Very easy to use. I like the concept, but need more big games.

WikzoDk

Is there a list like this for Mac?

Runar

FYI for other *buntu-ers, I had/have some trouble getting "Tileracer" to run correctly. Thought it was compiz-fusion, but even after swiching to Xfwm4, it's too buggy to run on my celeron D, 1.5 GB RAM Intel 915 system.

I'm probably too resource-poor to run it, anyway, but thought I'd put it out there to save others from wasting the 10 min or so of futzing.

Greg.Rowler

Most of these games are already available in the standard loadout under Applications | Add/Remove... without even going to Synaptic:

Alien Arena
Nexuiz
FreeCiv

etc...

Playdeb is therefore yet another redundant P.O.S. project typical of the Linux community. Ten media players but none of them as good as iTunes. Ten video players - none play all videos. Ten spreadsheet programs, all are bug-infested junior-rank cruft compared to Excel.

The Linux community apparently has as its code of honor to have multiple projects of mediocre quality rather than ever hitting a home run (except firefox).

24fc

@24fc: "Ten media players but none of them as good as iTunes."

Huh? If you like bloated music players like iTunes, there's amarok. If you dislike bloated music players, there's Audacious.

urukhaifive

@Runar: [www.apple.com]

While OS 10.5 looks for all the world like Linux's half-sister I wouldn't guess that you have the ability to use a package manager in the same way.

Apple does have a page to download some linux/open source applications: [www.apple.com]

(I wonder if all those are actually UNIX in origin or if they're just neglecting to mention Linux.)

As far as downloading source and compiling it is probably doable, I don't know what direction to point you in for that.

cynedyr

@cynedyr: Actually, you'd be surprised about the whole package manager thing.

[www.finkproject.org]

Abby_Normal

@24fc: Well if that's not a steaming pile of flamebait... but I'll bite.

1. Amarok is awesome--IMO it far exceeds iTunes. And there's the more lightweight Audacity as another has said. I've heard good things about Banshee as well.

2. VLC and Totem are both great video players (Totem being my current favorite). Both play videos just fine if you have the codecs. Admitedly, it's less than obvious how to get the codecs but a little googling goes a long way for such a common problem.

3... I can't comment on the spreadsheet side of your opinion but I think two out of three is good enough.

genericpoweruser

I really wanted to love Ubuntu... I just got tired of having to boot into windows when I actually wanted to do anything productive.

PunkMunkey

@genericpoweruser: Agreed! Amarok blows iTunes away, and VLC plays anything and everything. I like Gnumeric for spreadsheets because most of what it doesn't have is bloat that I don't need, but oO's spreadsheet app does the rest in a pinch. There is some software I miss from Windows, but to denigrate Linux software in general as mediocre is to demonstrate your own ignorance and/or bias.

zoomZAP

i got dual boot vista/ubuntu aand xp on a virtualbox to open photoshop

u can't play games on a box so that's why i keep vista

hellbAsement

@PunkMunkey: You're going to need to be a little more specific. What was is that Ubuntu wouldn't do that Windows will?

I'm a bit of a Linux noob. So I do keep an XP box on the network to act as a terminal server for when I need to do something in windows that I cannot figure out in Linux.

Scottey

I have never used linux but friends of mine slobber over it like a digital verson of god. I used OS X and have been a windows user since my birth, but one day i might try it out!!!

phayte28

@thejynxed: Wow, I must be missing something--neither my Ubuntu desktop nor Xubuntu laptop have any of those problems. They network with PCs and Macs, print to the networked printer and move along right quick. The Xubuntu won't connect wirelessly, but that's because my wireless card is so old there's no Linux driver for it. Not the fault of the OS. As for gaming, well, can't tellya much, since Lemmings is about my speed.

infmom

@Scottey: You mean besides easily access network shares in a mixed networking or even a homogeneous networking environment, reliable printing, gaming without ugly hacks involving WINE, wireless networking and a default desktop that isn't as slow/cumbersome as frozen molasses?

It's ok if you want to read email type obscure commands in a terminal or spin your Compiz desktops around in circles I guess... :P

thejynxed

@24fc: I agree with you in general, but the reason many media players in Linux don't play all formats is due to patent issues and proprietary formats.

nighttimestereo

@thejynxed: I game in Linux, but I play LINUX games (Urban Terror being my favorite). Can you play Linux games in Windows? The next time you complain that you have to use Wine to play Windows games in Linux, try it the other way around and see how far you get.

Oh and I also access network shares with no problem and if you don't like Compiz it's two clicks to turn it off.

What is it with all the FUD-spouting Linux-hating trolls around here anyway?

zoomZAP

@Abby_Normal: That is interesting, I'll have to pass that on to the macinaniacs I know.

cynedyr

"Ten media players but none of them as good as iTunes. Ten video players - none play all videos."

Amarok. VLC. That is all.

HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak