Nvu Alternatives For Mac
Another WWDC has come and gone, leaving in its wake an impressively powerful piece of hardware: the. But while the Mac Pro will make some creative professionals happy, the machine's $5,999 sticker price may send others looking for alternatives.Truth is, while the Mac Pro now leads the pack, many other Macs have been left behind by cheaper, better options on the Windows PC side of the fence. With that in mind, I've put together a list of excellent Windows (and one Linux-based) alternatives to the most popular Mac models, from to beastly 32-core prosumer rigs.Sure, macOS has its advantages, but Windows 10 is a mature, stable platform that's updated and improved on the regular. Switching to PCs means you'll be able to grab the latest and greatest computers at a wide array of prices from any number of PC manufacturers, without having to light prayer candles at a shrine dedicated to Steve Wozniak.
After years of neglect, the MacBook Air was with a refined look, improved specs, and a high-resolution display.There are out there, but its best Windows equal may be the 2019 Dell XPS 13. If you opt for the touch model, you'll get a screen that Apple's 13-inch models can't match, along with a new processor and a solid keyboard, all in an ultra-slim package that still manages to offer 3 USB-C ports. The XPS 13 recently saw a minor redesign that moved the much-maligned 'nose cam' from the bottom of the screen up to the top, where it should have been all along. That eliminates our main gripe and makes the XPS 13 an excellent MacBook alternative. The XPS 13 starts at $950 and manages to outclass Apple's 13-inch offerings. The best match for Apple's powerhouse MacBook Pro is the. It even carries the same powerful Intel Core i9 processor.
Since much of the use-case for this class of machine is video related, the Asus' color-accurate AdobeRGB 4K display is even better than what you get in a MacBook Pro. The rest of the specs match up well, including the touchscreen touchpad—which is about as gimmicky as the Touch Bar, though reportedly more useful. Where the Asus struggles is battery life.
Nvu 1.0 Available for: windows mac linux unix java Nvu is a web development system primarily developed for Linux but is now also available for windows and mac. The project aims to be an open source alternative for the major commercial web authoring. Nvu (pronounced 'N-view') is a WYSIWYG HTML editor, based on the Composer component of the Mozilla Application Suite.It is intended to be an open-source alternative to proprietary software like Microsoft Expression Web and Adobe Dreamweaver.As a WYSIWYG editor, it is designed to be easy for novice users, and does not require any knowledge of HTML or CSS to use.
Great power requires great batteries, and in this showdown, Apple wins.from Best Buy or theRazer's flagship Blade laptop is another contender for MacBook Pro replacement. With a six-core Intel processor and Nvidia 10-series graphics as the standard configuration, it's positioned to make the mightiest Mac notebook look downright antique.
It even has USB-A ports, Thunderbolt 3, and RAM that you can ( gasp) upgrade! The Mac Mini was updated late in 2018 with Intel Coffee Lake processors and a slew of USC-C ports.
If you love tiny yet powerful mini computers, try the Intel NUC. These computers are mini-er than Apple's Mini and feature newer seventh- and eighth-generation chips that run rings around the li'lest Mac. You can buy them either as or as where you add your own RAM, storage, and OS of choice.If you're a gamer or want to get into VR, there's even, with powerful AMD Radeon Vega graphics under the hood.
And, whereas Apple charges you beaucoup bucks for a three-year AppleCare warranty, you'll get that standard with each NUC. If you'd like something a touch more powerful than a NUC, there's the Asus VivoMini PC. At just 5 inches square, it's tiny enough to mount out of sight and still powerful enough to support up to three 4K monitors. The Asus features the seventh-generation Intel i7 chip, room for an M2 drive and a traditional 2.5-inch solid-state drive, as well as up to 16 GB of RAM (it ships with 8 GB, which you can upgrade to 16 GB). To hit this price point, Asus sells it bare-bones. You need to supply the hard drives and operating system, but even then you'll come in under the Mac Mini's $799 price and have more processing power. HPI'll be the first to admit that the is a super-nice desktop computer.
