What programs would you like to see ported to Linux?

exerceo · 12-28-2022, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by exerceo

What is also disappointing about the GNOME system monitor, the most popular and often pre-installed task manager equivalent on Linux, is that the line graphs are too coarse, and the rounding (or "smoothening") of the lines in the graphs is more annoying than helpful. I prefer it to show the exact usage at that point in time, which is more important than looking pretty.

The line graphs hold 60 seconds of usage history by default, but it can be extended to a few minutes by reducing the update speed. However, then the update speed is too low. When ending a memory-consuming process such as the web browser, the graph only visibly descends after several seconds of delay.

It looks like this has been improved! Now, the "resource" tab in the prefereces allows deactivating "draw charts as smooth graphs", and even has a slider which can increase "chart value points", which I increased to the maximum of 600.

While I don't appreciate that the GNOME team deteriorated their terminal emulator, I am thankful for these improvements to the system monitor.

I also increased the update interval to one second so the graph holds over an hour of data, which is far more useful than the four minutes of the Windows task manager.

The RAM usage does usually not change much over the span of four minutes, but it does over 100 minutes, so a graph spanning hundred minutes is far more useful.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/uEeLx1F (mirror)

As I just found out, the forum has a hard limit of 12 MB of attachments per user. That will be exhausted in no time, so I had to upload to Imgur. Thank you for understanding.

gezzer2 · 01-09-2023, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Russ_m9

well i would like see:

1.Unreal Editor (any Version)
2.Liberty Basic (for my Kids)
3.Shockwave Plugin (for my kids and wife they love Neopets)

and that would make me a happy person all around.

Russ

for your number 1. unreal editor
unreal editor 5 for linux has been released

for your number 2. unknown

for your number 3. shockwave.
pipeline plugin is the linux version of shockwave ...

grumpyskeptic · 01-13-2023, 07:26 AM

I wish that the shutdown sequence in Linux Mint etc could be made as visible as it can be in MS Windows, and not something invisible that just happens. In my experience Linux Mint shutdown freezes about half the time. Unlike MS Windows it would be good to be told the next item that was shutting down, rather than the previous one, to make problems easier to diagnose.

Edit: Although the past few times it has shutdown without a problem, so far, after Grub and the Kernel were updated. Do not know if this is just coincidence.

grumpyskeptic · 02-02-2023, 06:56 AM

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Originally Posted by grumpyskeptic

I wish that the shutdown sequence in Linux Mint etc could be made as visible as it can be in MS Windows, and not something invisible that just happens. In my experience Linux Mint shutdown freezes about half the time. Unlike MS Windows it would be good to be told the next item that was shutting down, rather than the previous one, to make problems easier to diagnose.

Edit: Although the past few times it has shutdown without a problem, so far, after Grub and the Kernel were updated. Do not know if this is just coincidence.

It now shuts down nearly all the time without freezing, but a visible shutdown sequence would be useful and interesting to see.

rokytnji · 02-02-2023, 01:08 PM

Something equivalent to car play/android air play for motorcycles and cars and bicycles.

Phones can;'t stand the sun damage or vibration from handlebars. Presently. My android gps phone stays in a pocket and I must pull over to use it. Pretty sure a raspberry pi system could be set up for commercial sales.

Data30 · 02-03-2023, 09:09 PM

Kingdom Steward-Church specific finance program, an IP program that is based in deb. I've tried to convert several (Zoneminder, Xeoma, Motion) from Tar and Tar.GZ and the results weren't pretty. Also a Blue stacks or Nox like program to be able to run in Linux and preferably mint edition(deb) (Yes I've tried Anbox and had the same luck as with the IP software.) I'd like to be able to run some of my program apps i use on my android phone on Linux.

Thank you for the voice.

rclark · 02-09-2023, 06:12 PM

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It now shuts down nearly all the time without freezing, but a visible shutdown sequence would be useful and interesting to see.

