Reason for using linux #1

Tonight I’m preparing presentation for my polish lessons. I needed to edit one track.

This is how would it probably look like if I used Windows:
01. google ’sound edit software’
02. open first 5 pages
03. google ‘FREE sound edit software’
04. Open first 5 pages
05. read overviews and download one installer
06. allow myself to download the file (or I should rather call my administrator)
07. run the installer
08. allow myself to run the file (or ask my administrator to do it)
09. tick the box “I’ve read license…” which is a LIE
10. hit ‘next’ until the mighty creator starts installation
11. restart my computer
12. run the app
13. edit the track
14. click ‘export’ just to find out that it is a trial version, so I can export random 1/10 of my work (which wasn’t written on site, but was probably written in the license)
15. google once more ‘freeware sound edit’
16. download installer (and allow)
17. run the installer (and allow)
18. tick the box “I’ve read license…” which is a LIE
19. hit ‘next’ until the mighty creator starts installation
20. restart my computer
21. run the app
22. edit the track
23. export it.

This is how I did it using GNU/Linux (Ubuntu 8.10):
1. google ’sound edit linux’
2. read ‘the best 5 sound editing apps for Linux – overview’
3. find out that the most used and quite functional is audacity
4. run terminal
5. type ’sudo apt-get install audacity’
6. type my root password
7. type y and hit enter
8. type audacity
9. edit the track
10. export

I know that installing software in Linux isn’t ALWAYS that easy, but that’s like 80% of my installations. I’m also aware that installing soft on Windows may be easier, but almost ALWAYS when I needed a tool to do one little thing and continue near-to-deadline project I got this license confusion and was forced to search one more time.

I know you’d say I had to search better the home site of program to find out about the limitations, but sometimes man needs something done quickly and can’t play with all those closed licenses.

With GNU/Linux (or rather OpenSource/FreeSoftware) it is possible!

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~ by papaja1992 on 1 March 2009.