Favorite windows app you wish should be ported to Linux?

[vishzilla]

Included apps which I liked, any other plz mention it. some of the apps can be ported via Wine or similar s/w. this thread is basically for apps that should have a linux version.

though there are good media players in Linux, in my pre-Linux days i really loved winamp

[misfitpierce]

winamp is prob best on that list... RIAA signed some kinda deal with that utorrent garbage so thats a definate no.

[Klargodut]

uTorrent runs perfectly well with wine (wine's even listed at their website!). My vote is on Windows Live Messenger. The original client has some nice features I cannot find in aMsn or any other msn clone I've tried.

[Lord Illidan]

I don't see why I'd need uTorrent when there is Deluge, or Winamp when there is Amarok (anyway, Foobar 2000 > Winamp), or for that matter, Windows Live Messenger when there is Pidgin. And anyway, the chances of Microsoft porting Windows Live Messenger are astronomically low.

But, I'd like good quality professional apps like Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and good video editors to be ported to Linux. Not neccessarily because I need them, but because it's good to have a choice..

[NilsHG]

i am dualbooting ubuntu and xp for a few month now.
on my notebook i do not miss a single windows application.
maybe autocad or something like that.
on my desktop which is more multimedia i miss ... EAX surround support :D and some games maybe.
i do not know why you mentioned these 3 apps. all of them have more than suitable replacements.:guitar:

[ericartman]

A clean one click WoW install with vent server and then a new wife as this one would object to any more time spent computing in my house.:lolflag:

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[luctor]

The only reason I keep my Windows (on my brand new Dell Inspiron 513 :) ) is games ... Falcon4 AF and maybe some other games now I have a faster PC

[Sisophon2001]

I would like to see an AutoCAD port or equivalent for engineering/architectural drawings. Must support 3D, but not necessarily free.

Garvan

[67GTA]

A decent photo printing app, like the HP Photo Essential that comes with most HP printers.

[cogadh]

Too many games to mention, plus music services (iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, etc.), without DRM of course.

[Midwest-Linux]

1.Applian Replay A/V
2.Any kind of stream recorder/soundcard recorder
3.Winamp and available plugins
4.MP3 Direct Cut
5.Juice

[arsenic23]

Winamp has been going downhill since AOL bought it, - Do not want -
Utorrent is ok, but any combination of rtorrent, ktorrent, azureus, etc is just as fine.
Windows Live Messanger? I wouldn't even use that if you paid me - I used trillian in windows and find Kopete to be a much better solution.


What would I really like from windows ? Lemme think.....
Native version of photoshop wouldn't hurt.
I'm at a blank - there isn't a ton of windows-only software that I use or need on a day to day basis.

[-grubby]

the sims 2

[ryanVickers]

Battlefield, NFS, EA stuff mostly ;)

Heard it's already on the macs actually, so, it's looking good! :p

[notwen]

FlashFXP.

[Erdaron]

Technical software - TurboCAD, MathCAD. That would be really nice.

Winamp would have been ok, but XMMS is basically the exact same thing.

I would actually like to see Photoshop. I prefer it to GIMP.

[markp1989]

itunes
sims 2 & a few other games
photoshop, gimp is good but it doesn't compare to photoshop
MSN all my mates use it so its the best way i find to communicate

[hellion0]

I'd say Winamp. Sure, there's other players for Linux, like Amarok, Rhythmbox, etc. - but Winamp blows them away in my daily usage due to the plugins. Most notably, the Shoutcast plugin for it. Sure, there's Linux/OSX versions, but those are purely commandline, whereas the Windows version is tied in with a media player (Winamp), and needs no commandline.

For some things, all you want to do is point and click and keep the typing to a minimum. That's one of them, and that'd be my choice.

[kulturloseramerikaner]

XMMS basically is Winamp for Linux - it can even import and use Winamp's eq presets!
What I'm missing is CAD software and games, and native support for things like film scanners.

[the.dark.lord]

Nothing really... I haven't used Windows since January -used OS X till June, Ubuntu from June to date-, and I don't feel the slightest need to go back.

[Ringi]

Virtualdub.

[oerllikon]

dvd decrypter, and ragnarok

[inversekinetix]

winamp is prob best on that list... RIAA signed some kinda deal with that utorrent garbage so thats a definate no.



version 1.6.1 or earlier is safe. apparrently

[Nekiruhs]

E Text Editor. It IS textmate for Windows. Yes I have tried scribes, but it doesn't come close enough for me. I use it for no aynway.

