^^ Looks too flashy for me!

What's good about it?

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Originally posted by bigjimslade002 windows

This is the PDD, no one worders please

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Originally posted by St_Andrew ^^ Looks too flashy for me! What's good about it? This is the PDD, no one worders please

Well, for starters it's bundled with plenty of Audio and Video drivers so you can play (and burn) CD's, DVD's, .mp3's, etc. It also comes with BitTorrent, Audacity and a lot more - all on the live CD.

However, because of the abundance of applications available, I still use Windows more than Linux.

Just out of curiousity, what programs are you missing in Linux?

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Originally posted by St_Andrew Just out of curiousity, what programs are you missing in Linux?

Are you asking me what programs I use in Windows that won't work in Linux, or just what Linux programs I want/need that I don't have?

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Originally posted by Trancer-X Are you asking me what programs I use in Windows that won't work in Linux, or just what Linux programs I want/need that I don't have?

What linux programs that you don't have but you need?

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Originally posted by St_Andrew What linux programs that you don't have but you need?

Well, in all honesty I would have to say most of them. However, I also must say that I do have easy access to just about anything I need.

Do you have any recommendations on some good programs? I usually save everything even if I'm not going to use it myself.

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Originally posted by Trancer-X Well, in all honesty I would have to say most of them. However, I also must say that I do have easy access to just about anything I need. Do you have any recommendations on some good programs? I usually save everything even if I'm not going to use it myself.

There are lots of good programs for linux... I don't use a whole lot of them tho, evolotion for email, firefox for browsing, amsn for msn, openoffice for writing purposes, xmms for music, azureus to download torrents, lots of command line programs that makes a nerds life easier, etc...

I bet you already knew all of these tho, hehe

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Originally posted by Trancer-X Well, in all honesty I would have to say most of them. However, I also must say that I do have easy access to just about anything I need.

That's an awfully vague reply, considering that your opening remark was that you used windoze solely because of the abundance of programs available for it. I'd venture to say that there's more programs for linux, and new ones released, than you can possibly check out in your lifetime, so you must have been talking about specific tasks that you feel cannot be done on linux because of the smaller pool of programs than on windoze?

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Originally posted by Trancer-X Do you have any recommendations on some good programs? I usually save everything even if I'm not going to use it myself.

Besides St_Andrew's suggestions: Thunderbird, mplayer/mencoder, the gimp, k3b, bash (really), grip, midnight commander (for its mass renaming capability), gthumb (best photo organizer I've ever used), emacs, latex, xfig, gnuplot, and eclipse (I'm a technical scientist - I couldn't work without those last ones). Those are all free ones - I sometimes use commercial stuff (like maple), but it's a rare occasion. Then there's the vast array of servers you can run, like apache, postgresql, etc. but I guess that's not what you're asking for?

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Originally posted by trancaholic That's an awfully vague reply, considering that your opening remark was that you used windoze solely because of the abundance of programs available for it. I'd venture to say that there's more programs for linux, and new ones released, than you can possibly check out in your lifetime, so you must have been talking about specific tasks that you feel cannot be done on linux because of the smaller pool of programs than on windoze? Besides St_Andrew's suggestions: Thunderbird, mplayer/mencoder, the gimp, k3b, bash (really), grip, midnight commander (for its mass renaming capability), gthumb (best photo organizer I've ever used), emacs, latex, xfig, gnuplot, and eclipse (I'm a technical scientist - I couldn't work without those last ones). Those are all free ones - I sometimes use commercial stuff (like maple), but it's a rare occasion. Then there's the vast array of servers you can run, like apache, postgresql, etc. but I guess that's not what you're asking for?

Sometimes it's good to be vague. Anywhooo, to be more specific - I guess I'm just partial to MS Media Center, several different music editing and/or burning/ripping programs I have gotten used to including Cakewalk Sonar, FruityLoops, Reason (actually haven't gotten too far with that one, LOLz), MixMeister, TotalRecorder, dBPowerAmp, Nero 6 Ultra, Alcohol120%, WinAmp, VLC Media Player, DC++, plus too many utilities like Diskeeper, Norton Ghost, Partition Magic, Diskview (actually view your hard drive file by file), Regmonitor, Process Explorer, my digital camera software, Photochop, Dreamweaver, FlashMX, SiSoftware Sandra, a few video games (I just overclocked my new NVidia video card) and it rocks on FarCry

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Originally posted by trancaholic mplayer/mencoder, the gimp, k3b

How could I forget those?

Mplayer is such an AWESOME media player. It's really a dream. So simple, so non cluttry, but yet so advanced!

What's the great benefit of gThumb compared to for example "eye of gnome"? And is it faster / slower? Anyway, I'm installing it now

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Originally posted by Trancer-X Sometimes it's good to be vague. Anywhooo, to be more specific - I guess I'm just partial to MS Media Center, several different music editing and/or burning/ripping programs I have gotten used to including Cakewalk Sonar, FruityLoops, Reason (actually haven't gotten too far with that one, LOLz), MixMeister, TotalRecorder, dBPowerAmp, Nero 6 Ultra, Alcohol120%, WinAmp, VLC Media Player, DC++, plus too many utilities like Diskeeper, Norton Ghost, Partition Magic, Diskview (actually view your hard drive file by file), Regmonitor, Process Explorer, my digital camera software, Photochop, Dreamweaver, FlashMX, SiSoftware Sandra, a few video games (I just overclocked my new NVidia video card) and it rocks on FarCry

I donno about all those music producing programs, but when it comes to the rest except Flash and perhaps dreamweaver I must say there are just as good alternativs for linux. Most games runs on linux too so.

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Originally posted by St_Andrew What's the great benefit of gThumb compared to for example "eye of gnome"? And is it faster / slower?

Haha. I think you'll get a shock when your download finishes. I said photo organizer - not viewer (although it does that as well). You can do everything you want with your photo collection with gthumb. And it has lossless rotation of jpegs too!
Anyway, I guess it's slower in the same way Word is slower than Notepad.