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Originally Posted by Skybird
Robbins,
what are good and safe Linux pendants to Skype Video Chat, Team Viewer, Bandicam, and how is it with Google Earth under Linux?
Stellarium is available under Linux, I see. ArtRage 4 unfortunately not, which is a shame.
What I cannot do in Linux, will find a place in the Windows 7 gaming setup.
Shredder 12 (chess) is also available for Linux, but expensive and not really eqivalent to Shredder under Windows, I read.
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Skype is available on Linux. You just have to add the repository it lives in and it just works really well. Teamviewer is a native Linux application and works flawlessly under Linux--no alternative necessary. Google Earth runs really well in Linux.
My astronomy program du jour is a French program they unfortunately called Sky Charts in English. I prefer the French hame Cartes du Ciel. It is just a flawlessly extraordinary astronomy program with databases including all stars down to about magnitude 14. Patrick Chevalley is a total genius and has made a masterpiece there. It works better in Linux than it does in Windows and it runs wonderfully in Windows. I use it to plan my cell phone astrophotography sessions. I believe I have the world's first cell phone photo of galaxies. I'm working on the Cygnus area now, featuring the North American nebula. If I get it I'll be outperforming $1500 DSLRs. That would be fun!
I'm not really sure about a Bandicam replacement. I haven't done any game recording in Linux, but after I get Silent Hunter 4 working there I'll be checking that angle out myself. And ArtRage4 is a real niche program with no real analogs, even in Windows software. Since they make an OSX version, that is very, very close to Linux I'd bug 'em about making a Linux version. Linux will blossom when commercial software is sold for it, both games and other applications.
You also might be able to get ArtRage to run in Wine. The fallback is a Virtualbox installation of Windows XP. You can shut off the Internet access of a Virtualbox client and make Windows XP perfectly safe to use. Of course, Virtualbox is a native Linux application that migrated to Windows long after it was a polished app far superior to commercial virtual computing in the Windows world.