[SOLVED] Close to Using Linux as my only OS!

[Rytron]

Hello to all fellow Linux aficionados.
I am very close to completely leaving Windows for good and only using Linux.
I love using Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Linux Mint.
The only reason I still use Windows XP as a dual boot set-up is because I need Virtual Dub, Windows Media Player, Web Dwarf and a handful of other programs. I hope these applications are made for Linux or at least equally good alternatives.
I don't really like Avidemux and Kdenlive is too unstable.

[linux_tech]

Alot of Windows applications have Linux equivalents.
For example, Virtual Dub has Linux equivalents- Avidemux.
and Kino. Media player has many choices.
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Linux_software_equivalent_to_Windows_software
http://www.linuxalt.com/
http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html

[uidb4056]

Have you tried to install Virtualbox and run XP as a VM inside of Ubuntu?, you can choose the OSE version from repositories without support for USB or http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads with USB support.

[TimboUK]

Hello to all fellow Linux aficionados.
I am very close to completely leaving Windows for good and only using Linux.
I love using Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Linux Mint.
The only reason I still use Windows XP as a dual boot set-up is because I need Virtual Dub, Windows Media Player, Web Dwarf and a handful of other programs. I hope these applications are made for Linux or at least equally good alternatives.
I don't really like Avidemux and Kdenlive is too unstable.

In regards to "Virtual Dub" is that a package related to video editing of the Guardian Knot ilk?

If so have you considered Wine? (Im sure you have)

In a related note, I still use TmpENC although I can use Wine quite happily and my Windows dependency has gone.

[DirtDawg]

Honestly, I say keep your dual-boot. I have dual-boot, but only boot Windows for a few specific applications/reasons. I use my Linux side about 90% of the time. A Windows partition doesn't hurt anything, IMO, unless you're real tight for hard drive space, and can come in handy from time to time.

[starcannon]

Hello to all fellow Linux aficionados.
I am very close to completely leaving Windows for good and only using Linux.
I love using Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Linux Mint.
The only reason I still use Windows XP as a dual boot set-up is because I need Virtual Dub, Windows Media Player, Web Dwarf and a handful of other programs. I hope these applications are made for Linux or at least equally good alternatives.
I don't really like Avidemux and Kdenlive is too unstable.

Nothing wrong with dual booting, a toolbox should have lots of tools in it; sure you have your favorite wrench, but that doesn't mean you throw out the screw driver. I personally just started dual booting again; I wanted to play warhammer online; I gotta tell you, man I am spoiled by Ubuntu, I forgot what a real drag a windows XP install is, hours and hours of hunting down drivers, and slipstreaming sata drivers just so the install cd will work, then more time installing the drivers that I downloaded; XP ended up requiring a weekend to install (mostly because of the wild goose chase driver hunt). Anyway, I hear ya, when your Ubuntu spoiled you just don't want to be bothered with anything else, but until some of the softwares we all enjoy makes its way to linux, its best to hang on to that rusty old screwdriver a while longer.

[Hyper Tails]

yea

I once had vista and linux dual booted

but I took vista off

[stalkingwolf]

I keep a windows drive around for those occasions when I am working on a winbox or for when I am in a time crunch and need to do something I have not yet learned to do in Ubuntu.

I might plug in the win drive once or twice a month.

[Rytron]

In regards to "Virtual Dub" is that a package related to video editing of the Guardian Knot ilk?

If so have you considered Wine? (Im sure you have)

In a related note, I still use TmpENC although I can use Wine quite happily and my Windows dependency has gone.

I cant get Virtual Dub to work properly in Wine. As far as I know Guardian Knot and Virtual Dub are used in conjunction but Virtual Dub has many other uses.