| On this page,
you will find things related to using linux as a desktop
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| First off,
which linux is good for you ? A great way of trying them out (assuming you are on windows or linux or solaris x86 ) is downloading virtualbox and try them out, one by one, side by side. Get virtualbox here : virtualbox.org its Open source, gpl v3. And yes, it is by Oracle... Virtualbox is completely safe, it wont damage your current windows/linux/mac install. The only restriction is that accelerated 3d graphics (1st person shooter games and such ) are not or limited supported, depending on your current desktop OS. (no 3D on windows hosts, for example) |
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| Below a list of software apps, and what the package / software is called. Often obvious, but some names are not very intuitive to put it mildly...... | ||
| office |
libre office |
used to be openoffice,
before that star office complete office suite. reads and writes practically any microsoft document, except visio |
| office |
gnumeric |
very good spreadsheet,
very compatible with excel. |
| email |
evolution |
works with exchange
server as well has diary / calendar too.. |
| email |
thunderbird |
works well, mail prog,
with agenda and such. supports many different mail
providers. |
| multi media |
kaffeine, vlc xbmc avidemux = video editing, almost any format obs-studio = streaming on almost any platform |
plays anything audio,
video editing , streaming also capturing of desktop video etc. |
| DLNA |
minidlna |
to stream media on your
mac/windows/linux system to a tv set via a DLNA client
e.g, your android phone or tablet. |
| photography |
digikam, showfoto |
manipulation etc of
digital images. very nice. |
| photography RAW format |
ufraw |
only app I know in linux
that reads almost any RAW cameraformat. Why UF raw ? the
gentlemen that wrote it has initials U.F. |
| audio recording |
Ardour Waveform (is not OSS but free as in beer ) |
works very well. audio +
midi seamless combined. also on Windows or macOS. multitrack studio, effects, sound recording from your soundcard or USB multitrack mixer , also editing / converting of WAV - PCM audio files. de-noising, de-clicking, etcetera. |
| mindmapping |
freemind freeplane |
see for yourself. really
good, and available on windows, mac and linux (written
in java, potentiall runs on anything) |
| running windows apps |
wine (free) crossover (paid-for GUI interface around a custom-configured wine) |
runs a lot of windows
apps well, or well enough. check out at winehq.org - codeweavers.com what it can and cannot do. I run games on it like steam CSS, HL2, Redbaron3d, Il2 sturmovik, office stuff like Excel, Word, Powerpoint : it works. But... use libreoffice instead. works just as well. Visio works on wine, but not very well. (slow interface) |