If you could choose to port one program to Linux?
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Saw this question posted on reddit r/linux and thought it would fit well here. So which program would you choose...
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For the sake of the greater good, the rest of unported Steam games...
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Honestly aside from some games I don't really have any software running on WIndows that doesn't have an equal FOSS solution on Linux.
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@coliver said:
Honestly aside from some games I don't really have any software running on WIndows that doesn't have an equal FOSS solution on Linux.
Yup, if Steam was completely ported over to Linux, you'd see Windows in the gaming community drop like a stone.
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I'm drawing a blank. Other than games, I can't think of anything that I miss on Linux other than Microsoft tools like the RSAT, but since I don't do Windows administration, even that doesn't matter to me. MS Office running native would be nice, but again, don't actually use it day to day and it has been ported via Crossover Office so even that doesn't really matter.
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@scottalanmiller said:
MS Office running native would be nice
This would be nice to have, but I don't use very many advanced features so the Office WebApps actually work really well for me. For everything else LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice has me covered.
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Adobe and Avid software would be great. Autodesk already has smoke for linux. As well as Lightworks from editshare but its a bit old fashioned
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Someone mentioned on reddit they would chose Auto Cad just for the sake of bringing more users to linux.
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Waiting for someone to say they want to port some package they have on their computer that's actually malware.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Waiting for someone to say they want to port some package they have on their computer that's actually malware.
I really like this Conduit thing that came with my free wallpapers... I wish that would get ported over.
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coupon printer, registry pro, speedupmypc.com/superfast
I wish those would linuz
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SQL Server
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@Carnival-Boy said:
SQL Server
Do You mean MS Sql? MySql and mariadb are already there and they preform much better than MS SQL
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
SQL Server
Do You mean MS Sql? MySql and mariadb are already there and they preform much better than MS SQL
The way that he capitalized means MS SQL Server. It's true name is actually "SQL Server" like he wrote. We put MS in front of it like Chevy Malibu, but the car is still just a Malibu, and it is made by Chevy.
MS SQL Server is a pretty amazing database. Open source has some serious competitors, not sure I'd use MySQL as the example
But MS SQL Server is actually at the top end of databases these days. They are competing with the best of the best on everything but price.PostgreSQL is the big leading in the open source space, very much on par with SQL Server.
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Winamp. I mean there are similar alternatives which run on X, but the little things are missing, and the worst part is that Winamp isn't even that great, and in fact it's kinda crappy.
Everything else is already available if it's worth using.
I do second @scottalanmiller though on Microsoft SQL Server and I'm honestly surprised that Microsoft hasn't done this, but I really know it's because, like Exchange, it's strangled with so many COM+ objects, API calls, etc that porting it isn't really going to happen, instead the base engine and T-SQL parser is what needs to be ported.
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@tonyshowoff WinAmp is stuck in the 90's still. It's better than iTunes but that's not saying much.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@tonyshowoff WinAmp is stuck in the 90's still. It's better than iTunes but that's not saying much.
The 90s was my hay-day.
