what software that you use regularly now would you not be able to use if you bought a mac or used linux

[bigrash]

I do a lot of work stuff on my comp and since i use oracle applications i couldnt use something besides a pc. what would you not be able to use anymore.

 

[acemcmac]

HL2
Quake4
Remote Desktop and teriminal server
trillian
crimson
eclipse (not sure on this one)
HTMLKit
5 monitors simultaneously the 5th is a tv behind the camera

etc etc etc

I bailed on the mac in december of 2002 and haven't looked back since. Cost/performance ratio isn't even close to what you can do with either a custom box or a dell deal.

 

[FoBoT]

games

i am thinking that when i get xb0x360 i could switch to all games on console and no pc games, then i could go with linux for surfing/multimedia

 

[MixMasterTang]

Originally posted by: acemcmac
HL2
Quake4
Remote Desktop and teriminal server
trillian
crimson
eclipse (not sure on this one)
HTMLKit
5 monitors simultaneously the 5th is a tv behind the camera

etc etc etc

I bailed on the mac in december of 2002 and haven't looked back since. Cost/performance ratio isn't even close to what you can do with either a custom box or a dell deal.

They make a remote desktop client for Linux and Mac.

 

[Shawn]

trillian
dvdshrink
Nero
Photoshop
My PVR software
Games
office 2003 (and I don't care if there are alternatives. I paid for this licence and I happen to like office)
lots more but I don't feel like going through my hard drives at the moment.

 

[nakedfrog]

Mostly games.

 

[ForumMaster]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Mostly games.

 

[D1gger]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Mostly games.

 

[phisrow]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Mostly games.

 

[ISAslot]

win xp

 

[ZetaEpyon]

At home? Final Fantasy XI

That is all.

 

[ryan256]

FTP server
Nero

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Mostly games.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: ISAslot
win xp

:thumbsup:

 

[scttgrd]

J River media center, Nero, my Treo video software and many others that linux and apple won't run.

 

[ironcrotch]

I'm a diehard mac user, but I have my pc rig so I can play my HL2/CS:S I think thats the only real thing that I use it for.

 

[SaturnX]

Originally posted by: Shawn
trillian
dvdshrink
Nero
Photoshop
My PVR software
Games
office 2003 (and I don't care if there are alternatives. I paid for this licence and I happen to like office)
lots more but I don't feel like going through my hard drives at the moment.

Photoshop is made for Mac, but obviously not linux.

But for me, it'd be games, and Nero.

--Mark

 

[Staples]

Many video games
Ultraedit
Microsoft One Note
MS Office (although Open Office I can stand)
Netlimiter

 

[pennylane]

games pretty much

 

[SampSon]

My primary business software.
Also a bunch of smaller apps that arn't mass produced.

 

[shortylickens]

NVM

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Mostly games.

 

[thraxes]

DVD authoring is next to impossible on Linux.

But other than that and the obvious games I see no reason not to use linux - other than that I currently have an ATI graphics card and the linux drivers totally SUCK, major upgrade with NVIDIA card is coming up soon for that very reason

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: ryan256
FTP server
Nero

umm dude....ftp servers existed in unix/linux a LONG time before they existed in Windows

As for Nero, there is a great variety of burning software in linux if that's what you are thinking of missing out on.

 

[Cooler]

3D Max