Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,comp.mobile.ipad,alt.os.linux Subject: Re: What is the EASIEST way to get a spreadsheet from Linux to iPad & Android Date: 5 Apr 2015 14:50:05 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 125 Message-ID: References: <030420150752553758%michelle@michelle.org> <040420151224516708%nospam@nospam.invalid> <040420151044396932%michelle@michelle.org> <45adndUoCZsoTb3InZ2dnUU7-c-dnZ2d@giganews.com> X-Trace: individual.net 1F6lXXUh/Y0j6ghQ/ILQqgEvuJlI1VHpEOOLg3xXSMNkeeOHIb Cancel-Lock: sha1:2VKMCc9jesX7SLtI10lDYSgdfPE= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.ipad:47854 On 2015-04-05, Marek Novotny wrote: Time to play the Linux dweeb's all-time favorite game: "Hey, look! I found Linux software that kinda almost (but not really) does what your Mac software can do!" > 1password. - lastpass LastPass isn't integrated with the OS, which means it cannot do half of the things 1Password can. FAIL. > Pages and keynote - Libre Office Libre Office is missing tons of things available in Pages and Keynote, including tight integration with core OS X and iOS features such as Continuity and so on. FAIL. > Garage band - concede Some obscure piece of software only some Linux dweeb has heard of? I seriously doubt it. And the fact that there is little to no information about concede on the net says a lot. Do you even know what GarageBand does? The closest I've seen any Linux software come is Jokosher, which is discontinued, and anyhow was missing *tons* of functionality compared to GarageBand, like looping, a comprehensive samples library, and so on. FAIL. > iTunes - concede Doubt it can do half of what iTunes does. Does it seamlessly sync movies, television shows, home videos, iTunes University courses, audio books, apps, ring tones, and music with and backup your iOS devices, or restore them to factory defaults for instance? Don't bother - I already know that answer. FAIL. > Screen Sharing - VNC, many others. Nope. Screen Sharing is more secure and does much more. Also, Apple's Remote Management does even more. VNC would be a sorely lacking step down. FAIL. > BBedit - vim, emacs, kate, geary, sublime text 2, et al Laughable. None of those do what BBEdit does. FAIL. > Automator - bash You must be joking. Automator is a high-level automation and scripting tool that lets you easily (drag and drop, with scripting if desired) create workflows, applications, system services, print plugins, folder actions, calendar alarms, image capture plugins, and dictation commands. Nothing like it exists in Linux. FAIL. > launchbar - please any Linux DE bests that Nope. You clearly haven't ever used LaunchBar. It's an extremely extensible and flexible GUI tool. FAIL. > knock - lame Knock lets you unlock your computer with your phone, and does it securely. I'd *love* to see you do that with an MP3 encoder. : ) FAIL. > Airplay - VLC > Air Video HD - VLC Nope. I've used VLC plenty, and it's nowhere near as versatile, easy to use, or stable. It also can't be run everywhere you want to stream content. FAIL. > Time Machine - please, we have LVMs. Nope. If you think Time Machine is equivalent to a logical volume manager, you don't know anything about it. FAIL. > Karabiner - I can just write a simple script for this. Quick: write a simple script to remap your keyboard whenever you touch your track pad with three fingers. FAIL. > Snapscan - I own one of these. Can duplicate the one-touch on that > scanner > Hazel - bash shell "I can write my own software to do what that app does" isn't an equivalent. Lame. FAIL. > Keyboard Maestro / Text Wrangler - concede not by much though. Translation: FAIL. > Pixelmator - I use this, Gimp is better That shows you don't know anything at all about good graphic editing tools: FAIL. > graphic Converter - Image magick A command-line tool that can't do any of the graphical things GraphicConverter does? HARD FAIL. > Kindle - web app - I use it via the web app natively on Linux all the > time I suppose if writing your own software and running command-line applications is "equivalent" then it's easy to see how you would claim a web app must be "equivalent" to a native app too. LOL! HARD FAIL. > iMovie - we have better Yet you refuse to name them. Uh huh. FAIL. > So I count 4 concedes here You can't count. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR