What do u miss in Linux

[thx11381974]

I don't understand that everybody sarcastically says they miss Windows' spyware and viruses.

Even though I prefer Linux, you have to be a pretty big technical moron to get a virus in Windows. I've used the same XP install for about 2 years now, and have never gotten any virus or spyware and it's still running smooth and fast.

The thing I mist most in Linux is Photoshop.

I've used xp since it's release. It's by far the best M$ os ever. It was a massive improvement over 98. That having been said. I've lost count of all the viruses I had over the years. By the way malware is a virus as far as I'm concerned! All of this is academic xp is the past Vista is the future.Vista is big steaming turd. It offers no improvement to xp all it's slow the animated this that and the other thing are nice the first hour but then start it get on your nerves. It seams M$ spent most of it's time making sure my videos don't play on their OS. Vista is the worst mistake M$ has made since BOB. I Imagen thats why they've finely started suing Linux distros.

[yorkie]

One of my favourite programs I miss is Wordstar easy to use WP/DTP another, SID file manager for Amiga500.Ah those were the days.

[Frak]

I've just noticed that Adobe Shockwave Player is not available for any Linux platform. I searched the net and found some comments about this I entirely agree with so I thought to share it with you.

http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=44&catid=185&threadid=1300245&enterthread=y
They aren't going to make Shockwave for Linux, better to just use Crossover Office and install Shockwave that way.
I don't understand that everybody sarcastically says they miss Windows' spyware and viruses.
It's possible you have the Storm Worm. Anti-Viruses don't and can't scan for this worm, and have infected some estimated 50 million computers and it continues to grow.

Storm Worm runs on 98-Vista and has been confirmed to work on Vienna.
Even though I prefer Linux, you have to be a pretty big technical moron to get a virus in Windows. I've used the same XP install for about 2 years now, and have never gotten any virus or spyware and it's still running smooth and fast.

The thing I mist most in Linux is Photoshop.
Storm worm works through Flash, Shockwave, Pictures, and email.

[jacekbuntu]

I like ubuntu, but i miss my printers. i still can not setup my Brother nor Canon printer.:(

[Grellin]

I dual boot so I have what I need no matter the circumstance, but the things that I wish I could do in Linux to save the reboot time are:

Games
Web Cam in chat
Internet browsing that works for all the sites I need. Namely Blackboard for college courses, and some imbeded video.
Photoshop


I would have included Visual Studio for programming but I have since gotten Code::Blocks working quite well and am satisfied with it.

But it isn't a real worry, as I don't mind using Windows though I am enjoying Ubuntu very much.

[Kappity]

ChessBase, a chess database program. Scid is really good, and available through the package manager. It's good enough, but not as user friendly and flexible as ChessBase.

[licefork]

I've used Windows since I was a baby! I switched over about a year ago. There's only 3 things I miss:

- Being able to scream at and/or beat the living $#@% out of my computer for freezing up and/or crashing and rebooting itself.
- Video editing programs! Cinelerra just won't cut it :\
- Rainbow Six 3! It won't work, even using Cedega.

Other than that, for me, everything on a Linux is at LEAST 20x better than the Windows "substitute."

[nonewmsgs]

i miss elite dvd ripping software. the stuff that gets updated as soon as an unrippable dvd appears with 100 IFOs, ARCos, unreferenced titlesets, etc. i had ripit4me running under wine once, but the page every single site refers to has been taken down. i realize ripit4me is no longer under development, however, i haven't seen anything it can't do.

[-grubby]

I missed MS Paint until I found Kolourpaint. Now I don't miss anything

[hellmet]

I missed MS Paint until I found Kolourpaint. Now I don't miss anything
Kolourpaint cannot draw transparent. Its a great MSPaint feature I miss.

[val67]

A Working Application To Record From My Webcam !!!!!!!!

Xawtv Is Broken In Gutsy.

[wyoming]

I know, there's Flightgear and X-Plane (perhaps), but there's way more development of cool stuff around MSFS. Some aircrafts built for FSX are the very best around. But I'm sure that, given a little time, creative minds will realize that there's more potential from Linux.
That's it. The rest is better, except a way to preserve anonymity. We are entering times where, unfortunately, this will be an absolute necessity.
Now that's it.

[Can+~]

I miss µTorrent. :'(

[yabbadabbadont]

I miss µTorrent. :'(

They claim that it works using WINE, with "slight interface issues." Your mileage may vary. ;)

[osiris2258]

I miss ACDSee. I need to open tons of zipped image files day in and day out. Since I can't get any program that can do it in linux (I also need the file tree, so Comix is out) I have to constantly reboot to windows to use ACDSee.

Weird part is I had Gwenview or Showimg doing it for a few days and then they just stopped.

[genbuntu]

This may not be exactly relevant but can't help posting:
1) I miss the 'zonealarm' and 'antivirus' which used to keep running always and hog the resources

2) The frequent antivirus/malware/spyware ... scans and updates

3) I also miss the searching on google for antivirus , security ... issues , reviews etc.

4) miss the regular registry cleaning, defragmenting , scanning ...

Overall, I miss my paranoia for my safety when using windows.

:)

[Kingsley]

This may not be exactly relevant but can't help posting:
1) I miss the 'zonealarm' and 'antivirus' which used to keep running always and hog the resources

2) The frequent antivirus/malware/spyware ... scans and updates

3) I also miss the searching on google for antivirus , security ... issues , reviews etc.

4) miss the regular registry cleaning, defragmenting , scanning ...

Overall, I miss my paranoia for my safety when using windows.

:)
I missed some of that too when I was moving over to Linux lol. Though now that I look back, most of the maintenance I did was overkill. All that's really required for me (on Vista) is Windows Firewall, Avast antivirus, and CCleaner.

[cyclefiend2000]

1. foobar2000
2. irfanview
3. uTorrent
4. AutoDesk Land Desktop or Civil 3D (needed for work)

the first three i can get over and find replacements for eventually. though i really love foobar. but the CAD software is a necessity and i have found nothing similar in linux.

[potentia]

Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Camera Raw 4. Actually, I miss the ability to run all the professional software from Windows and OS X.

[brokenstrides]

iTunes and Photoshop :[

I'm not too heavily dependent on these programs, and I know they are able to run in Linux under wine, but they need to work better, and eventually just come out with native clients.

[jdackle]

1. Some hardware drivers.

Namely for the winmodems that come with the crappy computers I tend to buy and the crappy DSL modems that Portuguese ISPs tend to "offer" for their services...

In my first Linux days, I jousted a Lexmark printer, back in the days them cheaters still displayed a penguin in the boxes their printers came in...
Then I used an Epson and now an HP - those are two brands that effectively support Linux, printers-wise at least... :)


2. Some tool that #$%$#%"/% finally enables me to write multi-session CDs and DVDs!!!
I'm sure there is some and I'll make a post about it soon.
BTW I mean burners that actually support RockRidge extensions or some other sort of long filenames... beyond the first session...
That is actually how I ended up in this thread... :P

K. Edited this to add a link to the post I mentioned I'd do and in the meantime did... Here it is:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3677251#post3677251


3. Some software compatible with SPSS (files).

[de_valentin]

I miss the games mostly (also the only reason to dual boot) and I miss being able to sync my HTC Wizard with outlook. I most definitely do not miss outlook.

Well sometimes I miss the time i used to have for making coffee or something to eat while windows was hanging on whatever windows hangs.:)

[jdackle]

Well sometimes I miss the time i used to have for making coffee or something to eat while windows was hanging on whatever windows hangs.:)
:lolflag:

[hellmet]

This may not be exactly relevant but can't help posting:
1) I miss the 'zonealarm' and 'antivirus' which used to keep running always and hog the resources

2) The frequent antivirus/malware/spyware ... scans and updates

3) I also miss the searching on google for antivirus , security ... issues , reviews etc.

4) miss the regular registry cleaning, defragmenting , scanning ...

