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Macfunky
April 7th, 2009, 11:06 AM
Which ones have you used and which ones would you recommend and not recommend??
Music Player
General Media Player
Photo Editor
Audio Editor
Torrent Downloader
Website Design
Disc Burner
Video Editor
Vector Graphics Editor
Digital Audio Workstation
Office Package
Instant Messenger
I would like as many reasons as i can why you liked/didn't like them? Just want to see if theres any hidden jems out there that i've overlooked. Thanks :D
Eisenwinter
April 7th, 2009, 11:09 AM
Xmms - simple and to the point
don't use one
don't use one
LMMS - nice free software subtitute for Cubase
rTorrent - simple and to the point
don't use one
Wodim - simple and to the point
don't use one
don't use one
don't use one
don't use one
Bitlbee - simple and to the point, allows me to use my IRC client itself for IM services.
.Maleficus.
April 7th, 2009, 11:24 AM
Music Player - mpd + ncmpcpp
General Media Player - ...Don't know what you mean. ncmpcpp for music, Mplayer for video
Photo Editor - Gimp on Linux, Photoshop on Windows
Audio Editor - Don't use one
Torrent Downloader - rtorrent
Website Design - Vim? I do it by hand.
Disc Burner - cdrecord
Video Editor - Nothing on Linux, After Effects on Windows
Vector Graphics Editor - Nothing on Linux, Illustrator on Windows
Digital Audio Workstation - Don't use one
Office Package - OO.org on Linux, Office 2007 on Windows
Instant Messenger - Don't use one
If figured you probably didn't care about the Windows versions so I offered Linux alternatives to those. I prefer the bolded programs - I only use them on Windows though (no Wine).
kpkeerthi
April 7th, 2009, 11:32 AM
Music Player - Amarok
General Media Player - vlc
Photo Editor - digikam
Audio Editor - n/a
Torrent Downloader - Deluge (daemon/cli)
Website Design - n/a
Disc Burner - k3b
Video Editor - n/a
Vector Graphics Editor - n/a
Digital Audio Workstation - n/a
Office Package - Openoffice
Instant Messenger - Kopete
billgoldberg
April 7th, 2009, 11:38 AM
Music Player
Totem/Rythmbox
General Media Player
Totem
Photo Editor
Gimp
Audio Editor
Audacity
Torrent Downloader
Deluge
Website Design
Bluefish
Disc Burner
Brasero
Video Editor
None, they all suck
Vector Graphics Editor
N/A
Digital Audio Workstation
N/A
Office Package
"Gnome Office" (abiword, gnumeric, ...)
Instant Messenger
Emesene
cb951303
April 7th, 2009, 12:45 PM
Music Player
Banshee because rhythmbox development going to cease and I want to get used to another full featured GTK player before it does.
General Media Player
SMplayer because there is no other movie player with the same level of mplayer integration. Also since it's QT4 it looks like a GTK application
Photo Editor
Gimp
Vector Graphics Editor
Inkscape
Torrent Downloader
Transmission but only because I have to. So far I couldn't make any version of deluge remember the window geometry in any version of linux but apparently deluge team can't reproduce the bug so...
Office Package
Openoffice because I have to. Abiword messes with the layout everytime I try to change something. Other than this, by all means Openoffice sucks for me (an no I don't like MS Office either :))
Instant Messenger
Pidgin because I like to have my bonjour, irc, msn and jabber accounts on one application.
gn2
April 7th, 2009, 02:19 PM
Music Player AMAROK excellent features
General Media Player VLC yet to find anything it won't play
Photo Editor DIGIKAM simple to use
Audio Editor AUDACITY lots of helpful tutorials available
Torrent Downloader TRANSMISSION default and it works just fine
Website Design KOMPOZER simple to use
Disc Burner BRASERO default and simple to use
Video Editor N/A
Vector Graphics Editor N/A
Digital Audio Workstation N/A
Office Package OO2 default and simple to use
Instant Messenger N/A
Simian Man
April 7th, 2009, 02:23 PM
Music Player - Rhythmbox
General Media Player - Rhythmbox/Totem
Photo Editor - Gimp
Audio Editor - Audacity
Torrent Downloader - Transmission
Website Design - vim
Disc Burner - The Nautilus script that does this
Video Editor - ffmpeg
Digital Audio Workstation - ??
Office Package - vim + LaTeX
All of my choices can be described as being simple and effective.
spupy
April 7th, 2009, 02:48 PM
There is a thread like this. But I will play along since I have free time.
Music Player - MPD+Sonata (light and scriptable)
General Media Player - mplayer (fast)
Photo Editor - GIMP (the one and only)
Audio Editor - no such animal in my zoo
Torrent Downloader - Transmission (light & nice interface)
Disc Burner - graveman (i don't use it much)
Vector Graphics Editor - inkscape
Digital Audio Workstation - what is this?