[troy1of2]

Yahoo! Instant Messenger with Launchcast support.

[freetonik]

Photoshop of course
Then - JCreator

[TeaSwigger]

Winamp? BMP, Audacity, XMMS. MSN, Y!Messenger? Kopete. uTorrent? What's wrong with KTorrent?

Welp, off the top of my head, my Linux wish list:

- Far better scanner support.
Will your scanner work? Toss the dice. Unless you're a programmer with plenty of spare time to kill, fussing with sane's obscure quasi-support ain't gonna cut it. Alas it's the proprietary folks preventing easier functionality, not the linux end of the scene, but still it's often a bummer.

- More consistent optical drive performance.
Gnomebaker's burning properly, but no other apps are. If cdrtools or whatever is in the way, high time for a change. Wanted or not, much more daunting new tech is on its way down the pipes and old CD/DVDROM is still a mess? Yikes.

- KeyNote.
Yea there are loads of heiarchial note apps, a few are quite fine. Not one manages a really big project with multiple trees though - nothing does. The natively blazing fast KeyNote is sometimes sluggish and buggy in WINE and... really an open-source native Linux KeyNote would just plain be nice to have around.

- The "heavyweights" Dreamweaver and Photoshop, both Adobe-owned now.
I'm getting by without 'em now and do admire the Linux editors we do have, but for some folks there's no equal Linux peer for Dreamweaver and Photoshop. Not that I'd like the proprietary aspect and their hefty price tags... sigh. It'd probably still be a wish-list item if they did port it.

Anyway there ya have it.

[KLineD]

Foobar. I really like amaroK but the simplicity of Foobar is very appealing to me. I used it a lot in my win days.

[atwk]

Adobe Photoshop. Not that I have anything against GIMP, but IMHO the UI needs some serious cleaning up and full CMYK support has to be added.

[cwrann]

I love microsoft money and use it to make invoices and balance the checkbook at work. If I could find a comporable linux program I would be full linux, personally and professionally. Any suggestions?

[karellen]

I voted for windows live/yahoo messenger. in fact yahoo as I don't use windows live mess

[miggols99]

Adobe apps like Flash, Photoshop etc.

[Silent_Surface]

I switched to Moneydance..... isn't free, but for , I think it was $29, it does everything I personally used Money for. Unless you are a real MS Money power user, Moneydance should fit the bill. Simple to understand interface, but has surprising depth.

[Rhapsody]

I went with μTorrent, though I think it could become effectively obsolete soon with the bad taste the BitTorrent Inc buyout has left, along with Deluge and (possibly) KTorrent being on Windows. It'd be nice to have some big GPLed BitTorrent clients given that Azureus (and maybe BitTornado) are currently the only 'big clients' to be free software.

As for Winamp, Audacious, BMPx, and (eventually) XMMS2 are good alternatives with a similar feel. As for other alternatives, Amarok, Exaile, Banshee, Listen, and Music Player Daemon (with its various frontends) are pretty neat too. Solid choice there.

Instant messaging clients are something I don't use, but Pidgin looks like a good one for various platforms.

What's wrong with KTorrent?
While I do like KTorrent, I've found a problem with it. Too unstable. It crashed twice while I was trying to seed the Kubuntu 7.10 Desktop CD! I'd hope for the KDE 4 version to be more stable.

[tomcat2007]

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City :lolflag:

[Super Nade]

ExpressPCB

[abh83]

For all the winamp freaks: audacious is almost identical to winamp! I've been using it for several years and it rocks! Works well with shoutcast radio streams!:)

[weblordpepe]

I want to see DirectX abandoned, and OpenGL/SDL taken on board. Fat chance in hell - but really - DIrectX is what keeps games on Microsoft, and games are what keep gamers away from linux.

I mean - really - gamers are always raving about tweaking - but it only goes so far. You need to get to the sauce :)

[tubasoldier]

Oh these threads. Its fun to dream isnt it?

Yahoo Messenger: I bet you didn't know that yahoo ported their messenger to Unix systems a long time ago http://messenger.yahoo.com/unix.php however, they have not updated it since the Ret Hat 9 days. Instant Messaging is rediculous anyways. My friends are friends with me because they only talk to me for part of the day.