While many other PC makers try to ape this stylish, slim all-in-one, few truly match its appeal. It's also one of the models Apple's been the most consistent about keeping fresh; the current lineup runs on Intel's ninth-generation chips and Radeon Vega graphics to boot.The machine I'd recommend checking out is HP's epic desktop, the HP Envy Curved All-in-One.
With a wide 34-inch curved display, you get the real estate of two separate monitors in one contiguous LCD panel. But whether you're popping full apps next to one another with room to spare, or just blowing up a widescreen movie to take up this entire screen, HP's Envy stands apart.
The bad news is that there are no other displays of this calibre at this price. You could get a reference display from Sony, but that'll set you back somewhere in the neighborhood of $18,000. Right now, the PC world cannot match the Pro Display XDR. Check back in a year.What about the Mac Pro itself? To get that kind of power in a PC you're probably best off buying the components and building it yourself. This is what, for example, film studios do to create powerful editing workstations, but it's complicated, expensive, and time-consuming.
The closest Windows option is the Dell Precision 7820, which starts at $1,579 for a six-core Xeon-powered workstation and works its way up from there to a dual Xeon Platinum 8268 machine, but it's still not as powerful as the Mac Pro. Another option would be to move to a Linux-based machine like System76's Thelio desktop. The Thelio is made in the USA and features a beautiful wooden, sci-fi-inspired tower that wraps around AMD's Threadripper chip. The base model of Thelio Major, matches up well against the Mac Pro.
As an added bonus, it will only set you back $2,099.At the high end, the Thelio Massive can take on the maxed out Mac Pro as well, besting it in CPU cores and several other areas, but we've again entered the rarefied world of professionally priced machines. A Thelio Massive specced to match the top-of-the-line Mac Pro will set you back $18,801. (A completely maxed-out Thelio Massive goes for $63,168.) At the time of writing, the price of Apple's most powerful Mac Pro is still unknown.While the Thelio is a powerful machine that can hold its own against the Mac Pro, it does lack the ProRes RAW accelerator card, which means it likely won't perform quite as well with high-resolution video.
The other gotcha for creative professionals is that Adobe's photo and video editing software does not support Linux, the operating system that ships with Thelio.
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This page lists Linux equivalents for popular Mac OS X software.
Ubuntu offers a number of open source alternatives for users migrating from Mac OS X who use Apple's iLife suite.
iTunes
Rhythmbox is a music player with similar functionality to iTunes. It also syncs with the iPod. The Magnatune and Jamendo music stores are similar to the iTunes Music store. In addition, DRM Dumpster can be used to remove copy protection from tracks purchased from the iTunes Music Store.
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Songbird is also an up-and-coming player in the 'iTunes replacement' category. As new versions are released, the GUI and feature set moves closer to that of iTunes. Also, shortly after release they are packaged up at getdeb.net to make installation just a couple of clicks away!
Songbird is 'based on' Firefox, so it shares the same kind of Add-on community as Firefox. There are Add-Ons that enable iPod Device Support, provide 'Cover Flow' functionality, and album art fetching from Amazon and Last.fm. As an example of how the best Add-ons are rolled into the core software, Album Art Manager will soon become part of the core functionality of Songbird. There is also a very active support community around Songbird, so you never have to feel that you are going it alone. In April 2010 Mozilla announced it could sadly no longer officially support linux versions and although they are still making new releases it is falling far behind the Windows & Mac versions. Nightingale is an attempt to fork from the Songbird project. Our page is hopefully more help.
Kubuntu (or Ubuntu) users can try Amarok, a powerful KDE app built into Kubuntu, or JuK, a program more similar to iTunes.
Information on transferring iTunes media to Linux, and accessing iTunes-only podcasts can be found here.
