

Flux = useful if you want to program at night.

I'm using visual studio code, seems pretty good.

I've *never* used git except for cloning other projects. I've used GitHub however. What other Vcs's are there? I've also heard of BitBucket.

Thanks!
Any more suggestions?

You can also use bitbucket instead of github for things you don't want to share with other people. Bitbucket gives private repositories in free plan.

flux? Stopped using it ever since night mode became a part of macOS & Windows 10
But ya required for Linux, though since its on a VM on my laptop, it gets night mode automatically lol

I should really learn git 😥

@coolq Happy to help!

Other VCS are like Mercurial or Subversion but Git is the go-to these days.

As others have said, you can also use Bitbucket or Gitlab or other hosts for your online Git projects.

Once you learn to us Git properly (it takes some time) you will never go back.

Okay I'm going to become a git! Yay!

But jokes aside, where should I start?

@coolq Simply here (https://git-scm.com/)

Download it, install it and go to the Doc page. Happy gitting!

@coolq Bitbucket is still git, you could use svn or mercurial, if you want to learn git, I am willing to help you

@gjkf
Thanks for the link!

@mdalex
I'll take up your offer!
Personally I'm a fan of GitHub/git, so does that suit?

@coolq I use GitHub, Bitbucket and gitlab for git. I'm not sure what the best way to connect is, perhaps GitHub haha. My username is matthewdalex on GitHub

@mdalex okay, I followed you, my username is coolq1000.

@demiko Yup creators update, though on macOS and Flux do it better from what I've seen

@demiko Better not to, especially if you have an SSD on your PC/laptop, it brought no noticeable differences.
To me I solved this problem by making my Linux installation a VM and now even if windows dies, I can format, install VBox again an machines are up and running in no time :)

@coolq alright I got you, let me follow back

@mdalex so how do we chat?

@coolq hmmmm, we could technically use email, I believe my email is in my profile, or if you have some other form of IM

1. If you have used Github, you have used git.

2. Git is a protocol sort of thing.

3. Github is hosting platform using git in the back.

4. If you have been using Github you must have git distribution already installed.

@mdalex okay! I sent a message to your outlook email 😎

@afrometal okay, makes sense!

@demiko Then you are better off not upgrading if it is a secondary thing, wish I reach this level, I still cannot use Linux by itself :\

@demiko But isn't Arch now discontinued?
I use Ubuntu, any other distro you recommend?

I wonder what the fastest (performance-wise) Linux distribution is?

Is Fedora arch? Because I heard it was discontinued 😪

*Looks at surface pro running Fedora*

Why Fedora...

@demiko
Okay awesome!

@demiko my bad, I recall reading about it guess April's fool joke on me lol

Night mode is built-in if you're on gnome shell

I can recommend manjaro. It is Arch based system meant to be as easy to run and use as Windows.