There’s literally only one application I still need Windows for: EAC (Exact Audio Copy).
Everything else has a (often better) Linux alternative/version, runs in WINE or Proton, or can be used just fine in a virtual machine.
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A good pdf editor is what I'm still looking to replace withiht having to deal with Wine. If PDFxchange made a proper Linux port, I'd buy a new license and migrate from windows.
Onenote is something id like a better replacement to because I hate it, but I haven't found a replacement despite trying several of the options. PDFxchange could be my replacement for that though if it was ported.
Have you tried using LibreOffice Draw? It works pretty well for editing PDFs. Just make sure you have all of the fonts that the PDF uses before opening it.
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I am looking for a PDF editor which has support for digital signature. There are some which perform add a gpg signature, but clients want to see the green tick that Adobe provides. That's why I have a internet-less Windows 7 VM having only Adobe Reader and Filezilla.
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Have you tried ABCDE? It's cli, but once you get used to it, it's perfect for ripping AudioCDs in bulk.
I just use K3B to rip audio CDs. In particularly tricky places, I use cdparanoia and the FLAC encoder on command line. MusicBrainz Picard to fix the metadata. ffmpeg on command line to convert the FLAC albums to MP3 or other formats.
Finally got around to testing out EAC on WINE (prompted by my previous comment a few hours ago).
It seems to work without major issues on WINE 11 in a 32-bit prefix (at least on LMDE 7). Plugins need dotnet20 and dotnet48 installed, otherwise only the in-built AccurateRip meta engine shows up. I've only tested ripping to WAVE and FLAC, though.
In short, I'd say it's worth a try now.
Are the rips and logs identical to Windows on the same machine?
Ironically I wasn't able to get EAC working on my Windows 10 installation due to the WinFSP clash, whilst CUERipper errors out on WINE (something to do with how it interacts with the ODD).
However, CUETools works fine and so I was able to compare the same CD ripped by CUETools/CUERipper on Windows with EAC under WINE. I used an ABBA CD as the test case (100+ matches in CTDB, 10+ in AccurateRip).
The CUE sheets are functionally identical (barring the differences in extra metadata stored between the two, as CUERipper included the IRSC where EAC has a Composer comment instead) -- the gaps and indices are all the same. The raw rip itself is also identical - I ripped the CD to a disc image (with offset correction in both cases) and the md5 checksum of the WAV file from both applications is the same.
In both tools the rip validated against AccurateRip and CUETools DB as well. I double-checked the EAC rip afterwards using CUETools (again under WINE), as a further test.
great info
thank you
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Is there a loops app on f-droid yet?
Not yet
I have a real question here. Loops is on the fediverse. Can you not embed video from there, or is OP unwilling to do that for whatever reason?
Embed videos from where?
Lemmy doesn’t support video hosting. In the past I’ve used catbox.moe but had mixed results with video not uploading easily, users not being able to view them, and it just wasn’t great. So now since Loops is on ActivityPub I’ve been using them now.
I’m using Mlem which loads the videos automatically as part of the posts just like gifs. Just now thought to check Voyager, and it appears that it shows it as a link to be opened in the internal browser, so I’m guessing apps showing that behavior is probably why you’re asking.
I mean if I find a better alternative I’m all for it.
You can crosspost, but I don't know how well lemmy interacts with it. It has major problems interacting with peertube and mastodon.
Can confirm. I used Linux and Unix almost exclusively for about 20 years, and when I more recently had to use Windoze again for work, this is pretty much what happened.
Don't worry, they'll release Windows 12 / Aion, which is basically Edge + Copilot OS. Can't wait for that to be released.
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For another great use of this quote, check out the breakdown of Resistance by Nasum.
Idk why but I can't play the loops video
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