Linux User Switches to Mac!!!
I finally had to do it, no more installing my own drivers, having constant trouble with this or that, I just wanted peace with my computer, and now I have it. I got a Mac. My question to all of you is:
Am I the only one?
Basically, I am happy. I did opt for a lesser 20" base model IMAC, but the way resources are allocated, I don't need the loud screams of anything higher for my applications and general web surfing. Kudos to Mac on the remote control and interface, very cool indeed. Does anyone have a list of good programs that might make a good freeware guy like me happy? Any suggestions would be appriciated. I already have bootcamp and a few others, but I am new to this whole Mac company thing. I am glad I am giving my buisness to them, not Microsoft and I will continue to.
Am I the only one?
Basically, I am happy. I did opt for a lesser 20" base model IMAC, but the way resources are allocated, I don't need the loud screams of anything higher for my applications and general web surfing. Kudos to Mac on the remote control and interface, very cool indeed. Does anyone have a list of good programs that might make a good freeware guy like me happy? Any suggestions would be appriciated. I already have bootcamp and a few others, but I am new to this whole Mac company thing. I am glad I am giving my buisness to them, not Microsoft and I will continue to.
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Does anyone have a list of good programs that might make a good freeware guy like me happy? Any suggestions would be appriciated.
Go to Macupdate. Use the text filed for searching whatever comes in your mind. You can sort the results by licence (Freeware, Shareware and Commercial).
...but I am new to this whole Mac company thing. I am glad I am giving my buisness to them, not Microsoft and I will continue to.
Welcome to the Mac community! But it is the Apple, and not the Mac company.
I finally had to do it, no more installing my own drivers, having constant trouble with this or that, I just wanted peace with my computer, and now I have it. I got a Mac. My question to all of you is:
Am I the only one?
Basically, I am happy. I did opt for a lesser 20" base model IMAC, but the way resources are allocated, I don't need the loud screams of anything higher for my applications and general web surfing. Kudos to Mac on the remote control and interface, very cool indeed. Does anyone have a list of good programs that might make a good freeware guy like me happy? Any suggestions would be appriciated. I already have bootcamp and a few others, but I am new to this whole Mac company thing. I am glad I am giving my buisness to them, not Microsoft and I will continue to.
Hi welcome to you.
Off top of my head i'd say:
Handbrake, MactheRipper for casual DVD stuff.
VLC to watch video files, that QTPlayer, DVD Player and /or iTunes can't handle.
GraficConverter for everything Grafic files related.
GoogleEarth, in order to google Earth.
XBattery to monitor battery state (Mobile Computer only)
coconutWiFi to detect wireless Networks.
Flip4Mac, a QT plugin that provides WMV functionality within QT
these among a few others.
Btw, there is a nice nearly full featured chess program called Sigma Chess.
SO far.
Anyway, http://opensourcemac.org/ has all the opensource software you could ever love on a Mac (even some games). And I understand, coming from Linux, you no longer want to pay for your software -- you want it to be free. :-D Well, there you go!
Enjoy the beauty of Mac OS X.
Am I the only one?
NOPE
id add mac the ripper and handbrake as well
check out ART RAGE its free for the demo, but you might like it
also Gimpshop (like photoshop but FREE)
just google FREE MAC OSX SOFTWARE.
and if you have time or leave your comupter running over night (cos it wont crash now!) check out folding at home (F@H) software "InCrease" and feel EVEN BETTER that your using some cycles to cure something.
welcome to the Apple way of doing things
Here ya go!
That's one heckuva nice list you have there!
I'm looking into some of them now.
I still use Linux at work when I'm in the office, but the Macbook with Parallels makes it so I don't really need to go into the office. One nice thing about the Mac is that many usefull little bash shell scripts that I wrote on my Linux computers work without modification on my Mac. Of course there is also the ability to take it wherever I go and not need to port things over. I still use my Linux box, and my Windows laptop where necessary (corporate required apps like Sametime and the like) but for the vast majority of my computing needs the UNIX of Apple provide me with all I need. Heck, Parallels makes it so my employer-provided Dell is only used for one thing: storage.
As for my getting used to the system, I once again feel like a newbie, but that will subside quickly. I hope to hear good info from ou in the future, and maybie one day I will be able to contribute.
Grats on the switch!
Growl - A Notifying Service for you Mac.
NetHack - As a previous Linux user, this is the ultimate in time wasters.
Pacifist - Sometimes very useful.
RBrowser - FTP Client. Very close to the Column View in Finder.
MacFUSE - An open source community that ported FUSE to the Mac, comes with SSHFS with it. I use it every day.
TNEF's Enough - If you ever get emails from your Windows using people, and it comes as a winmail.dat, this extracts the file for you.
Transmission - A really nice BitTorrent Application
Vienna - Has to be hands-down the best RSS client I have ever seen.
That is all I can think of. Also, welcome to the party, I am glad you could make it.
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As for my getting used to the system, I once again feel like a newbie, but that will subside quickly.
The good news is, actually you can't do anything wrong. The entire system is
pretty friendly at all kind of Users (including Power Users and not so talented
Users).
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I hope to hear good info from you in the future, and maybe one day I will be able to contribute.
We'll see.