All the systems I work with, you can just hit the <ESC> key and see shutdown messages scroll by. Same with start up messages

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grumpyskeptic · 02-17-2023, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by rclark

All the systems I work with, you can just hit the <ESC> key and see shutdown messages scroll by. Same with start up messages

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Many times I had pressed the escape key during shutdown and nothing happened. After your post I tried again and to my surprise it worked. So there must have been software update.

jmgibson1981 · 02-17-2023, 04:52 PM

I want to see Windows ported. Then it can be straightened out and we can have compatibility with near all software. Wine doesn’t cut it and open source doesn’t have it all.

JASlinux · 03-02-2023, 02:04 PM

It appears still no one has ported the 7-Zip gui to Linux.

screenshot

teckk · 03-02-2023, 02:26 PM

xarchiver will use 7zip, as well as many other compression formats.

Code:

pacman -Si xarchiver
...
Version         : 0.5.4.20-1
Description     : GTK+ frontend to various command line archivers
...
Depends On      : gtk3
Optional Deps   : arj: ARJ support
                  binutils: deb support
                  bzip2: bzip2 support
                  cpio: RPM support
                  gzip: gzip support
                  lha: LHA support
                  lrzip: lrzip support
                  lz4: LZ4 support
                  lzip: lzip support
                  lzop: LZOP support
                  p7zip: 7z support
                  tar: tar support
                  unarj: ARJ support
                  unrar: RAR support
                  unzip: ZIP support
                  xdg-utils: recognize more file types to open
                  xz: xz support
                  zip: ZIP support
                  zstd: zstd support
...
Download Size   : 502.22 KiB
Installed Size  : 1482.73 KiB

suramya · 03-03-2023, 01:35 AM

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Originally Posted by grumpyskeptic

I wish that the shutdown sequence in Linux Mint etc could be made as visible as it can be in MS Windows, and not something invisible that just happens. In my experience Linux Mint shutdown freezes about half the time. Unlike MS Windows it would be good to be told the next item that was shutting down, rather than the previous one, to make problems easier to diagnose.

Edit: Although the past few times it has shutdown without a problem, so far, after Grub and the Kernel were updated. Do not know if this is just coincidence.

How do you make the shutdown sequence visible in windows? On my wife's win 10 system it just shows a graphic and then shuts down. I don't see any information like what is shown in Linux (Shutting down x service.. Stopped Y service.. and so on)

des_a · 04-05-2023, 04:44 PM

I think this is the software I'm looking for: ToDoList https://todolist.en.softonic.com/?ex=DINS-635.0

Next (Obvious) Microsoft Office

And then old versions of calendar creator. Which brings up another topic, but I haven't posted anywhere yet, because I'm not ready. Working on one thing at at time.

des_a · 04-05-2023, 04:50 PM

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How do you make the shutdown sequence visible in windows? On my wife's win 10 system it just shows a graphic and then shuts down. I don't see any information like what is shown in Linux (Shutting down x service.. Stopped Y service.. and so on)

I agree. But maybe you just don't know, that when it shows a graphic in Linux, while shutting down, even then, you can push escape for the verbose mode, to see where it's failing. Maybe this is what you're talking about. Sometimes, it might show the BIOS graphic, and sometimes, the Linux Mint Graphic. That's when you push escape, to see it. Before it can get to that point, it has to switch to the tty though, which takes a few milliseconds, in which you first might hear a sound, then see a disapearing, then black screen. Then the graphic. Try it, at least for fun once. If you don't understand what it's saying, probably folks here can help, if it's neccessary. Don't confuse your wife, with too much detail, but try it just for fun once too, and watch everything fly by. It's what I love about Linux! Same when it starts up.

des_a · 04-05-2023, 04:53 PM

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I want to see Windows ported. Then it can be straightened out and we can have compatibility with near all software. Wine doesn’t cut it and open source doesn’t have it all.

Sorry, reading the thread in reverse. I agree, lol! ReactOS needs more work. But since it aims to do things windows does, I don't know at all how it might work, so I can't help much with that, like I can with unique projects.