Comment Re:He speaks for millions of others. (Score 1) 289
I didn't care until I started making audio CDs for the car. I just used mkisofs and cdrecord to burn CD and DVD ISOs. I just did that at first for audio, using lame in reverse to decode to wav, then cdrecord to make an audio CD but then I switched to K3B, which saved a lot of bullshit. I link mine against ffmpeg too, for more decoding support that saves me conversion steps.
I still use XMMS for listening to tunes. It still compiles (though its dependencies like Glib/GTK+ 1.x need some patching). Nobody can take my favourite mp3 player (with ogg and flac support) away, I don't care how old it is. I do have AmaroK though, but I did prefer the way it was back in the KDE 3 days.
I use a program called X File Explorer (formerly X Wincommander in the old days) for my file manager. It uses a not so common library called the FOX GUI Toolkit though. Chances are it'll be the only thing on my system that ever uses it. (Though for a while I used an audio editor called Rezound that used FOX but it fell into disrepair and I switched to Audacity.). I'm afraid I don't like very many file managers. Konq was good, I could configure that and like it (Even that was better in KDE 3 though), but I don't like Dolphin or the Gnome file manager Snotilus (really hate), or Thunar (I use XFCE as my desktop but not that thing). I hate Explorer in Windows too and use a replacement front end, "XPlorer2"
I use Kate when I need to work with Windows text files. It's the one I trust best not to fuck up the line breaks (though my vi editor, Elvis, is good too). It makes it easy to start a new text file with Windows/DOS EOL. "Tools -> End of Line -> Windows/DOS". Kwrite used to have that (and other settings I liked too), but they dumbed it down in KDE 4. Good to hear that there's a viable Windows port. Notepad breaks shit.
For Windows I actually use a bought program called "UltraEdit 32" for text editing because I need something that isn't going to mangle Unix files. It's also a very good hex editor (you right click on any file and it will open it in text or binary mode as necessary). I've used that program since about 1995, though it was much simpler back then. My old version worked through XP, but broke in 64 bit Windows. I rarely do any work in Windows (it exists just for games), but I need to be confident that I can work on a file to be re-uploaded without breaking it and I'm used to that program.