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Is there any software where I can find free software suggestions classified by category and by user rating in Debian?

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  Is there any software where I can find free software suggestions  classified by category and by user rating in Debian? Pablo Castillo Rivas <castillorivaspablo@gmail.com> - 2017-12-27 16:00 +0100
    Re: Is there any software where I can find free software suggestions classified by category and by user rating in Debian? Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> - 2017-12-27 16:50 +0100
      Re: Is there any software where I can find free software suggestions classified by category and by user rating in Debian? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-12-27 19:20 +0100
    Re: Is there any software where I can find free software suggestions  classified by category and by user rating in Debian? Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-12-27 17:10 +0100
    Re: Is there any software where I can find free software suggestions  classified by category and by user rating in Debian? bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2017-12-27 17:30 +0100
    Re: Is there any software where I can find free software suggestions  classified by category and by user rating in Debian? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-12-27 19:30 +0100

#190341 — Is there any software where I can find free software suggestions classified by category and by user rating in Debian?

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Hi,

This is the first time I use Debian lists. I hope I open this thread in the
right place. Otherwise let me know ;)

I has been using Linux Mint for a couple of months and decided to give a
first try to debian because of multiple reasons. The case is that I miss in
Debian some kind of software center like Linux Mint or Ubuntu have.

Here is an example of what I miss. Lets say I want a video editor but I
don't know any. I would like to have some software where I can find free
software suggestions classified by category and by user rating.

I know there is Synaptic but I miss user rating and it shows too many
packages even after a category is selected.

Is there such a program in Debian? Thanks

-
Un saludo,
Pablo Castillo.

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#190343 — Re: Is there any software where I can find free software suggestions classified by category and by user rating in Debian?

>Here is an example of what I miss. Lets say I want a video editor but I don't know any. I would like to have some software where I can find free software suggestions classified by category and by user rating.
>I know there is Synaptic but I miss user rating and it shows too many packages even after a category is selected.
>Is there such a program in Debian? Thanks

I'm not aware of an app per se, but have you checked the Wiki?

https://wiki.debian.org/Software

-Matt

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#190352 — Re: Is there any software where I can find free software suggestions classified by category and by user rating in Debian?

On Wednesday 27 December 2017 10:47:14 Matthew Crews wrote:

> >Here is an example of what I miss. Lets say I want a video editor but
> > I don't know any. I would like to have some software where I can
> > find free software suggestions classified by category and by user
> > rating. I know there is Synaptic but I miss user rating and it shows
> > too many packages even after a category is selected. Is there such a
> > program in Debian? Thanks
>
> I'm not aware of an app per se, but have you checked the Wiki?
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/Software
>
> -Matt

For video editing, and because I have a Sony metal hi-8 handicam thats 
about 4x the resolution of most of the old vhs wannabe's, which it can 
control over the older firewire 400 interface, I am in love with kino. 
The handicam lets you pull video from the camera, like the 25 minutes 
work of a wedding, (way more than a gigabyte) slice out my camera 
shakes, and put it back out, either to the handicam, a vcd, or even with 
k3b's help a stack of dvd's to pass out to the families who starred in 
the production.

There are no doubt even higher resolution cameras today, and this does 
require a firewire interface not found on computers now for a decade 
plus. But I've no clue if kino has kept up with the march to ever higher 
resolution cameras you can get today, or if its grown a usb3 interface 
most of those newer ones will need. Apple and firewire turned out too be 
a repeat of the compuserve and the gif patent, they let it get started 
as the next generation interface, then demanded a per seat price from 
the makers that was quite excessive, so firewire, like gif's  in turn 
disappeared. usb2 is not fast enough to do this sort of i/o.

There are other video editors, but none that I know of also integrate the 
cameras controller like kino does. Blender for instance is more a 3d 
graphics editor, for making animated movies than it is a video editor, 
IMO. YMMV.

This is an application area that is not well served by linux offerings 
today.


Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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#190345

	Hi.

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 03:33:36PM +0100, Pablo Castillo Rivas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is the first time I use Debian lists. I hope I open this thread in the
> right place. Otherwise let me know ;)

This is the right place indeed.


> I has been using Linux Mint for a couple of months and decided to give a
> first try to debian because of multiple reasons. The case is that I miss in
> Debian some kind of software center like Linux Mint or Ubuntu have.

Probably you're looking for this:

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/gnome-software

Reco

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#190347

On Wed, 27 Dec 2017, Pablo Castillo Rivas wrote:

> software suggestions classified by category and by user rating.

A system of user ratings like this on debian would be a fairly narrow 
sample, because the user would have to also use the "software center" 
to provide the rating for the software they are rating.

The popularity-contest has a similar problem, it lists the most popular 
packages among people who use popularity-contest.
https://popcon.debian.org/

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#190353

On Wed 27 Dec 2017 at 15:33:36 +0100, Pablo Castillo Rivas wrote:

> This is the first time I use Debian lists. I hope I open this thread in the
> right place. Otherwise let me know ;)
> 
> I has been using Linux Mint for a couple of months and decided to give a
> first try to debian because of multiple reasons. The case is that I miss in
> Debian some kind of software center like Linux Mint or Ubuntu have.
> 
> Here is an example of what I miss. Lets say I want a video editor but I
> don't know any. I would like to have some software where I can find free
> software suggestions classified by category and by user rating.
> 
> I know there is Synaptic but I miss user rating and it shows too many
> packages even after a category is selected.
> 
> Is there such a program in Debian? Thanks

https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

Kernels and video drivers with user ratings? An interesting idea.

-- 
Brian.

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