What Windows apps do you still use?

[taylor65]

I saw the thread about what linux apps people use. I think it'd be interesting to find out what people still use Windows for.

My list:

turbotax (yep, that's all).

[ilja]

I used to use skype, so now Windows can be deleted
And I never managed to use my ISDN-Fax with Linux.

[djf_jeff]

I use a remote connection just for Lotus Notes at work, I wait for the Linux port...

And for some games some times (rare, really rare)

[Ug]

Games and ... well games. I use crossover office with Microsoft Access at times - I can't wait for the database application which is being developed for OpenOffice 2.0.

[tux2furious]

Feel so ashame, my list is still long Reasons, I still use windows is for:

skype
-voice chat

myie
-able to save flash
-able to forcefully enable right click on webpages that have disabled right click

flashget
-batch download files (able to pass in parameters for it to generate links, very useful to download pix and mp3)
-able to get the entire's page links

teleport
-download entire site

gunbound
-game

microsoft word, excel
-have a lot of password protected files that openoffice can't open

outlook express
-most my old emails are still there

palm desktop
-jpilot won't sync address book properly, it will remove my grouping
-using zire71, able to snap photos, but jpilot doesn't seem to have that option to download them

apacer mp3 thunbdrive with internal and external sd memory
-linux doesn't seem to be able to read the external sd memory

rip dvd to divx
-still haven't figure out why my dvd::rip only can rip xvid (must be missnig codec)

adobe audition
-convert audio (eg. wma to mp3)
-sound editing and recording

[ilja]

Originally Posted by tux2furious

skype
-voice chat

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=18202

Originally Posted by tux2furious

flashget

allready tried wget with kget and plug-ins for Mozilla?

[MrWh1t3]

games but im trying to just game on my xbox instead...i use grab it for windows i know about PAN but im just being lazy i guess

[Ug]

Originally Posted by tux2furious

flashget
-batch download files (able to pass in parameters for it to generate links, very useful to download pix and mp3)
-able to get the entire's page links

I take it you haven't tried d4x (click here for more info)? (Downloader for X) Its a pretty good program in that vein of things, you can find an RPM for it here on FreshRPMs.

Originally Posted by tux2furious

teleport
-download entire site

D4x can also download entire sites.

Originally Posted by tux2furious

outlook express
-most my old emails are still there

No reason for that one, just export your emails and import them into evolution or Thunderbird!

Originally Posted by tux2furious

palm desktop
-jpilot won't sync address book properly, it will remove my grouping
-using zire71, able to snap photos, but jpilot doesn't seem to have that option to download them

You ought to try using the Gnome Pilot with a program like evolution, its normally installed by default. If you look on your fedora cds you'll also find a Gnome Pilot extras package which will allow you to download files and put programs onto your palm.

Originally Posted by tux2furious

apacer mp3 thunbdrive with internal and external sd memory
-linux doesn't seem to be able to read the external sd memory

Is that one of those USB Pendrive like devices? If so then take it into windows, and reformat the whole thing into fat or fat16 not fat32. You'll be surprised that it can suddenly make them work in Linux when they should already. Don't forget to mount it like this if using FAT:

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive

Where /dev/sda1 is the port it is connected to and /mnt/usbdrive is the mounting folder.

There the immediate few I can think of off the top of my head. But a much more comphrensive list can be found here. Its a table of Windows programs and their Linux equivalents, its pretty extensive.

Good luck with your migration!

[Elfod]

Just the Cisco VPN client and Lotus Notes 6. To avoid running windoze entirely I run win2k in vmware which works great for Notes.

Apparently there is a Notes client Linux but big blue are withholding it.

I've heard there's a Cisco VPN client for Linux but haven't tried hard to find it yet.

[tux2furious]

thank you Ug and ilja, i'll give all those a try...

hope i can be 100% windows free soon

[ewdi]

i'm still using dreamweaver and photoshop (under crossoffice 3 emulation)

[crackers]

Originally Posted by Elfod

I've heard there's a Cisco VPN client for Linux but haven't tried hard to find it yet.

Works good on FC1, I haven't tried it with the 8k-stacks kernel on FC2 yet (yes, I'm still on 2.6.5). The only issue I have with it is that, when active, it basically "suspends" your other routing - which means I lose the local network. I'm NFS-mounting a shared partition of the wife's FC1 box, so I kinda need to unmount it.

There's a project called "vpnc" that will do the same thing, but you have to squeeze the passwords out of your sysadmins - just threaten to hack it (known hacks found on Google, of course)... I haven't tried that yet.

[sailor]

WinXP is mainly for games also use nero, photoshop, illustrator, MS Office, dreamweaver (used Quanta for my latest webpage)...my wife will not let me remove windows she refuses to use FC...I have the kids using Win 2000...they also refuse to use FC...I am out numbered here...

[Finalzone]

Games like Final Fantasy XI. There is only Windows version as Square Enix have no plan to release Linux or Mac version.

[Ug]

Originally Posted by ewdi

i'm still using dreamweaver and photoshop (under crossoffice 3 emulation)

Shock horror.