"k3b is one of the most important applications for many Linux users. The immensely popular and fully-featured CD/DVD writing application has been a mainstay of the standard Linux desktop since its early releases. Since last year, Sebastian Trüg, the initial author and present lead developer of k3b, has been employed by Mandriva both to work on k3b and to work on the Nepomuk desktop project. We asked Sebastian a few questions about k3b, Mandriva and Nepomuk."
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Member since:2006-12-16
Umm, I've been using Linux on and off since 1997...probably longer than you. I used Linux as my sole desktop from 2002-2006, only switching back to Windows XP for Photoshop CS2 (and yes, I hate using Photoshop).
During my time of using K3B, I never had a single showstopper issue, it's worked fine for a long, long time.
I think you'll see Photoshop come to Linux within the next 3-5 years, it's only a matter of time. As to $20, why would I pay that, when I can use K3B for free (both price and freedom)?
Nero is just dreadful with its UI, one of the very worst applications I've seen in a long, long, long time. And I'm being very polite here.
As to GTK/GTK2, I find GTK based applications ugly. I much prefer QT.
Dave
Member since:2006-12-16
Oops, I meant I hate using Microsoft Windows. Love using Photoshop.
Mods, can you delete the other duplicate post? Stupid connection was mucking up when I tried to post and it duplicated somehow...
Direct link to other post here:
http://www.osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=17885&comment_id=239331
Thanks.
Dave
Member since:2006-12-16
Umm, I've been using Linux on and off since 1997...probably longer than you. I used Linux as my sole desktop from 2002-2006, only switching back to Windows XP for Photoshop CS2 (and yes, I hate using Photoshop).
During my time of using K3B, I never had a single showstopper issue, it's worked fine for a long, long time.
I think you'll see Photoshop come to Linux within the next 3-5 years, it's only a matter of time. As to $20, why would I pay that, when I can use K3B for free (both price and freedom)?
Nero is just dreadful with its UI, one of the very worst applications I've seen in a long, long, long time. And I'm being very polite here.
As to GTK/GTK2, I find GTK based applications ugly. I much prefer QT.
Dave
Member since:2005-07-07
yeah, never had serious trouble with K3B either. It mostly managed to impress me, actually. Lately, for example, i plugged in a usb cd burner, expecting to do some configuration, etcetera - but it just popped up in k3b, and the 'burn' button turned from gray to color, and it just worked. Great job, imho...
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2006-09-19
Dave
Well, then you haven't used Linux very long.
Gtk1 may be old and look ugly but for the longest time it was faster and more reliable than Gtk2.
Many Linux apps took their time to fully port into Gtk2 and for a good reason.
And K3B took a long time to stabilize too.
It had serious bugs in many releases.
I grew tired of the constant update race to fix this and that.
And for the longest time it would not honor the chosen write speed.
Worse, the developer gave some lame excuse why a user's chosen write speed is ignored.
And K3B would not save ISO image, how ridiculous is that?
I don't know if it has that functionality now but I found that annoying as hell.
Obviously the developer's experience and coding skill has grown over the years and it shows, K3B has matured and is now fairly reliable.
Although for basic burning tasks I find Nero just fine and actually prefer it to K3B which depends on KDE.
On older machines that don't have KDE or Qt installed that functionality is nice to have.
The major point against Nero is that they're kind of late with their Nero for Linux offering.
But they still deserve some credit for at least trying.
I don't see Adobe porting Photoshop or any other major Windows apps coming to Linux.
Also $20 to license it is quite reasonable I think.
And with this new Nero version looking and working like the Windows version I am sure most Windows converts will prefer it to the rather different and sometime confusing K3B interface layout.
So I wouldn't write Nero off just yet.