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Software reviews (104)
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| kdenlive "Open, click yes to 20 screens. Add clips - kapow: it crashes, closed and gone. Back to Windows DVD Maker...." |
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| pitivi "Add clips, try to proceed - crash. Just closed and gone. As a result, also uninstalled." |
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| sublime-text "Looks like a great editor, but $70 is way excessive. Any chance of a free 'lite' edition?" |
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| kde-config-grub2 "The comments here saved it from 1-star. I made a quick shell script to start up the obscure command, named it 'grub2conf'. I had tried the process by hand, but failed. This brings in ease of use." |
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| gpick "Just what I was looking for, great!" |
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| graphmonkey "Nice and simple to use, but I only see one graph on my LM Cinnamon 64, will keep trying." |
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| kalgebra "pretty good" |
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| libreoffice-base "Not in the default LibreOffice. Only shows one DB type on opening - HSQLDB Embedded, and cnnpot connect to newly created file. Here is hoping for Office 5 with Mint 17.3. Very disappointing. [I have 20 years+ experience in high end DB, this product deserves a Lord Torvalds torrent]" |
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| electrum "Do use the version from their website, this one is way behind and gives performance problems. But it is a very good wallet!!" |
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| cgminer "Yikes - lots of man page but few clues on how to get going. 1st time miner so may be clueless." |
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| rawstudio "I like the controls and being in control of where files land up. No 'library' that clunks around. Good performance even on my old machine. GUI and controls are intuitive to a photographer, unlike too many other such apps. Night photography images showed major rectangular areas - darktable did better, but it could just be me working in a hurry. Sadly, not worked on in 4 years+ and project page is now offline(2015). Dang, I liked it, now I must learn a new tool." |
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| ufraw "Feature packed for RAW photo processing. Sadly I found the UI very confusing and hard to work with - my workflow demands repeatability. I ended up hunting a lot to find the same adjuster control twice. Tried a newer version some 14 months later, much improved, figuring out handling of multiple images was still not intuitive." |
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| firefox "I've used FF since pre 1.0 but with pocket and 39.0 it has reached an unusable dangerous state. Sad to have to say goodbye." |
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| guayadeque "Well organized interface, many features to find and explore." |
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| juk "Small, packed with features and intuitive. Listed ALL tracks in one long list, not grouped - maybe a setting. Instant lyrics & artwork lookup." |
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| gmusicbrowser "Very nice and capable. Clean interface with features below, but where you'd expect them." |
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| umbrello "First impression is that this is packed with power features. Better than some paid UML-ware my one workplace used." |
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| conky-all "No gui, but "man conky" in terminal should get most people on the right track to happiness." |
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| picasa "One word: privacy." |
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| gufw "Looks to have potential to contain some teen online behaviour." |
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| phatch "I found the interface confusing and functionality limited or obscured from view. Also, why does it force FONTS onto my system?" |
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| scribus "Full-strength DTP. Have made new converts of very experienced users of other DTP products." |
5 |
| inkscape "Loving this since many versions ago. Excellent! 27.2.2015 - no sign of newer 0.98 release of this in repos." |
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| dropbox "Great if you need it, like sharinf photos and files across continents with distant friends. Of course, always keep "privacy" in mind with anything "cloud"..." |
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| transmission "Great for those massive distro release ISO files." |
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| hugin "One of only options for Linux (my 2 paid-for Windoze ones beat it by a hundred miles). Overcluttered interface, no simple workflow or obvious control over options. Last fight was 10 min and no result, PanoPro in Windows worked in 45 seconds. Hugin can do with some extreme UI streamlining, also its is slow-as heck." |
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| photofilmstrip "Easy to use and tweak, has proved itself for several projects." |
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| scratch "My two lil labrats are off to a running start with this great software." |
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| tomboy "Completely useless for desktop notes. 5% of what I enjoyed in Windows." |
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| darktable "This aims to be absolutely pro-level, mature, smooth, beautiful! Thank you developers! There are aspects of the GUI that are not quite intuitive, but I found a lot of help in the nearly 200 page PDF manual that is available. Image quality of the output is superb, making the learning curve and processing time(from RAW) worth it. NOTE: LM-13 Maya is stuck on v0.9.3 where LM-17 Qiana gets v1.4 which is a VAST improvement!" |
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| showfoto "Looks great from a quick first glance. Time will tell if I use it a lot, repeatedly." |
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| focuswriter "Simple and clean, helps get the job done. Have missed this simplicity since the first WordPerfect for DOS - oops, that dates me :)" |
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| cairo-dock "Yes! Now this is a pro-looking dock!" |
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| docky "Nice but not quite as intuitive as I was expecting." |
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| rapid-photo-downloader "Completely key application for photography at any level. This brings the files from the camera to the computer and renames them - all custom configurable to my taste. Well designed and not over-complicated, works perfectly. Once the paths and renaming were set up, which was easy and flexible, it forms the first step in my new workflow. I then use rawstudio for developing, gimp for any tweaks, the std file manager for arranging folders, and kb3 for archiving. NOtE: the Ubuntu repository version is way old, set up the ppa to the original!" |
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| eog "Fast, but so basic and Spartan that the Spartans left for other apps which feature features. Useful for a quick browse, not much more." |
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| gthumb "Closest thing to Irfanview available in Linux. Devs, please, change JPG Comments to write into the file as GiMP and Irfanview do - not as a sidecar file. This fits 99.5% and deserves its 5 stars!" |
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| bleachbit "very nice to keep your system clean and running optimally." |
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| imagemagick "I have discovered only 0.005% of what this can do and I am already very impressed. It now underpins some scripts I wrote to do jobs like creating thumbnails or translate between formats. Works flawlessly." |
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| fotoxx "Tried it for a bit. Its Ok, but did not fit my (rather specific) needs." |
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| gparted "Simply the best!" |
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| krusader "Knice, but I use Cinnamon, not KDE - and it looks odd using KDE apps with Knone, Kinnamon, etc. Then I found 'sunflower' and that to me is 5-star now." |
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| nemo "The more I use it and discover details in there for the power user, the more I love it. Thank you." |
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| wifite "I can now do an actual test on my home wifi!" |
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| gnome-sudoku "Very enjoyable, thank you." |
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| mypaint "I can see this being useful as I wean off of several Windows apps in my workflow. :)" |
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| krita "I've read only good things about Krita, adding it to my toolbox." |
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| gimp "Huge new learning curve after mastering PS of course. Gimp is a powerhouse and I have only begun to explore its labrynths and try to crack into its secret ways (eg Scripting to replace Actions). Many online tuts and videos are for deprecated versions and of little help. Updated Q3 2013, when shall we finally get v2.8 in Linux? Pretty please." |
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| geany "My positive opinion crashed for Geany as it forces its own idea of indenting despite preference settings. Nice otherwise." |
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| mint-flashplugin-11 "I get errors every update time. At wits end as I have tried to remove and reinstall with no luck (3 different machines)." |
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