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Re: What are some "must have" software
From: cdposter-usenet@yahoo.com (ceed)
On 10-06-27 09:39 AM, ceed wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:00:10 -0500, Wizard Of Oz
<Wizard@emaraldcity.gov> wrote:
We give out computers as part of an "educational charity" as a two
year loan. Most are Windows boxes. The target is first time computer
users. Recently we have had some requests for Linux. Mint seems to be
a good simple distro to put on the non-Windows PCs. The most recent
machines we gave away was to a couple in wheelchairs. They made a
special request for web cam software. Since the installs are much
easier than the Windows installs I've been wondering about additional
software which may be useful for first time users.
For these machines I've been thinking about adding VLC (video player)
and K3B (CD/DVD burner which verifies the burn). Dolphin from the KDE
side of things is pretty good but needs some work. I particularly like
the two panel mode. Is there anything else we should consider? We
don't want much duplication and it has to be a fast install/configure.
If this is stock Mint installs which comes with Gnome you already has
Brasero for burning and Totem for video playback. These are nicely
integrated in the desktop and has worked very well for me and everyone I
know using Mint.
I don't particularly like Totem. I find it less friendly than say mplayer (included) or VLC (not included).
I hated it a couple of years ago. Now it's the player I use the most. Works great in both Mint 8 and 9. In 7 it was flaky. I really like how it now plays Matroska without any problems at all. Even vlc had problems with that last time I checked (which also is a couple of years ago).
However. I do not understand why you would want Dolphin
when Nautilus (Gnome's file manager) comes standard. Nautilus can also
operate in two pane mode.
That was something I didn't know until you mentioned it. It even operates in list mode (something I rather like). It also has an open with setting. I didn't check if it has a delete instead of move to trash. Maybe I'll give it a try for a couple of weeks and see how I like it.
I also find Dolphin to be buggy and often sluggish when I do a lot of file operations at once (copying, deleting large dirs, ssh and browsing)
As for other nice to have software which doesn't come with the install I
would suggest Google Earth,
I'll suggest this one. The machines are fairly old (five years at least) though.
May be slow then.
Audacity for sound editing,
This may be beyond most of our clients.
Very easy to use, but you might be right, cept for the ones who wants to make their own ringtones :)
Cheese for
webcams,
I noticed this one.
Xsane for scanning and maybe Skype for VOIP.
Those two I'll keep in a list somewhere.
Gimp for graphics
work is still included in Mint (not so in Ubuntu).
GIMP is good. Too bad Gimpshop is M$ only.
Finally, DeVeDe is a
nice simple applications for creating DVD's from movie files. Could come
in handy and everyone can figure out how to use it.
Excellent suggestion with that one. I use it on occasion. Another one for the list.
Later
Mike
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