how do i love linux, let me count the ways

[cimorene]

• How to password-protect rar files: check! File-roller.


• How to use Konqueror for file browsing, local area network filesharing (SFTP), and internet uploading (FTP): check! Konqueror rules. I won't part with Opera for web browsing, though, even though it's got some flash player bugs.


• How to rip cds to mp3: check! Grip.


• How to load and manage iPod: check! Banshee.


• How to find and replace long strings including carriage returns: no, but how to run ancient shareware CuteHTML with Wine: check


• How to word process without editing comments, formatting, and sometimes actual text changes simply vanishing into the ether: still fucking working on it


• How to do 3/4 of everything right in the console, including downloading programs automatically when you tell it you want it: awesome.


• How to waste all the time you could ever want: console-based tetris. It's called Tint.


• How to have like as many desktop backgrounds as you want: check.


• How to chat with any program you want, including jabber: great except for how it never fucking works with MSN. Gaim is good otherwise, though. I hear Kopete works, but I'm a creature of habit.


• How to desaturate or colourise your icons on the desktop and in filebrowsers and OS-native applications: I never knew I needed it until I discovered I could do it! Bless you, Kubuntu!


• How to do everything Photoshop does for free: The Gimp is pretty rad, I admit, and it really is that sophisticated, and it works on Windows too. The problem is if you're used to Photoshop it takes some adjustment. I can figure out how to get the effects I want, but it takes a lot more work still. There's a huge knowledge base on the net to help you out here, but it still takes some trial and error, and the more you understand the how-and-why of what you're doing with those pretty filters and sliding bar charts and things, the easier it is to adjust. So like, a lot easier for me than for Wax, but still kinda headache-inducing.

OpenOffice is surprisingly the least functional part of the Linux experience for us, so far. Wine will even run Semagic and reportedly an old version of iTunes for you, if you don't mind some computing slowness that doesn't really seem to be worth it to me for the extra features.

Comments

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Wow, bummer. I had no idea the experience of Mac browsing was so fraught with difficulty. There's Firefox and Opera for Macs, isn't there?

[dunautremonde.livejournal.com]

Yeah there is, and I'm gonna try Opera out next right after I get finally fed up with Camino. But yeah Camino is Firefox, at least the renderer, so I'll skip the firefox test-out.

[vass]

But yeah Camino is Firefox, at least the renderer, so I'll skip the firefox test-out.

Firefox runs a little slower than Camino, but has so many more features that there's almost no comparison. Firefox's adblocking and scriptblocking alone made me switch from Camino to Firefox when my primary computer was a Mac.

[dunautremonde.livejournal.com]

I tried out Firefox yesterday and couldn't figure out how to change the way Firefox handles different file types. That is.. I could but there was only listed png and tiff, but no way to add more. Or maybe I'm just missing something really obvious?

I love how your icon for this comment has Camino in it. :P But what's the turtle/Bowser looking creature for?

[vass]

I could but there was only listed png and tiff, but no way to add more.

That's odd. I don't have a clue, sorry.

But what's the turtle/Bowser looking creature for?

He's a web Bowser!