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Software reviews
| Software | Score |
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| remmina "Works well for remoting over vpn my work win7 desktop. It's fast enough. Haven't used ssh." |
5 |
| soundconverter "Works well for converting FLAC to MP3, multicore enabled. Haven't used it for much else. Wish it would do SHN to FLAC. Use Traders Little Helper in Wine for the best utility." |
4 |
| transmission "Seems to be the best torrent client for Ubuntu. Several attempts with other clients seemed to have issues of one sort or another. Always returned to Transmission! Ample remote control applications, too." |
5 |
| keepassx "The best. Cross platform, lots of plugins, encryption, old school. Perfection!" |
5 |
| audacity "Best free audio app. Wish the version in the software manager was more current. But everything here is outdated!" |
5 |
| k3b "Best burner yet. Does all the basics flawlessly, and it's interface is like the old burners I grew up on." |
5 |
| filezilla "Filezilla continues to be excellent. Works on all platforms. Slightly slower than expected." |
5 |
| gimp "The best alternative to big name apps. Newer releases would be nice in the repositories, but they can be gotten manually. Perfection!" |
5 |
| vlc "It plays most everything, has several geeky features, but lacks good visualizations to music." |
4 |
| picasa "It's way behind the times, with no recent updates. It always seemed to eat extra resources in Ubuntu." |
3 |
| grass "I can't believe it's free. This makes life easier for GIS folks." |
5 |
| gufw "It gets the job done. Bare bones, but effective." |
5 |
| gedit "Gedit has the basic bases covered. If you need more there are others, but this is 101 basics essential." |
5 |
| mintupdate "Works every time!" |
5 |
| virtualbox-guest-additions "Exactly what the VirtualBox ordered! Works like it is supposed to, consistently." |
5 |
| bleachbit "It is the best tool. Thanks for a great application!" |
5 |
| wine "This is the easiest thing to run some of those old windows apps in linux. Come on, many games from years ago is great nastalgia. Let alone many one of a kind utilities not yet ported. What else are you going to do?" |
5 |
| krename "Works well. Another good one." |
5 |
| hugin "So many uses, plenty of documentation and community. Priceless!" |
5 |
| sabnzbdplus "Perfection." |
5 |
| thunderbird "Thunderbird continues to be kept up with new releases. Linux isn't left behind, either. Simple and classic." |
5 |
| gebabbel "It seems to work as well as GPSBabel under Wine. Good job and thank you." |
5 |
| gnome-mplayer "It crashes regular, taking down the whole OS, on linux mint 12. VLC for me." |
2 |
| gprename "gprename was more directly usable for me. It's interface is simple and standard. Tried three other similar apps that I couldn't snap to like gprename. Score!" |
5 |
| deja-dup "For a simple backup, it's just that. The basics works perfectly here. As with many of these apps, it's just the basics. grsync is more robust offering technical options for advanced users." |
4 |