I also do academic (scientific writing) and so now use Zotero (having transitioned away from Mendeley) to organize reference materials, JabRef as my primary reference manager (BibTeX), and prepare manuscripts, slide presentations and posters with LaTeX (TeXstudio as editor, formerly Kile).
I simply have no use anymore for LibreOffice or similar MS Word-type applications except to open a document from someone else.
Most of my programming is simple enough to be conducted in a desktop text editor (gedit) or in vim and everything - code and manuscripts - is version controlled with git.
I also do academic (scientific writing) and so now use Zotero (having transitioned away from Mendeley) to organize reference materials, JabRef as my primary reference manager (BibTeX), and prepare manuscripts, slide presentations and posters with LaTeX (TeXstudio as editor, formerly Kile).
I simply have no use anymore for LibreOffice or similar MS Word-type applications except to open a document from someone else.
Most of my programming is simple enough to be conducted in a desktop text editor (gedit) or in vim and everything - code and manuscripts - is version controlled with git.