Migrating to Linux?

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I decided to migrate to Linux for some reasons, Linux Mint 10 was chosen as the distro.
A series of noob questions will follow, especially impressionable not to read.

1. What are the main differences between Gnome and KDE for the end user?
2. Are there any gadgets that allow you to bring the appearance of folders in Linux to the standard C: / Program Files?
3. Is there an analogue of MS OneNote for Linux? (Office in the form of LibreOffice suits me more than, but the lack of OneNote upsets)
4. Will the search for analogues of the following programs be successful:
- MediaPlayerClassic (read "a player with a standard interface and a bunch of codecs at once, so that you do not have to install something separately for vob and mkv).
- RssOwl (so far the best rss reader for Windows that I have found. There is a version for Linux nominally, but I had a problem connecting the repository)
- by default with some Linux on a test drive, I had the Deluge torrent client. Is he really that cool, or will he be dumb if the number of torrents is more than 200?
- Skype found a native client, I will try
- a simple audio player (AIMP is used on Windows, it suits me quite well).
- programs (apparently, they will be in the "Games") of the "physical sandbox", a la Phun
- ATP (Consultant and Guarantor) - is it possible to run them, thanks to Wine?
- you will really need an analogue of Notepad ++
- Only Gimp is suitable for working with PSD layers? Does Illustrator's analogue exist?
PS
I spent some time reading the relevant forums, but still decided to ask a question here, since Habr is a more authoritative source for me.
I would also be grateful if you advise any useful and interesting programs for Linux in your opinion.

Answer 1

Global advice: do not drag habits with you.
And you don't have to force yourself to work in another system.
Load what is more convenient for you - in each case.
In the end, you will smoke less and less , go into Windows and eventually wean.

Answer 2

Skype - works like a native one (although the version is slightly cropped)
VLC - has all the necessary GIMP
codes - unfortunately does not replace Photoshop if there are many layers made in Photoshop. then it will be uncomfortable to work (VAIN decides)
Notepad ++ - these analogs are like undercut dogs :) IT people and notebooks for coding are chosen by Linux for them like air Transmission is an excellent torrent client, but I have
n’t tried it with a lot of it.
With audio players zavtyk until I found the perfect replacement, at least the level of winamp :(

Answer 3

okular as a viewer of everything in the world

Answer 4

Here are my attempts:
1-To speak very rudely and mundanely, then this:
Gnome is a hell of a mixture of the Windows interface and the MacOS interface. It is considered the default for many Linux distributions (although, of course, no one bothers to install any other shell. It is very well finished (it works more stable). There are catastrophically few settings. Both the environment itself (there is a special registry for this, though) and applications written The trouble is with desktop widgets, but there is compiz, and compiz is a bunch of effects, from simple beauties to really endlessly useful gadgets.
Keds - licked-glossy interface. It doesn't look like anything that exists. If in the case of a gnome, 90% of people will calmly understand that you just pulled a specific theme onto the standard Windows design, then when they see the sneakers, they will certainly ask: “what kind of Windows is this?”. Mainly developed by the community, so may be unstable, although you probably won't notice it. But everything has a myriad of buttons, checkmarks, knobs for settings. Many revolutionary geeky buns are written specifically for sneakers. Expanse for desktop widgets. Moreover, in sneakers, in general, all elements are widgets. You can screw compiz, although there is a nice set of native effects.
Ultimately, the choice is yours. "Feel" different shells with a live cd.
I am not strong in “civilian” software, but I will try to suggest on 4 points:
2 - There is nothing to answer here. You just have a temporary shock from switching to Linux.
4. Will the search for analogues of the following programs be successful:
- MediaPlayerClassic (read "a player with a standard interface and a bunch of codecs at once, so that you don't have to install something separately for vob and mkv").
gnome-mplayer for gnome
kmplayer for ked.
- RssOwl (so far the best rss reader for Windows that I have found. There is a nominal version for Linux, but I had a problem when connecting the repository)
What problems? It is possible in a personal.
- by default with some Linuxes on a test drive, I had the Deluge torrent client. Is he really that cool, or will he be dumb if the number of torrents is more than 200?
I love transmission. I'm using it on my home pseudo server with FreeBSD, about 300 hands are spinning now and everything is fine.
- Skype found a native client, I will try
Dada. He is tough.
- a simple audio player (AIMP is used on Windows, it suits).
deadbeaf has already advised you
- SPS (Consultant and Guarantor) - is it possible to run them, thanks to Wine?
Everything is possible. Google for launch in wine. And don't be afraid of instructions for other distros. This is Linux. If anything - again, write in a personal.
- you will really need an analogue of Notepad ++
In the best traditions of sracha, I advise you to master the console vim and forget other editors forever.

