Which software do you install in windows which is also available in freebsd.

Alain De Vos

Alain De Vos

Do you know interesting Windows software which is also available as freebsd-package ?
I think about servers/languages/editors/etc ...
 
I haven't tested it on FreeBSD, but on Linux:

- FileZilla
- Blender / UPBGE
- Onlyoffice / Libreoffice
- 0.A.D.
- CMake
- Visual Studio Code
- MySQL Workbench
- Discord
- Steam
- VirtualBox :D
- Notepadqq
 
practically all "famous" opensource sw is also available under windows.
Since I'm for over 2y completely windowsless (thx FreeBSD) I only could tell, what I used under windows:
vlc, firefox, thunderbird, vim, inkscape, gimp, libreoffice, handbrake, latex, padre (perl IDE)

programming lanugages and especially "servers" could be tricky,
cause there you may touch an area where microsoft wants to sell.
Especially without a "professionel"-license you may even face probs with filesystems (e.g. nfs)

I once also used cygwin, which I had good experiences with.
Since windows also has available the bash now (I heard, have no experience with it myself; as I know under windoof such things may also depend on which license you have ("home & hobby", "wife & kids", "economic", "business", "professionell-suite" or whatever this is currently all called.)
You should be able to have even more non-GUI-stuff available.

This may at least give you the possibility to run gcc.

But I don't see no point in switching to Windows and then running there an Linux environemt to have software available under FreeBSD...
I don't see no point to switch to windows at all.
In may eyes this is a downgrade ?
But of course this none of my concern.
...you will have your reasons to run this..."system"

p.s.: if your start dealing with windows seriously I can recommend gparted live
It's linux (debian) live system which runs geparted (and other very nice and powerful tools.)
I found it very handy to clone (backup), rezise and move Windows partions (warning! it cannot handle freebsd-ufs nor zfs!)
 
The only reason i use Windows is for audio software , my dac , vsts, my usb-keyboard & specific-audio-software only runs under windows or with windows drivers.
PS : I found postgresql & mariadb runs fine natively under windows also.
 
I have a windows machine in my cabinet which runs professional softwares for my medical devices.
This machine serves only for medical purpose, still i got VLC, LIBRE OFFICE, PEAZIP, FIREFOX installed.
As well as vscode just in case
 
VLC, Firefox, and Git... oh, and VirtualBox. Kinda frustrating, but Skype/Zoom work better on Windows. When it comes to video and image editing, Open Source world does provide lots of good tools to do stuff - once you have a good hang of the workflow.

Alain De Vos : Have you tried audio/audacity? If your FreeBSD machine can capture/play sound, then there are several audio editing programs in ports... Google is your friend there.
 
I use AltDrag or now AltSnap, which mimics the WM functions of alt+mouse button drag for window management. It's the #1 thing I install on Windows. After that it's mostly Blender and Firefox.
 
Profighost I've used cygwin a few times in the past to build Linux games I wrote. It's really arcane though, it has the feel of Linux pre- the Ubuntu era when everything became easy. The cygwin developers must have been highly displeased when WSL came along and was better!
Alain De Vos yes indeed the selection of audio effects on free software systems leaves a lot to be desired. The plugins that do exist are sterile-sounding and buggy. I'm not sure why... games are catching up with Windows but audio effects/synths are still stuck in 1995! Maybe it's partly because the knowledge required to write them is greater than with games. Maybe it's because audio on Linux is an unholy mess. Maybe because it's just a niche area.
 
ProphetOfDoom said:
Alain De Vos yes indeed the selection of audio effects on free software systems leaves a lot to be desired. The plugins that do exist are sterile-sounding and buggy. I'm not sure why... games are catching up with Windows but audio effects/synths are still stuck in 1995! Maybe it's partly because the knowledge required to write them is greater than with games. Maybe it's because audio on Linux is an unholy mess. Maybe because it's just a niche area.
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Effects, I agree. Synths I don't. Surge is an excellent and stable open source synth. U-he offers Linux versions of highly polished softsynths.
 
bsduck Perhaps ZynAddSubFX is the exception that proves the rule...? I was making an observation about the general landscape of music production software in the free world. And the general landscape still looks awful even if it's dotted with good softwares.
cracauer@ thanks for pointing me to u-he I had never heard of them. It looks like they have a compressor and a reverb too.
I used to use proprietary dynamics plugins from a company called Linux DSP. They discontinued them pretty quicly and changed their name to Overtone VST. I can only imagine there wasn't a market for them. And it's not that the free software plugins were better... the free ones were awful and the Linux DSP ones were middling.
 
Alain De Vos said:
Do you know interesting Windows software which is also available as freebsd-package ?
I think about servers/languages/editors/etc ...
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What applications do many of us use on a daily basis? As browser, design, editing, graphics, gamers, public administration, system visualization, office automation, among others.

With saying that it has already been discussed at length in its other open topic, with saying that FreeBSD has been exclusively for use of server, and not for extended system by default for desktop environment, lack of software for hardware, and software for applications, because what there is for graphical environment and its dependencies, most this as obsolete and abandoned. In the graphical desktop environment is where the majority of the world that is the end user and is not professional to use the system. There is the world of graphical applications to be used in graphical environment.
 
An example of a Windows software I use is "Ableton".
I tried LMMS but is very limited, and even difficult/errorprone with "Jack"
 
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