Nero Burning Rom 6 Forum

Why should CodeWeavers spend its time & money on this program, when Linux already has K3b, the best CD & DVD burner on any operating system? I urge people NOT to vote for this app. We need to focus on programs that do NOT have good Linux equivalents. Nero, while a nice burner for Windows, is unnecessary on Linux.

legacy users: the dire need for NERO and other apps,....
as simple as: I payed, for it, I use it, and I like to continue useing it....
like many mircosift applications,....
many years ago I tried, linux, could not get to work , with the graphics,...
did not run photoshop,.... still no native support,... and could not print ,....
and still have not attempted to run linux as main OS,... that is from a guy who lives on the daily base on Solaris, on ultra's,....

bottom line, we need all the major apps to run. period.
cheers, Rob

"and still have not attempted to run linux as main OS"

Well come back when you HAVE run linux as a main OS, but
I suggest until then your vote doesn't mean much since you
won't be purchasing CrossOver office like the rest of us have.

If you don't run linux then how could you know what's available
already?

I agree with the second poster, we should concentrate on those
things that there is no acceptable Linux equivelent for a windows
product...

The only reason to use Nero under Linux is certain SadoMaso tendencies...

1. K3B is a better application for burning.
2. Recode is the commercial version of DVD Shrink- actually it usually trails Shrink by one release or two.
3. Nero Vision Express is a buggy implementation of the worst video encoder available (Ligos) and as such completely useless.

This discussion is one that goes on for almost any app on windows, and why the poor windows users will NEVER switch to linux. (At least according to Bill Almighty) Fact: For almost all Windows Apps ther is a Linux equivilant that is a WHOLE bunch cheaper. (Just the other day I found Audacity, on my Suse CD, and it is every bit as good as something you'd have to pay 300-400 dollars for in windows.
The problem is people try linux out, they see the start button in the corner and they assume it is like windows, when they find out its not, they get mad after three days or a week and give up (I did the same thing at first). For the few of us that press on, we find that linux is an eperience all its own. It has great strengths and minimal weeknesses. I'm on my 3rd year of linux and about 2 months ago, I got rid of my windows partition all together. I must say I have not missed it at all. Linux is like swimming, you have to be completely in the water to get anywhere with it. Dipping a toe in here or there is not going to get it done.
yes there is the odd app that I need to run (mostly because its what they use at work) for that there is crossover. for everything else, I have found something on my CD or by Googling. It's hard for me to imagine ever going back to windows.

One more thing and then I am gone -- Remeber this -- Windows is changing their kernel, this means all the apps you know and love will cease to function when longhorn is released in 2006. What are the Nero (an other software) dependent people going to do then? If they are inteligent they will make the switch to Linux, if not they have to pony up the thousands of dollars it will take to replace all their stuff with new versions, and kiss their legacy apps good-bye.