Download Squad listed three Linux applications that “make us hate Windows”: Apt-get (and its graphical interface Synaptic), Compiz Fusion and Amarok.

Compiz Fusion adds Vista and OSX “like” eye-candy to Linux, even in my old laptop, and it’s one of the reasons why current distributions are more appealing in recent years. Amarok is a really neat media player, probably is the best way to sync an iPod in Linux and the next version seems to be quite promising. So both of these tools are great but neither of them makes me feel like I need them everywhere, on every computer I lay my hands on.

But if there’s one thing anyone who uses a Debian based distribution just can’t live without is Apt-get, a better Windows Update that manages the updates of virtually all the installed packages, not only from OS and selected tools (Internet Explorer, Office, etc…), and hardly requires a reboot to apply them (usually only a new kernel requires a reboot).

3 Linux Apps That Make Me Hate Windows [Download Squad]

A new year is now beginning and that usually means New Years Resolutions, so here are mine, just the geek oriented and in no particular order:

• Finish TemujinPhoto, finally I’m working on it and in a few weeks I hope to have a working beta.
• Probably this is the year I’ll take a certification, most likely a Microsoft Certified Professional. Probably…
• Take photos.
• Must dive into .Net 3.5 and LINQ.
• Been thinking about creating a desktop client for Remember The Milk in WPF, I’m needing one and the guys at RTM have a neat API (WPF is for learning something new).
• Must buy a tripod, need to do night shots.
• Get a taste of EJB 3.0 and the Spring 2.5, just a small taste to check what I’ve been missing on the Java world.
• Put my reading up to date, I still haven’t read this one (no need to buy me a copy, I already own one and it has been gathering dust for some time).
• Take more photos: night photos, motion photos, street photos, concept photos and all kinds of photos I haven’t been doing lately.
• There has been some ideas to make a few short movies, I sure hope we can turn them real. Another reason to buy a tripod…
• Probably dump Windows on my laptop completely, I’m getting happier with Ubuntu everyday.

Apple released the latest version of its widely acclaimed browser Safari, but this time with a twist: a Windows compatible version with some pretty ambitious claims regarding performance.

So I went to try this piece of software for myself but, unlike the guys at DownloadSquad, all I got was this window…

I know it’s a Beta version, but it was just a bit disappointing, I guess I’ll try it someday on another Windows computer.

PS - How about Safari for Ubuntu?…

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Just when I was seriously considering a permanent move to Linux, the default operating system in my dual-boot laptop already is Ubuntu, I started to have some unexpected problems in setting my recently bought widescreen monitor’s optimal screen resolution.

But I’m not giving up, yet…

[Update] I did it! Victory is mine!!! Ubuntu Forums are immense, just enough to keep me looking for a couple of nights to find the right answer.