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Personally, I think that XNView is the best image viewer/organiser. It's commercial software, though FREE for personal use, and reasonably priced for commercial use. I love the batch processing and EXIF features, and the ability to sort and filter by file types etc., is up there with the best. http://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/
Couldn't agree more. Even if working on Windows, not just in any Linux, I highly prefer using XNView's browser for any sort of media management. I don't even use Windows' explorer for file management at all (preferring more capable stuff), but for stuff like image files it's a definite MUST to use a proper image file manager instead of trying to rely on some sort of link between the FM and the Image viewer/editor.
Personally I've found XNView MP (note the MP suffix) to be one of the best of these. Comparable to ACDSee. Others coming close are stuff like FastStone, IrfanView, but they're all Windows-only. At least with XNView I don't need to learn yet another UI just because I'm using another OS - looks, works and feels the same no matter what OS it's installed on. One thing where I find XNView to be better than most others is in handling colour profiles, some of the others don't even notice an ICC profile inside something like a JPG/TIFF file (especially useful if the image is stored in something like CMYK instead of RGB), but XN goes further by allowing you to manually overrule this as well as modify / convert it.
does anyone know where to get linux 3d Cad and
architectural software..
One I've used before which is a near AutoCAD clone is https://www.bricsys.com/en_INTL/ ... not free,but way cheaper than ACAD, and nearly the same functionality. It's got some addons and vertical similar to ACA (AutoCad Architecture)
Better support for accessing public wifi when login or 'sign-in" boxes would pop up on a mainstream os
I have found it easier to use non-public wifi on linux machines
EVERNOTE! (I am not an evernote ambassador, but I use it daily for productivity) Yes, I use nixnote2 on the ubuntu-gnome lap top (but ONLY because nixnote only works on ubuntu-based distros).
Some of the great monitoring apps from NirSoft like "cports & NetWorkTrafficView" etc.. their list just goes on would be really great & I think there would others who would agree.
Their apps are so valualable but yet are free.
This is backwards. I want to see things STOP being ported to Linux. Design and build on Linux, then port to Windows and Mac as needed once the concept is tested on a SANE operating system!
This is backwards. I want to see things STOP being ported to Linux. Design and build on Linux, then port to Windows and Mac as needed once the concept is tested on a SANE operating system!
Nice! But? Has that not already made microripoff and ripoff the apples label before eating... look it up s! What came first paying for chickens, additives and eggs or having your own‽
For ALMOST everything I used to use Photoshop for, I actually prefer Gimp 2.8, properly configured. But I still have one W7 box in the office with PS on it for those times I need to create a page that has a lot of creatively-spaced type in it. Maybe there's a way to do it in Gimp, but I certainly have not been able to figure it out.
SO, on my wish list is that the good folks who brought us Gimp would address this one issue and then I could lose that one last need for Windows and never go back. I agree with those who scoff at the idea of porting any more apps to Linux. Let's just keep improving the ones we have. A lot has been improved just during the last 7 or 8 years I've been using Linux. Just keep up the good work!
I hate the idea of porting windows app to linux just to attack more users to linux. People should come to linux because they want something different or they're just fed up with microsoft window's nonsense.
I couldn't believe it when microsoft ported the bash shell with ubuntu's help to windows 10. WTF?
I hate the idea of porting windows app to linux just to attack more users to linux. People should come to linux because they want something different or they're just fed up with microsoft window's nonsense.
I couldn't believe it when microsoft ported the bash shell with ubuntu's help to windows 10. WTF?
This is very much a non-sequitur, if you don't mind me saying, with the second part (the Bash shell on Windows) not directly related to the first (software ported to Linux).
I'm all for porting Windows software to Linux. We're not an exclusive club. The more software choices we have, the better, and there are some very good Windows applications out there.
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