From Win to Lin: What I use for different things

[borkabrak]

From Win to Lin: What I use for different things:

Operating System: RedHat 9 (from Win2000)

Browsing the Web: galeon

Jammin to the tunes: XMMS

Instant Messaging: Gaim

Word processing: KWord

Quick gaming fix: nethack (Definitely check this out)

Card games: Aisle Riot

Image Editing: The GIMP

Movies/Video Media: Xine

P2P Filesharing: Gnutella

Managing Processes: KDE System Guard

There's more, but this list is getting longish. Hope this eases some transitions.

[matthurne]

OS: Mandrake 9.1
Browsing the web: Mozilla 1.4
Tunes: XMMS
IM: Gaim
Office Suite: OpenOffice.org
Movies/DVDs: MPlayer
Games: Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Unreal Tournament...none of this WineX crap
Programming: VIM

Interesting to see similarities and differences. :-)

[Quattro]

OS: Mandrake 9.1

Web: Galeon 1.2.5 (I uninstalled 1.3.3 and found the 1.2.5 package from MDK 9.0) w/KGet as a download manager

Music: XMMS (assuming I can get my sound working again)

Instant messaging: Kopete

Word processing: KWord or AbiWord

Image editing: GIMP

Filesharing: GTK-Gnutella (tried Kazaa Lite under WINE, didn't work)

FTP: gFTP

Text editor: Pico or Kate, depending on whether I feel like a text-based or a graphical editor

Mail: Mozilla Thunderbird

IRC: XChat

Games: Nethack-Falconseye, ArmageTron, LBreakout2, KPat

Programming: KDevelop (w/gcc)

Terminal: Konsole

[hardcore]

OS: Mandrake 9.1
WM: Fluxbox
Browser: Firebird
Email: Thunderbird
IM: GAIM
Tunage: XMMS
Office: OpenOffice
Filesharing: Limewire & Lopster
Text edit: vim
Programming: vim
Games: UnrealTourney2003, Wolf ET, Quake 3
Terminal: aterm
vids/DVDs: xine
Process Managing: ps, top
Good Deeds: Folding@home

[sharth]

OS: Debian GNU/Linux
Tunes: xmms
Talking: gaim
Browsing: Mozilla Firebird
IRC Chattin: xchat
Mailing: Evolution
Paper Writing: Abiword
Spreadsheet: gnumeric
Programming: mostly vim
Fun Stuff: gdeskcal and gdesklets!

[joesbox]

Operating System: Debian Woody (still use winxp when linux is unavail and win2k at work <= no control over this)

WM: Fluxbox
Browsing the Web: mozilla

Jammin to the tunes: XMMS

Instant Messaging: ymessenger

Word processing: O_o

Quick gaming fix: starcraft via wine, frozen bubble, lbreakout2

Image Editing: The GIMP, photoshop 7 via wine

Movies/Video Media: Xine

E-Mail : sylpheed claws

Programming: EditPlus 2 via wine

terminal: xterm

system monitor: gkrellm for cdrom/floppy mounting and mail monitoring

text edit: nano, xedit

ftp: terminal ftp

[jesperht]

Operating System: Suse 8.2 (2.6test5 baby!)

Window manager: Blackbox

Browsing the Web: firebird

Jammin to the tunes: XMMS

Instant Messaging: Gaim

Word processing: OpenOffice

Quick gaming fix: Anything, mostly enemy territory now though...

# Card games:

Image Editing: The GIMP

Movies/Video Media: (g)mplayer

P2P Filesharing: is illegal. But otherwise bittorent.

Managing Processes: Gkrellm

[Suramya]

Cool Idea. Here's my list:

Operating System: Redhat 7.3 and Gentoo
WM: Kde
Browsing the Web: mozilla firebird
Music: XMMS
Instant Messaging: ymessenger & AOL for Linux
Word processing: O_o
Image Editing: The GIMP
Movies: Xine
E-Mail : Evolution
Programming: EditPlus 2 via wine
text edit: vi and Kedit
ftp: gftp, SmartFTP via wine
IRC: xchat
CD-Burning: X-cdRoast

- Suramya

[Valorin]

OS: Gentoo Linux using kernel 2.6.0-test5
WM: Fluxbox 0.95
Web Browser: Mozilla Firebird
Music: XMMS
CD Player: cdplay
IM: gaim
Word Processing: Abiword
Games: Neverwinter Nights, frozen bubble, rtcw, ut2003
Image Editing: The GIMP
Movies: Xine
Programming: emacs, gcc
Terminal: Eterm
Text Editing: nano
FTP: gFTP
System Monitor: gkrellm
Most useful tool of all time: portage and emerge

[SDS]

OS: Slackware 9.0 (9.1 should be out soon)
Window Manager: primarily Dropline GNOME, various others when messing around
Web Browser: Mozilla Firebird
Email: Mozilla Mail
Tunes: XMMS
Movies: Xine, sometimes Totem because it's default for some formats
Text stuff: Open Office, vi or nano in terminal
Games: I'll play anything, mostly on game consoles, though

[timothykaine]

OS: RedHat 9
WM: KDE 3.1
Web Browser: Opera 7.11 ( Its always open! )
Email: Evolution
Music: No sound card
IM: GAIM
Word Processing: Abiword
Games: I play one game.. and its on my Windows box.. sorry folks. Need my GTA.
Image Editing: The GIMP
Text Editing: kate
FTP: gFTP
Usenet: Knode
HTML: Quanta
What i want: Dr. Divx for Linux.

[Fryguy8]

Gentoo
WM: PekWM
Music: XMMS
Terminal: aterm
Browser: MozillaFirebird
IRC: x-chat2
aim: gAIM
movies: mplayer
email: sylpheed
office: Openoffice/abiword
text editor: nano and vim
programming: gvim and eclipse
p2p: undecided
file management: rox/gentoo (the gentoo file manager)

[timothykaine]

Operating System: Mandrake 9.2

Browsing the Web: Firebird, Galeon

Music: XMMS

Instant Messaging: Gaim

Word processing: AbiWord

Image Editing: The GIMP

Movies/Video Media: Xine, XawTV

P2P Filesharing: Bit Torrent

PIM: Evolution

Web Editing: Quanta Plus

[TotalNewb]

OS: Mandrake 9.2
Browser: Mozilla
Email: kMail
IM: aMSN
Office: OpenOffice
Text edit: kWrite
WM: Kde
Good Deeds: Folding@Home, Seti@Home

[carbon-12]

OS: Slackware 9.1
Enviroment: Gnome 2.4
Browser: Mozilla 1.6
Music: Xmms 1.28
Video: Mplayer v1.0pre3
Photo Editing: Gimp 2.0pre2
IM: Gaim 0.75
Games: Unreal Tournament, Quake 3, ET, Starcraft, Warcraft 3
File Sharing: Bittorrent 3.3, Mldonkey 2.5.4
Office: OOO 1.1a
Programming: Emacs 21.3.2
Terminal: Aterm 0.4.2