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To: cuban leaf
Visio--pretty difficult. Not sure it it'll work under WINE.

Sonar--never heard of it, but Linux does have several audio editing tools. My son uses one called MixCraft that he seems to like a lot.

Winamp--no problem. Several apps look and feel just like it., though there are better ones out there.

PhotoShop--Now it's getting into the heavy hitters. The closest (which probably isn't good enough for you) is GIMP

Video editing--there are several good ones. I don't do video editing, so I'm not aware of the titles off th etop of my head, though I have seen quite a few articles about this genre of software.

DVD burning--piece of cake. I can rip/burn DVDs, download video (and extract the audio) from youtube, etc.

Games? I ton. Steam just announced they've hit the 500 game mark for Steam Linux. This morning, I saw that Civ V was announced as a native port to Linux.

12 posted on 06/11/2014 9:28:48 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

I don’t consider WINE an alternative.

I used to have a dual boot machine when I used OS2 Warp. I also used to have a Beta VCR (both far superior to the compettion, btw.)

Never again. My computer is now a commodity, not an occupation. It is a tool that I use like a car. I don’t want to have to be a mechanic any more just to use it.

And FWIW, I’m in IT and had to become a dos memory management expert to get Aces over the Pacific to work in DOS mode on my Windows 3.1 machine back in the early 90’s.

I also tried Ubunto several years ago.

I’m done with that nonsense.


17 posted on 06/11/2014 9:38:20 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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