All the other entertainment apps you requested: ? Why would you care about uTorrent? Downloading torrents is very simple in Linux. There are enough media players to suit your needs. Audacious is pretty spiffy.

What Linux really needs is good tech apps. This includes an AutoCAD like app, one that really works well. Real honest to goodness video editing app, not the weak stuff available for Linux. And a simple, easy to setup, easy to maintain Point of Sale.

As far as photoshop? i think the Gimp is headed in the right direction. Even though it fits my needs, I would be the first to say that photoshop has a lot more advanced and easier to use features.

[xlr8ed]

Dreamweaver, Money, Outlook, Photoshop, Lightroom, 360 Sharing software, Canon XTi Software, and Zune and I could switch complete between OS's.

[karellen]

Oh these threads. Its fun to dream isnt it?

Yahoo Messenger: I bet you didn't know that yahoo ported their messenger to Unix systems a long time ago http://messenger.yahoo.com/unix.php however, they have not updated it since the Ret Hat 9 days. Instant Messaging is rediculous anyways. My friends are friends with me because they only talk to me for part of the day.

All the other entertainment apps you requested: ? Why would you care about uTorrent? Downloading torrents is very simple in Linux. There are enough media players to suit your needs. Audacious is pretty spiffy.

What Linux really needs is good tech apps. This includes an AutoCAD like app, one that really works well. Real honest to goodness video editing app, not the weak stuff available for Linux. And a simple, easy to setup, easy to maintain Point of Sale.

As far as photoshop? i think the Gimp is headed in the right direction. Even though it fits my needs, I would be the first to say that photoshop has a lot more advanced and easier to use features.

talk for yourself. everybody has particular needs, the fact that you find a program irrelevant doesn't mean anything

[weblordpepe]

Nyeah an operating system is an operating system. Any OS should run any software title. Mostly that is true except for when you mention Windows.

[karellen]

Any OS should run any software title

and any car should work with gasolene, diesel oil and electric propulsion, should be as fast a bugatti veryron and robust as a land rover, should run off-road as smooth as on the highway and it should be eco-friendly

[TheLions]

and any car should work with gasolene, diesel oil and electric propulsion, should be as fast a bugatti veryron and robust as a land rover, should run off-road as smooth as on the highway and it should be eco-friendly

such car exists, its called perpetuum mobile

[weblordpepe]

and any car should work with gasolene, diesel oil and electric propulsion, should be as fast a bugatti veryron and robust as a land rover, should run off-road as smooth as on the highway and it should be eco-friendlyCars are machines, but software is virtual. You should be able to make software which runs on any computer. Computers are very smart these days and there's no excuse for incompatibility. The only real incompatibility is by design (thanks Microsoft, proprietary drivers, etc).

[ashdezign]

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

Adobe Flash

With those 3 apps I can finally switch my webdesign staff completely over to linux. Right now my graphic artist and my Flash animator are still on windows.

Yes I know you can sometimes get them working in wine, but not flawlessly.

[weblordpepe]

I want to see Windows released under GPL. That way we can fork it, and remove the DRM and wrap DirectX in OpenGL.

[jrharvey]

I would like to see ADOBE Suite, Sketchup (3Dmodeler) and definately Autocad.

[weblordpepe]

I want myself to be ported. I wonder what it feels like to be copied, & then have a slightly different version of yourself competing for attention.

[MarCustomized]

Project 64...

[RebounD11]

Code Warrior IDE and good phone management tools for my mobile.

[karellen]

Cars are machines, but software is virtual. You should be able to make software which runs on any computer. Computers are very smart these days and there's no excuse for incompatibility. The only real incompatibility is by design (thanks Microsoft, proprietary drivers, etc).

:lolflag: ok, you're so right. virtual == simmilar. computers are not smart, they just a sum of electronic circuits :P. the software runs them, as the driver drives the car.do you know anything about computer architecture? fundamental differences between an OS and another? types of kernels?...it seems not :confused:

[weblordpepe]

Hey don't be rude.

By smart I mean that software is smart. And yes I know all about architectures bla bla. Thats why I say you should be able to run any application on any computer, within resource limits of course.

There is no excuse for incompatibility unless it is a legal/business one. No technical excuse anyway.

