Software setup?

OK, I'm interested in seeing what software people use for different task in linux so, here's mine:
Internet: Fireofox/Flock
E-mail: Thunderbird
Torrent: Transmission/uTorrent under wine
Graphics: GIMP
Office: openOffice.org
Music/Video: Amarok/VLC
Tweaking: Ubuntu Tweak
Desktop Effects: Compiz-Fusion

 

Running Ubuntu 7.10
For photo albums, trying out F-spot, digikam, and the Linux version of Picasa. I think I like Picasa best if for no other reason that I like it in Windows. Picasa in Linux has some rough spots - the email link doesn't open Thunderbird unless Thunderbird is already started, and it won't compress/import the photo into Thunderbird even though it acts like it did. Picasa does interact with Evolution correctly if you make that the default e-mail client.
For panoramas, I've been having fun with hug-in. It's a little confusing but you can set things up so that hugin works with enblend and AutoPano to make panoramas come out better and easier.
There are Windows versions of those programs too but it's more fun in Linux

Brasero for CD/DVD burning. Trying k3b too but kinda prefer Gnome apps when running Gnome.

I like Amarok for music but it is a bit resource-hungry. Doesn't really matter with a newer PC but becomes an issue with older PC's.

Sunbird is a nice calendar app. If I knew anything about Evolution I'd probly be using its calendar functions..

AptonCD is a nice tool for updating offline PC's

 

Internet: Firefox 2
E-mail: Gmail via Firefox
Torrent: Deluge
Graphics: GIMP
Office: OpenOffice.org / Scribus
Music/Video: Amarok/VLC/xmms
Tweaking: N/A
Desktop Effects: N/A
CD/DVD : Gnomebaker
Programming : MonoDevelop
Emulator/Games : psX 1.13 / Gens

 

Internet: Firefox
E-mail: hotmail
Torrent: ktorrent
Graphics: none
Office: openOffice + Abiword
Music/Video: songbird/VLC
Tweaking: Command line
Desktop Effects: none

and some extras:

instant messaging: aMSN
and a neat audio tag editor called "Audio Tag Tool"

 

Internet: Fireofox 3
E-mail: Evolution
Torrent: Deluge ( seriously check it out, it has tons of plugins, lightweight, its the utorrent for linux)
Graphics: GIMP
Office: openOffice.org version 3 beta
Video: Mplayer + good gui / VLC
Music: Exaile (pretty much amarok for gnome)/Sonata/Quodlibet/Foobar with wine
DE: Gnome + Openbox
Desktop Effects: Just a very sleek openbox theme
IM: Pidgin
Powersaving for laptop: PowerTop

 

Woot! IE 6 under linux.
Goodbye, Windows!
I'll be using that for testing pages & using it if FF can't load a page right!

 

wine rocks.

il be posting a tut on various ways to get games running using wine.

 

PlayonLinux?

 

yep, that and articles on how to get orange box + steam games + cod4 running...people dont really need a tut for that but just in case..a few words will do

 

Cool, I'll be trying some later...

 

I dont understand what you mean but you can play cod4 in linux. Just need proprietary drivers instead of the open source alternatives.


how to run cod4 in linux

 

I use it for work, so I have a few things I've tweaked...

Internet: Firefox 3 beta 4
E-mail: Konqueror with Outlook Web Access, and KOrganizer with the Exchange plugin for calendaring
Torrent: N/A
Graphics: GIMP, Inkscape and Rawstudio
Office: openOffice.org 2.4
Video: Kaffeine with Xine backend
Music: AmaroK. Don't mess with perfection
DE: KDE 3.5.9 (Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron")
Desktop Effects: None, X3100 is pumping enough as it is
IM: Kopete
VPN: knetworkmanager with network-manager-vpnc plugin
Number of Virtual Desktops: 4
Other: Sun JVM 5 and 6 installed, Tomcat (work stuff), custom scripts for multiple screens

 

Internet: Firefox
E-mail: Thunderbird
Torrent: Deluge
Graphics: GIMP
Office: openOffice.org
Music/Video: Amarok/VLC
Tweaking: Command Line
Desktop Effects: Compiz-Fusion

 

I think I like Transmission better then Deluge.....

 

I like uTorrent, and Deluge is like uTorrent, so I use it.

 

Transmission is lightweight & to the point, so I use it.
I use utorrent in Windows though.

 

transmission doesnt have the all the features of utorrent, deluge does and I use all the features so deluge it is

 

So Deluge is a good torrent program? i used utorrent in windows so ill assume ill like it =]
and also does anyone else use Banshee for music playing?
i really like the interface and how it tells you artists like the one your listening to

 

deluge is great, used banshee, also liked the similar artists feature.

 

I like Amarok,

 

amarok was ok
i dunno i just didnt like the interface at all really
and the lack of options

 

I dont like amarok, first off its a kde app and I dont like the way the left pane is organized.

I find exaile / banshee (gnome alternatives) to be much better.

Also if your a foobar fanatic then foobar runs perfectly with wine, or if you want something native then try QuodLibet (its philosophy is that you know how to organize your music better than anyone else)

 

Does QuodLibet support Last.FM ?

 

Quod Libet can be extended by writing plugins as Python scripts. Plugins available from the Quod Libet website can, among other things, add advanced editing features, synchronize with MusicBrainz, copy songs to portable digital audio players, and display on-screen song change notifications. Quod Libet also supports last.fm via the QLScrobbler plugin, which sends details on songs played to the last.fm server so that they may be added to a user's music profile.

from wikipedia, is that what you wanted?

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Here is a list of some popular quodlibet plugins (from official site).

To learn how to install them visit the faq

 

Thanks, I might check it out then.