Overall, I miss my paranoia for my safety when using windows.

:)
Aah,, another of 'those' posts.

[Antman]

A Working Application To Record From My Webcam !!!!!!!!

Xawtv Is Broken In Gutsy.

YES.... This is my problem too!! I keep on having to boot to WinXP in order to create webcam videos for YouTube. :(

[bruce89]

What do u miss in Windows

Using the mouse wheel for almost everything (moving workspaces, tabs etc.).

I also don't miss people spelling "you" with 'u' and missing question marks on questions.

[genbuntu]

Well sometimes I miss the time i used to have for making coffee or something to eat while windows was hanging on whatever windows hangs.:)

That is so true... :lolflag:

[Antman]

YES.... This is my problem too!! I keep on having to boot to WinXP in order to create webcam videos for YouTube. :(

Hmmm... you know, I haven't even tried using my webcam in a WinXP VM to see if it would work:confused:
hmmm.... looks like I have a new project to try....

[Harry789]

Don't get me wrong I am a linux fan, but

I am sick and tired of having 15 videoplayers. Why can't we not have one (1) do-it-all video player? VLC is the closest I have come.

It is always hit and miss when you want to play a media file.

And secondly I miss better hardware support. I have ATI video card and driver issues is a constantly a headache.

I realize that there may be good legitimate reasons for all of the above, but when comparing to a smooth running XP, it makes ubuntu linux look pale and behind...

[hessiess]

dont miss anything

[furieh]

Reason, Wavelab and Live.
And of course all the virus stuff.. never had one in windows but I guess I'll miss them anyway :)

[leev]

foobar2000. Sure, I can run it using Wine, but it's not the same.
I've used almost every audio player I can find for Linux, but none of them match foobar2000.

It's always seemed strange to me that for all of these years no one has made a serious and dedicated effort to clone foobar.

[hogwartsnigel]

I only miss a good flash animator, I found 3dfa was fantastic simple but not compatible...I'm having wine issues at present too. But I am very happy to let my 6 xp pro licences sit idle because of ALL the pluses.
I am struggling with GIMP after photoshop but I think more due to familiarity more than anything.

IF ANYONE KNOWS A SIMPLE GOOD FLASH ANIMATOR LET ME KNOW...PPPPPLLEASE!

Nigel

[mosaic2s]

support over phone from friends who can tell what to do when stuck in linux.

CAD programs that can over run autocad.

Printer and scanner drivers.

[Frak]

I only miss a good flash animator, I found 3dfa was fantastic simple but not compatible...I'm having wine issues at present too. But I am very happy to let my 6 xp pro licences sit idle because of ALL the pluses.
I am struggling with GIMP after photoshop but I think more due to familiarity more than anything.

IF ANYONE KNOWS A SIMPLE GOOD FLASH ANIMATOR LET ME KNOW...PPPPPLLEASE!

Nigel
http://f4l.sourceforge.net/

@mosaic2s
I've heard alot of bragging about QCad lately.

[Sunnz]

I am struggling with GIMP after photoshop but I think more due to familiarity more than anything.


Nigel

GimpSHOP.

[ArtificialSynapse]

I really miss Winamp, XMMS is good, but relatively boring.

Photoshop

and BSOD : )

Actually, I've been studying for my A+ / N + cert and I'm gaining a little more respect for Windows again as I'm learning some fundamental things I didn't understand before.

But once I get my Linux + I'm sure I'll loose it, hehe.

[rliegh]

1) "start ." (launching explorer for the current directory from the command prompt)

2)MS-Office
3)Visual Studio
4)Software that allows me to yank pictures off my crappy pencam

[ridetheteapot]

Streets & Trips / other GPS map routing software.

I can't say i miss it cause i have XP on my laptop becasue there is not decent alternative for linux.
To me this is the weakest software category for linux (though people are trying). I would get a proprietary map program if there was one offered for linux.

The other thing i have to say is that flash support on any browser for linux SUCKS. it's so bad its almost unusable. This i do not understand. It is terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible! So much of the net suses flash now there is no way to avoid this headache.

I do not understand how can someone (above post) miss vis studio?
You miss MFC??
I have to say that is one thing that has got to be the biggest reason for moving away from that OS.

[Mevsthevoices]

The games, all the racing. Silent hill Mmm thats about it though. Azureus

[sp0onman]

defenately the ability to play games without any of the mucking around to get them to work. and the graphics driver(although linux is catching up). but it doesnt really matter because my computer is too slow to play any of the newer games.

[DjBones]

Games like Supreme Commander.. Bioshock etc.
Printer/Wireless support lol

its not really a fair fight though, when theres so much that *nix can do that Windows can't haha

[rundee_f]

i definitely miss UPDATING MY ANTIVIRUS and ANTISPYWARE each time i got online.. :lolflags:

[genbuntu]

As far as Games are concerned, I would like to point out that Linux can't help much (except develop projects like 'wine') :-k, because the platform on which a game can run is mainly chosen by the game-developer and they mainly opt for windoze cause of its widespread usage. :sad:
As more and more people start using linux based systems, you will see the trend start to shift. :D

Every OS has its strong and weak points, and thankfully I find the former more in Ubuntu :)

[TeaSwigger]

Well I miss KeyNote starting in 1 sec instead of 17 via WINE. Nobody's fault though.

Using the mouse wheel for almost everything (moving workspaces, tabs etc.).

If applicable, have you tried btnx?

[Vince4Amy]

Not being able to view Thumbnails of Images/Photos in Open/Save Dialogues. Apart from that most of my Games/Apps run on Wine Sucessfully, in fact better than they do on Windows.

[TeaSwigger]

Not being able to view Thumbnails of Images/Photos in Open/Save Dialogues. Apart from that most of my Games/Apps run on Wine Sucessfully, in fact better than they do on Windows.

Depends. KDE can show thumbs of photos in the dialogues, including a comparison in overwrite prompts (in the event of a same-name copy/move, so you can visually see the photo you're copying/moving vs the photo you would overwrite).

[jbcola]

Games, drivers and .....

a "divide scanned photos" tool for linux (like PSE) , to be able to scan several photos with one pass on a flat bed scanner

This feature is also known as "Scan Multiple Images at Once", offered by several scanner tools on windows...

Regards

[Bruce M.]

I miss all of the spyware and viruses :O

+1

[Bruce M.]

Also linux has a build in firewall, iptables, but it very basic packet filtering. And, in theory, because of the open source model security holes can be fixed really fast.

The way it comes out of the Ubuntu box (CD) iptables is good enough for me.

About an hour ago I did a port scan at http://nmap-online.com/

Scan Result

Nmap Options: -p1-5000 -T4 -sS 201.213.14.65

Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap ) at 2007-11-14 19:51 Central Europe Standard Time
All 5000 scanned ports on 201-213-14-65.net.prima.net.ar (201.213.14.65) are filtered

Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1271.281 seconds

Now that is a result I do NOT miss from windows.

[Dimitriid]

I miss the money I was forced to pay for Windows Licenses. Thats about it really.

[Kevanx]

I still love this topic although it does get repetitive, but I find that my answers are constantly changing as open source programs slingshot ahead of most competitors. But the one thing that I miss dearly is Winamp. I do use XMMS, but it lacks severely. AmaroK is lovely, but still not as perfect as Winamp. The jump and queue commands were among the most intuitive software functions I've ever come across, and the interface is perfect through and through.

[TeaSwigger]

I still love this topic although it does get repetitive, but I find that my answers are constantly changing as open source programs slingshot ahead of most competitors. But the one thing that I miss dearly is Winamp. I do use XMMS, but it lacks severely. AmaroK is lovely, but still not as perfect as Winamp. The jump and queue commands were among the most intuitive software functions I've ever come across, and the interface is perfect through and through.

Not to be repetitive ;) but have you tried the 1.40rc1 of Audacious?

