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I would like to have Photo Plus ported. I have used it with Windows XP since 2000 and find it excellent for photo editing with a very simple interface, not too complex and not overloaded with rarely used or indeed understood by the average user. I would pay about £30 for a Linux version
The major reason that people don't use Linux as a file system ...
Would that rather be Operating System? A File System would be something like NTFS or FAT on Windows, and HPFS+ on Apple's OSX, and on Linux anything from EXT2,3 or 4 through BTRFS, JFS, UFS, etc. (pick n choose at leisure and to suit any sort of need).
As for games ... yeah sure, though I'm not concerned for myself. What still ties me to Windows is 3d CAM/BIM, everything else I need I can get either similar or better alternatives.
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Originally Posted by oldwierdal
Call me a heretic, but there are times that LibreOffice documents and MS Word documents just don't quite mesh.
Agreed, though of late I've seen it become much better than before. Especially LibreOffice's compatibility with MSO file formats have improved drastically over Open Office's.
However, I'm not to sure if a Linux version of MSO would solve the issue. I remember the old Mac MSO, made by Microsoft actually had the very same formatting incompatibilities when opening a DOC / DOCX file made by a Windows MSO program. I.e. in some cases you were better off using Open Office on OSX. So even if MS would make a Linux variant of MSO, I wouldn't hold my breath on the compatibility side. Probably your best bet is to run normal MSO through Wine instead.
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Originally Posted by gregladen
I would like to see Linux get newer and better super-duper GUI file management software. There seems to have been a partial de-evolution in this area. The Mac has a great finder replacement called Path Finder. It has all sort of bells and whistles. I would love to see a version of that made available for LInux.
Agreed in part, though I find KDE's default file manager (Dolphin) to be very similar to Finder, perhaps not as comprehensive as Path Finder. Though I personally use a dual-list manager as preference - at present I prefer Krusader (these tend to have much more capabilities than anyone could ever need, it definitely has all of what Path Finder has).
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Originally Posted by Tux!
As up to now no single graphic design tool ever came close (no Inkscape does not), CorelDRAW is dearly missed.
Agreed. I find even Adobe InDesign / Illustrator to be inferior to CorelDraw. Perhaps if you combine both ID and IL as one you start to come close to CD (in which case it would be like combining Inkscape and Scribus together), but IMO it would still not actually give all the stuff I used to use in CD.
I use this program to log my pilot flight time. It is the only reason I still have Windows on my machine. I have not been able to find a comparable program in Linux. If this program could be ported, that would be just great. I think I paid somewhere around $50 for this version and would be willing pay again just to keep the continuity in my records.
I use Windows 7 and have eight books on Amazon and continue to write others. I write all my books in Atlantis Word Processor after I switched from Word 2010. I have loaded full Linux Mint onto another computer and would like to have Atlantis ported to that distro.
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Atlantis Word Processor works perfectly under WINE. You should try it.
I agree with those arguing for most graphics programs (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc) even though I find The Gimp to be reaching the point where it will overtake photoshop - something I would think would concern most vendors; I guess Adobe feels it cannot be rendered superfluous.
I would like to see DAZ Studio, Poser and other 3D apps ported. I use them now with VirtualBox but it would be nice to purge Windows completely from my system as I would sink any plague ship.
I get extremely annoyed by firewall/VPN vendors that do not include linux clients. If/When they do, they are for old kernels and shared libraries that break the client when updated. What ever the cost, I would charge it back to my customers as an operating expense anyway. I have been rolling my own solutions in linux for 20 years, and just getting tired/worn down. Shrew and openConnect only get you so far...
The latest version of Wine (1.7.5) does not load the 'Collaboration Support Installer' For Ancestral Quest 14. This is a huge program that my wife has been working on for about 20 years now.
it doesn't install under WINE either. we don't need a complete port IF the thing would sport an executable to install there. another app I'd like to see install/run (at least under WINE) is ttax. if these happened goodbye winblows (what a piece a crap)!
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