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Things I still miss in Ubuntu
9 comments written so far...Moving to Linux was quite a decision back in the day. If you really want to move you should be ready to miss many things, in my case: 3D Studio MAX, Photoshop, gaming, ... Although for most of the things you have alternatives: Blender, Gimp, no gaming... When I moved it was even worst because the suspend didn't work so I had to close/start my computer every time. It's been fixed now.
That's ok, but there are those little issues that would make the whole experience just perfect, this is the current list (I'll be updating it whenever I find more issues or solutions):
.psd support on the default image viewer
right now it will get open by Gimp, but this is annoying if you just wanted to preview it. I miss irfanview.
XnViewMP can display .psd's, .ai's and anything you can imagine. Thanks Jull
vpn working out of the box
I had to connect to a Microsoft VPN and at first it didn't work. Months later I googled for the issue and found this which made it work. Tried to connect to the about-to-be-released 9.04 and it didn't work again, neither with that sites tips. On Windows it just works...
vpn to a Microsoft vpn now works flawlessly with Ubuntu 9.04 RC.
nice and consistent design
Mark recently said that in 2 years they were going to outpretty MacOS. Well, I can't see this happening that easily. 9.04 design additions aren't exactly on the right path. But hey, he also said that on Ubuntu 9.04 was going to load damn fast, and it does. We'll see.
webcam on flash player
Anytime I use the webcam in a browser, the second page I visit that tries to use the webcam breaks the webcam image input. I need to restart the browser if I want to use the webcam again.
Skype 64-bit
This is Skype's fault obviously, and a clear example of why open source is going to dominate the world soon ^^
I believe it's all a matter of patience :)
That's ok, but there are those little issues that would make the whole experience just perfect, this is the current list (I'll be updating it whenever I find more issues or solutions):
.psd support on the default image viewer
right now it will get open by Gimp, but this is annoying if you just wanted to preview it. I miss irfanview.
XnViewMP can display .psd's, .ai's and anything you can imagine. Thanks Jull
vpn working out of the box
I had to connect to a Microsoft VPN and at first it didn't work. Months later I googled for the issue and found this which made it work. Tried to connect to the about-to-be-released 9.04 and it didn't work again, neither with that sites tips. On Windows it just works...
vpn to a Microsoft vpn now works flawlessly with Ubuntu 9.04 RC.
nice and consistent design
Mark recently said that in 2 years they were going to outpretty MacOS. Well, I can't see this happening that easily. 9.04 design additions aren't exactly on the right path. But hey, he also said that on Ubuntu 9.04 was going to load damn fast, and it does. We'll see.
webcam on flash player
Anytime I use the webcam in a browser, the second page I visit that tries to use the webcam breaks the webcam image input. I need to restart the browser if I want to use the webcam again.
Skype 64-bit
This is Skype's fault obviously, and a clear example of why open source is going to dominate the world soon ^^
I believe it's all a matter of patience :)
No no, the idea is to leave Windows ;)
No te vale XnView como sustituto de Irfanview? :)
Lo de Blender es ponerse, yo casi no uso max para nada ya.
GIMP es otra historia, es más duro de pelar que un coco fosilizado... siempre quedará esperar que evolucione www.pixlr.com o que alguien desarrolle una alternativa :)
Lo de Blender es ponerse, yo casi no uso max para nada ya.
GIMP es otra historia, es más duro de pelar que un coco fosilizado... siempre quedará esperar que evolucione www.pixlr.com o que alguien desarrolle una alternativa :)
q tal trace, unas cositas:
1. KuickShow permite ver varios formatos de imagenes, inclusive psd. El tema es que es parte de KDE, asi que tendrias q instalar qt y las kdelibs supongo.
2. Que clase de problema tenes con VPNs en linux? podria ayudarte con eso, creo..
3. KDE es mas lindo visualmente que GNOME desde mi punto de vista.. aunque tambien es posible agregar themes para que se vea muy lindo y se puede instalar algunos widgets bien eye candy. Ehm igual no estoy seguro si te referis a diseño grafico o el esquema de las GUIs
4. Para descartar que el problema se trata del firefox podrias intentar hacer lo mismo en opera por ejemplo, y en caso que tampoco funcione entonces deberia ser un bug del flashplayer.. pero no creo que sea linux (estas usando uvc no?)
5. Lo de Skype no se hasta que punto es un problema, porque aunque los binarios sean de 32bits es posible correrlo en un kernel de 64.
capas podrías considerar pasarte a otra distro como kubuntu, o mejor aun, slackware ;-)
1. KuickShow permite ver varios formatos de imagenes, inclusive psd. El tema es que es parte de KDE, asi que tendrias q instalar qt y las kdelibs supongo.
2. Que clase de problema tenes con VPNs en linux? podria ayudarte con eso, creo..
3. KDE es mas lindo visualmente que GNOME desde mi punto de vista.. aunque tambien es posible agregar themes para que se vea muy lindo y se puede instalar algunos widgets bien eye candy. Ehm igual no estoy seguro si te referis a diseño grafico o el esquema de las GUIs
4. Para descartar que el problema se trata del firefox podrias intentar hacer lo mismo en opera por ejemplo, y en caso que tampoco funcione entonces deberia ser un bug del flashplayer.. pero no creo que sea linux (estas usando uvc no?)
5. Lo de Skype no se hasta que punto es un problema, porque aunque los binarios sean de 32bits es posible correrlo en un kernel de 64.
capas podrías considerar pasarte a otra distro como kubuntu, o mejor aun, slackware ;-)
@J: Pues no conocia el XnView :O! Tampoco conocia pixlr :O Thanks :D
@pera: A mi es que no me gusta complicarme demasiado. Confio en Ubuntu, y si Ubuntu trae gnome en vez de KDE por algo sera :) Lo de la webcam, creo que es cosa del player. Ya que con Cheese la camara me va fantabulosamente y a buena resolucion pero en flash sale a 1/4 de resolucion y eso, peta al segundo intento. Probare lo de la version 32bit de Skype, no se si lo llegue a probar.
Gracias por todos los hints! :)
@pera: A mi es que no me gusta complicarme demasiado. Confio en Ubuntu, y si Ubuntu trae gnome en vez de KDE por algo sera :) Lo de la webcam, creo que es cosa del player. Ya que con Cheese la camara me va fantabulosamente y a buena resolucion pero en flash sale a 1/4 de resolucion y eso, peta al segundo intento. Probare lo de la version 32bit de Skype, no se si lo llegue a probar.
Gracias por todos los hints! :)
fuck ubuntu, more AS3 tips!
haha! well, I would suggest you to follow mr.doob's feed only then ;)
Why don't we join forces and make a proposition on how it should be?
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Design wise? That's quite a lot of work I think. But I can give it a try...
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