i nearly started getting excited when i read that the Ubuntu team have releasing andLinux, which is actually a way of running *nix apps on Windoze directly without the need for dual boot or virtualization a few years ago it was possible to run a virtual *nix box on a Windoze FAT32 partition (by assigning it an amount of free space (32Mb i think), but with VMware and similar virtualization solutions available, making it easy to run a virtual machine Source
Hmmmmm nice find, but I can't think of any Linux applications that I've thought "whoa, I wish I could use that software in Windows...", maybe the other way around though! Although saying that, I've not been very successful with Linux, and quickly gave up
most (about 80 - 85%, i think) Windoze software will run on Linux by using Wine although personally, i've only run FF for Windoze on Linux, i was trying to get Shockwave working on Linux ages ago, and it worked, using Linux is basically learning to think outside the box it is worth sticking with it, personally, i still don't class myself as being not much above a noob, but, obviously i am, i'm nowhere near AT but i can very easily see the potential in Linux, i use my system for browsing & email only (& obviously multimedia crap) but i sometimes look into the some advanced stuff & i like having the choices Windoze doesn't provide you with and i don't have a software firewall, just the hardware firewall built into my router[ot]grandma, you suck eggs like this, shlurp, shlurp, shlurp[/ot]try a dual boot with Windoze & *nix, but stick with it, basically, i abandoned Windoze because i was sick of ringing M$ every few weeks to reactivate XP
I have to agree with thomas.... I cant think of a program I use in linux which I wish worked in windows. Thats probably down to the programs I use though. Amarok, possibly. But I quite like WMP. Amarok crashed a lot for me. Im now on a PPC with xubuntu Hardy and haven't had chance to install it yet so who knows.... maybe it was a dodgy install on my old pc. The hardest thing about migrating to windows, imo, is waving goodbye to software. Fortunately for me I only have time to surf the net every other day which involves Thunderbird and Opera/Firefox. Im so happy im converted to linux. Ive converted two pc illiterate users to ubuntu who both think its easier to use and never stalls/crashes/lags. Still took me 2.5 days to install my airport extreme card on hardy though! Completely off topic. Just got a 1.2ghz ibook G4 with 1.2gb ram for 150 quid... utter bargain, well made up. Ubuntu only supports up to 6.10 though. Its works on hardy after lots of configuration.
As a heavy Linux user, there are a lot of apps that I wish worked on Windows when I inevitably have to use it to do college work. One of them is Kate, a great text editor with syntax highlighting and indentation etc. Sometimes I just want edit a source file without having to open a large IDE like Visual Studio. That said, getting VS.NET to work on Linux would be great. I could do all the work I needed from Linux then. I've never really had crashing problems with Amarok, but I'm always up to date on the versions I use. In fact quite a lot of KDE apps would be useful on Windows.
Yeah, this was one of the things which put me off Linux. I like to mess around with C# now and again, and I know there is mono (which I couldn't get to work), but it's not C# Express which I'm used to. I'll probably try and get Linux going in the summer when all the GCSE exams are finished.
Mono works fine for me, but it's more difficult building a GUI app than using VS.NET on windows. The C# language and general .NET classes support is excellent in mono though. you can simply write your code, run gmcs on it and out pops your executable. Using monodevelop is easier for more complex tasks of course.
I'm sure mono is excellent... But I couldn't get it installed to try! Like I said, I'll probs give Linux a go during the summer, as it's recommended I try it for the college course I'm taking! (Computing)
I'm taking Computing at A Level as well. It's a good subject, and you get quite a bit of programming freedom but there is still a lot of bureaucratic crap that you have to go through to get decent final grade. I've been developing an Amarok clone for Windows using C# for the past 8 months and it's 2 weeks to the deadline for the project. Code's pretty much done but still a hell of a lot of write-up to finish. In both lower-6th and upper-6th years you have to do a project but the lower-6th one is a small case study in which you shouldn't try to be fancy. Stick with whatever your tutor suggests because you only get marks for getting the job done, not doing it well.
What language did your teacher suggest you program... I'm going to have to learn Delphi!! Talk about ancient... I though VB would have been good for beginners. Do you mean to say that if the code was poorly written you would get the same marks as if the code was well written? If so, sounds a bit stupid! I spend quite a bit of time re-writing code and annotating is so I know what it does should I ever need to. I'd be interested to see your project to see how complex it is (the software side, not the paperwork crap). I still struggle with some of the most simple things in C#, for example, I'm sure it's obvious, but I haven't figured out how to pass variables between forms (windows)!! :doh:
