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02-17-2009, 01:05 PM
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#616
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Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Isle of Lewis
Distribution: Gentoo, Crunchbang (XFCE)
Posts: 133
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I need to use Rhino 4 and AutoCAD for work, the one problem Linux has is that there is not a great 3D CAD package available. I also still record some of the local radio shows from my FM receiver card so I can listen to them on my ipod. I have tried to get my FM receiver card to run through Linux for a while, but others do not seem to have any joy either.
If it were not for these things, windows would not be on my system at all!!!
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02-17-2009, 04:36 PM
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#617
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Member
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: The Netherlands
Distribution: Mandrake, Knoppix, Coyote Linux, RedHat
Posts: 354
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Quote:
Originally Posted by landonmkelsey
Xolo: would it be group captain lionel mandrake???
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Ah, ermm.. I see some reference to Captain Lionel Mandrake out there (Peter Sellers in Dr.Strangelove?) but i'm afraid the Mandrake I refer to is now called Mandriva, the Linux distribution. less comical than our dear Mr.Sellers  some years ago they, Mandrake Linux, decided to merge with another company, and from this came a name change to Mandriva.
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Originally Posted by landonmkelsey
this forum esp this thread is for blowing off steam with a humorous bent
do a search on "14000 linux munich" and see how badly windows fared
and then consider the $785 million fine in Europe. Those guys don't &&&* around!
Vista is being abandoned and Windows 7 is on the grill
I'll never spend another $.01 on microsoft.
Watching another forum, I see rumors of "something" in the OS software
resisting dual boot. Could be Vista or was it Fedora 10...I'll have to read on!
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This world has many legs, and they move often. 
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03-30-2009, 10:07 PM
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#618
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2009
Location: Wodonga, in Australia
Distribution: Ubuntu 8.04
Posts: 3
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Microsoft Project
The absolute best project management software.
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03-30-2009, 11:06 PM
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Registered: Mar 2007
Location: America
Distribution: Linux
Posts: 161
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Morrowind, Fear, CS, Wacom Tablet applications (Corel Painter...), ActiveX for training websites.
OpenGL performance from Intel chipsets is subpar in Linux.
Laptop support. Resume and have a wifi connections
Multimedia keys.
I dare say photo printers work a bit better in Windows.
I use to have to rotate, tap and do the happy dance to get my pictures printing under KDE/LINUX/GNU.
Cell Modems generally don't have much hardware control under linux.
Can't switch from RXtt to EVD0/REVA in Linux last I checked. Services don't yet work in Wine.
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03-30-2009, 11:14 PM
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Registered: Mar 2007
Location: America
Distribution: Linux
Posts: 161
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K3B won't burn to some external burners.
I think some of the commands are burried in the source code?
It's not like you can go edit an XML file to change the script it calls to burn with.
Basario is a better alternative though Gnome based.
Nero for Linux is nice but not free.
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Originally Posted by Xolo
I think you're better off telling this to the Fedora developers more directly.
As far as K3B.. what problems? By the by, K3B is just a front-end to common tools.
And I don't see your Firefox problem either, is this one specific site you visit or?..
Perhaps it could be fixed with more specific attention.
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03-31-2009, 03:36 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2009
Location: Southwest Missouri
Distribution: Xubuntu today, Lord know what tomorrow!
Posts: 13
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I use Windows for 3 things: Word Processing (got Office 2007, might as well use it), media serving (the Xbox running XBMC doesn't like talking to the Linux box for some reason), and online gaming (Steam doesn't work in Linux... yet.)
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03-31-2009, 05:04 PM
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#622
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Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Old York, North Yorks.
Distribution: Debian 7 (mainly)
Posts: 653
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Since my last post here, I almost never use Windows at home. However, I still have an installation of XP because I am studying with the Open University and for some courses the software is Windows-only (I totally failed to get Mathcad working under Wine, and I will be having to use it again next year).

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03-31-2009, 09:15 PM
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#623
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Registered: Nov 2008
Location: Ohio, USA
Distribution: Ubuntu 8.10 (I always update)
Posts: 34
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My games like Fear 2, Crysis and such.
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04-02-2009, 09:51 AM
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#624
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2006
Location: Australia
Distribution: Suse/Novell 10.1
Posts: 8
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My digital TV Tuner card, unfortunetly is unrecognised by the distro I Use and well I just need HD-TV On my computer. SO I set WIndows to a 10gig partitition (and Suse Enterprise 10.1 has the much bigger drive) - Why dedicate a 60 gig partition to WIndows when I will only use one app! LOL
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04-02-2009, 12:16 PM
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#625
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Registered: Mar 2007
Location: Milky Way , Planet Earth!
Distribution: Opensuse
Posts: 453
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To be frank , I use it for nothing.
To me Windoze has been decommissioned , and functions entirely as a test area.
where i can test fire some applications i may write or to check cross platform compatibility and stuff like that.
very Rarely i run actual programs that are not for testing purposes
but that's very rarely as i said.
Cheers
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04-02-2009, 12:23 PM
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#626
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Knoxville, TN
Distribution: Kubuntu 9.04
Posts: 1,168
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Wintendo is better for games. 
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04-14-2009, 07:23 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2008
Location: Poland
Distribution: Slackware (personalized Window Maker), Mint (customized MATE)
Posts: 1,315
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Why you use Windows?
Inspired by some post published on LinuxQuestions I decided to start a new thread. Our replies to my question could help Slackware Contributors improve the system.
I use Windows from time to time to print some documents because I got as a gift Canon PIXMA iP3600 and I was unable to run that printer using my Slackware Linux.
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04-14-2009, 08:28 PM
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#628
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: San Diego
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 28
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I use Windows to trade stocks and fly the Microsoft Flight Simulator.
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04-14-2009, 08:49 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2007
Location: Singapore
Distribution: OpenSuse, Slackware, Redhat
Posts: 318
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I use windows to trade stocks online and play games. Thats it.... 
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04-14-2009, 09:48 PM
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#630
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
Posts: 17,809
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I don't------Did you have any other questions??.... 
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