[Zanth]

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Originally Posted by goldenratiophi /img/forum/go_quote.gif Rubyripper.

Sweet! EAC is now off my list of must-haves!

 

[PiccoloNamek]

None of my vital mission critical applications have any suitable equivalent for Linux.

Also, games.

 

[oicdn]

What's stopping me? No integration of being able to use Macromedia Flash Pro 8 or Dreamweaver 8 or Premier. A computer without those programs is useless to me.

Also, I absolutely HATE compiling.

 

[Zanth]

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Originally Posted by PiccoloNamek /img/forum/go_quote.gif None of my vital mission critical applications have any suitable equivalent for Linux. Also, games.

Games is a tough one to swallow...thankfully I'm not much of a gamer.

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Originally Posted by oicdn /img/forum/go_quote.gif What's stopping me? No integration of being able to use Macromedia Flash Pro 8 or Dreamweaver 8 or Premier. A computer without those programs is useless to me. Also, I absolutely HATE compiling.

Using a system with a package manager like Debian/Ubuntu's apt system...you never have to compile. Redhat has a version, so does Suse etc. For those that love compiling Gentoo would be the solution, save for rolling one's own outright, this would be the best distro for those that know what they are doing and want their system to run EXACTLY the way they want.

Is there nothing that is as capable as Dreamweaver? What about Bluefish? I don't know about Flash...but again these are Adobe apps, Adobe really needs to come through for us

 

[hugz]

There are unfortunately some apps on windows that simple ARE better than the equivalent on linux. The most glaring example for me is ms office vs openoffice. It would be silly, however, to stay with windows because ms office is better than openoffice. why use a computer with 98% of the programs being worse, just for the sake of having one program which is better. For me it's a compromise to use openoffice. While it's not as good as microsoft office, the rest of my programs on linux are so much better than the windows ones that its easily a worthy tradeoff.

If you're mission critical programs are on windows, then maybe you should reassess your mission. Do you REALLY want to have critical apps tied into a closed system thats really not that good in the first place? People lock themself into windows because they need to use some excel macros in their work.. but why not just recreate the macros in an open format which isnt locked into one system? I'd want my mission critical stuff to be flexible.

of course some people have to use files provided by their work, and there's not much you can do about that... but if these are your OWN mission critical programs/files then i'd seriously recommend to consider why you've chosen to lock yourself into a program like that. You've obviously all realsied that you've been locked in (which is why this thread exists), yet rather than unlock yourself and rectify the situation in a way which wont lock yourself in, you just say "so there's no way to shift my lock to another location? oh well."

 

[hugz]

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Originally Posted by oicdn /img/forum/go_quote.gif Also, I absolutely HATE compiling.

Then dont use gentoo?

notepad is the perfect replacement for dreamweaver. it works exactly the same on every system too

and is free. kids these days and their fancy apps

 

[ericj]

I'm 98% linux, have been ever since i gave up OS/2.

The other 2%? that's pragmatism.

 

[Honken]

Foobar2K and Miranda IM.

When I use Linux I use Quod Libet, it works but I still prefer Foobar. And I have yet to find a nice IM except for GAIM. But Miranda is better than GAIM (or Pidgin as they now call it) at most stuff.

Other than that, nothing.

 

[wanderman]

I dual boot and have a dedicated box (both latest kunbuntu), but foobar2k, photoshop, premiere and steam are too hard to part with. Linux is fine for me when doing day web browsing and word processing.

What is really holding me back from being 100% is the fact that I really don't have to make that choice. When I reboot my workstation (it has been almost a month) I look at grub and boot whatevah I feel like in the given moment.

Nothing prevents you from using both at the same time with some virtualization. (I can't till I get my quad core)

 

[NoValidTitle]

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Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif My work place! We are committed to buy IBM laptops, running MS Windows XP. Or else I would be 100% *nix (Mac OS 10.4)

Oh yeah that also for me but I don't count work. Running OS 10.5 on my lappy

hehehe

 

[blessingx]

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Originally Posted by Zanth /img/forum/go_quote.gif Is there nothing that is as capable as Dreamweaver? What about Bluefish? I don't know about Flash...but again these are Adobe apps, Adobe really needs to come through for us

Just keep in mind Adobe did support Unix in the past and Corel made a complete jump in which failed miserably. I'm really hoping Linux continues to grow (I still remember getting excited when The Greatest OS That (N)ever Was appeared in Wired in '97, which now is a funny read), but as people have mentioned if you work with advanced 2D graphics (and the application is only a small part of that - again font support and font rendering needs to be greatly improved first) it's likely not the best platform. But that covers a very small percent of total computer users.

And isn't Dreamweaver (which I used daily in the past and weekly now) one of the easiest apps to replace? I'll also second the dive in earlier comment. I did that with a different OS (OS X in my case) and the transition was much quicker (about 2 weeks after nearly two decades in Windows) than if I inched in.

 

[scompton]

My wife is a technophobe. Every upgrade to Windows or an application is traumatic for her. As for myself, there are a number of reasons I don't do the switch. I've used Unix systems on and off since 83. I prefer GUIs and the only GUI that I used and liked was an HPUX GUI back in the 90s. The only Linux GUI I've used is a Red Hat GUI about 3 or 4 years ago and it was frustrating enough to make me use the command line. I'm also enough of a computer geek at work. I don't need to be at home as well. We use Red Hat at work for some of our servers, but I'm in the developer group so I don't get on them much and when I do, it's to look at log files and the such. I don't do any administration which is fine by me. I have enough to do writing code. And my wife as a long enough honey-do list to not give me the time to learn at home.

 

[fraseyboy]

I have Kubuntu installed on my PC ATM, and I really love it.

The reason why I use Windows instead of it is because I cannot get my soundcard (Audigy 2 ZS) working with Kubuntu. I think it could be a driver issue, but I am not sure.

Anyone know how to get it working? If I did, I would use Kubuntu as my main OS.

 

[Superpredator]

I came so close to installing Ubuntu at home, where I require certain software to do some side work. NCH Scribe is available for Linux. I gave OpenOffice a spin and determined that, despite not being refined in certain areas, it was doable. Unfortunately some custom software I require will not work in Linux, and a website I need access to requires IE, so I'm stuck with Vista for now. I loathe Vista. The owner of the company I work for wants to migrate to Linux, but unfortunately most of his employees do not.

 

[Redo]

My reasons:

1) Games
2) Sound card drivers
3) Mouse support
4) Apps

Games: Sure you can get win based games to work, but they are buggy and sloppy.

Sound card: You get generic ALSA or OSS drivers. You can't really unlock your sound card's true potential. With cards like the X-Fi not even supported, I have a hard time sticking around in Linux for the win games I do get working.

Mouse: No matter what I've tried, I'm stuck with some sort of residual mouse acceleration. This is a big no-no for me, I need a perfect linear ratio at all times. Also, in games, mouse4 mouse5 mouse6 mouse7 and beyond have ZERO functionality.

Apps: Apps like Ventrilo, Xfire, EAC, 7zip, online video streaming, even some flash based stuff just don't work nearly the same. Sure you get some sorts of functionality, but you end up doing the twist just to get this stuff to work properly.


Besides though, linux is a blast. Ubuntu is great, but I believe OpenSuSE to be the best of them by far at this point. It's always fun going back to linux distros to see how far they have really come, and how far I can push them to my "basic needs" (such as gaming)>