Originally Posted by jlinkels

This reminds me of something.

See, I can't imagine that users were really happy when they had to transfer from XP to Vista. But all the features of Vista, the bloatedness, the numerous pop-ups, the start-up time, the sluggishness, the confusion of the file manager showing all subidirectories in one pane, it is all taken for granted. Because computers are like that, and from time to time Microsoft decides to push a new version on the market. Life is like that, and things like that happen, just like hurricanes, war and George W Bush in the White House. No one considers something radically new, which might look harder first, but is beneficial at the end.

Almost 20 years ago I stepped in my car each morning, and as soon as I turned right at the first traffic light I stood in a traffic jam which lasted 22 km (15 miles) until I arrived at my job one hour and a quarter later. Five days a week, fifty weeks a year.

Until I started cycling as a sport. Then I discovered that 22 km was a piece of cake to ride each morning and evening, and it takes only 50 minutes. Not just that, but I felt much better physically, lost weight and saved the money on gas. No, I was not that young at the time, 30, and I never performed any aerobic sports before in my life.

Thousands of people still step in their car each morning and drive in a walking pace from their suburb home to their office. Do they like it? No! Do they continue to do so? Yes!

Why? It always rains, (not true in the Netherlands, statistically you'll get wet 10 times in a year if you commute), the bycicle roads are bad (not true, ever been in Holland, they have the best bicycle roads in the world), they have no showers as the office (not true, employers are obliged to have them, but they gather cobwebs) and my physical condition might not allow it. (not true, everyone under 60 is able to perfrom a physical effort like that)

Likewise, Linux is hard to learn, doesn't offer the applications Windows does, it is for free so it can't be good, and it is for techies only.

jlinkels

Originally Posted by whitemice

This thread as devolved into pointlessness.

1.) None of the above applications will every be ported.
2.) Statements like "open source alternatives available but again not powerful" are not wrong or right, they are just meaningless. Generalities are not helpful or constructive. (I've got no problem with such statements when specific features and use-cases are presented.)
3.) If you want some specific app that only runs on Windows then you have to run Windows.

Fortunately I don't believe #3 is true very often, if people can open there minds a little bit. But sometimes it is true; if you need AutoCAD (like 0.1% of users do), then you need AutoCAD nd have to run Windows. BUt if you need image editors, word processing, spreadsheets, statistics, DTP, etc... then there are at least one of each available in Open Source.

Originally Posted by linty

Kontact is much more comprehensive than Evolution and may be a good replacement for Outlook. You can import from Outlook into most other PIMs.

Originally Posted by mrGenixus

I see that you're right, Notes IS Availble, but 1-2-3 isn't. I find that a bit odd. Seems there's not much demand for it, bu I agree that there ought be be a linux for for 1-2-3

Originally Posted by AceofSpades19

You should learn tex, or get a tex editor like kile

Originally Posted by mrGenixus

If you have read all the way through this, you probably know that almost all of the posts are the same, and are comprised of 2-3 very common components:

1) People asking for programs that duplicate functionality already in linux: magiciso, winzip, etc. In most cases, these things are integrated into the os, and you shouold find an actve linux users group community if you want more information on them, IMO.

2) Software "For Windows" things like, Windows Optimizer, tweakui, support for "windows themes" etc. These tools exist because windows is not easily customizable. I recommend you become more familiar with linux, and find the installed ways of doing these things... Softimes this is simply a matter of choosing a distribution, or rolling your own.

3) Commercial, on-of-a-kind software like the adobe suite. This is the purpose of the thread: Great examples of request I hae seen are: Autodesk AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, Quark, Quickbooks. These are all replaceable with linux duplicates, but the fact is, getting just one of these ported would be like having a foreign embassy in our capitol: I just proves that (in this case) linux is the real-deal.

I'm not saying this to complain, so much as to sumarize, and because I see a lot of post to this forum by people who are new to linux, and don't understand that it's not like windows; they don't understand that it's more than just something different, it's a completely different idea, as different culturally, and from the standpoint of engineering as the UK is different From China. What I'd love to see this forum become, now that it's this ginormous list, is a place where people, using commercial software for business, post a list of the softwares that they use, and probably can't migrate from, to post, so they can switch without having to change the entirety of their operation.

just my $.02us

Originally Posted by Maximillium

And thats why you don't invest in a file format that will be forgotten in 5 years. Some of MS's own apps can't even read older versions of their file formats

Originally Posted by offbyte

i'd like to see SOLIDWORKS 2008 in linux and CATIA

both are 3D CAD programs

Originally Posted by RafaelChacon

I would like Ulead VideoStudio (owned now by Corel) to be ported to Linux. This is the only reason that I do not migrated the remaining PC to GNU/Linux.

Originally Posted by matrix13

I will be happy to see Fruity Loops ( FL Studio ) ported to linux, or some equivalent of it on linux.

thanks

Originally Posted by bashphoenux

thanks i will try them out

Originally Posted by dibi58

CATIA may not happen, they even dropped AIX and Solaris sparc, with version 6.

Down to Windows only for now, pray when you ride the new airplanes.

I don't understand why they don't make their own linux distro integrated with a linux CATIA