stevewood007
Tutorials
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Software reviews
| Software | Score |
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| hardinfo "It would be great for this to be installed by default in LM15. The built-in benchmarks are a simple way to gauge max CPU temperatures. This was a default application prior to LM15, and I went looking for it right away." |
5 |
| psensor "Works for LM15 64-bit Cinnamon Intel i3-2100." |
5 |
| ipython "Convenient and works well." |
5 |
| python-numpy "Using numpy with scipy and matplotlib in place of Matlab." |
5 |
| evince "Works well as a pdf reader. LM15 Cinnamon 64-bit." |
5 |
| nano "Saves me from having to learn VI for occasional use editing configuration files in a terminal." |
5 |
| openssh-server "I tried TeamViewer8, and Hamachi, and had serious problems with both. SSH with VNC worked well for remote access." |
5 |
| mintupdate "Works well, easy to use. LM15 Cinnamon 64-bit." |
5 |
| gthumb "Easy to use. Hasn't crashed. LM10 - LM15 Cinnamon 64-bit." |
5 |
| clementine "LM15 Cinnamon 64-bit. Works well." |
5 |
| sendemail "Needed for Lucky-Backup tool. No problems." |
5 |
| brutalchess "Works fine for me. LM15 Cinnamon 64-bit. Intel graphics built-into i3-2100." |
5 |
| yofrankie "Couldn't get it to work on LM14 64-bit i3-2120." |
2 |
| virtualbox-guest-additions-iso "Required to get full-screen 1920x1080 for guest OS." |
5 |
| skype "Works OK. Not as nice as Windows version. If you have a choice, GooglePlus Hangouts is a better option for video-chats on Linux." |
4 |
| picasa "You can get a more recent version by installing it through PlayOnLinux." |
5 |
| virtualbox-nonfree "Works well for LM15 Cinnamon 64-bit running Win 7 64-bit. Be sure to install "guest extensions"." |
5 |
| xterm "Required for PlayOnLinux in LM15 Cinnamon." |
5 |
| exfat-fuse "Worked for me - no hassle." |
5 |
| pypy "Seeing a 5X speed improvement when used with MyHDL." |
5 |
| gtkwave "Works great with vcd files from MyHDL and Icarus." |
5 |
| remmina "Previous version was buggy for me, but this one is working fine. Also tried Vinagre, but prefer Remmina. Running VNC to Windows 7 box and Centos Box 24/7. Works! ... Update - bad crashes when trying to use with SSH now." |
4 |
| python-matplotlib "A powerful MATLAB alternative when combined with Python and Scipy." |
5 |
| libreoffice-writer "Suits my needs. Going back and forth with MS Word a lot. LM15 Cinnamon." |
5 |
| thunderbird "Works well. Relaible. Still haven't gotten MS Outlook Calendar integration completing working yet, though." |
5 |
| geany "Works well for a python editor. Works well for large files. Using LM15 Cinnamon." |
5 |
| vino "Works for me! Simple interface. Using LM15 Cinnamon and Remmina for my viewer." |
5 |
| python "Python is too important not to have more reviews. Using it with Matplotlib and Scipy instead of MATLAB." |
5 |
| luckybackup "I've been using this every day now for a few months, and it has been reliable." |
5 |
| simple-scan "Works fine for my old scanner and LM15 Cinammon." |
5 |
| p7zip-full "Needed for the latest Play On Linux installation." |
5 |
| libreoffice-calc "Accepts more than 64k rows, unllike MS Excel." |
5 |
| gedit "Liked it before, but I've switched to Geany now due to some Gedit plugins being broken. LM15 Cinnamon." |
4 |
| vlc "Played my 1080p videos without gllitching on my i3-2100 built-in GPU." |
5 |
| ddclient "It might be ok, but I could use it. It is broken for LM15. Needs libdigest-sha1-perl, which was is no longer in the Ubuntu repository: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdigest-sha1-perl/+bug/993648" |
3 |
| firefox "Reliable and fast - no problems." |
5 |
| transmission-gtk "Easy to use. Worked fine for me for about 500GB of torrents so far. I've not tried anything else. LM15 Cinnamon." |
5 |
| playonlinux "Much easier than using WINE directly (if your program is listed in PlayOnLinux). LM15 Cinnamon. Worked great for PIcasa (V3.9), Sketchup, and Kindle for PC. Newer version on website installs fine, but needs Curl and some other dependencies installed (it will complain to you on startup)" |
5 |
| mintinstall "Very handy when it works, but I've seen it often freeze up, especially when installing multiple programs at once. Also, it is often the case that the latest version of a particular program is not in the repository." |
4 |
| totem "It worked OK, VLC gave smoother HD playback for my graphics setup (i3-2100 internal GPU)." |
3 |