[zmjjmz]

Not sure if it's been said prior, but
From OSX I miss

-iChat, especially the new one
-iMovie

[Lostincyberspace]

I still love this topic although it does get repetitive, but I find that my answers are constantly changing as open source programs slingshot ahead of most competitors. But the one thing that I miss dearly is Winamp. I do use XMMS, but it lacks severely. AmaroK is lovely, but still not as perfect as Winamp. The jump and queue commands were among the most intuitive software functions I've ever come across, and the interface is perfect through and through.

I second that. :guitar:

[uwishurockedthishxc]

well when i do switch to linux as my primary os starting at x-mas i think what i will miss most is itune since im getting my first non apple mp3 player and ill have to find another good mucis store like it. other than that im keeping my windows comp around for games and stuff. its high end so why would i waste it lol

[justsomedude]

1) Avisynth :(

There is hope, though... (http://avisynth.org/AviSynth30)

2) Avisynth

3) Avisynth

4) foobar2000

5) Media Player Classic + ffdshow

Oh, did I mention Avisynth?

[Sunnz]

I would miss a 3D Desktop that can "survive" a few days of Suspend.

[RTrev]

Mine is an odd one.

Steve Gibson, over at GRC, writes all kinds of neat little (assembler) routines, and because he's writing things to help the largest number of people possible, he writes for Windows.

That, believe it or not, was the toughest part of abandoning Windows. I like to take part in the group beta testing that goes on in the GRC newsgroups, but the code is Windows code.

I do the best I can with virtual machines. :)

Bob

[Linuxratty]

The few games I can't play.
The inability to watch some content OL cause I don't have Windows.
Can't watch videos..And yes,I followed instructions,still did not work.
Trails behind the mouse...Sounds gorky,but I got such a kick out of trails.
Paint shop pro.

[havchr]

pdf viewer that displays everything correct.
Most documents have lots of errors with letters going into each other.

[heartss]

give me voice chat, without which i can't switch to linux. i have been searching for voice chat software for many years, till now it's still far from being well supported as it should be.

[jespdj]

give me voice chat, without which i can't switch to linux. i have been searching for voice chat software for many years, till now it's still far from being well supported as it should be.
There is Skype for Linux. The new 2.0 beta also supports video. There are also other programs such as Ekiga.

The only things I really miss are Photoshop CS3, Adobe Bridge and Adobe Camera Raw. GIMP is nice, but lacks some tools that I frequently use in Photoshop. I find F-Spot too simplistic for organizing my photos, it's not as good as Bridge. And I haven't found any RAW converter yet which is as good as Camera Raw.

[gn2]

I miss the money I spent on MS OS licences and various utility software to run on Windows before I learned about Linux.


MS W2kPro (ebay) £10
MS XP Home OEM £60
MS Office 2000 SBE (ebay) £40
MS Office 2003 (employer offer) £25
Acronis True Image £30
Partition Magic £35
Roxio 6 £35

Almost enough to buy a new laptop :(

[mynameiszanders]

Winamp - Sorry, but it really is better than AmaroK in my opinion.
Nero - Best burning rom package I've ever used.
Dreamweaver - (Before they got bought up by Adobe!)
Fireworks/Photoshop - I didnt prefer any one, but liked using them both.

The one program that I do miss, is... regedit! That gave hours of fun!
However, it was also the reason I started looking at Linux Distros in the first place...

[Frak]

Winamp - Sorry, but it really is better than AmaroK in my opinion.
Nero - Best burning rom package I've ever used.
Dreamweaver - (Before they got bought up by Adobe!)
Fireworks/Photoshop - I didnt prefer any one, but liked using them both.

The one program that I do miss, is... regedit! That gave hours of fun!
However, it was also the reason I started looking at Linux Distros in the first place...
Nero has a Linux version.

[tallgurl1337]

I miss...
1) iTunes to manage my iPod. I've had nothing but trouble with Linux music software syncing

2) Photoshop and InDesign

That's basically it.

[khurrum1990]

I miss my games, atleast the ones which don't work on Wine.

[mmb1]

I miss... itunes and the ability to contract a devastating virus....

Just kidding... I miss nothing!

[TheLions]

i miss virtualdub, mathlab and neverwinter nights 2!!!:frown:

[Iehova]

Having to restart after every update, and then if I didn't want to do so, being nagged every few minutes until I just couldn't take it any more and relented.

Waiting a good 10 minutes or so for Adobe Acrobat Reader to actually load a PDF.*

Having enough time waiting for the computer to boot into a usable state to make myself a cup of tea and read the newspaper.

Having the wireless network break every few minutes or so (actually, the WLAN was fine, it was windows at fault) so that the only way I could fix it was to hit "repair" then cancel it before it tried to re-connect automatically, and only then to try and manually connect to the network.

*I know there are alternatives, but on, say, the school network, I have no choice.

In all seriousness, the only thing I would miss would be games, but for the fact that I never played them on WIndows...

[HotShotDJ]

i miss virtualdub, mathlab and neverwinter nights 2!!!:frown:MatLab has a linux version as does neverwinter nights. I have no clue about virtualdub... but it is GPL, so i could be ported if there were actually an interest in it.

[aonegodman]

Right now I'm missing easy installability of software. Not all packages are available for Synaptic.

i.e I'm wanting to install Alien Arena. I have it on my desktop in a .ZIP file.

On Windows I could simply double-click it and my ZIP Utility could recognize the setup program and unzip and install. or it was an executable ZIP.

That's my .02 on this subject for right now. I've only been running and learning about Ubuntu the last 5 days as of this post. I have most codecs installed for my multimedia I think, I've got my DVDs and Audios playing, my desktop tweaked and it's like building your own OS from a base platform. Right up my alley! Bring it on! \\:D/

[staticvoid]

what do i mis in linux.... hmm...


fonts and photoshop CS3?


nothing..

[fatality_uk]

The odd thing is, when I had XP running, I had what seemed like 1000's of applications dotted here and there! Since switching to Ubuntu full time, I have the default install, GimpShop, Planner, Inkscape and thats IT!!! Don't need any more Oh and a SHED load of games :D

[an15wn]

hmmm...


Canoscan 4400f driver (unsupported by SANE yet)
My Nokia PC Suite that connect to my CellPhone
My Canon Camera driver


any suggestions how to obtain those drivers? Thank in advanced...

[havchr]

Drivers mostly.
My laptop for instance is running hot in linux, but not in vista. I don't really know where the issue is.
And a good sensible audio system. Everything seems to be.. well, a bit odd, and sound very often doesn't work like you'd expect. Stuttering FMOD, snes emulator with choppy sound on a modern computer (with ati drivers, so it's not that)..

[Linuxratty]

games.
Easy installs of some things without having to jump through multiple hoops.

[LinuxIsInnovation]

1. Windows Media Player (supports media sharing with other WMP 11s)
2. Photoshop
3. Cracking and keygens ;)

[LinuxIsInnovation]

And yes.. missed out Counter Strike :D

[atomkarinca]

My Nokia PC Suite that connect to my CellPhone

You can use Wammu for this. It should be in the repos:

sudo apt-get install wammu

[geekgod]

BSOD
you must reboot to complete the install
ok now you must reboot to finish install
seriously last reboot we promise
WPA
It appears you are trying to run windows approve or deny
Cool Viruses.
awesome spyware

Sometimes when I am bored I load windows up in vmware and download britney-spears-neked.scr.exe

[Master-of-None]

2 years ago the lack of games would have prevented me from switching. Right now I don't miss much of anything. I got plenty of stuff to keep me occupied, and Wine just incase.

[TwistedAx]

Only things i miss..

Ease of game installation (only thing thats easy to install on Windoze), and usualy less bugs when playing them.. Wine does a decent job, but nothing compared to games on Windoze.. (kills me to say Windoze is actually good for anything..)

And.. Winamp.. sorry, but truth be told, nothing I've tried even starts to compares to it

Other then that, Winblows.

