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over the years i must have spent more than a $1000 dollars on scanners
cannons little canoscan fits my needs to the T. I'd like to see canoscan lide 110 on debian
I would like Linux has much more commercial softwares with very reasonable price and supports second to none.
All of Printers and other devices drivers software should be available as much as possible.
Eg: In my experience, I never get my office's printers Epson L1300 and Canon ImageClass MF3010 work in Linux using Cups + PPD + manually blur blur.
It can only works by .rpm or .deb packages.
So I have to choose Debian, Ubuntu or Fedora, Red Hat, OpenSUSE.
But I love Arch and Gentoo, the distros can't get my office's printers work.
The update, backup & connection software for:
1. All GPS devices (Garmin, TomTom, Philips, etc)
2. BlackBerry
Other:
1. Meta Trader (ForEx trading platform) - Codeweavers currently have it on Bronze rating, there are still a lot of glitches that might cost money.
2. MS-Office - for training purposes
Foobar2000 is in my opinion better than Audacious and one can use it also for converting audio files to several formats. Subtitle editor has very nice features for adjusting timing. I bet they work flawlessly in Wine, but a native Linux version would be good. Generally speaking there are lots of free software for Windows that have no precise Linux equivalent and it shouldn't be too difficult to work out a Linux version.
Free software authors, you are already so close to a Linux way of thinking and of doing things... just take that last step to open source and be welcome!
Foobar2000 is in my opinion better than Audacious and one can use it also for converting audio files to several formats. Subtitle editor has very nice features for adjusting timing. I bet they work flawlessly in Wine, but a native Linux version would be good.
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my best friend loving it, and trying linux was very disappointed absence this software in repositories. solution with wine is usable as I seen, but native build will have better look and usability. the same applies to HeidiSQL that in my experience is the best administrative tool for mysql. but I understand that troubles with porting native win32 software to linux are caused by this software is based on non-compatible GUI framework such as Borland VCL or smth else.
I love the flexibility and reliability of Linux. It is
stable, structured and portable. If I had to offer any
critique it would be the "nerdy" nature of funny little
scripts that you have to load in order to get things to
work. eg I have an Epson printer but Linux will not work
with the scanner even though the printer is supported.
Help is hard to find. Another example: you have to use
-lm switches to load maths modules rather than it being
automatic. It took ages for me to figure this out... it's
easy and logical in retrospect but irritating if you want
to make progress.
My suspicion is that Microsoft has a stranglehold on many
of the suppliers and this makes technical support for
Linux difficult to come by. Linux can be a bit complex
-it is not the most friendly of user interfaces- so every
now and then you need a friendly Guru to do the "nerdy"
bits and pieces. The answer may be to have an up-to-date
library of shell scripts and drivers that can be applied
in a 'cut and paste' manner.
I enjoy working with Linux and have successfully made
and executed some 'C' programs and some shell scripts
but it could be a tad 'friendlier'.
Distribution: Debian Squeeze-Wheezy-stretch-Buster \/ Unix SCO 5.7. in production, not for play.
Posts: 38
Rep:
I work as a programmer and I would like to find a program that would print locally.
Let me explain in more detail:
A data server (Debian) SCULPTOR4GL clients connect with windows 'putty' (terminal emulator ssh/telnet), all perfect,
but they can not print out on your printer on the Windows client.
Currently I generate the report and e@mail with 'mutt', but is inelegant.
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