PureZero Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 hey, i've been thinking along time to change from xp to linux. and yesterday i got ubuntu cd's and im about to install it now, so im wondering if anyone could give me a few hints to programs to use. i need programs for: music movies games? and something to do what i do with open office (or can i use open office on linux?) and other helpfull or nessesary programs any help is very appriciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 http://www.getautomatix.com/ Should help you replicate the lost functionality from your XP setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux4eva Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 www.ubuntuguide.org music: Rhythmbox or Amarok movies: Xine games: Enemy Territory, ET:True Combat Mod, Doom III, lots more open office is great and comes preinstalled, open .doc files and stuff, powerpoints, excel files, etc. it's sweet. HTH. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 Office 2007 beats the crap out of Open Office imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 Office 2007 beats the crap out of Open Office imo. It better for how much you are supposed to pay for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 Well... for me, yeah. I really like MS Office products, but open office is great for people who A: don't really notice the difference or care about it and b: can't afford MS office. One odd thing I noticed is that a girl I know who is an author lost her Office CD and needed something quickly to finish her work on. I suggested and installed Open Office for her, and she came back to me a few days later saying that she couldn't put her finger on it, but she didn't like the way it felt. Office is a great product, just like Open Office is. Nothing wrong with people preffering one or the other, not everything is about politics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 I like MS Office more so it’s not just you. Visio is a must. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveMan Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 i prefer ms office, but i can use openoffice just fine but notepad owns all :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jool Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 MS Office always has that extra bit of polish compared to the clones that comes from tons of money and large useability studies. However, Open Office has always been sufficient for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 I find I can't write creatively in MS Word, I tend to either use Notepad for jotting quick notes or Wordpad for being creative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 I've managed to never get really familiar with MS Office. Word in particular has an unusual tendency to baffle me by throwing a document in shambles as soon as I type something. So I tried not to touch them and people tried not to let me edit any documents. Now the editing thing is coming back, and the natural choice for me is to use Open Office. It works well for my most basic needs, and since v2 delivers documents that MS Office users can safely work with. I think it just has a bit to do with familiarity. Those people who I hear not liking OO tend to be people who've gotten quite familiar with MS Office. OO has its options stuck in different locations, so I'm not surprised people would be annoyed from not finding them where they expected them. I also totally agree that OO could use a bit more polish. Particularly the long startup time is annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nico Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 Office 2007 beats the crap out of Open Office imo. You just have to hope the file format will be readable in 10 years.. That's why openoffice is good. The openformat ensure the possibility to read the document years after it was created. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dankiswess Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 I really don't go one way or the other between OO and MSO. I've used both of them quite a bit. MS in the school arena and OO at home. I obviously can't afford a legitimate MS licsence for office, and I'm a winner and winners down't do ware-AZ, so I started using OO. OO does feel a little awkward at first. One may even call it, in Darren's words, cludgy. After I wrote the first 2-3 paragraphs in it, everything seemed to work out fine. Everything is still in a logical place, it's just different, that's all. That's MHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychoaliendog Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 thank goodness I'm not the only one who's had bad, very bad, experiences with Office. I still have nightmares of documents not formatting quite right. I have never had problems with Open Office, and yes it is very available for Linux. As far as games go, a lot of mainstream games have versions for linux. There are lists of these floating around the internet somewhere, I just can't think of any off the top of my bookmarks list/head. VLC is a great movie and video player and supports pretty much everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renegadecanuck Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 To play games, you're basically gonna have to either play only games made for Linux (not many of them), have a Windows installation just for gaming, or stick with consoles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtterFox Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 You might want to get WINE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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