On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 23:05 -0600, Michael John Walters wrote: > Hello all, > > I have been reading the "Linux blows and sucks" thread and it inspired > me to get down to two specifics, as requested by one of the thread > responders. > > These two applications are both Linux applications, so it is not a > comment on windows versus Linux, but rather a comment on the habits some > windows users have that one of these applications seems to be catering > to (pardon the dangling participle). > > Amarok automatically starts the first track when it is opened and when > the player is shut down, it always selects fade feature. > > Sound Juicer does neither of these things, but requires on start up to > choose which track to play. If you want the first track to play, you > just select play and the first track is started. But if say track 7 is > your favourite track, you can select that right away by double clicking > on it. > > Not only does Sound Juicer not automatically choose fade option, I did > not even notice a fade option in the menu. It might be there somewhere > in the menu if I looked for it, but the fade option in Amarok is just a > nice little novelty to play with for a while, but one eventually gets > tired of it and therefore when I went to sound juicer I did not miss it > enough to look for possible ways to use it in Sound Juicer. > > Amarok seems to cater to people who want things done for them, so that > when it starts up it automatically plays the first track. > > But sometimes I want to select my tracks in the order I want to hear > them that day, which may change from day to day. Sound Juicer lets me do > that without cancelling an automatic track one play mode. You just > double click each track you want to hear when you want to hear it. > > And with all that automatic action on the part of Amarok, Amarok uses > more resources than Sound Juicer. > > So, over time, I have come to love Sound Juicer more than Amarok, > especially after the novelty of automatic fade wore off. > > Now when I want to play a CD, I always use Sound Juicer and never use > Amarok. > > That being said, there may be people out there who prefer automatic fade > and automatic first track playing. So Linux offers Amarok to those kinds > of people. Then there are people like me who prefer more control rather > than novelty. Linux offers Sound Juicer for people like me. So Linux > offers a choice. Windows often does not offer a choice, so it is > refreshing to see that Linux does offer a choice. > > One Windows application I like is Excel spread sheets. They allow one to > use gigantic charts filling the whole page. Open office does not allow > that yet. But I have seen open office to change dramatically from Open > Office 2.0 to Open Office 2.4. > > So I am patiently waiting for Open Office developers to offer a similar > choice in the future. But I got two viruses when I was running Windows > and it is great not to have to worry about viruses. So I am willing to > put up with puny charts until the developers decide to offer bigger > charts. The loss of bigger charts is more than offset by Linux not being > as vulnerable as Windows. And on the other side, my brother Mel says > that as Microsoft responds to customer complaints, the new Windows is > not as vulnerable as the old versions of Windows, so even Microsoft can > improve its security at least a little bit. The difference is that Linux > did it years before Microsoft did it, and at no cost to passive users. > > The main reason I did not let developers know that I wanted the option > of using big charts in Open Office is that I have been too busy having > fun with other applications such as sound juicer and evolution and ice > weasel and firefox which are far superior to Internet Explorer and > Outlook Express and the windows email client whose name I can not > remember because I have not used Windows in such a long time. Interesting... I've been using Linux as my primary desktop for years so in truth I can't perform a valid comparison to Windows anymore. I use a couple of windows apps for work (Outlook, Excel, Word). I honestly prefer Evolution and OpenOffice Writer. For my use Excel still beats OpenOffice Calc though - ymmv. > > I also am having fun with epiphany. There are features in firefox and > epiphany which are complementary. What is wrong in firefox is right in > epiphany. And what is wrong in epiphany is right in firefox. Similarly > Evolution and Kmail are similarly complementary. But they are all good > applications. I just happen to prefer Evolution and ice weasel most of > the time. I have not had much time to play around with epiphany, but I > have used it a couple of times. So for browsers Linux offers three > choices - epiphany, firefox, and ice weasel. I am going to set aside > some more time to explore epiphany. > > As you can see, I spend more time exploring Linux Applications than > complaining about perceived shortcomings of some of those applications. > I would rather spend my time exploring than complaining. > > Tomorrow I have specifically put exploring epiphany on my to do list on > my daily agenda. > > Regards, > > Michael > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying
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