Answer 5

1. there are no comrades for the taste and color :) This is where the differences end;)
I would not be guided by this point, you can put both systems and over time you will choose what you like more. I settled on GNOME, it does not eat a lot of resources and is quite simple, and for lovers of effects there is Compiz (I especially like viscous windows). By the way, on a laptop with integrated video, all the effects with cubes and other things “fly”, I didn’t actually notice the load by eye with or without effects.
2. Why? Hit this point

Answer 6

I thought about it and decided to write my own software, I chose it for 6 months and replaced Windows as much as possible:
SpeedCrunch - calculator
Audacious - replacement for winamp (but unfortunately a little crooked)
Krusader - replacement for Total Commander
nautilus - explorer, even better
wine - there is photoshop and that's it (there is also WinSCP, but I don’t use it because it’s not convenient to run it like this)
VLC - for video, watch
Kino - for video, do
brasero - it’s like Nero (there is also K3b is also a killer thing)
Gwenview - image viewing (little functional, but it’s convenient)
xpdf - watch PDF
inkscape -
gimp vector editor - I keep it, but I still don’t use photoshop more familiar than
Transmission - torrents
qutIM - ICQ gill (he is very far from Miranda, but compared to others he is an order of magnitude more beautiful)
thunderbird - mail
KchmViewer - watch CHM
Tilda - excellent terminal
gedit - excellent notepad

Answer 7

1. What are the main differences between Gnome and KDE for the end user?
in convenience, preferences and the availability of whistleblowers.
2. Are there any gadgets that allow you to bring the appearance of folders in Linux to the standard C: / Program Files?
sorry, what's the point? than you are not satisfied with the default line?
4. players: vlc, deadbeef, rss
: akregator
torrent: fatrat

Answer 8

Do you need feedback from those who have just migrated? :)

1. What are the main differences between Gnome and KDE for the end user?

Appearance and initial set of software, probably. And it seems that sneakers are more resource-demanding, because they are too fancy.

2. Are there any gadgets that allow you to bring the appearance of folders in Linux to the standard C: / Program Files?

Unlikely, because there is no need. In Linux, there is generally no need to climb the structure. Unless in / etc to edit configs in some places and in / var to read logs.

- a simple audio player (AIMP is used on Windows, it suits perfectly).

I mainly used winamp on Windows, so I chose audacious for myself (I found a description on the same hub). It is positioned as a free analogue of winamp. It is based on gtk, but you can choose not only the gtk interface, but also Winamp's (it seems that even the skins of old Winamps are suitable). I don’t know why I wrote about Winamp, but suddenly it will be useful to someone.

- you will really need an analogue of Notepad ++

Usually in such cases, gedit is recommended, which is under gtk. In terms of functionality, in my unpretentious opinion, it is similar to notepad ++. I don’t know about KDE, they say that there is some kind of Kate, but I haven’t seen it. On the other hand, my colleague, who uses KDE, was working in a specially installed GTK gedit; Medit is also sometimes mentioned, but I can’t say anything about it - I didn’t install it.

- Only Gimp is suitable for working with PSD layers? Does Illustrator's analogue exist?

