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For those who think they can't live without windows and costy software:

http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html

Pretty biased table, it's missing some entries for Windows and the layout makes it looks like linux has way more apps, even if it's a small margin.

it is obvious that the list is made form a linux user (a linux fan ?) but i dont mind it , acctualy i like the list , and THERE ARE MORE apps for linux than windows. Anyway nice list that i might take into concideration for a presentation

Samppa wrote:Pretty biased table, it's missing some entries for Windows and the layout makes it looks like linux has way more apps, even if it's a small margin.

I can see where you're coming from there but I think the intention may be to give as many alternatives as possible. Personally I have found that I hate alot of apps made for linux, alot aren't made to be friendly enough in various ways. However if you look around a bit theres another one which does the same job and fixes whatever problem the original app had.

Tim, maybe linux apps are not as user friendly as windows apps, but don't forget that most of linux apps are under GPL, so there's a money issue wich is very important. How much would you pay for Microsoft office for example, and how much do you pay for openoffice.org?

Greets,
Joe.

joeabimansour wrote:Tim, maybe linux apps are not as user friendly as windows apps

I delibretly didn't say user friendly
That is one aspect of it, however I was also referring to their config directives, directness in approach to the task and routine friendlyness amount other things

joeabimansour wrote:How much would you pay for Microsoft office for example, and how much do you pay for openoffice.org?

Silly question. I wouldn't pay anything for either of them

I think that is an incredibly useful resource. Biased or not, I view it as a simple resource which says "Hey, need a Linux app to do task X, here's a list of 'example' Windows programs and a list of Linux apps that accomplish X"
As for user-friendliness, etc. I've seen plenty of Windows apps that fall way short in any of these areas. It all has to do with the engineering/design/implementation behind the product, regardless of OS.