Free and better alternatives to Windows applications

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Kytiara said:
Not to be contrary or anything, but what you define as better is very subjective. I would not consider open office superior to MS office in any way. The only benefit it has is its free which doesn't concern me since my office pays for the software anyway.

Also, I'm not all that confident that linux and FF are any more secure than XP and IE7. It's possible they are, but until you have a similar install ratio to temp hackers and malware writers, I don't think you can claim anything definite.

PS, I hate FF. Man I can't stand that browser. Also, I run XP (fully patched at all times), no virus protection and a simple firewall, and I've never gotten a virus or anything worse than some tracking cookie malware, ever. It's pretty simple to keep clean by practicing smart computing.

 

^Well, there are mixed opinions when it comes OpenOffice.org vs Microsoft Office. I can't say for sure whether I hear more about MS Office is better or OOo is better, but many would definitely agree that OpenOffice.org Calc sucks. Usually, I would hear people suggest Gnumeric Spreadsheet; but well, I've never used spreadsheet so I don't know.

As for whether FF is more secure than IE7 or not, I've heard it's because IE7 using DirectX technology that can control your system or something like that. In the end though, it'd mostly come from, like you say, "practicing smart computing."

For burner program, I think there are more people prefer K3b ... but there's no Windows installer for it, lol.

@lolita: That's pretty fast...

@omgwtfbbq: I doubt VLC is better than MPlayer... try playing a video with softsub and you'll see what I mean... Also, try SMPlayer (the one in the screenshot), it's a frontend of mplayer, and works better than the default mplayer GUI ...