Hello everyone,

I'm new to linux and this is my first post. I haven't made any posts so far, because every question I have had was answered after a short time of searching these forums. So for that I wanted to say thanks to everyone who takes the time to reply to the myriad of questions posted daily.

Before my question, here's a little info about my system. I'm running the 64bit version of Suse 10.1 with KDE and I’m dual booting with windows xp. I have an amd athlon 64 x2 4400+ 2.2GHz, a geforce 7900gt, sound blaster audigy 2, and 2 gigs memory. If you need more details lemme know.

As a windows user coming to linux I find myself itching to use old programs I'm already familiar with. I found several programs that work beautifully such as amarok (took a while to get MP3 playback though) Office and mail progs from KDE, Yast. But there's still some progs that I haven't found a good replacement for. So for my first question, I'd like to know what programs I could use in linux that I've been using in windows. Here's a list of the software I would like to find a counterpart to, and a description of what it does. One last note; I would prefer software with a gui interface, that I can use in the KDE/Gnome environment. I'd like to get to the point where I could do everything from the console, but for right now I’m mainly concerned with setting up everything I used to be able to do in windows.

DVDshrink - used for ripping DVD's to make backup copies. I honestly buy all my media (music, movies, games) I make copies of movies so I can change their format and put them on my IPOD and PSP.

DVDcopy 5 - it's what I use to convert a DVD movie into PSP and IPOD formats.

Nero7 - that's obvious I use it for burning data DVD’s and CD’s. I like it for the one-stop-shop kind of feel. Whether I’m copying a DVD, making a music CD, or backing up data I can do it all with one program.

Fraps - Captures video from games and saves them to the hard disk. Great for looking back at some of my cooler gaming moments.

video editing - I've messed around with a few different shareware progs in windows but never really settled on any one in particular. Any good ones for Linux?

Adaware - it's used to check for adware and remove it.

Norton Internet security 2003 - This is antivirus and firewall software. It looks like Suse has Apparmor or something but I haven't had a chance to look into it and see how it works.

games such as Half Life 2, World of Warcraft, Doom, etc. - Is there one main website that could direct me in setting up all these games? Or am I stuck with going through a bunch of technical garb for each game on all kinds of different websites? Any sort of "go here" or "do this" kind of info on games would be sweet.


Photo shop - photo editing software with many options to do really crazy editing tricks.

Winrare - I'm sure Suse comes with a great zip/rar type of compressions software but I’m not sure what it could be.

That's about all I can think of right now. If there's any other software you guys know of which you think I may want to peep at, let me about them too.

Thanks in advance for all your replies.

Hi,

For Nero your probably should try K3B which is a KDE application.

For games I like just some of the simple ones that come with KDE but have also been using Cube and Cube 2 from http://www.cubeengine.com/ lately and they have been pretty fun. Also not really something in you list but battle for wesnoth is pretty good too.

I am not a big photoshop user but my wife does some photo work and she uses the Gimp for that and likes it a lot.

For compression in Slackware's KDE you just right click a file or folder and choose compress. If it is a compressed files your can right click and choose extract. I hope Suse works the same way for you.

As for the rest I have not had much experience there.

LQ has a wiki that lists good program replacements.

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/...ndows_software

Shload:

One of the big advantages of Linux is that it's far more secure than Windows. In fact, you don't need any adware software nor the Norton Antivirus. Granted that you should use the firewall included in SuSE and don't run any unnecessary program as root and you'll be fine.

If you have the DVD and also if you add some repositories as Packman and Guru you'll have plenty of software to test and find the ones you like more. YaST does a very good job putting the software by sections and a brief description of their purpose so you can install them, try them and finally choose your favorites.

Glad you are giving Linux a chance, you'll not regret it.

The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux. (Official site of the table)
http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html

craigevil, the site you posted is exactly what i'm looking for! thank you.

big thanks to everyone else for the replies. I've got a long road ahead of me...and many hours of reading. one day i'll have a linux desktop running just exactly the way i want it. Till next time. ^^