Ok, let's get started, you'll first need to install your favourite Linux distrobution, then once you've done that, install PlayOnLinux, install the required packages to play any Windows game/program. The for music production, install LMMS, GIMP, Open Broadcaster, LibreOffice, and Cinerella. Go to this http://lifehacker.com/how-to-make-the-gimp-work-more-like-photoshop-1551318983 to learn how to make GIMP work like Photoshop. Cinerella is a best video editor for Linux so you guys should be happy with it, as for music LMMS is fully featured, and I have used Fruity Loops before and LMMS can do just as much. Open Broadcaster is self explanitory. LibreOffice is fine other than Excel micros. and then you guys can keep producing stuff, be productive, and play games.
I would be delighted if you could tell me a bit more about wine and playonlinux. I always stopped trying after some time – I just hate to configure this shit and stay with native linuxgames and dualboot.
I'm not overly familiar with 'LibreOffice', but from what little I've seen, there seems to be differences in syntax. The example below (which is a favourite of mine), is MS-Excel VBA code. I'm just curious, whether the VBA the code below would need much altering in 'LibreOffice'?
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
If Target.Column = 2 Then
Application.EnableEvents = False
Cells(Target.Row, 3).Value = Date + Time
Application.EnableEvents = True
End If
End Sub
I do however, use GIMP 2.8 quite frequently, and it's a splendiferous image-editor that suits my needs. OBS (Open Broadcast Software) is another programme that I use as a teaching-aid, and video-blogging tool.
People would be entitled to ask: 'Why don't you switch to using Linux?' lol
Open office is no substitute for Microsoft office. Am I a bad person for not caring if a product is open source or proprietary? I'm not angry open source and it certainly has its advantages. I just use whichever is better. Microsoft office >> OpenOffice, but I will encode videos with x264. I use Windows on my main rig because i experience fewer headaches, but use Linux on older machines because it uses fewer resources.
Open Broadcaster
https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio
Will poke at this a bit. Also need some kind of 1080p HDMI capture for linux. Right now we use the avermedia live gamer HD PCIe capture card.
BlackMagic cards have native support
Edit Linky: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/decklink
You should try Simple Screen Recorder for Linux. You can find it in the AUR.
Install PlayOnLinux, some games require specific WINE versions to be played, I play Osu!, so when I run the updater I have to run Wine version 1.5.2 but when I play the game I run version 1.7.2 So you'll need to look up your specific game to get it to work, Dx9 is needed for most Windows games so you'll need to get that package using PlayOnLinux, you'll also need to get whatever version of .Net from the PlayOnLinux, install components section.
Lol time for another fan fundraiser to buy more hardware lolololol
Black magic so expensive. The aver cards are $50 on eBay if you are patient
The 'open source' programmers at LibreOffice would definitely have my admiration if they were to code an 'Excel equivalent' that would be a competitor this robust worksheet programme.
It's a big ask, especially to design a spreadsheet programme similar, and as powerful to MS-Excel (I dare say, there would be proprietary-rights / copyright attached to some elements that Microsoft may contest)
It isn't quite there yet. But there is a bunch of money being poured into it.
http://www.documentfoundation.org/supporters/
http://www.osb-alliance.de/mitglieder/
Great effort. I'm fully OSS on my main installs. However look at like this; it's hard for people to change. I started using tech that was OSS, so I will stay OSS. It's amazing how appreciative you are when your entire system is open source.
yeah, i suppose think vegans feel about the same..not that i care though, i enjoy eating nature..
same goes for software, i have no problem using proprietary stuff as long as it's well done and runs on a variety of OSs.. Oh and if you are a student/scientist/engineer you can just about forget it about being FOSS, you need the proprietary software to work and there's no real alternative..for almost every student MS Word is essential..
Scientist, huh?
http://linux.web.cern.ch/linux/scientific6/
https://www.scientificlinux.org/
Fermilab and CERN use it
I agree there needs to be better CAD software for Linux it is one of things holding it back at the moment. That and industrial software is lacking.
Open Office/Libre Office are fine for most people (they cover all my needs), but if you need more robust features, then it's hard to replace MS Office. Just like Gimp/Inkscape. Perfectly fine for most people, but aren't nearly as full featured as Adobe's offerings, so a difficult switch for more advanced users/content creators.
I know when I tried to go 100% open source on my laptop, it decimated my workflow and really slowed me down when I was away from home. For some stuff it was fine, but for others, I felt like I was working with a hand tied behind my back. I had to go back to dual booting just to be able to get stuff done in a reasonable amount of time.
At this point, open source can cover the needs of most home users, but it's not to the point yet that it can cover the needs of a lot of professional or simply more demanding users. It's just not for everyone yet, sad as that may be.
I'm a student and I use LibreOffice and Open Office for my work. As for FOSS and Science, Linux has a variety of FOSS tools available. At a college near me, they have Dell Precisions loaded with Linux and FOSS tools.
+1. CAD does need to be improved.
okay, just a sec guys, i didn't say scientists/students/engineers couldn't depend on linux! i'm trying to go complete linux myself. what i meant was we just can't depend exclusively on FOSS! example, some engineers simply need to use "aspen" which is a proprietary software for chemist engineers and there's really no way around it. matlab is another example (scilab is getting there but it's not quite as powerful yet). i'm studding physics engineering and i use origin (pirated btw, this stuff is so expensive even my professors tell me to pirate it!), and while I've looked for alternatives, the ones that exist (scidavis and others) are no where near Origin pro...Also Zippy Parmesian you say you're a student and use libreoffice, well how do you manage references/citations with writer? (serious question here!) when writing a report or an actual scientific paper the formatting is very strict and all the references have to follow pre determined styles that Word already has by default...this is one of the big reasons i can't switch to libre office, and also because the ribbon interface in word makes way faster to format my documents.. and time is essential for a college student!
Lastly, another, and probably the biggest example why scientists cant go FOSS, is that pretty much all of the equipment we have on our college uses proprietary software...the companies kind of do it on purpose, if you need to update something, like drivers for a new OS or a new version of the software, my department has to pay thousands of euros just to have the old equipment working on new computers..
And then there are those cases that just leave you mad at the way things are planed : in a certain discipline(hope this is the right word) about project management in witch we have to plan a project using specifically MS Project..at the start of the semester i asked if there was free alternatives to Project and they did give some names...but in the end we have to turn in our case study in Project 2010 file format ..sigh..and the rally funny/sad part is only the engineering students have access to a free copy of project, other students from management or economics departments where encourage to download the trial just before they had to turn in the assignment so that they could use that specific software..
Anyway, i digresses a little..
So guys, if you know a way to bypass the challenges I've shown here I'm all ears! come on, surprise me!