[hhhhhx]

I miss all of the spyware and viruses :O

diddo :lolflag:

[salviablue]

Hi, I am not sure whether this has already been answered, I have read up to about page 20, cant be arsed checking all the way through yet as I have just got to mention this.
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Lots of people keep saying they miss uTorrent. uTorrent works brilliantly in Ubuntu (I am running 7.10) through wine. I use it all the time.
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I have been windowless for about 3 months now and apart from the odd REALLY frustrating time, like laptop battery dying during a synaptic update/upgrade and I had to reinstall after lots of trying not to have to. Then on reinstall, I went through the procedure to get sound (the same as I did during the first install - I had no sound) working (I keep an "ubuntu diary" file of things I did to get things working and of useful commands - and its been invaluable) but I still had no sound, so after cosmic amounts of googling and trying of different things I figured from pasting bits of different posts together I just had to swap the sound module thing from the 386 kernel image into the generic kernel image and everything is hunky dory, for now anyway!

What I miss.
- Not having to check online if and how well some new game works before I buy it.
- Not being able to complain like hell and demanding my money back when some feature/program doesnt work like it said it would.
- Upgrading my HDD all the time due to M$ extensive hammering of the drives leading to very poor quality life (about 2 yrs, Win98 batters them, Vista even more so). (Although this is very presumptious. I can only go on what I have been told of how linux doesnt wear out the HDD as much as window$)
- Not being able to give up if something doesnt work after the patch.
- Not being able to manipulate my own files directly, but wrecking them indirectly (and quite unintentionally)
- Not having to pay for software if I cant get a pirated serial or patch for.
- Taking twice as long to do anything by having to constantly point and click, point and click, point and click etc.
- BSOD
- Useless cli
- rebooting evertime I want to do some admin stuff, then rebooting afterwards, just to find out I have to reboot again to correct something .

Oh wait thats what I dont miss (Except for the first one!)
But seriously, the only important one is the drivers thing and Nokia PC Suite (which I know there are apps similar, but in window$ I used to just be able to plug in the work phone to my laptop, click on use mobile as modem (or some such thing) and I have (almost) instant (but SLOW) internet connection. I just cant get the phone working as a modem in ubuntu without it asking for login details that I dont have (pc suite never asked for these, just connected me!).

[boomtisk]

I often miss Windows' pretty damned decent IME which lets me type Japanese, Korean, etc. in pretty much any application; SCIM only works for me in certain applications and I can't get it to work in Firefox and Open Office for the life of me; I hope this works better in Hardy. :/

Oops, I almost forgot Foobar 2k, hands-down the best music player in my opinion.

[Northsider]

Obviously I miss games. I miss apps like AutoCAD and ArcGIS that I cannot get to work in Linux. The warez scene. :-o

I often miss Windows' pretty damned decent IME which lets me type Japanese
+1, I loved that.

[L815]

Not much really. I like the simplistic app feel in Linux as opposed to Windows where the big guys cost lots of $$ and come with never-will-be used features.

Why pay for Office 2007 when OpenOffice will suffice? How fancy do you need to get with digital paper?!

I guess I've been poisoned from the long term use of windows. Every once and a while I think to myself (is it a good choice to cut cold from windows?) but I'm still getting my feet wet, and I can always use Virtual machine.

As for gaming, I don't have much time for those likes now a days. I find a quest for knowledge a lot more fulfilling.

[Vingummi]

Nothing.
Hmm, maybe my Amiga. (R.I.P)

[k2t0f12d]

G N U

[kpkeerthi]

A good all round video/dvd authoring software Adobe Premiere Elements.... [:yawn:]
I have managed to work my way around using kino, cinelerra and tovid but I miss Adobe Premiere Elements.

[Jammy4041]

Definatly the games.

[TheLions]

beside games i miss winamp, simple LAN file sharing and stable firefox/flash!!:lolflag:

[jrusso2]

I miss good decoding and decrypting software. I still use Windows for this.

[fredbird67]

Can't say that I really miss too much of anything from that virus that masquerades as an operating system. :-p

[fillintheblanks]

miranda instant messenger..

[Kabezon]

I miss gaming most of all, then comes Nero.

[yabbadabbadont]

I miss gaming most of all, then comes Nero.

You can get Nero for linux. I used the older beta version and it worked fine. The newer, GTK2 version, requires a new license key, so I haven't tried it. I've read that it too works fine. However, the open source tools work fine for me, so I haven't bothered with Nero in quite a while. But if you need dual layer DVD support, I could see someone using it.

[chirulais]

I really miss WLM emesene or aMsn just wont do it.

[WastingBody]

I miss using 3ds Max, I was never that good, but I was learning. Now I mostly just expand my programming knowledge.

[Tomana]

hmmm, what programs do I miss in Ubuntu ...

NERO

[Deeta]

I miss free full featured drivers and a self-repairing (like the kernel of MINIX) architecture in Linux :D
Otherwise it is fine :D

[yabbadabbadont]

hmmm, what programs do I miss in Ubuntu ...

NERO

As I said on the previous page two hours ago... you can get Nero for Linux.

[zmjjmz]

I miss my stable, functional, Dock.
iChat AV. (Do you know how awesome that app is?)
iMovie. (I use Kdenlive now, but it's not as fun...)
Dashboard. (I've come not to need this anymore)
Easily set up multilingual typing. (Same as above)

What I don't miss.
A useless joke of a terminal.
Lack of customization.
Lack of Compiz.
Crappy text editor.
Lack of OSS support.
Lack of Apt.

[tbroderick]

As I said on the previous page two hours ago... you can get Nero for Linux.

Only Nero Burning ROM though, you miss the other 20+ applications that come with Nero 8. That being said, there are alternatives to most if not all of Nero's software.

[angry_johnnie]

It's funny how many of us miss those darn games! That's really the only reason I still keep windows around. :-({|=

[Jay Jay]

I miss full hardware functionality, but having a dual boot means I can always get access to it under the "other OS"...

[gvoima]

Nothing, it's all there for me :)

[Jim!]

Being a recent switcher there are many things I still miss from Windows, but I'm still loving Linux and don't plan to go back any time soon.

-Klite Codec Pack
-PC Games
-Project 64
-Photoshop, although Gimp is quite nice. Not like I ever bothered to pay for photoshop anyway.
-Flash
-Microsoft Office, Open office is good but is missing a few features I NEED.
-Some other application software I've forgotten about.
-My Printer and webcam arent supported:(
-miss MSN

Not to shabby.

[roaldz]

Being a recent switcher there are many things I still miss from Windows, but I'm still loving Linux and don't plan to go back any time soon.

-Klite Codec Pack
-PC Games
-Project 64
-Photoshop, although Gimp is quite nice. Not like I ever bothered to pay for photoshop anyway.
-Flash
-Microsoft Office, Open office is good but is missing a few features I NEED.
-Some other application software I've forgotten about.
-My Printer and webcam arent supported:(
-miss MSN

Not to shabby.

Haha, a codec pack? C´mon.. There are enough codecs in the repos!

[Jim!]

It wasn't just any codec pack... It was the Klite codec pack! when I first started using Ubuntu I thought I would die without it, untill I found that I could play RMVB with Kaffiene, just took me a while to learn how to install it properly:D

[Jay Jay]

Being a recent switcher there are many things I still miss from Windows, but I'm still loving Linux and don't plan to go back any time soon.

-miss MSN

aMSN is available from the repos - a good substitute and has many advantages over MS's own offering :)

[bred]

I miss DU Meter

[matherians2]

I miss the availability of software that normally runs in Windows. For example, my camcorder software does not run on Ubuntu.

[roaldz]

I miss DU Meter
Maybe netspeed is for you. Install via Synaptic, and then add the applet to the panel. Works for me!

I miss the availability of software that normally runs in Windows. For example, my camcorder software does not run on Ubuntu.

Well.. That´s the point of this thread. Name the sofware!
Camcorder software? Like Kino or Cinelerra? Or like Lives?

