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Yes but not everybody's in favor of this movement. Being a Linux user was meant to be 'alternative' and 'special'. Now it's nothing unusual anymore and professionals see themselves answering the same beginner's questions over and over again.
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There are so many Linux distributives, that some of them can be targeted to professionals only.
Bug tracking is that bad because of the noobs as well as because of the bug tracking software that is not intelligent enough to offer similar bugs automatically.
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You can earn money from it, sure, but in the Linux community money and capitalism is not the central aspect. People are fascinated by concepts, ideas and by the code. They just want to share ideas and want to develop something great by collaborative work.
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The biggest problem is that unless projects are supported by large corporations or have some sort of monetization, they usually just die. Donations from regular users can't support even projects with millions of downloads.
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Who cares? If you really need those applications, just use Wine.
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May be in the future Wine will be good enough, but right now I can't use many Windows apps.
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I don't think that MS Office is good. In fact it really sucks. So does Open Office. Both are fundamentally flawed. They are WYSIWYG editors. I only use Open Office to write short texts but when it comes to writing an essay containing only 20 pages but with table of contents, pictures, references, footnotes, it's just too complicated. Open Office and MS Office lack the flexibility. The only application that does this right is LaTeX. I only know the basic commands but it's sufficient to do what I needed so far but with a much fewer time amount than I'd require with Open Office/MS Office.
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I don't really know much about Latex. It might be useful when creating books for printing. It seems that it was easy for me to create a table of contents with it... But it is not difficult for me to do the same with an Office Suite. And I wouldn't create complex spreadsheets with formatting and formulas using Latex.
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Please elaborate. Why is it better?
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There are very simple things that annoy me. For example, I can select several cells in the Excel and then just paste them, while in the Calc I need to select the region with as many cells as were in the copied region. Calc doesn't remember the last border I used, so I have to go through dialogs to do a simple task. There are lots and lots of seemingly simple things which allow me to work faster.
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Actually it's Open Source but I don't want to be petty here.  |
Yes, but it is backed by large corporation which sells a "better" variant of it.
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Does GIMP say so? It does not aim to replace it but do YOU need the features Photoshop offers?
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I need few things that Photoshop has related to editing photos, but they I prefer them to be implemented at least on the same level
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Why? I'm using cdrecord to burn my disks. I never needed Nero though. Did I miss something?
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I use k3b, but I do understand people using Nero for Linux.
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Is it important? There's still Wine and if that fails, you might be better off using Windows either completely or in a virtual machine.
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It is important. Why using PCs with Windows in the office, buy antiviruses, firewalls,... and still having lots of problems, when you can install Linux on every computer and forget about the rest?
Using a virtual machine with Windows doesn't really help much, besides you need an admin who knows both Windows and Linux.
Usually you can use old versions of say Autocad with Wine. This is not a good solution. And many CADs just can't be run with Wine.
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Where did I mention that Linux has to replace Windows?
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I don't want Linux to replace anything. I would like to see a healthy competition and more cross-platform applications.
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By the way, I've even used aria2 for a while and it still downloaded all files at full speed and without file corruption. So they cannot be that bad.
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They are not bad. Downloading without file corruption is not a problem at all. It is just that I miss some features and easy of use that I'm used to. They are not critical... I just need to make some more steps.
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Which features do you miss in other file managers? I'm perfectly fine with Xfe and the shell.
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I miss the same shortcuts the most. Total Commander allows to open archives really fast and I can unpack files with it easily. It allows to see the sizes of the directories, see the contents of the directory with subdirectories, rename files, replace some parts of filenames, open files for editing fast, preview many files including HTML ones without opening any heavy browser, search for files by name or content (showing the list of files which can be opened for viewing and editing really fast), opens disk images.
Some of these features can be done by Krusader, Tux Commander, Gnome Commander or from command line. But Total Commander is the application I miss the most in Linux.
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Why is it so great? I can watch my pictures with feh and they get displayed flawlessly without quality losses.
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The feature that I need the most is image rotation (without any quality loss) and image cropping (without any quality loss). When cropping I use the rule of thirds, printing size and landscape/portrait switching mode. For me the Crop board of Faststone is the absolutely the best. Correcting white balance, making HDRs and many other things can be done by GIMP, so it is only the fast cropping feature that I really need.
p.s. the developer of Gwenview doesn't think so
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I'm curious, what are your expectations?
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I just want to connect the phone and sync it without my participation. Nothing else.
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No, you're wrong. It really is a donation. If you donated money to the WWF, you'd expect it to lessen the deforestation of rain forests. That's the same Novell does. They contribute code but hope that they can make money with it in return.
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I didn't say that they demand something from the developers. But at least IBM expects to return its investments.
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Protocols were implemented poorly and even their POSIX sockets implementation is very different form the specifications. It's not important to make it right. It's important to advertise it good. Microsoft knows how to make money with crap and people seem to like it because they trust the lies.
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Absolutely agree. Giant corporations like M$ and Apple can push anything. Windows 7 and iPad are good examples.
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Perhaps, you'll be more interested in ReactOS. It's an Open Source Windows but Wine has proven many times how complex and poorly designed Windows' concepts are.
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ReactOS and Wine share the same code... I interested not in open source projects, but projects of higher quality. The idea behind ReactOS was wrong right from the start. They just try to imitate bad architecture used by M$ years ago.
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If you'd ask me, there's no other operating system than Mac OS X that's easier to use. You don't have to know lots of technical stuff to get things done (tm). That doesn't imply that it's also good for advanced people. In fact, it's horribly inefficient, but as its user base mostly consists of people with lots of money who needs it as a prestige symbol, there's no need for them to do work efficiently.
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I don't like Mac OS. Using Ubuntu after Windows appeared to be very easy, while Mac OS is absolutely counter-intuitive for me. Installing and un-installing kexts is just a nightmare. And why on earth should I press Command+C to copy when I use CTRL+C everywhere else? There are so many simple things in Mac OS that my brain refuses to accept
Mac OS requires time to learn, while Ubuntu can be used right away without much learning.