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Originally Posted by Stream Recorder

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.

I don't think bug trackers need to detect similar entries. It's the user's task to verify that the bug does not exist yet.

The biggest problem is that unless projects are supported by large corporations or have some sort of monetization, they usually just die.

Sounds like you experience that frequently.

All applications I am using regularly are already very stable and are maintained (rtmpdump is one of them). If the developer decides to stop developing, that does not necessarily decrease the application's value. It's still working and if you miss a feature, you're free to fork it. That wouldn't be possible with proprietary software.

Is it just a 'feeling' or do you have any profound numbers backing your thesis?

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.

LaTeX's purpose is not to write spreadsheets. It's possible but it was originally created to write texts with mathematical symbols. Office suites cannot compete with LaTeX.

Another plus of LaTeX is: You can use any editor (VIM here) to write your text. Therefore its footprint is much lower than a bloated WYSIWYG office suite written in Java.

I do understand people using Nero for Linux.

You already said so but what is so great about it?

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.

As for virtual machines, there's no need for an admin. They are not accessable from outside.

Usually you can use old versions of say Autocad with Wine. This is not a good solution.

Why not? They are working after all.

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

Image rotation and cropping?! It's both supported by GNOME's default image viewer, eog.

There are also gpicview and Viewnior.

I just want to connect the phone and sync it without my participation. Nothing else.

Nah, I meant: What you are expecting from the developers?

[...] although there are several open source programs that are supposed to do it and so many users need this feature.

Sorry, but you cannot command the developers what to do. Their work is still benevolent in some way.

[...] while Ubuntu can be used right away without much learning.

Despite all that, you're making an impression of being pretty dissatisfied with Linux...