Roald

[EnergySamus]

I miss Halo 1:(
I miss iTunes:-|
And I miss the Chaos when my computer breaks down:evil::lolflag:
EnergySamus

[rune0077]

Hardware support.

[piousp]

I miss iTunes:-|


Try Amarok!!
About the chaos, you can try to run any windows virus with wine :p

[Shakey_Jake33]

-Klite Codec Pack.
Grab the latest Mplayer SVN (and the SMplayer GUI if you want a GUI) and you'll need no other video player, let alone codec packs.

[mech7]

I am missing Pidgin with webcam support

[eragon100]

You can easily run halo 1 under wine, has a gold rating :)

No I don't miss anything, i don't have windows anymore, i think there are more than enough games, for linux, including commercial ones. Just peak arount tuxgames.com. My current favourites are doom3, regnum online, battle for wesnoth and enemy territory quake wars. And oblivion and expansions under cedega :guitar:

[Anzan]

I miss: AdAware, Spybot, and CrapCleaner.

These freeware programs along with McAffee and Cloudmark made Windows useable.

Without them, I could not have done anything and so I remember them with gratitude.

They are the only nonFOSS programs I think of that way.

I don't miss Adobe CS2, MS Office or any of the other programs that over the last twenty years wasted weeks of my life waiting for them to load or close down or do this or that basic functiion.

[mech7]

I miss good font rendering in firefox and open office

[sajro]

I miss MS Office for the access.This is what I use at college. I miss iTunes for managing my iPod. I miss games such as FIFA 2007. I miss Paint as in Linux we dont have basic image editing software. That is it. I dont miss enything else.

I miss paint... seriously!


What about Gnu Paint?

@rado: Is OOo Base or Kexi not close to what you need or some SQL frontend? Try gtkpod sometime, too, for your iPod. :)

[CFath]

I miss the messenger availability/toys! I wish I could send a nudge; I wish I could send a message to someone while I'm "offline" or they're "offline." I use Pidgin.

[iposner]

When I want to attach a file to an email in thunderbird, I want to be able to navigate to my network places.

There are far too many programs where the dialog boxes do not permit network navigation

[Sceiron]

I miss my friends !

[HebrewTheHammer]

why did you get rid of windows....i needed more from my pc experience and there is NOW nothing i miss....i took me a while to find a video converter however....linux can do everything i could get windows to do...like not crash all the time.

[clanky]

Having just started out in Linux I still occasionally boot in Windows as I have some software which I have not managed to get to run in Linux or found an OSS alternative for.

The only thing I miss from the actual OS is the facility to have an address bar in the toolbar on windows, I haven't seen anyway to go straight to a web page without either having a link on the desktop or opening firefox and then going to the address bar in firefox.

[vexorian]

Having just started out in Linux I still occasionally boot in Windows as I have some software which I have not managed to get to run in Linux or found an OSS alternative for.

The only thing I miss from the actual OS is the facility to have an address bar in the toolbar on windows, I haven't seen anyway to go straight to a web page without either having a link on the desktop or opening firefox and then going to the address bar in firefox.
run dialog seems to work for that, if you want something easier than that, then keep a terminal open and type "mozilla-firefox http://www.google.com &" there's probably a way to make the terminal do that automaticaly with just http.// but I don't know about that...

Software, unless it requires 3d graphics you can run ANY windows software in virtual box, I do that all the time and thus I have no issues, if I ever need MSOffice or photoshop or one of those silly bloated IDEs I just use my virtual machine, since it is isolated from the WEB the virtual machine is faster than the dual booted XP anyways...

If the software requires 3d acceleration then it is either a very specialized piece of software (unlikely) or it is a game, you can just quit PC games... but if that doesn't work for you, there's WINE. I use WINE to run warcraft III and gta:San Andreas, after those games I don't really feel any need for any other proprietary graphics intensive game.

[itisbasi]

Games .......most definitely. That's one of the reasons i dual boot ubuntu with vista....

[Northsider]

Things working without having to fiddle for hours: games, wireless, standby, external NTFS drives

[Joeb454]

I've had no issues with Wireless or external NTFS drives... :)

I miss using at least half my RAM (I have 2GB ;)) :lolflag:

[DUDE_2000]

good font rendering, I always get the same crazy font problem

[Lantesh]

Well I'm not missing anything because I dual boot (decided against a virtual machine). I hope some day everything will run in Ubuntu, but for now I still use XP for games and Photoshop. I've been playing with Gimp, but I don't know it well enough yet to always accomplish the task at hand, and let's face it for the time being we need Windows for games. I did find a program that was supposed to run Windows games flawlessly in Linux, but it required a monthly subscription fee. I just couldn't justify that. So for now I keep a small Windows partition, but I do look forward to the day when I can get rid of it.

[O3.]

I'm missing a good video conveter :(

[madjr]

I hope some day everything will run in Ubuntu, but for now I still use XP for games and Photoshop. I've been playing with Gimp, but I don't know it well enough yet to always accomplish the task at hand, and let's face it for the time being we need Windows for games.

photoshop cs2 works great and photoshop cs3 is already working but with a few interface glitches (should be fixed soon).

also i suggest you try krita

http://www.koffice.org/krita/


http://www.koffice.org/krita/pics/bala_krita1.6_sm.png

[Northsider]

I've had no issues with Wireless or external NTFS drives... :)


You are lucky. Not everyone has a smooth experience with Ubuntu unfortunately.

[geekygirl]

Bioshock...:( and Halo 2 :(

and most other games that 'just work' with Windows (yes I use Wine but its NOT the same :P)

Photoshop CS2

and last but not least Microsoft XNA Game Studio

[Nessa]

I need flash.

[Twitch6000]

I don't miss much but,I can name what I don't miss :D.
I do not miss all of these-BSOD
Any type of malware
The error messages that come up for no reason
Windows lack of customizing
Its price
All the programs for it that you can get on Linux for free.

So yeah I am just happy with my Linux :p.Of course its strange not having to do so much for safety LOL.

[kpkeerthi]

Any type of male ware


ROFL! :lolflag:

[SebMKd]

- Pinnacle Studio (Currently trying Kino, Cinerrela, ... But not convinced yet)
- TurboTax (Online version works only on MS IE)
- Good raid support (RAID Promise FastTrack 20378 not supported)
- Webcam on Skype (somehow works, however, it's such a pain to install and debug)
- State of the art CD/DVD burner application (with DVD Authoring)

However, I feel that we're getting there... Now, what will happen when everything will go smoothly? Ubuntu will go commercial?

[Ripfox]

Has anyone here used OGMRip? IT IS AWESOME!!!

[Sweet Spot]

ANY MUSIC player that is able to play music back gaplessly. (Not crossfade... Gapless)

True driver support for my printers and other peripherals.

Web Cam Support

Decent photo editing software (Gimp is not the solution, and I've tried all the other photo managers/editors and they're pretty lame for pro editing)

Professional Audio creation and editing apps

REAL Firefox. (meaning not Ubuntu ported) But this one is nit picky.

That's about it. Though I'd say that those first to are major for me.

[days_of_ruin]

paint?gross...
I don't really miss anything:)

[days_of_ruin]

- Pinnacle Studio (Currently trying Kino, Cinerrela, ... But not convinced yet)
- TurboTax (Online version works only on MS IE)
- Good raid support (RAID Promise FastTrack 20378 not supported)
- Webcam on Skype (somehow works, however, it's such a pain to install and debug)
- State of the art CD/DVD burner application (with DVD Authoring)

However, I feel that we're getting there... Now, what will happen when everything will go smoothly? Ubuntu will go commercial?
Why would they go commercial?And how?

[MemoryDump]

don't really miss anything.. just wish I could buy ANY game and install it without the help of 3rd party software!!! the game dev ppl need to support Linux better natively!! (like ID Software)

[Chame_Wizard]

Easy game install and directly mount of disks

[bvm]

1. foobar2000
2. irfanview
3. uTorrent
4. AutoDesk Land Desktop or Civil 3D (needed for work)

the first three i can get over and find replacements for eventually. though i really love foobar. but the CAD software is a necessity and i have found nothing similar in linux.

