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Yuppie

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Okay, those who have read the previous post obviously know I'm new. I've been having a jol figuring things out.

I want to know what applications Linux users use on a daily basis, especially media players. And also, is there a 'better' Anti-Virus than that which is mentioned in the Software center?
 
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Antivirus? Why would you use that? Unless you wanna scan files on flash drives or something... you wont encounter viruses on Linux :)

Media Player - VLC or the default Ubuntu Media Player (Totem I think it is)
Thunderbird for Email
Firefox/Chrome for browsing
Empathy/Pidgin for IM
Limewire/Transmission for Torrents/p2p
Nicotine for Soulseek
Rythymbox instead of iTunes
K3B in place of Nero, etc for disc burning
and VirtualBox for my Virtual Windows
 
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X-Chat for IRC
Chrome/Opera browser
SABNZBD/LottaNZB for news servers
Transmission for torrents
D4X Download manager
Emelfm2 file manager
Handbrake for DVD ripping
vsftpd as ftp server

The above is used in alight weight Openbox environment. For KDE I would stick with KDE apps, with Gnome I would only chnge a few apps.
 
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What hardware do you have? If you have compatible hardware, you may wish to take advantage of VDPAU (graphics-card hardware decoding of HD video), which is only available in MPlayer and XBMC. Otherwise, VLC does a great job.

And Dean wasn't kidding; there are incredibly few viruses for Linux in the wild. None of my machines have ever encountered one.
 
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sn3rd said:
What hardware do you have? If you have compatible hardware, you may wish to take advantage of VDPAU (graphics-card hardware decoding of HD video), which is only available in MPlayer and XBMC. Otherwise, VLC does a great job.

And Dean wasn't kidding; there are incredibly few viruses for Linux in the wild. None of my machines have ever encountered one.
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I have installed the VDPAU now. I have a 9800gt. Is the VDPAU only a codec or is it a standalone player?
 
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It is a library that media players can hook into to use less cpu resources, or better give better performance when you decode high definition content which is kinda slow on older pcs. VDPAU that is.

To use it, you need to make use of mplayer. SMPlayer is my favourite media player on NIX, whether I am on gnome, kde or whatever, its just my favourite. It uses KDE libraries for those that want to know.

So my list of apps.

Torrents: Deluge, also has peerblock on by default.
CD Burning: Most work, but K3B would be my favourite.
Console Terminal: Default of Gnome or KDE, both works for me.
IM: Pidgin for now, also includes MXIT plugin.
IRC: Konversation
Browser: Chromium (fast, sweet and works great)
E-Mail: Evolution, while Thunderbird is great, I find Evolution closer to the Enterprise standard and is also the only one where they are working on Exchange integration.
Video Media: SMplayer
Audio Media: Audacious (Looks a lot like Winamp, but then again I am old school, grew up with Winamp on Windows so that is what I use)
 
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After every version upgrade I have to have the following:
Media Player - VLC
Streaming Top TV - TVTime
Thunderbird - Email
Firefox - Browsing
OpenOffice - Office Stuff
K3B - disc burning
Gimp - all them arty stuff
NVU - Web design
Bible Time - Bible study, e-sword don't work in Linux yet :(
 
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Bible study - e-sword inside wine
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Media players - smplayer & vlc
Browsers - Google Chrome & Firefox
e-Mail - Thunderbird
Burning disks - K3B
Ripping - Handbrake, K3B & DVD::Rip
Audio capture and editing - Audacity
Video capturing - Kino
Video editing - Cinelerra
DVD authoring - DVDstyler
Word processing - OpenOffice
Web design - Bluefish & nano
Graphics - GIMP
Photo management - digiKam & Picasa

Games - Nexuiz, World of Padman & Counter Strike (Steam with wine)
 
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Must have things you need to install on a fresh Ubuntu:
ubuntu-restricted-extras -> will give you the ability to play Mp3s and other useful things.
Ubuntu Tweak -> Awesome program for tweaking Ubuntu.

What I mostly use:
Media Player: VLC and GNOME Mplayer
Browser: Opera 10.6a and Firefox
IM Chatting: Pidgin
Burning Disks: Gnomebaker (Haven't tried K3B)
News Hosts: SABNZBD
Torrents: Deluge

I don't do much else on Linux except for internet.

Also, I would recommend Linux Mint as your next distro, it is based on Ubuntu, but it comes pre-installed with all the codecs, Flash and other great things. It also has an awesome theme. The DVD version (757MB) of Linux Mint 9 has VLC and Java runtime pre-installed.

A awesome guide for Ubuntu would be: http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Lucid
 
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Anyone know if there's a Linux app that is compatible with MS Access applications? I don't need to edit the design on this machine, just run them
 
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Thanks, I did come across Kexi but I see it doesnt import forms & reports, and I really don't feel like re-creating them all
 
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///MoH said:
Any remote desktop app from linux to a windows xp box ?
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If you have a VNC server running on my Windows XP box, you can use Ubuntu's preinstalled Remote Desktop Viewer app to access it.
 
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Video Player: mplayer
Music Player: mpd + ncmpc
Browser: chromium
IM: bitlbee + irssi
IRC: irssi
Burning Disks: dvdrecord
Torrents: rtorrent
Email: mutt + gemail
Editor: vim
Remote Desktop: rdesktop (when I vpn to the office)
Window manager: xmonad
Terminal: urxvt
File Manager: command line
 
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