Gimp with layers works very mediocre. But under wine 1.2, Photoshop CS2 (portable) works great. CS5 (also portable) starts but sometimes crashes. So if you are not a designer, but need Photoshop to make up, then it is better to use CS2.

Answer 9

1. What are the main differences between Gnome and KDE for the end user?

It's more a matter of personal preference. Gnome is simpler, KDE is more customizable and functional environment.

2. Are there any gadgets that allow you to bring the appearance of folders in Linux to the standard C: / Program Files?

More likely no than yes. Yes, and it's useless. FHS, IMHO, is more logical than the Windows directory structure.

3. Is there an analogue of MS OneNote for Linux? (Office in the form of LibreOffice more than suits me, but the lack of OneNote upsets me)

There are quite a few of them, varying degrees of similarity. From KDE I know knotes, basket

4. Will the search for analogues of the following programs be successful:
- MediaPlayerClassic (read "a player with a standard interface and a bunch of codecs at once, so that you don't have to install something separately for vob and mkv").

mplayer (all sorts of frontends like smplayer), vlc

- RssOwl (so far the best rss reader for Windows that I have found. There is a nominal version for Linux, but I had a problem when connecting the repository)

akregator, plugin for evolution, etc. RssOwl did not use, so I can not say anything about the similarity.

- by default with some Linuxes on a test drive, I had the Deluge torrent client. Is he really that cool, or will he be dumb if the number of torrents is more than 200?

Good clients: transmission, ktorrent

- a simple audio player (AIMP is used on Windows, it suits perfectly).

audacious (from Winamp-like). Or even mpd + sonata.

- ATP (Consultant and Guarantor) - is it possible to run them, thanks to Wine?

It's possible you should try it.

- you will really need an analogue of Notepad ++

scite, geany, kate

- Only Gimp is suitable for working with PSD layers? Does Illustrator's analogue exist?

See what analog. Perhaps there is no complete functionality, but it’s worth looking in the direction of inkscape, scribus (do I remember correctly that illustrator is a vector editor?).

Answer 10

Best Notepad++ killer - Kate

Answer 11

Ktorrent - currently giving away 208 torrents. Eats 83 MB of physical or 268 MB of virtual memory. I don't see any brakes. (CPU Core2 [email protected])

Answer 12

Analogues of OneNote in descending order of sophistication: basket, tomboy, gnote, zim.
Analogue of Notepad++: it seems to me that if you really switch, then to native analogues, such as vim or Emacs.
Gimp doesn't work well with native Photoshop files. I run Photoshop in VirtualBox, fortunately this is rarely required. If you do not need to work with other people's files, then Gimp supports layers perfectly in its own format.

Answer 13

1. Probably in design. I use XFCE because sorry for the resources.
2. It's pointless.
3. Yes, and a lot
4. Yes, and a lot. In general, software is one of the strengths of this platform.
Install Ubuntu, go to Synaptic, read Full Circle, chat - you will be happy ;)

Answer 14

Video player: UMPlayer or SMPlayer.
Audio player: Clementine
Torrent: Azureus
Notepad++: gedit (under Gnome/Unity) or Kate (under KDE)
I read RSS with the built-in Opera reader (it is also instead of a mailer)
You can customize the folder view using symbolic links if you want. There are also distributions that already have it configured this way.
Instead of choosing KDE vs Gnome, I recommend trying Unity, it turned out to be a very good thing.

Answer 15

A lot has already been written. I’ll add the following from myself:
- video - vlc
- audio - mocp, deadbeef
- torrent - deluge on a netbook of the 2008 image (msi wind u90) easily pulls out a hundred torrents (more simply has not accumulated) + has a demon. The Transmission is quite comfortable, but is much heavier than it was a couple of years ago. As an option rtorrent + rutorrent (a bundle of console client and web interface)

Answer 16

- Only Gimp is suitable for working with PSD layers? Does Illustrator's analogue exist?
personally, gipm did not open complex PSD files for me (or rather, it opened, but it would be better if I didn’t even try, because everything was upside down). Through Vine, Photoshop constantly crashed, hot keys did not work, and when opening or saving a file, I was simply driven into Vine directories and did not see ext3 disks.