Foobar2000 works pretty wonderfully under wine. Very stable, especially the new betas. Ditto utorrent.

[idiotonuni]

I miss support for my tv card! I have tried and tried to get it to work. I also miss support for my Webcam (microsoft vx-3000).

[DownTown22]

1. foobar2000
2. irfanview
3. uTorrent
4. AutoDesk Land Desktop or Civil 3D (needed for work)

the first three i can get over and find replacements for eventually. though i really love foobar. but the CAD software is a necessity and i have found nothing similar in linux.

+1 for irfanview

[RaZoR1394]

1. Flash utility for Sony Ericsson phones.

3. A fully working Activesync/Mobile device center counterpar.t

4. All these bios and firmware flashing apps.

5. Something like IMGburn (I think you can run this in Wine but it didn't work last time I tried it.).

I don't miss games cause I have a Wii, 360 and ps3.

[cardinals_fan]

Big Kahuna Reef. Sure, it runs fine through WINE, but it's not quite the same.

[ronb94]

Good dictionary,Photoshop and games..

[hhhhhx]

nothing sept games, everything that i used to use in windows i have found a free better linux alternative

[vixmusic01]

As a Ubuntu newcomer, I want to thank everyone responsible for this wonderful system.

I miss ...

Logic Pro Audio
Bias Peak
Adobe Professional (edit pdf)
Dreamweaver
Scan descreening (my scanner works - but no descreen)


My webcam still won't work.
I can't get sound on YouTube videos
Internet radio - so far having problems.

Can't import Pagemaker files into Scribus.

However - I love the ability to download what I want.
I do not like to be a pirate, but artists are always dealing with high software prices. I am used to tinkering with my computers all the time, so Ubuntu is fun.

I am going to get a Ubuntu notebook next.

Thanks,
Victoria

[jeremycollins08]

I am still a noob at Linux, but from what I've done so far, I can give you a list of things I miss from Windows...


I miss my wireless internet connection (back to ethernet :yuck)
My poor Lexmark X3430
Nero
Movie Maker and Muvee Autoproducer "Movie Making Software" I am a movie making fanatic
15 reboots a day


I did choose to do a dual boot, so I can still use these for now...

I would love to tell you my never ending list of things I love about Linux...but it's, well...never ending "got 3 hours".

[Stephen_A]

For what it's worth I miss Encyclopedia Britannica. I know you can sort of run the 2001 (or whatever) version in Linux but I don't have that and there is little chance of getting this version.

[mrsudo]

any / all of my games :(
thats the only thing i can think of
maybe winamp, but there are so many other alternatives

[Saint Angeles]

i miss quicktime and windows media player. however i have found replace ments for both but it just doesn't always feel the same. i like the replacements though.
eeeeewww. even when i used windows, i never knew anybody that used those programs. somebody told me about vlc. i even knew not to use IE... i remember the original hideous looking mozilla browser.

i miss mac's GarageBand and i miss windows' ... can't really think of anything.

when i used kde, k3b totally blew away nero. i've yet to encounter a problem with brasero.
when i used windows and had an illegal copy of photoshop cs, i still prefered to use gimp.
i do wish there was a program comparable to quickbooks POS. if there was, i would replace the register computer at my work with ubuntu and never use windows again.
i guess i've always hated the idea of a company getting filthy rich off of software, when i already paid a ridiculous amount for the hardware.

[kirsis]

I don't really miss any apps. At first I missed Photoshop and Paint (yeah, MS Paint. I had got real used to that lil' critter for various every-day uses). However, there's replacement apps for those, it was just a matter of getting used to new apps.

What I still miss is:
1) the ability to press print-screen and keep the image in clipboard. I could modify the gnome screenshot app but it doesn't seem worth the hassle.
2) I miss a user interface without visible redraw latency (on my slow, war-veteran laptop).

[Bastaard]

my mom

[roaldz]

I don't really miss any apps. At first I missed Photoshop and Paint (yeah, MS Paint. I had got real used to that lil' critter for various every-day uses). However, there's replacement apps for those, it was just a matter of getting used to new apps.

What I still miss is:
1) the ability to press print-screen and keep the image in clipboard. I could modify the gnome screenshot app but it doesn't seem worth the hassle.
2) I miss a user interface without visible redraw latency (on my slow, war-veteran laptop).

That´s what I miss too. Ubuntu´s interface is a bit slower than XP´s interface.. But that´s only the interface, the rest is better in ubuntu. I think a quick interface is a must for ¨powerusers¨

EDIT: Yeah, post #666!

[Cope57]

I miss the peace and quiet of NOT having people ask me about PC problems!

Before I switched to Linux in 2003, I was pretty knowledgeable with PC's. Now that I am using Linux, I have Windows users always bugging me to fix their PC issues! What is up with that?

On a quiet night, somewhere in the distance... You can hear another Windows PC rebooting...

[hellionzero]

I miss UT3 and a few otehr random toys for my cell phone. Got Photoshop form the school and wine fails. I miss restarting the pc every 4 hours do to BSOD

[atomkarinca]

On a quiet night, somewhere in the distance... You can hear another Windows PC rebooting...

That is poetic man :)

[HangukMiguk]

I miss iTunes. I used to miss running bug-free poker clients, but I've quit playing, so that isn't current.

I miss playing Starcraft lag-free.

Windows: miss your apps, don't miss you.

[wishyjr]

i miss game SDKs (i.e. worldcraft) to do some mapping. I've tried some of the linux based solutions (running them under wine etc.) but i just find it too much like hard work. Sometimes I just wanna boot up a program and get creating something.

[Eisenwinter]

The Original Poster wrote
2)Nero::The best DVD/CD writing app I've seen , but sadly
is not OSS or freeware..
NeroLINUX!

I used it back in May 2006 to burn the first version of Ubuntu I used, which was Breezy 5.10.

[SuperSon!c]

nothing really. anything else i need i run in a VM (office, guitarport, cakewalk, etc)

[IHATEDLINK]

iTunes, of course

There is a project for making a Linux version of it here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=780995&highlight=itunes

Any help will be appreciated

[anotherdisciple]

This probably sounds like a load of crap from a linux lover, but... nothing. I've been off Windows for about a year. I love learning about it, playing with it, customizing it, everything!

I love the low amount of RAM it uses, the lack of viruses, how everything is free (as in both speech and beer... haha).

I think Exaile is the best music player in the world for my taste. I've been a Firefox fan for years. Open Office does everything I need it to do. Gnome is my kind of desktop environment. Compiz Fusion and Avant Window Navigator kick the crap out of my old Vista install. I LOVE the terminal... and I'm still a newbie for the most part!

The only complaint I have is that every once in a while I come across a problem... but then I just get on the forums and get my fix for it within hours! And besides, I ran into problems with Windows all the time.

I've yet to find a program that I wanted and couldn't find an open source project that does it as well or better. Yep... I'm sold... and it's only been a year.

[dspari1]

Microsoft Office, that's all. PC gaming isn't what it use to be especially since more and more PC devs have been switching to consoles (due to piracy).

[Bnosidda]

wmm
rct3
quake 3 arena
most of all my screen recorders

[atomkarinca]

quake 3 arena

Quake 3: Arena has a native Linux client.

[doorknob60]

I guess this is a novell way of askng the old.. but.. here is the
question.. what are the applications that you miss from Windows??
And Why..
Me::

1) MusicMatch Jukebox..Great Player.. Lets you queue files, convert them, play mp3pro,etc(of course these can be done in Linux but with some modding)

2)Nero::The best DVD/CD writing app I've seen , but sadly
is not OSS or freeware..

3) Norton Partition Magic..One great feature is that it allows you
to convert existing drives to another file system..

EDIT
4) Photoshop:: The BEST photoediting software..

