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On a different note: Is amarok dead?

Amarok 2.9 is in beta since august 2015. Would be sad, because I always liked it, even the unpopular 2.x versions.

On the other side, clementine looks awesome.

> I don’t like Unbuntu. I tried it and I got the impression that I should just be using Windows because I couldn’t hardly run anything without WINE. I’m not trying to make enemies here, I just don’t want it.

Unless you are talking about the alcoholic beverage, expect WINE to be a large part of your life if you depend on applications that are native only to windows. (and have no linux alternatives)

If you use iTunes take a look at banshee and amarok as they are the two leading music players and managers that support syncing to iDevices (granted you cannot do more than manage the music on your iPod)

If you give us a list of software you use on XP we can help you find alternatives for Linux.

I like using Windows at home but I also like using Ubuntu at work and those reasons you mentioned are no reasons.

>things are far from intuitive and you may as well have your second monitor permanently on google.com for the amount of times you will use it.

Once configured, it runs smoothly. After you set it all up, you will mostly be using google to find out how to get out of vim.

>Also, Vsync is a thing that apprently doesn't work with my system.

99% of the time you don't want to use vsync anyway.

>And 99% of music app developers for Linux don't know that some people like to see album art instead of a wall of song titles.

You may want to check out amarok which AFAIK is similar to foobar2k.

That being said, Windows is probably the more usable OS for you (and me, at least at home).

> music and video playback is not up to par with windows

About quality or simply support for different formats? If support, you ought to try mpv(1) next time you use Linux: it has support for tons of types, and I never had an issue with it. The interface however is.... not fancy.

> no good alternative to musicbee

Amarok (and Clementine) are some full-featured music players that really pack a bunch of features. From a quick glance at MusicBee's front page, Amarok does the same. If you have more time to spend on tweaking, mpd(1), the Music Player Daemon does about everything. Just needs a lot of tweaking.

I started out with AmaroK back in 2005. Back then I had music on more or less constantly when I was home (which was a lot since I was studying and working from home).

When I started working in an office I had Spotify going all day at work and then music on when I got home.

Nowdays it's not that much, but it should pick up a bit now again since I still listen to a lot of music at work and I've set up Spotify on my phone to scrobble now.

There was an alpha release in March with the main focus seemingly being the Qt5 port. There is some activity in git at least but until the port is done it's not going to be anything exciting for us regular users.

Seems like most people have switched to something else by now. I use Clementine, which may even have been default on my distro.

There were some killer apps 15 years ago : Amarok (kde3 era) was the best audio player and was a Linux exclusive, I was able to convert people to Linux just showing theme F-Spot (gnome2 era)...

I like KDE4 and Gnome3 but it seems we lose some momentum app-side whit those releases.

Amorak player may be what you seek.

It looks and works like iTunes, but without any of the silly Apple restrictions.

[https://amarok.kde.org/en/features](According to this page it can import iTunes libraries), though it isn't something I've any experience doing and so cannot advise further. Good luck!

https://cgit.kde.org/amarok.git/log/

Doesn't look dead...The last big release was march 2018..but that one was also thee last release based on KDE4 libraries. Since then it seems amarok is in porting mode to KDE5 frameworks so probably no new release until that works. Source repository shows activity by at least three people in the last two month...so I wouldn't call it dead.

Here you go, with links!

Notepad++ - Personally I like GVim for a GUI or VIM. Although that takes a bit of commitment to knowing the keybindings in order to be useful. Or just use notepad++ in Wine if you really like it. Just tried it here and it runs fine.

Video Editing - I use Cinelerra-GG User Warning: If one release has issues move to a different release. Until you find one that works well on your platform. I know that sounds weird but it's complete enough in it's functionality to do.

Screen-Shots - xfce4-screenshot is what I use. And I recently started using kazam for screenshots and screencasts. Works great. If you're editing it immediately you can also use GIMP to create a shot of a currently running screen/app and immediately work on it.

Media Player - I haven't actually used one in ages. But Amarok was great back when I did. VLC if you mean a video player (which, thinking on it, I do use frequently).

Image Editing - GIMP, Inkscape for SVG, and Shotwell for processing RAW pictures quickly.

used to use amarok back in the day, absolutely loved it. It is a beautiful player! Highly recommend you try it.

https://amarok.kde.org/

now i am content with vlc. it's pretty decent and has every feature I require.