guv999
Ireland
Tutorials
| Title | Score |
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Software reviews
| Software | Score |
|---|---|
| banshee "Just started using Banshee again after approx 18 months away. Really been developed well and is now fulfilling its potential" |
5 |
| opera "Good clean browser, loads of features, much improved since 12.0" |
4 |
| muon-updater "Can be a bit laggy at times, but fair better looking in KDE than Mint Update" |
4 |
| muon "Much nicer in KDE than Synaptic. Should be the default in KDE version" |
4 |
| ktorrent "Once you get set up excellent" |
4 |
| minitube "very temperamental when it comes to playback, but great for downloading" |
3 |
| libreoffice-writer "Excellent and straight forward" |
5 |
| libreoffice-calc "Excellent Excel intergration, and more features all the time" |
5 |
| clementine "good music player/manager. very simple but full of features" |
4 |
| pybootchartgui "great package to identify boot up issues" |
4 |
| deluge "Does the job very well" |
5 |
| transmission "Very easy and straight forward bit torent client" |
4 |
| easytag "Great. Does take a bit of time to work out - but once you do it is excellent and easy to use." |
5 |
| gthumb "v good program, very quick and straight forward to use . Layout is not a good as Shotwell" |
4 |
| dates "okay - does the basics" |
3 |
| gtg "Excellent task planner. Very easy to use and good intigration with Remember the Milk" |
5 |
| sound-juicer "Does the job really well and really simply" |
5 |
| lastfm "great service and good app" |
4 |
| exaile "Easy to use with a nice layout. Plays and manages your music very well, without a lot of unnecessary features found in Rhythmbox or Banshee " |
5 |
| audacious "Cannot believe it took so long to find this. Really good music player - great sound and good plug ins" |
4 |
| mintupdate "very good and easy" |
3 |
| rhythmbox "Easy to use and stable. Could improve with better metadata support and cover art etc Works with my Creative Zen very well" |
4 |
| screenlets "in my experience have always been buggy" |
3 |
| openshot "I cannot fault this. Very straight forward and had me up and running very quickly indeed" |
5 |
| audacity "Rarely use it, but always easy to use when when I do and does the job" |
5 |
| empathy "Not as nice to use as Pidgin - but has more functionality - specifically video/audio support form MSN" |
4 |
| pidgin "much nicer to use than Empathy - but does not have video/audio chat on MSN" |
4 |
| totem "Now I am using more .mkv files I am finding totem unable to achieve smooth playback" |
3 |
| gnome-activity-journal "has the makings of a great app" |
4 |
| gnome-backgrounds "adds some nice backgrounds" |
4 |
| mintbackup "Easy to use, but can take a long time if you have significant amounts of data. Also would be good if it could be synced and could make incremental back ups" |
3 |
| backintime-gnome "very straight foward and easy" |
5 |
| thunderbird "Great. Have not used this for a while - far quicker than Evolution and tabs is a cool feature too" |
5 |
| firefox "Firefox 4 is excellent - huge leap forward and up there with Chrome" |
5 |
| unetbootin "although its not perfect, this has helped me out often and i have found it more reliable than other programs" |
4 |
| fslint "Saved me 3gig of space, wish it had better use guide" |
4 |
| wine "Sometimes find it a bit difficult to work, but is well worth having" |
3 |
| skype "I have found this easy to use and configure on Mint and it has some nice features, I have not used the windows version for some years so cannot confirm any missing features in the Linux version" |
4 |
| supertuxkart "Enjoyable and the kids love it" |
4 |
| vlc "Excellent Media Player. I have used this, MPlayer and Totem in recent months - all of which are excellent. Although I do find some of VLC's settings a little confusing at times it has been the best in terms of Codec recognition and smooth playback" |
5 |
| evolution "very good email client with calendar integration" |
4 |
| conky-all "Excellent program - saves having screenlets or applets to get system information and looks more integrated with the desktop . That said, it is not straight forward to configure and expect to take some time and potentially refer to tutorials and forums. The results are well worth it though" |
5 |
| acroread "Never had any problems with this, does the job." |
4 |
| ailurus "good compliment to Ubuntu Tweak, not presented as well though" |
4 |
| mintinstall "Excellent - the reviews really help" |
5 |
| hardinfo "very useful when needed" |
4 |
| midori "great potential in the future, not quite there yet. Not straight forward to imprt bookmarks from other browsers for instance" |
3 |
| brasero "Easy to use for straight forward needs" |
4 |
| cheese "Nice simple tool with some fun effects as well" |
4 |
| gwibber "Not very elegant. Much easier to have launchers om your desktop or browser etc" |
2 |
| extremetuxracer "Extremely addictive - good fun" |
4 |
| gimp "Very powerful, but can be confusing at first - well worth taking the time to learn how to use it" |
4 |
| fusion-icon "easiest way to switch window managers and decorators" |
5 |
| bootchart "very useful tool" |
4 |
| avant-window-navigator "Very good as a panel replacement. My one criticism is that it can be a bit cluttered" |
4 |
| startupmanager "Very nice package - takes the hassle out of making boot changes" |
4 |
| celestia "Good stuff!" |
4 |
| radiotray "Great app - takes a few mins to configure, but nothing to awkward" |
5 |
| firestarter "Much prefer this to UFW. Very straight forward and un complicated" |
5 |
| clamtk "Really simple" |
4 |
| mintmenu "really good" |
5 |
| gnome-mplayer "Best video playback tool I have ever used " |
5 |
| shotwell "Very good app - does everything I need." |
4 |
| gnumeric "Loads of formats xls and odf. Very easy to use and light weight" |
5 |
| docky "Simple, elegant dock - not a panel replacement" |
5 |
| abiword-common "Great alternative to Open Office writer better desktop intergration" |
5 |
| ubuntu-tweak "Excellent for new linux users" |
5 |
| chromium "Fast, simple and clean " |
5 |