Edit again::
5) Yahoo Messenger:
This one esp. for my mother who chats with
some of her frens and rel. overseas on Webcam, and Gyachi
is quite quite good, but still not as good as the Yahoo counterpart,
and I feel like spitting on Y! for not bringin out a good one for Linux
yet..

The only way I think we'd get all the above on Linux.. is
when there are too many users on Linux.. and there are
very few takers on Windows.. I am eagerly waiting for that day..
May God bless Linux

1. Amarok, I like it a lot better than anything I've used in windows
2. K3B, yeah nero is better still but K3B is awesome
3. Gparted, i dont think it can convert filesystems, but that seems kinda pointless tbh
4. Gimp is more than enough for average users, although you can run CS2 in wine
5. Gyachi, I've never used it, but it has webcam, voice chat, all that good stuff

[djdarrin91]

Nothing

[rage-against-windows]

I miss the cup of coffee and cigarette, during the anti-virus updates, and anti-spyware checks.

[swoll1980]

I miss paint... seriously!
I'm no GIMP, etc. pro but I still haven't checked out any simple Image editing software so maybe there's one similar to paint.

I'm no music fan... so I don't miss software like Itunes, JUkebox, etc.

Games... well... I don't want to start up my addiction so I kind of miss them but I know I'm better off missing them!

what about Open Office drawing

[Club17]

I don't miss. Have it through VirtualBox only for Goldwave, Dreamweaver and sometime WinMX (DC++ is better!!!). No more.

[theumang]

Itunes....

I can't sync photos without it on my ipod 30gb

=[

[theumang]

I miss the cup of coffee and cigarette, during the anti-virus updates, and anti-spyware checks.

LoL =p

[reza81]

Macromedia Flash!

[Afromonkey0]

I miss windows movie maker. I know it's bad but it's easy and gets basic video editing done.

Also, my Ubuntu has thrown a spacky fit three times in the last month and failed to boot, so, bizarrely, I miss an OS that boots every time, at least in safe mode.

[Joeb454]

Ubuntu would likely boot in safe mode - it's just called recovery mode ;)

[Raccoon1400]

For burning I use k3b.

The only programs that stop me from dropping windows entirely are Cubase, for recording and editing music, and the drivers for my creative external sound card.

[gameryoshi600]

Nothing really because I found awesome free alternatives to commercial software and games

[Ioky]

I don't really miss anything in Linux, I basically are about to do whatever I want in Linux. Well, sometime, so stupid website doesn't let Linux user watch their video, or full out a application. I have no idea why. but that is kind of like the only thing.

[Fatec]

Newsleecher.

Every usenet client in linux sucks beyond belief.

[Robux the great]

Personally I dont miss windows at all.

Everything I need to do gets done with Linux

Regards

Rob

[50words]

A decent video editor. (None of the ones in the repos work, and Cinelerra is hugely overkill.)

A decent PDF editor. (PDFedit is archaic, and the command line options are inconvenient--and also archaic.)

Hardware compatibility.

[Flag]

Drivers.
ActiveSync

I run them on XP in VM

[regomodo]

A decent 3d Cad program. I have high-hopes for blender-cad.

[Novega]

GAMES!

I appreciate all the hard work volunteers put forth to make free games, but gaming on linux is WAY BEHIND Windows. There are maybe 2 or 3 linux games with decent graphics but theyre FPS (not everyone wants to play fps), the rest look like something designed for a 486. And getting Windows games to run under wine is troublesome to say the least.

When Linux gets decent games I'll make the switch over, until then I'm forced to dual boot.

[SonicSteve]

I miss the games.
What I don't miss though;
The freezing, instability, virus' (even though I personally know how to avoid 99.9% of them). Installations that get slower and slower until you're forced to re-install. License fees corporate greed in the design of the software and formats etc.

Overall I've converted and won't be going back, I have windows on a laptop and it often reminds about what I like about Linux and don't like about windows.

[OmniCloud]

I miss windows movie maker. I know it's bad but it's easy and gets basic video editing done.

Also, my Ubuntu has thrown a spacky fit three times in the last month and failed to boot, so, bizarrely, I miss an OS that boots every time, at least in safe mode.
OMG SERIOUSLY!!! I doubt Windows media maker is a hard app to copy...

Why this hasn't been addressed is beyond me, I'm sure there have been many complaints.

It's depressing, I used to love making anime videos of DBZ and Naruto...

[keiichidono]

I don't miss a thing, but i have pretty basic needs beyong programming. vim/emacs and most IDE's work in Linux so i'm good.

[TitanKing]

Games, games and more games... if this could be beaten, Linux would be far superior then anything out there!

[cdoebbler]

1. Scribus with footnote handling...like Indesign and Quark
2. Voice to text
3. An easier to use debugger for installs

Nothing else.

[sink]

Now I am using Virtualbox and I am not a gamer.

So it is OK :D

I miss nothing.

[dracule]

nothing: all my cs3 works fine, i dont ever play games.

I do not miss slow performance and non-compiz and not being able to customize my computing experience.

[geogur]

Online poker the sites my user visits forced me to keep a win,box in the house I created a account and tried to log on in Linux but the site is not allowing Linux as your choice of OS so I had to set one of my 3 pc`s run xppro. my main box is Ubuntu the I have a eeepc. running Zandros dual boot is not a option I hated doing that I am hard core linux user so my hpwide screen is now microsoft ( the worst viros out there ) . Can we play poker with out hiding behind bill gates?

[Le-Froid]

1) Working flash :(
2) Photoshop
3) World of Warcraft (doesn't work w/ wine on my comp)

Everything else works just fine on my computer :D

[dracule]

1) Working flash :(
2) Photoshop
3) World of Warcraft (doesn't work w/ wine on my comp)

Everything else works just fine on my computer :D
flash? flash works fine for me.

photoshop works great in wine.

[Frak]

flash? flash works fine for me.

photoshop works great in wine.
Flash is comparatively slow in Linux compared to Windows.

And as for Photoshop, I don't believe CS3 runs in Wine very well.

[rusik]

At first, i miss im-client miranda with a lot of plugins for it!
second i miss more Stable games in cedega,wine etc.
3)more simple, such as windows (for example i miss that anything, what works in windows works in Linux such simply(some programs for example))
It is all.Thank you for reading my post :)

[i.mehrzad]

Honestly i should sau i miss "MATLAB". Octave(let's be honest) doesn't come close to matlab. As far as anything else is concerned, linux is far ahead. Probably "The GIMP" also lies behind photoshop but nontheless it is good.

[Sycron]

mathlab is for linux too afaik.

I miss nothing on linux...

[clanky]

I miss the huge array of very high quality software that is available for windows. The basics such as office software, web browsers and so on are available in formats which are equal to if not better than any windows only based software, but even aside from the fact that there is no high quality CAD package available for Linux it is all the little things like language software, driving test software etc. that I still use windows for.

[joninkrakow]

I guess this is a novell way of askng the old.. but.. here is the
question.. what are the applications that you miss from Windows??
And Why..


I miss nothing from Windows (wow, Window-centric, even on the Ubuntu forums! ;-) )

But I do miss the following from OS X:

1. Omniweb (Firefox is nice, but I love Omniweb)
2. Apple's Mail.app, and its integration with the address book--I miss the integrated address book. I haven't figured out yet how to import my Mac stuff to Evolution, and am not too happy with Evo, anyway.... That's a work still in progress.
3. iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb, iBlog (not Apple, but nice). (no, I don't really miss iTunes)
4. Digital Photo Pro by Canon
5. iComic, although Buoh gives me most of them--the rest from the web

Lastly, I miss the integration with MobileMe. I can use the web for this stuff, so it's not the end, but I miss the extra security that MobileMe gives me for backup.

So, for now, I still archive my email on my Mac, and do all my digital photography there as well. Everything else is Ubuntu. Actually, since the Wind has a tiny-ish screen, photography would be awkward even if I didn't want to use the Mac-only software.