Thunderbird is a high-quality open-source mail and contacts program. As it is developed by Mozilla you can expand its functionality easily trough addons. You can install all available addons in the application itself, and a few trough the Ubuntu Software Center.
iChat / Adium
American typewriter dafont theme. Pidgin supports AIM, Jabber (includes GTalk and XMPP), and bonjour (with auto-installed avahi) like iChat. Pidgin also supports MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, SILC, Sametime, Zephyr, MySpaceIM, QQ, and IRC. Adium and Pidgin are built around the same core software.
Pidgin does not support videochat, for that use the free Ekiga.
Kubuntu users can use Kopete, which supports AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, ICQ, Jabber, Meanwhile, QQ, SMS, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Messenger, and Yahoo, and supports videochat.
iPhoto
Shotwell Photo Manager & F-Spot are full-featured personal photo management applications for Gnome. Shotwell is shipped by default with Ubuntu 10.10 replacing FSpot which was used in earlier releases such as Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Kubuntu users can use the pre-installed DigiKam for similar tasks.
iMovie
Kino is a basic non-linear video editor which supports AVI files and raw DV files. Basic single-track video editing can be done with Kino. Many audio and video effects, as well as scene transitions are offered. Supports uploading to blip.tv. Kino is available in the Ubuntu Main repository.
Kdenlive is a non-linear video editor for KDE. Kdenlive is intended to be a user-friendly video editor which imports and exports many audio, video, and image formats. It is still early in development and does crash sometimes. Audio and video effects are available. It is often a good idea to capture footage with kino and then edit using kdenlive. kdenlive can be installed from synaptic.
If you have data in MPEG4, MP3, AAC or other proprietary formats you may need to install restricted codecs to view, edit, or transcode them.
iDVD
DeVeDe is a basic DVD authoring tool for creating DVDs from video clips that will play in PAL and NTSC DVD players. DeVeDe is available in the Ubuntu Universe repository. See DVD Authoring for details on other solutions for DVD creation.
GarageBand
Jokosher is a multi-track audio recorder and editor. Jokosher offers a user-friendly interface with essential audio editing features such as splitting, trimming, moving, copying, and pasting clips. Jokosher is available in the Ubuntu Universe repository. It does not offer MIDI-tracks and its development is discontinued.
Qtractor is a real-time multi-track audio recorder and editor with MIDI-Tracks. It supports plugins in LADSPA,DSSI and LV2 for synthesizers and effects. VST-support can be compiled into it. Its intuitive user-interface offers tools that look and work as known from several other programs like this.
Rosegarden and Linux MultiMedia Studio are more complex GarageBand-like applications, available in the Ubuntu Universe repository.
iWeb / Dreamweaver
Ubuntu doesn't ship with any pre-installed web editing software. However, many are available. Kompozer and Nvu are probably the most popular. You can download and install Kompozer for Ubuntu here.
In OS X, the main types of compressed archives for files and folders are .dmg (Disk Image) and .sit/.sitx (Stuffit). Ubuntu cannot natively read .dmg archives, but the dmg2iso utility can convert a few .dmg archives to .iso. Peazip can also open Mac archives.
Adobe Photoshop
There is no native software that is quite like Photoshop, but The GIMP and Krita are decent alternatives for most people.
If you really need it, Windows Photoshop CS2 works well in WINE, but CS3 does not.
Final Cut Pro
LiVES and Cinelerra are advanced non-linear video editing programs.
Maya
Blender is a 3D modeling and animation program.
Spotlight / Quicksilver
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Time Machine
Déjà Dup (Ubuntu's default desktop backup manager) is similar to Time Machine and has a simple user interface
Back in Time works similar, with nice GUIs for Gnome and KDE.
rsnapshot doesn't have any GUI, but it's easy to configure because of its very good documentation.
KDE timevault it's a promising project, more similar to Apple's Time Machine in its functionalities, but seems incomplete right now (look here for more info)
GRsync
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In the system settings as explained by techblogger08 here and a forum thread here. They explain, you first need Compiz.
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