People do it for fun. I certainly do. I get a small buzz out of running MacOS on my Windows mobile PDA. Emulators, hypervisors, etc. Thats a huge fun zone. Fundamentally I reckon you can emulate anything with anything, within resource limits.

[igknighted]

<snip> MathCAD <snip>

+1, I love MathCAD, and yes, I am a huge nerd (I am posting on a linux forum after all...)

Also, I've been playing the Crysis demo, and that is an incredible game. I would kill to be able to play that and other DX10 games on linux (yes, in DX10 mode)

[FG123]

Irfanview. It's very slick and functional.

[weblordpepe]

Irfanview. It's very slick and functional.I asked Irfan if he would port it to linux. He said it would be too much work. I asked if he would do it if he had help from others. He said one day!
Although Irfanview runs great under Wine. There's a how-to guide somewhere (by me :P) to associate filetypes with it.

[potentia]

Photoshop CS3.. well the entire CS3.

[potentia]

I asked Irfan if he would port it to linux. He said it would be too much work. I asked if he would do it if he had help from others. He said one day!
Although Irfanview runs great under Wine. There's a how-to guide somewhere (by me :P) to associate filetypes with it.

XNView is being ported to Linux. Never looked back after starting using it on Windows. Don't try the old version for Linux that was made a long time ago, it sucks.

[The Joe]

I chose other, I would be happy if Linux got attention and had just about every game ported to it.

Emulation just isn't reliable.

[lessfield]

I use mathcad everyday. I there are alternatives, but it is a nice graphical math object system.

[hvac3901]

VISIO I really love visio in its Windows (sorry) format, but without all the security problems, and licensing issues. plus the Nasties that come with the terms of use.

[hartl_vienna]

Outlook 2007 and Active Sync.

[thelost]

Miranda IM - I miss having a cutting edge IM client. Pidgin is what I have made do with.

Foobar2000 - Amarok is imo the best Linux has to offer, but I don't want to use a KDE based program because I run gnome. On the other hand Exaile is pretty nice but sometimes extremely frustrating, you can see that it's got a long way to go. FB2K is as far as I'm concerned the pinnacle of music playing software.

Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator - Having used these two products for other, I really don't want to reinvent the wheel and teach myself gimp/inkscape etc. Apart from anything else they simply aren't as good.

How about Windows itself. There are some features from Windows I miss a lot, including it's excellent taskbar which puts gnome-panels to shame.

[Achetar]

EA Games (all of them).

[Achetar]

How about Windows itself. There are some features from Windows I miss a lot, including it's excellent taskbar which puts gnome-panels to shame.

I agree, partly. gnome-panel has a long way to go. xfpanel is much better. As is Thunar, and XArchiver, and Xfce4. Generally speaking, Xfce4 is better than Gnome.

[Antman]

I wish i had three applications in Linux:

1. An application that could record feed from a usb webcam.
2. A program like Adobe Premiere so i can chromakey videos for special effects.
3. A Linux version of Calyx Point or LoanAce (a mortgage officer program)

If i had these for linux i wouldn't need to boot to WinXp anymore.

[Erdaron]

+1, I love MathCAD, and yes, I am a huge nerd (I am posting on a linux forum after all...))

My physics friends will probably beat me senseless for this, but I find MathCAD to be superior to Mathematica and MatLab. At least with MathCAD I can do most things easily, without having to write arcane code.

[afljafa]

Nod32.


Lol.


Sorry.

[weblordpepe]

Where is that wet fish I keep handy for slapping people? :P

[b9anders]

Gom player- the video player that 'just works' as it is meant to. Love the autoimporting of related files in the folder into the playlist.

[weblordpepe]

Orb.
:(
See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=566394

[Joeb454]

I know it's seen as bloatware and everything, but iTunes would be good as a native Linux app, it means we wouldn't have to find ways round the new firmware etc.

And we'd have hassle free iPod-ing with any gen iPod

[SunnyRabbiera]

I certainly hope one day realplayer rhapsody, itunes, winamp, and adobe photoshop might make it over to linux, but the chances of it are infinity to 1

[weblordpepe]

Realplayer runs on linux ya knobby :)
In fact, Realplayer on linux is vastly superior to the Windows one. Because its very simple and has no ********. Its a player and thats it. Have a look at http://www.real.com/linux/

Although it's the height of proprietary, it does work well.