-Jon

[Prefix100]

Games
Photoshop ( I'm sorry but really, wine isn't good enough with PS )
Dreamweaver ( Again, wine doesn't do it as well as native windows )
Adobe Premier
After Effects

[lariosa42]

OK, I love Linux, and there are many things I do NOT miss, but here are a few of the things I do:

1) WinEdt (I'm sorry, but Kile and Winefish don't really come close),
2) MikTeX's automatic package finder,
3) MatLab, Maple, and Mathematica,
4) My working DVD player,
5) Drivers for the volume buttons on the front of my Dell Inspiron,
6) Left-click file rename,
7) Hibernate mode on my Laptop (still having some errors in Ubuntu),
8) A smooth-running Google Earth,
9) Streaming media support,
10) Being constantly reamed by Bill Gates.

I was going to say iTunes, but I just found Rhythmbox the other day, and it rules! I'm sure some of these things are fixable, but I don't know how to fix them yet (yes, I've been playing around with Wine.) Overall though, Linux can have my first born child.

[Skorzen]

Don't know... Maybe fb2k (http://www.foobar2000.org/)?
Oh, and software like SRS Audio SandBox (http://www.srs-store.com/store-plugins/mall/sas-plugin.asp).

[burneverything]

foobar2000 the best audio player out there, I have searched and unfortunately cannot find anything remotely as good as that for linux (suggestions anyone?).

nothing else

[Cpuboye11]

4. Windows Genuine Advantage crap


AMEN!1!:guitar:

[Sycron]

I miss the UNIX alternative, which can't be acomplished neither in MAC neither in Windows and neither in linux very soon.

[hatman]

I miss the TV card working in my PC...

I've tried to get it working in the last three releases, but it just wont have it... Probably time to give it up as a bad job and "donate" it to my sons Windows PC in his bedroom.. but if I did that, he might think I like him... lol

[Sycron]

Did you tried TvTime ?

[nekroskoma]

FL studio...thats it

[AwaDoV]

Games and Ability to solve problems

[Canis familiaris]

...and Ability to solve problems
Oh...Come On...The problems Linux gives and the fun in searching and applying a solution and the joy of success of solving a problem is own of the reasons I like Linux.

[Patb]

Consistency in the use of access keys (menu shortcut keys) for menu bars and drop down menus.

I need to use Alt-F to access the "File" drop down menu but I am prevented from using the Alt-S to then access the "Save" option in that drop down menu. (Thankfully, some applications such as Firefox and Openoffice sidestep this peculiar situation).

Cheers, Pat.

EDIT:
2. Irfanview.
3. Time for a coffee during boot.

[davbren]

I miss the finesse. The Windows layout isn't brilliant, and in general I prefer the linux way of doing thing and design. But there seems to be greater finesse to hw it looks. Its difficult to describe exactly what I mean by that. It just looks more professionally done.

I use screenlets, but I have this feeling that they would look better if they were designed by the Microsoft or the Apple team.

[ajaysutton]

I think I understand what the previous gentleman meant. I've always used the term polished to describe what I think he's describing.

iTunes is huge for me. I also long for easy to use backup software.

[Vlammetje]

photoshop

Sony Ericsson Theme Creator (I know it exists for Linux, I even had it working a little while back on gnome, but am still unable to install it on Kubuntu)

Proper support for my mobile (SE C702) so that I could at least transfer files

Proper working bluetooth

Proper working network hard drive (which has linux written on the box in rather big letters, still can't even see it from my desktop)

Proper bugfix for the whole sysvutils sysvinit ***** that crashed my previous install.

that's about it. I don't miss much from windows or mac :p but what I do miss is actually pretty vital to my user satisfaction, which is lowering a bit every day I don't get the above sorted

[Rorke]

Getting a document from a tutor, pressing print and it appearing how it was written, not with the wrong font size or pagination.

[Keymaster]

[CTRL]+C, close the windows, and still have the data in your clipboard (still not completely used to this)

Adobe CS3 (mostly Dreamweaver/Photoshop)

Latest games

[karellen]

- games;
- MS Office 2007;
- proper bluetooth support for my cellphone;
- an IDE similar to Visual Studio;
- quality printing;
- proper power management for my laptop;

[colaboy]

The programs i had in Windows Xp (photoshop Nero winrar Office ext) were all illegal< i did not pay for them
I do not miss that expect< it seems all the good programs for windows must be payed for< unlike Linux
I refuse to pay for programs so Linux suits me very well

[ranch hand]

I have been free of MS only for a few hours but already I miss a number of things.

Endless security patchs that don't load without screwing something up.

Being treated like an idiot even if I may be one.

The "security" system fighting with itself, this is highly amusing to watch.

Defrag.

Finding that 3G of ram is almost enough.

Wow, I better quit now or I may get home sick.

[StephUb]

The blue screen of Death !!!

No, lol, i am not missing that one....

[TheLions]

i miss bsplayer

[Changturkey]

Vidya games.

[L815]

I miss unlimited amount of software for Windows.
Other than that, Linux feels so much better. I find myself wanting to go back everytime I boot into Vista.

[rab4567]

I really miss the 15 minute boot time on new hardware.

[73ckn797]

I miss all of the spyware and viruses :O


Ditto that my friend!

[ceixeoida]

Almost nothing. :)

[73ckn797]

One website will not upload photos for work using Aurigma Image Uploader (Jave based). It works with several other sites but not on the one. It must be via IE and I do not want to run virtual or through Wine or reload Windows XP. Able to accomplish what I need using wife's XP computer.

I run Quicken through WINE. Linux checkbook programs are not as easy to get up and running and I have yet to have a successful import from a QIF file.

Java working with 64 bit Ubuntu. I really do not miss it since it has never worked to begin with. I refuse to install Firefox 32 bit. Tried the How-To's but those did not work.

Miss using the USB video capture device and have not had any clear response on what does work with Ubuntu and is compatible with V4L.

Do not miss anti virus programs eating up memory, defrag, restart after updates (though there are some, though few, times it is necessary), searching for useable freeware for certain needed tasks (Ubuntu has what I need), re-activation of OS due to hardware changes.

[73ckn797]

Microsoft Office, that's all.

MS Office 97 runs great under WINE. I have not tried my Office XP yet. With very few differences Open Office is a very good alternative. The differences are with copy and paste formatting issues when pasting web page text into Open Office as unformatted text. When I was using Windows XP and Office XP and pasting out of IE, there was very little editing needed to paste into a document that I have to use for work. I have decided that it is really not that much more to justify going back to Windows. A lot of this difference has more to do with Firefox. The same extra format editing was required using Firefox and pasting into MS Office.

[rjdsmith]

If there is one thing that I truly miss in linux, it's Winamp. I know there are some great alternatives but damn I miss winamp.
Not that being able to play my games without dual booting wouldn't be a good thing.....

[skip mcshwang]

Photoshop, though I'm slowly getting better at the gimp.

[Tomanderland]

As odd as this is, I miss the sort of standardised names across windows, and names that actually represent their program. I meant who would guess Amarok is a music player? Or that Amaya is a html editor?

It was much simpler to work out what does what in Windows..

Love having no virus etc though!

[Frak]

MS Office 2008
Flash

PPC Macintosh

[cmay]

i sometimes miss WXdevcpp and turbo pascal 7.0
but i think i in time i will get over it :).

[Don1947]

What do I miss in Linux? Easy installation of plugins and updates is what!
Whatever did I do with my evenings before spending them trawling linux and related program forums-eg Gimp- looking for help-and often not finding it?

[el mariachi]

I miss the virus and spyware :')
and... Freelancer (the game)

[Sycron]

Easy installation of plugins and updates is what!

Are you sure ? I can install flash player (which is a plugin) with just a simple command. sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

And the updates are simple like a pie. Just sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade.

[gjoellee]

1. More and better games for Linux
2. Linux should be supported by more (...)

I mostly have what I need in Linux :D