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| trancaholic |
| quote: | 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 :D |
Well, you wouldn't need Regmonitor, Diskeeper, nor Ghost on Linux ;) |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by trancaholic
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.:) |
Played around with it, seems cool. Startup time wasn't really that slow either, me likes :D
You know if there is any good image viewer mplayer style where you only click on the picture and it goes up full screen auto? Fast is the key here, I mean most times you don't want all the fancy functions, you just want to look at the picture. |
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| NeoPhono |
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
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. :) |
I use Nvu as a Dreamweaver replacement. I used Dreamweaver for a long time, and I feel that Nvu is just as powerful, if not more so in some aspects. As you said, the Flash production and music software might be a little more difficult to find replacements for.
Nvu's website - http://www.nvu.com/ |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by NeoPhono
I use Nvu as a Dreamweaver replacement. I used Dreamweaver for a long time, and I feel that Nvu is just as powerful, if not more so in some aspects. As you said, the Flash production and music software might be a little more difficult to find replacements for.
Nvu's website - http://www.nvu.com/ |
Seems interesting! :)
Also, as for a linux IDE, do you have anything to recomend A friend of mine was asking and I don't do a lot of programming so the best I could recomend was kDevelop, don't know if that's good tho? |
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| trancaholic |
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
Seems interesting! :)
Also, as for a linux IDE, do you have anything to recomend A friend of mine was asking and I don't do a lot of programming so the best I could recomend was kDevelop, don't know if that's good tho? |
ECLIPSE, he shouted while agitated knocking over a glass of water in front of him. Eclipse is a fantastic development tool - it even has built in emacs keyboard bindings. Haven't used it with C++ (yet), but it definitely rules with Java. |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by trancaholic
ECLIPSE, he shouted while agitated knocking over a glass of water in front of him. Eclipse is a fantastic development tool - it even has built in emacs keyboard bindings. Haven't used it with C++ (yet), but it definitely rules with Java. |
Thanks. The eclipse SDK is 44mb tho! Will take a while to compile! Bad thing about gentoo...
Anyone in here tried E17 yet btw? I heard some ppl saying it's really cool. I'm not much for eye candie tho but I think I will give it a shot :) |
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| ogvh5150 |
Too l33t for me.
Carry on though.
People that are afraid to use linux should try live cd versions. There are plenty out there.
Maybe you guys can do some name dropping. |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
Anyone in here tried E17 yet btw? I heard some ppl saying it's really cool. I'm not much for eye candie tho but I think I will give it a shot :) |
I installed it last night, and after playing around with it for quite a bit, I must say I'm really impressed, suprisingly impressed actually. Although still quite buggy there are so much good about it, and I can defently see this taking over both gnome and kde once it gets a litle bit more reliable and get more functions finnished.
What probably suprsied me most was the increadible speed of it, much more responseable than anything else I have ever seen - quite the opposite of would one would expect.
Then of course things like animated backgrounds, a totally new way of doing things and kick ass effects in general makes it really interesting! |
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| trancaholic |
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
I installed it last night, and after playing around with it for quite a bit, I must say I'm really impressed, suprisingly impressed actually. Although still quite buggy there are so much good about it, and I can defently see this taking over both gnome and kde once it gets a litle bit more reliable and get more functions finnished.
What probably suprsied me most was the increadible speed of it, much more responseable than anything else I have ever seen - quite the opposite of would one would expect.
Then of course things like animated backgrounds, a totally new way of doing things and kick ass effects in general makes it really interesting! |
Hmm. Changing to a new window manager is not something I would do to get flashy effects - my current one is stable as a rock and provides me with what I need. Are there any useful features in E17 that you wouldn't find in metacity and the standard gnome apps? |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by trancaholic
Hmm. Changing to a new window manager is not something I would do to get flashy effects - my current one is stable as a rock and provides me with what I need. Are there any useful features in E17 that you wouldn't find in metacity and the standard gnome apps? |
Mostly because it's so damn fast. Quite to opposite of what you would expect from some eye candie window manager.
I don't think I will use it as my main window manager either, but it's fun playing with, and it looks pretty damn cool so I'm going to use it as part of a presentation on friday in school to prove that linux isn't all boring.
But once it gets less buggy I will defently consider to use it as my main window manager!
Anyway, you should try it, just for the fun of it if you have some time over sometime :) |
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| Yoepus |
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
But once it gets less buggy I will defently consider to use it as my main window manager!
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What high school did you end up choosing? |
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