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Ask HN: What is that one program in Windows that umatched in Linux?
By unmatched, I mean to ask in terms of features and security. For me, some famous games and Office suite is simply behind the Windows counterparts. It does have some good pdf readers but they are not as good as PDF-Xchange and the likes which can only be found in Windows.
I want to pick some ideas to implement features to the point of parity with their windows equivalents in the OSS world.
- fs_tab 3y agoMicrosoft Visual Studio stands out in terms of features.
- litoE 3y agoI vote for the image viewer and editor IrfanView. GIMP may be more powerful in the hands of a pro, but doesn't beat IrfanView for ease of use.
- themerone 3y agoI've never understood the love for IrfanView. I've always found XnView better for my needs.
- ggm 3y agoIntegration of tags into filesystem search. If your photos have tags, then the microsoft file browser understands the tags. Could be sidecar files, could be .attr/ parallel dirs, could be EXIF embedded, I kinda don't care. I really like that the tags in photos work in the file management suite.
- Minor49er 3y agoPretty much all of Adobe's products
- navjack27 3y agoIrfanview virtualdub2 foobar2000 xnview
- nuker 3y agoMS Bitlocker with TPM.
- ianai 3y agoI think the interface can tend to have less lag in windows. Some linux GUIs feel a little laggy at times. Gnome comes to mind. But I'm not even sure its lag. Just certain GUI interactions are “off.”
- cranky908canuck 3y agoPrinting. Intuition and scuttlebutt says 'driver issues'.
- pestatije 3y agonotepad++
- _d3Xt3r_ 3y agoAutoHotkey. It's a fairly comprehensive yet easy to use GUI automation, hotkeys and scripting tool, and unfortunately there's no decent replacement for it in Linux - especially under Wayland, which prevents some features working in an automated way (eg screen capture, extracting the RGB values of the pixel under the mouse cursor etc).
- gaws 3y agoEverything from voidtools[1] [1]: https://www.voidtools.com/ https://www.voidtools.com/
- sds357 3y agoCad/cam software like fusion 360