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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
nothing more true
I must admit I was a victim too of the same line of thinking when I did not want to switch from CP/M to the "new" DOS, but after that age, I don't feel bad any longer running 15 different operating systems at the same time.
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.
Well, linux is becoming a hollywood standard, so expect "serious" cinema applications to be dropped from Win and to be running on linux: http://www.linuxmovies.org/
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
I had one of those on the IBM XT. Have not used since then.
"historical"
Do they still sell it ?
I guess it would go well with visicalc, supercalc, boeing calc and multiplan.
Yes, would be fun, would remind me of when I was young.
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
Hi,
We self-publish (using online printing services), and we have one book out, for now, sold in Canada and US.
We have used Gimp for the cover and OpenOffice for the text. The book is printed in commercial quality (from a 150 DPI pdf file). There is no noticeable difference from anything else you see on the shelves.
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
I have been burned too many times on this. Any paper I write is in .txt plain ASCII format, then goes into whatever I use at the time.
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.
Well, video studio is easy, but so is lives under linux,
or kino is even easier, give them a try
Karbon14, Inkscape, OO draw and Xfig for vector graphics
k3d, Kpowmodeler, Blender, AOI and Wing3d for 3d modeling
bluefish, Quanta and kate for web pages
the first things you should get to, are scribus for desktop publishing, xara extreme for vector drawings and cinepaint and krita (make sure you find all the existing plugins) for raster images
If this does not solve your needs, you can run photoshop and illustrator under wine, apparently a lot of folks are reported using them
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
We run Unigraphics NX version 6 in linux all day every day. The newer versoin of Pro-Engineer is not going to continue supporting linux I hear, but we are phasing from ProE to UGS.
It is a port, so there are some annoying quirks but overall its functional and gets the job done.
Hi all,
Starting on page 277 of the book: The official DAMN SMALL LINUX (DSL), is a detailed article about installing and using SKYPE in DSL. I'm writing this because I received an email the other day from this forum, that someone wanted SKYPE ported over to Linux. I'm using DSL now for all my internet needs but one. That's only because the programmers who did the WELLOGIC program for the state of MICHIGAN made it imposable to even log in to WELLOGIC unless using win98 or later. Further punishment requires one to be using internet explorer!
The state is in the proccess of letting out bids for a rewrite of WELLOGIC. They asked for input from the users so I did my best to convince them that it should be open to all OSes and good browsers. As it is, there is no problem at all with doing online banking and varius on line employment reporting forms with DSL and Firefox. It's neet little OS in my book.
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