Reply to post: Linus Torvalds one finger salute

Linus Torvalds one finger salute

Hey Tim Cook, let me congratulate you with a Linus Torvalds one finger salute. I'm sick of Windows and Nadella's spyware ridden Fisher Price operating systems. You too can flippy tile off.

I really liked Windows 7, but every week some corporate knob end breaks it for their own political gain. I work with video and for the last three months patch Tuesday = Microsoft shafts my machine and the video software stops working. DON'T YOU TEST YOUR PATCHES????

Now, Apple is at it. I can be secure and have a doorstop or I can work and get hacked to bits - thanks a bunch Apple! I'll just rush out and buy your over priced, under powered i-thingy (hey I'm different and look, shiny!). Maybe you want a shot of my wife while you're at it?

Thanks to all this BS I'm now running Linux Mint Rosa Cinnamon edition. I have more control of my workflow than most so I can be flexible when changing software packages. To be perfectly honest I was expecting a lot worse than what I found and trying them out in real life workflows has meant trial and error, but on the whole I have managed to find successful solutions. I can't say that they live up to the Adobe suite (Pantone would be nice) but they're getting pretty close. Personally I would say try them and see how you get on:

First, enable your firewall first in terminal:

sudo ufw enable && sudo ufw default deny

GUFW - Nice front end GUI for UFW

GNU Image Manipulation Program - similar to Photoshop

Inkscape - similar to Illustrator

Scribus - similar to Indesign

Darktable / Lightzone / Picasa - photo workflow

Imagination - slideshows from photos

Hugin - panoramic stitcher

Batch Purifier from Colour Confidence - works in WINE

PosteRazor - print one image over many

Pixelize - make one picture from lots of small pictures

Photo Print - tile up lots of photos on one page

Kdenlive / Lightworks / Cinelerra - video editing similar to Premier

Bombono - similar to Nero video burning

K3B - similar to Nero DVD burning

Acetone - Burn ISO's

Media Info - Similar to GSpot identify codecs in video

GSpot - works with WINE

Good transcoders : Handbrake, WinFF, Transmageddon

Video Redo - works in WINE

K-Lite codec pack - works in WINE

ImgBurn - works in WINE

Blender - 3D production

If you prefer to see exif info and are missing pixel sizes, media lengths etc. then this will add them in:

sudo apt-get install nemo-media-columns

You can also customise Nemo in edit, preferences (add buttons / renaming files etc.)

Codecs (Software Manager):

libavcodec-extra-54

libk3b6-extracodecs

h264enc

ubuntu-restricted-extras

libmpeg3-1

ffmpeg - you can compile the latest version. You'll need Yasm from the software manager:

sudo ./configure

sudo make

sudo make install

VLC

Spotify

Banshee media player

Audacity - edit audio

LMMS - digital music

Ardour - midi projects

All the Libre Office suite is compatible with Microsoft Office - you can open, change and save in either and it will be fine providing you have the correct fonts installed:

Writer - similar to Microsoft Word

Calc - similar to Excel

Impress - similar to Powerpoint

Draw - the part that's missing in Microsoft's Office

Foxit Reader - similar to Adobe Reader

Calibre - eBooks

Notepad++ - works in WINE

Firefox, Thunderbird and Filezilla all work fine. (You can copy the profile folder for Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird to Linux and it just works - fully configured. Much awesomeness!!!)

BeeBeep - Chat over LAN (configure firewall). Really useful for collaboration.

Veracrypt - encrypt your stuff

VMware Player - use VM's in Linux (Windows etc.)

Htop - shows processes (is that video editor really using all the cores for rendering?)

Catfish - file search

Bleachbit - similar to CCleaner

Lucky Backup - syncs folders

Spideroak - offline backup

Cairo Dock - epic dock similar to OS X

Applets - for your taskbar

Desklets - add clock to desktop etc.

XPad - similar to Sticky Notes

Grub customizer - just cause!

Archey - yeah I'm sad but I think it's cool

ClamTK - Anti Virus (useful for finding Windows viruses)

Avast - Anti virus

Sophos - Anti virus

If you are dual booting and your clock gets screwed up then:

sudo nemo

/etc/default

edit rcS

UTC=no

See you Tim and Satya,

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