I'm a mathematician working in academia, hence a heavy latex user. I've used linux for way over 10 years, with the desktop environment provided by KDE most of the time. I've used and recommended Kile, kbibtex, etc. Unfortunately I should say that, despite being an excellent piece of software, Kile has nowadays been overtaken by TeXstudio, and tools like kbibtex have been left behind in favor of more complete ones like Zotero or Mendeley. I'd love to be able to make something to revert this, hence I've written my name in the list.