Office Package - OpenOffice
Instant Messenger - Pidgin (light, versatile, nice interface)
Macfunky
April 7th, 2009, 02:59 PM
A digital audio workstation is a program for recording music into and then mixing.
The following are the programs i use -
Music Player - Amarok (plenty of features)
General Media Player - VLC (as mentioned by someone else it plays every file i ever wanted it to)
Photo Editor - Gimp (do i need to elaborate?)
Audio Editor - Audacity (edits your audio in every way you could want)
Torrent Downloader - Transmission (its default and i dont know if there are any others worth trying yet)
Website Design - Still getting into this but ive been dabbling around with Kompozer and Bluefish
Disc Burner - Brasero (does what i want it to do)
Video Editor - Open movie editor (linux has a long way to come with video editing yet tho)
Vector Graphics Editor - Inkscape (best features ive come across so far)
Digital Audio Workstation - Ardour (not really any other alternatives yet but this is plenty sufficient)
Office Package - Openoffice
Instant Messenger - emesene (for when i want to talk to people who use msn. I usually use google talk tho)
mcduck
April 7th, 2009, 03:22 PM
Music Player
MPD with Sonata. Lightweight and beautiful. Nice features and handles my (quite massive) music collection without any problems while most other players struggle or crash completely.
General Media Player
Totem works fine, has clean UI, and is installed by default.
Photo Editor
Imagemagick. <3 Gimp is nice as well, for all the tasks I'm not capable of doing without seeing what I do. :D
Audio Editor
Audacity. Has all the tools needed for normal audio editing tasks.
Torrent Downloader
Transmission. Once again a program that has clean and simple UI, works fine, does everything it needs to do and is installed by default. (I kind of like Deluge as well ut the UI is more messy than Transmission's and I don't need the extra features)
Website Design
Inkscape & Gimp. (For design, if you asked for "website development" then add Gedit.)
Disc Burner
Brasero. Works fine and does what it needs to. I've never found any reason to change this.
Video Editor
Actually I use Final Cut Pro on a Mac for this. But I often use Avidemux for smaller and more specific tasks, and I'm also learning how to use Blender for video editing.
Vector Graphics Editor
Inkscape. No questions about it, the best vector graphics editor I've ever used. Better than Illustrator, if you ask me. :)
Digital Audio Workstation
Once again this is something that I usually do on a Mac. But Ardour seems very nice.
Office Package
OpenOffice. I rarely do any advanced office tasks so even OO is way more powerful than what I really need.
Instant Messenger
Pidgin. Handles all the protocols I need to use, with way more features than I'd ever really want (I'm more IRC person but use IM because I need to).
Tibuda
April 7th, 2009, 03:33 PM
I try to use lightweight FOSS Gtk+ applications. All those fits my needs very well:
Music Player: Quod Libet, the best on editing music metadata
General Media Player: Totem
Photo Editor: GIMP
Audio Editor: Audacity
Torrent Downloader: Transmission, the best interface I have ever seen in a torrent client.
Website Design: GIMP + XHTML+CSS in Gedit, which becomes really powerful with the external tools plugin
Disc Burner: Brasero, always worked with me
Video Editor: don't use any
Vector Graphics Editor: Inkscape
Digital Audio Workstation: This is not the same as "Audio Editor"?
Office Package: Abiword + Gnumeric + OpenOffice Impress (Criawips is not mature yet)
Instant Messenger: Pidgin, has great plugins I like, and I don't use voice/video chat
What about Web browser, Feed reader, Mail client and Backup tool?
gnomeuser
April 7th, 2009, 03:44 PM
Music Player: Banshee
General Media Player: Banshee
Photo Editor: I use F-spot for photo management
Audio Editor: n/a
Torrent Downloader: Monsoon
Website Design: n/a
Disc Burner: trick question, burning should be a matter of a set of widgets to allow integration into relevant applications not a standalone app.
Video Editor: n/a
Vector Graphics Editor: n/a
Digital Audio Workstation: n/a
Office Package: I use AbiWord as well as Google Docs
Instant Messenger: Empathy plus amsn (since the latter supports webcams in msn)
Macfunky
April 11th, 2009, 12:02 AM
An audio editor is very different from an audio work station.
An audio editor does just that. It edits audio (typically one track). It is more geared towards cutting up audio and putting it together. A bit of manipulation but mostly editing.
An audio work station is more for mixing music (typically multiple tracks). Its for recording multiple tracks and mixng the tracks together using various plugins (reverb, compression, eq)
cardinals_fan
April 11th, 2009, 12:15 AM
Music Player: MPD + ncmpc
General Media Player: mplayer
Photo Editor: Picasa for batch, GIMP for detail, GQview for organizing
Audio Editor: Audacity, although I don't often do this
Torrent Downloader: ctorrent
Website Design: vim
Disc Burner: wodim
Video Editor: none
Vector Graphics Editor: Inkscape, although I don't do this much either
Digital Audio Workstation: what?
