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Ask HN: What is that one program in Windows that umatched in Linux?

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By unmatched, I mean to ask in terms of features and security. For me, some famous games and Office suite is simply behind the Windows counterparts. It does have some good pdf readers but they are not as good as PDF-Xchange and the likes which can only be found in Windows.

I want to pick some ideas to implement features to the point of parity with their windows equivalents in the OSS world.

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Integration of tags into filesystem search. If your photos have tags, then the microsoft file browser understands the tags. Could be sidecar files, could be .attr/ parallel dirs, could be EXIF embedded, I kinda don't care. I really like that the tags in photos work in the file management suite.

Microsoft Visual Studio stands out in terms of features.

AutoHotkey. It's a fairly comprehensive yet easy to use GUI automation, hotkeys and scripting tool, and unfortunately there's no decent replacement for it in Linux - especially under Wayland, which prevents some features working in an automated way (eg screen capture, extracting the RGB values of the pixel under the mouse cursor etc).

> there's no decent replacement for it in Linux

I've had a lot of success with AutoKey[1].

[1]: https://github.com/autokey/autokey

> This is an X11 application and, as such, will not function correctly when Wayland is in use

Printing. Intuition and scuttlebutt says 'driver issues'.

I vote for the image viewer and editor IrfanView. GIMP may be more powerful in the hands of a pro, but doesn't beat IrfanView for ease of use.

I've never understood the love for IrfanView. I've always found XnView better for my needs.

I think the interface can tend to have less lag in windows. Some linux GUIs feel a little laggy at times. Gnome comes to mind.

But I'm not even sure its lag. Just certain GUI interactions are “off.”

Everything from voidtools[1]

[1]: https://www.voidtools.com/

MS Bitlocker with TPM.

Cad/cam software like fusion 360

Pretty much all of Adobe's products

Irfanview virtualdub2 foobar2000 xnview

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