Yet another person's list of must-have windows apps

[Dan Kegel]

http://www.benjarvis.org/tech/how-to-minimize-your-windows-usage/
lists his must-have windows apps as
---snip---
- Ableton Live 7  (Nothing can replace this yet and the latency is too
long under WINE)
- VST Instruments  (DLL files that are used by Ableton Live)
- iTunes (I may move back to Rockbox now that Banshee works better)
- World of Warcraft (My video card is too weak to run it in Linux)
- Various Emulators (Once I get my Xbox 360 controller to work under
Ubuntu, I will be migrating these)
- Magic the Gathering (It has issues under WINE, but I barely even play)
---snip---

I guess that's one more vote for schannel.

[James McKenzie]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> http://www.benjarvis.org/tech/how-to-minimize-your-windows-usage/
> lists his must-have windows apps as
> ---snip---
> - Ableton Live 7  (Nothing can replace this yet and the latency is too
>
> long under WINE)
> - VST Instruments  (DLL files that are used by Ableton Live)
> - iTunes (I may move back to Rockbox now that Banshee works better)
> - World of Warcraft (My video card is too weak to run it in Linux)
> - Various Emulators (Once I get my Xbox 360 controller to work under
>
> Ubuntu, I will be migrating these)
> - Magic the Gathering (It has issues under WINE, but I barely even play)
>
> ---snip---
>
> I guess that's one more vote for schannel.

Dan:

What does the first program do?

James McKenzie

[Lei Zhang]

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 10:35 AM, James McKenzie
 wrote:
> What does the first program do?

Wikipedia is your friend
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ableton_Live

[James McKenzie]

Lei Zhang wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 10:35 AM, James McKenzie
>  wrote:
> > What does the first program do?
>
> Wikipedia is your friend
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ableton_Live

I'm one of those 'old school' folks and don't place much faith in Wikipedia.

James McKenzie

[Dan Kegel]

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 10:35 AM, James McKenzie
 wrote:
> > http://www.benjarvis.org/tech/how-to-minimize-your-windows-usage/
> > lists his must-have windows apps as
> > ---snip---
> > - Ableton Live 7  (Nothing can replace this yet and the latency is too
> >
> > long under WINE)
>
> What does the first program do?

http://www.ableton.com/live is a music creation / performance tool.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22garage+band%22%2C+%22ableton+live%22%2C+ca...

shows that a search for ableton live is as popular as a search
for garage band, and now more popular than cakewalk.  That's pretty popular.

[James McKenzie]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 10:35 AM, James McKenzie
>  wrote:
> > > http://www.benjarvis.org/tech/how-to-minimize-your-windows-usage/
> > > lists his must-have windows apps as
> > > ---snip---
> > > - Ableton Live 7  (Nothing can replace this yet and the latency is too
> > >
> > > long under WINE)
> >
> > What does the first program do?
>
> http://www.ableton.com/live is a music creation / performance tool.
>
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22garage+band%22%2C+%22ableton+live%22%2C+ca...
>
> shows that a search for ableton live is as popular as a search
> for garage band, and now more popular than cakewalk.  That's pretty popular.

I did look at it.  It is a zero issue for me because a Mac version 
exists.  Also, GarageBand comes with MacOSX.  I feel that this would be 
better served by asking the originators to create a Linux native version 
to solve the timing issues.

James McKenzie