Office Package: vim + html for documents, Gnumeric for spreadsheets, Google Docs for presentations, and Zoho for other stuff
Instant Messenger: finch (CLI pidgin)
DLG102282
April 11th, 2009, 12:21 AM
Music Player
General Media Player
Photo Editor
Audio Editor
Torrent Downloader
Website Design
Disc Burner
Video Editor
Vector Graphics Editor
Digital Audio Workstation
Office Package
Instant Messenger
1) Rhythmbox it just works
2) None
3) GIMP it just works
4) None
5) None
6) None
7) Nautilus does what I need it to do
8) None
9) None
10) None
11) Open Office can use in Windows and Linux
12) Pidgin- allows me to use multiple clients and checks for email
lisati
April 11th, 2009, 12:24 AM
Music Player - ??? Whatever works!
General Media Player - doesn't really matter too much
Photo Editor - hardly ever edit photos
Audio Editor - haven't had the need
Torrent Downloader - the Frostwire and Limewire family
Website Design - ?
Disc Burner - Nero (only every used the Windows version)
Video Editor - Pinnacle Studio Plus (Windows)
Vector Graphics Editor - ???
Digital Audio Workstation - ???
Office Package - Open Office
Instant Messenger - pidgin
Eviltechie
April 11th, 2009, 12:39 AM
Music Player - Totem
General Media Player - Miro
Photo Editor - GIMP
Audio Editor - Audacity
Torrent Downloader - kTorrent
Website Design - gedit
Disc Burner - Brasseo
Video Editor - None, they all suck
Vector Graphics Editor - Tried inkscape, too confusing
Digital Audio Workstation - What?
Office Package - OOo
Instant Messenger - Pidgin
happysmileman
April 11th, 2009, 12:45 AM
Music Player
Amarok, it handles my collection fine, has tag editing, last.fm integration, lyrics script and works fine with my MP3 player.
2.0 interface looks slightly askew (no idea why since it uses same libraries as other KDE apps) and could use a bit more work on MP3 player (in my case MTP) support, such as showing free space available, offering to transcode etc., but it's still the best Music player available.
General Media Player
Amarok for Music as I said, I use dragon player for video since it has a very simple UI an does basically everything I need. VLC for when that doesn't work (External subtitles files aren't supported yet in Dragon player AFAIK)
Photo Editor
Gimp when I need it, but I don't do much photo editing.
Audio Editor
I don't use one.
Torrent Downloader
rTorrent, light, works fine, and I can run it on a screen session and add to the queue by SSH from my other computer :P
Website Design
Kate, I always just preferred to do the design myself rather than rely on some app that probably makes mistakes, outputs non-standard stuff and/or starts to fail once you add in some PHP.
Although I don't do much (read: any in a long time) web design.
Disc Burner
K3b, it came default on older Kubuntu versions I think and I never burned enough CDs to want anything else.
Video Editor
I don't use one.
Vector Graphics Editor
I don't use one.
Digital Audio Workstation
Not really sure what this means?
Office Package
Don't really use one, I've used both KOffice and OpenOffice before and liked them, in the future I'll probably base it on whether I'll need to send the files themselves or just the hardcopy.
Instant Messenger
Kopete, just nice, and default in KDE.
dragos240
April 11th, 2009, 12:50 AM
Music Player - VLC Media player
General Media Player - VLC Media player
Photo Editor - Kolourpaint/GIMP
Audio Editor - Audacity
Torrent Downloader - Transmition
Website Design - Barely use it but... KompoZer 8.10 ver
Disc Burner - Brasero
Video Editor - KdenLive/Open movie editor
Vector Graphics Editor - Inkscape
Digital Audio Workstation - What?
Office Package - OpenOffice
Instant Messenger - I don't do IM
Mehall
April 11th, 2009, 12:54 AM
Rhythmbox
VLC
GIMP
Audacity
Deluge (uTorrent if already running WINE for something else)
I use CMSes nowadays (mostly Joomla! and Wordpress)
Brasero
Cinelerra is the best I've heard? Don't use
Inkscape
no clue
Since you said "package", OpenOffice.org
Pidgin or meebo.com
Chemical Imbalance
April 11th, 2009, 01:00 AM
Music Player: Banshee
General Media Player: gnome-mplayer or VLC or Kaffeine
Photo Editor: GIMP
Audio Editor: Audacity
Torrent Downloader: Deluge or Ktorrent
Disc Burner: K3B
Video Editor: Avidemux
Vector Graphics Editor: Inkscape
Digital Audio Workstation: LMMS, Rosegarden, Hydrogen, Ardour
Office Package: OpenOffice.org
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