What in the world can you run on linux ubuntu?

Question

What in the world can you run on linux ubuntu?

Answer 1

Um. When I saw "it came installed on my netbook" I said "oh." I'm not much of a gamer -- Quake 1 and 2 occasionally. Quake 1 on my debian/slackware box, 2 on my debian box. Wine Cedega and Crossover run an awesome amount of stuff -- Wine itself does Photoshop well and of course we have the Giimp.



Bottom line, Linux was a kernel written originally to run Unix programs. This it does very well. One of them was Netscape, which became Mozilla which spawned Firefox and Seamonkey (which I'm on right now). You wouldn't know about SPSS, which is another.



The thing is, Unix was originally written for minicomputers, mainframes and networks. Blender was written for High-End Silicon Graphics machines in the nineties. Look at their documentation about render farms -- for any real project you are supposed to link together three or four Ubuntu boxes. Netbooks are NOT for running awesome programs --Windows or UNIX. That's not the OS, fella, that's the computer.



EDIT: You want programs that run? the Quake series and the Doom series ('cept I believe the last quake) Return to Wolfenstein and most ID games were created on a Unix network using GCC and free software so the GAME ENGINES are FOSS software -- not the games themselves but the game engines. This means you DON:'T EVEN have to be a script kiddie to port them over and many people have.

Answer 2

Um, you have a NetBook: those three things are pretty much all those are designed for. They have weak graphic cards (Integrated), slow processors (usually 1.66GHz), and low RAM (1-2GB usually). It's not Linux that's keeping you from doing awesome stuff - it's your NetBook.



There are tons of on-line communities that are based on Linux. People would be glad to help give you some pointers and show you where to find freeware. With a little bit of UNIX knowledge, you can do a lot more with Linux than you can with Windows! Granted, there are a lot of Windows-only software out there and there's no way around that. But a NetBook is a great platform to get you started on Linux. Poke around the web for Linux groups, blogs, and postings and I'll bet you come to like it's "tweakability!"



If you REALLY hate Linux, you can always pick up an OEM copy of XP Pro for around $120 and install that on your NetBook instead. But I wouldn't try Vista on a NetBook - Vista is too much of a beast for most NetBooks.

Answer 3

Learn to use the add-remove program button and install some more things.

Answer 4

You have a pretty decent hardware. I would suggest getting a better operating system like Windows 8. This is my serious suggestion with no intention to troll or making fun of anything. I just think it is not worth the time to debug these issues. Thanks

Answer 5

Wow, You got your answers. haha



anyway, Linux is getting improve, and growing very rapidly. It cost nothing, and It takes time to learn something new. Linux has everything, You just need to figure it out.



For gaming, Check Cedega, It is paid, but runs many cool latest games.

Answer 6

Just because your computer came installed with linux doesn't mean you have to keep linux. Reformat your hard drive and install windows and enjoy.

Have fun with windows.

Answer 7

Take the time to learn Linux and it's advantages before saying it sucks.



"I can't game like a true gamer"



There are plenty of good open-source games:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Games



ID Software makes Linux versions of most of their games:

http://www.idsoftware.com/



Wine can run lots of Windows games like World of Warcraft, Call of Duty 1-4, Eve, Guild Wars, Counterstrike, Half Life, etc

http://appdb.winehq.org/



"I can't use a superior image editor"



Have you taken the time to learn GIMP? It's a fantastic image editor. Also, Photoshop runs great in Wine



"awesome programs such as mozbackup"



Open your home folder and press CTRL+H, that will show all the hidden "." folders. Find the folder called ".mozilla" and move it somewhere for safekeeping. All your history, bookmarks, addons, etc are stored in that folder. Simply copy the folder back to restore them. Instead of Registry, Linux uses simple text files for configuration, so a program like "mozbackup" isn't needed.



Search the repositories with your package manager, there is tons of free software you can installl without even opening your web browser.



Trust me... If you take the time to learn Linux, you will be able to do more than you can in Windows. You will actually be able to USE your computer.

Answer 8

Cad/Cam drafting and design. (qcad)

Graphic Art with the newest GIMP

Family Genealogy (geneweb)

Audio and Video Production

Web Page creation (Bluefish)

Watch DVD movies (VLC)

Rip DVD Movies and CD music (subtitleripper and Grip)

Computer Programing and Software Design (C, Pascal, Python, ect)



Sure the same thing Windows can do, with Linux at no cost to you. I have over 200 Linux Live CDs and played with everyone of them. There are only two that I would install on some one else's computer. You want an awesome Linux, download, burn and run Ultimate Edition 2.1 as a LiveCD (1.7GB). They have a gamers edition, but it's version 2.0 (4GB in size)

Answer 9

Just because you can't work it, doe not mean nobody else can. Gimp is probably the best image editor on the internet. You can play, edit and record music and videos. There are a lot of Unix/Linux games. There are thousands of other programs (ALL free) for anything you can do on a Windows machine. There are ports of many Windows games, and I know dozens of people running Windows games on Wine just by configuring it correctly. I have MS Flight Simulator running on it, and it will not run under Windows on this machine. And it includes hundreds of ways to back up, and all the office programs with extras. The way you write about it, you probably work for Microsoft, this is full of the kind of dumb unproven statements they make.

Answer 10

Unfortunately Linux at present does not support gaming that well however things are improving. There is windows compatability layer software such as WINE and emulators such as Codeweavers.



http://www.winehq.org/

http://www.codeweavers.com/



There is WINE as I have already stated but it is always best to see if you can find and use native Linux software before you resort to running an emulator.



Major Linux Applications

http://www.bellevuelinux.org/appslist.html





Also your distro. is likely to contain an open source version of what you are looking for.



For example in Ubuntu thousands of open source applications can be found in the Synaptic Package Manager https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto



and some games DO work !



For example here is the Official Ubuntu WorldofWarcraft Documentation

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft



To find out which windows applications WINE will run consult the application database http://appdb.winehq.org/



To say Linux sucks is a bold statement to say the least. Take time to understand it and I am sure your opinion will change.





LUg.