Answer 17

I'll put in my 5 kopecks:
2. in general, in Linux, from time immemorial, programs have been smeared into directories, because it's much more convenient from many points of view. however, if you want to go crazy and get an analogue of Program Files: you're welcome to GoboLinux .
3 and 4. About the analogue of programs, and in general about crawling from Windows to GNU / Linux. The first and most important rule: Linux is not Windows. Everything works differently here, and it’s not at all worth looking for a program the same as I had in Windows. Who knows, maybe in a couple of months you will be using tiling wm + firefox + rxvt + a bunch of console daemons and utilities (mpd, vi, mplayer, rtorrent, etc) and look with bewilderment at people fiddling with a bunch of obscure windows. And maybe you will spit on this miserable GNU / Linux and return to cozy Windows.

Answer 18

About analogues of programs, see here: eax.me/unix-soft/

Answer 19

>2. Are there any gadgets that allow you to bring the folder view in Linux to the standard C: / Program Files?
This view is by no means standard. Standard - Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

Answer 20

To all those present in the topic - karmic thanks for the recommendations.

Answer 21

I'll put in my 5 cents.
1) The gnome is easier to learn and more familiar to those who have switched from Windows, sneakers look better and are more flexible.
2) No, but it's not necessary. Getting used to comes within a couple of days of work, and after a while, appreciate the convenience.
3. I find it difficult to answer, because I don’t know what MS OneNote
is - VLC is lightweight, functional and with everything you need. DragonPlayer - also nothing but it really had to deliver codecs for it (however, he himself is looking for them so it's not stressful)
- for rss Akregator
- Yes, he's good. However, Ktorrent is no worse, I never noticed any freezes behind it even with a large number of torrents.
- Skype, by the way, I advise you to install the 32-bit version in any case.
— Amarok. Not so simple - but that's just a plus. What's more, he's smart.
- That's what, and this goodness is simply an unrealistic amount
- Analogue of notepad ++ - Kate
In general, I would advise using some kind of stable user-friendly distro to start with. IMHO the best option is Fedora

Answer 22

1) gnome is faster and after wines it’s easier to get used to it, kde has more built-in features with visualization, with proper settings it approaches macOS
about analogues of photoshop or illustrator - I didn’t find any alternatives, gimp copes more or less, but hasn’t matured yet, as an option - Photoshop and the chandelier goes under the vine after some dances with a tambourine.

Answer 23

Regarding the video player: I can recommend either SMPlayer/UMPlayer, which are essentially the same MPlayer Classic (same engine, many settings), or VLC (a truly omnivorous player).
I really like Clementine as a music player

Answer 24

By the way, I join the question: are there any editors similar to AutoCAD (for editing dwg) and CorelDraw (reading and editing cdr)

Answer 25

1. Everything is a matter of habit. For example, I didn’t like Gnome right away, but I liked KDE more or less until the quads appeared. I myself work now in IceWM. The main differences between all WM / DE are the number of whistles and flexibility.
2. You don't need to do this. man hier
3. There are all sorts of similar KDE programs. By the way, if you need an office not only for writing plain texts and all sorts of services, I advise you to master latex.
4.
- MediaPlayerClassic == mplayer (mplayer, by the way, is much better)
- liferea, akregator ...
- I won’t say about torrent clients: I don’t have them (I’m sitting behind a proxy)
- a simple audio player == audacious, mpd, ...
- Notepad++ == geany
- Only Gimp is suitable for working with PSD layers? not sure. Does Illustrator's analogue exist? no.
Nick.
I would also be grateful if you advise any useful and interesting programs for Linux in your opinion.
It is difficult to advise something if it is not clear what exactly interests you.

Answer 26

Notepad++ works great under Wine.
Debian 6.0.3, wine-1.0.1, Notepad++ 6.1.2

Answer 27

my Photoshop works fine and without tambourines on Ubuntu through PlayOnLinux