Comments on: Five Linux Equivalents of Windows-only Apps

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:23:00 +0000

Paint.NET-> Pinta, its awesome

By: Josh Dressel

Josh Dressel — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:19:00 +0000

Blogilo is far from a replacement for Windows Live Writer. The interface is more along the lines of Scribefire. It certainly looks cleaner but dealing with images (which default to a size of 0 until you fix them) and simply copy+paste can be choppy. Then there’s the annoying bug where Blogilo will not publish the final product to Blogger, stating the credentials are not valid.

As of right now, there just isn’t anything close to Windows Live Writer for Linux. To get around this, I use a virtual box and run Windows inside Ubuntu so I can use both Live Writer and MediaMonkey. These are the two Windows programs I just can’t live without.

By: Felixalberto26

Felixalberto26 — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Even having BRasero and Gnomebaker, xburn. I still use K3B it’s the best burning application for Linux. It has the most options, and is the most versatile. I’ve tried to burn a movie DVD with gnomebaker and it never worked because for some reason it erases empty folders before burning them to the DVD so it erases Audio folder and the movie never works.

By: el-bhm

el-bhm — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:27:00 +0000

foobar – deadbeef, gmb is far from being close to foobar.

By: Maximilian Henry

Maximilian Henry — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:25:00 +0000

imho, publisher could be replaced by any tool, since its really one of the worst commercial layout tools, for most cases scribus should do it, even though I’m not a big fan of it, after having used inDesign :-D

By: Ha

Ha — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:40:00 +0000

PINTA????

By: Graham Glover

Graham Glover — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:20:00 +0000

very useful…

By: carlf

carlf — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 02:12:00 +0000

I’m posting this from my 17 inch laptop running WIndows 7. I have not installed any Linux Distribution on it yet. What I have installed is Gimp, Scribus, Oxygen Office Professional, Blender, Synfig, LMMS, Inkscape, Digikam and the other KDE apps it requires, Audacity and Rawtherape. You don’t need Lightroom etc to do professional work. I take pictures for a freelance journalist who writes for a newspaper in WV and will have a feature in Goldenseal. These are the same apps I have on my mobile studio Acer Netbook with Ubuntu except I have Ardour and Shotwell on it also.

After the 4th of July weekend I’ll install Ubuntu.

I’ve found out Windows still sucks for me and that Itunes makes me sick and I saw no reason to upgrade from Nero to a full version.

I’ll miss Netflix. How in the world can they have an app for an Ipad and nothing for Linux?

By: ActionParsnip

ActionParsnip — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:46:00 +0000

+1 for bleachbit

By: ActionParsnip

ActionParsnip — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:45:00 +0000

Why install K3b on a gnome based system. Space may not be a luxury and pulling in tonnes of Qt deps may not be wanted. Gnomebaker / XFburn are great and use GTK+ which is ready installed. Also why install both Braser nd K3b. Doesn’t make sense to me.

By: ActionParsnip

ActionParsnip — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:44:00 +0000

http://www.scribus.net/

By: ActionParsnip

ActionParsnip — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:43:00 +0000

Instead of ubuntu tweak for ccleaner you can use bleachbit, watch the settings for browsers or it’ll clean your browser stuff. also avoid steps which say they will take a long time.

By: Merk

Merk — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:26:00 +0000

There will never be a Linux free software app that is superior to the Windows version.
Why?
Because if some Super Linux App “FOO” were released, given it would be open source, it would soon be ported to Windows.

By: aquatix

aquatix — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:09:00 +0000

Or try Bibble5 Pro by Bibblelabs, it’s awesome and cross-platform

By: Carl Draper

Carl Draper — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:56:00 +0000

Windows/Linux Equivalents:

Foobar 2000 –> gmusicbrowser
Mp3gain –> easyMp3gain
CloneDVD –> k9copy
Nero –> K3B (yes I know Nero is available on Linux but it’s not free, it’s out of date and it sucks)
Easy CD Creator –> Brasero
Windows mixer –> Gnome alsamixer (because pulseaudio’s sound preferences sucks!)
Outlook –> Evolution

By: mxyzptlk

mxyzptlk — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:31:00 +0000

But if you have Compiz installed, enable the Screenshot feature, either through the CompizConfig Settings Manager (Extras > Screenshot), or in gconf-editor, it’s under apps > compiz > plugins > screenshot > allscreens > options; set the initiate_button to Button1.

All you need to do, then, is hold down the Command (windows) key while clicking the left mouse key, drag your mouse over what you want to get a screenshot of, release the keys, and the shot just appears as a .png on your desktop. It doesn’t get any simpler. You can even set the directory for our screenshots in the CompizConfig Settings Manager or in gconf-editor if you don’t want to save to the desktop.

By: mxyzptlk

mxyzptlk — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:31:00 +0000

Shutter is fine for screenshots, but is probably more appropriate if you’re a screenshot power user. Gnome’s native screenshot tool is find for the occasional use, and can be called up with the PrtSc button, or use Alt+PrtSc to get just a current window.

By: mxyzptlk

mxyzptlk — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:31:00 +0000

If you’re looking for some simple video editing that will render to a variety of formats, or at least render reliably, check out Avidemux, Handbrake, Kino, or even Kdenlive. Personally, for quick, simple editing, I have a lot of luck with Avidemux, and I’ve nearly given up on Pitivi, becoming quite disappointed after a couple years of regular use. Avidemux has loads of configurable settings if you choose to dig into it, including telling it how many threads to use when rendering, and gui settings for all the different x264 and xvid options. There are transition effects, but you need to dig into the filter effects to get to them, and I don’t have much experience with them beyond fade.

By: mxyzptlk

mxyzptlk — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:30:00 +0000

I’m not sure how Ubuntu Tweak made it on here as a CCleaner alternative, since Ubuntu Tweak has a much broader scope of features, and BleachBit is already in the repos. Ubuntu Tweak cleans out a few things, but be careful with old kernels — it will sometimes leave you with errors, and it’s not doing anything that apt can’t do. (Maybe there are no more kernel removal errors, but I just stopped using it to remove old kernels because of past problems.)

However, BleachBit is very configurable, gives you fine-grained control over a wide variety of applications and their settings, removes all kinds of cruft, temp files, etc., and will overwrite deleted files for a secure erase. The only problem with it is the developer refuses to create a Launchpad PPA, so although there is a version in the standard Ubuntu repos, it’s a few versions behind, and you’ll need to go to his sourceforge page to get the latest ready-built .deb file. (In my case, it regularly clears out a gig or two of crap.) It comes with two versions, one for cleaning out a user’s account, and an admin one for cleaning out the system.

By: mxyzptlk

mxyzptlk — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:30:00 +0000

As for Paint, if you’re not Mono-phobic, Pinto is a new entrant into this field. It’s pretty snappy, and a bit more powerful than regular Paint applications, but isn’t the mega-tasker that the Gimp is.