Top 3 application that you wish existed as Linux versions

[gminnerup]

I'm told WGA runs under Wine but so far is only rated "bronze". Novell have put a large team of codemonkeys to work on it, which is why you should boycott them!

;-)

[BrownieCat]

Originally Posted by Dexter1979

Ever tried Hedgewars?

OK... I've tried Hedgewars, and it is simply great! It's a pleasant change from WA, which I'm quite used to. Hedgewars had the old WA look-and-feel and worked almost exactly like it: the only major difference was that there were hedgehogs instead of worms.
Thanks for your suggestion.

[Dexter1979]

Originally Posted by BrownieCat

@Dexter1979: Hedgewars seems good; very similar to Worms. I'm downloading it now to test it. If it works fine for me, I might abandon the idea of dual-booting after all!

It is and the network games are cool when you can hear someone yell on Skype whiles his hedgehog fries

[hendersj]

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:16:01 +0000, BrownieCat wrote:

> If you're serious, then try it: but let me warn you: getting it to run
> under WINE is honestly a nightmare.
> It's rated Gold on the WineHQ, but it's not easy to get it up and
> running under WINE: you need some DLL hack, install a few patches, and
> then, you may be able to get it running.

I'll have to see on that. I also have Codeweavers Crossover Office Pro,
so that's also an option for me.

Jim



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[hendersj]

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:16:01 +0000, morphy76 wrote:

> my win partition at home survives only for 1 application: Microsoft
> Flight Simulator X

Take a look at X-Plane (which is being modified - maybe "has been") to be
more familiar to people coming from MS Flight Sim.

Jim

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[malcolmlewis]

Originally Posted by Jim Henderson

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:16:01 +0000, morphy76 wrote:

> my win partition at home survives only for 1 application: Microsoft
> Flight Simulator X

Take a look at X-Plane (which is being modified - maybe "has been") to
be more familiar to people coming from MS Flight Sim.

Jim

Google Earth plan simulator is fun too

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[faolan]

SimCity 4
Age of Empires
iTunes & Safari
Paint.NET

Other than that I can't really thing of anything. I would even use iTunes or Safari, but I think they would help increase market share and make for some interesting competition.

[Wilson_Phillips]

Photoshop and Photoshop Lightroom.

[wakou]

[QUOTE=wakou;2054713]All poker clients, I have to use vBox > WinXP to play poker...

A proper search GUI.. like in XP. The one in openSuse is pants, takes about an hour and still sometimes I am not sure it has found all I asked it to.
(I spent two hours today trying something called kwickfinder from kdeapps...

downloaded the script, downloaded/installed kommander, un-tarred, made executable, then searched google eventually learned I had to download more kommander stuff, more googling trial error, etc etc got it to fire up, using:
~# kommander /xxxx/xxxxxxx.kmnd...
It locked up would not die could not kill it, had to reboot.)

Wordpad. I use Abiword, but I just need a SIMPLE word processor[/QUOTE]


If anyone else is interested, I was tinkering with XFCE, and a little beauty of a totally minimal little word processor/notepad/editor exists! (Woot!) It is called mousepad, available through YAST. There is another, called leafpad, also available via YAST, which seems almost exactly the same....

[wakou]

Originally Posted by ME!

If anyone else is interested, I was tinkering with XFCE, and a little beauty of a totally minimal little word processor/notepad/editor exists! (Woot!) It is called mousepad, available through YAST. There is another, called leafpad, also available via YAST, which seems almost exactly the same....

I have also been enjoying some success running poker clients via Crossover, not cheap, but I can easily lose $40.00 on a single hand if the clients falls over on me so a worthwhile investment IMHO.
I still think openSuse's "find files and folders" tool is the utterest pants, almost totally useless. If I were going to bash my head against a wall I might as well spend a couple of years learning the complete works of find and grep. As a GUI front end it is an epic PHAIL! (anything better in 11.2 guys?)

Sorry for the double post, the first was a mess, I hit submit instead of preview, and no "edit" was available... mods please delete!