How many of my programs work on linux?

claptonman

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So once my wireless adapter comes in the mail that works with linux, I'm going to be installing Xubuntu onto my Dell Inspiron 2650. I use this laptop for internet and videos only. Do the following programs work on linux: Google chrome, VLC, auslogics disk defrag, ccleaner, malwarebytes.

Sorry I'm new to linux so I'm curious if all these would work.
 
VLC has Linux version, don't know about Chrome,

disk defrag, ccleaner, malwarebytes are not really needed with Linux.
 
Yeah.
Chrome->Chromium
Vlc->Vlc
Ccleaner->Bleachbit

defrag and virus software is not needed on linux.
 
These is a Chrome version for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSuse. chromium is good but Chrome has better flash support.
 
auslogics disk defrag, ccleaner, malwarebytes
You don't need any of these in Linux (they won't work anyway). You don't generally defrag in Linux anyway - the way the IO schedulers and Linux filesystems work, defragmentation is far less of a problem and is, in most scenarios, completely irrelevant. That's not to say that it doesn't happen (it does), but for various reasons (I don't know anything of the internal workings of NTFS or Windows IO scheduling so I can't comment on them) it's less common under Linux and the effects of it are less pronounced. There are tools for defragging Linux filesystems (ext4 supports online defrag though I don't know it tends to come enabled by default), but the general consensus is that its useless and even risky. In any event, if you want to defrag Linux partitions, use tools designed for those filesystems (I'm pretty sure auslogics only handles Windows filesystems), you can usually get them from your distro's repositories.

As for malware and crap that you would get rid of with ccleaner, the short, simple and consequently completely inaccurate answer is "they don't exist in Linux". There is a free AV for Linux (ClamAV I think it was called), but it's for Windows malware anyway and more or less useless unless you run a something like a mail server or you are really concerned about security and don't think your Windows system hold up on their own - there are no known Linux viruses/malware in the wild. As for crap, in general all files that might qualify as "crap" are stored in dedicated locations and have essentially zero impact on system performance (you might want to mount /var and /tmp to separate partitions though). Most distros take care of these files on their own.

Chrome & VLC both work great under Linux (used both in the past).
 
Ok thanks for the info. Once again, I'm new to this, so I'll learn on my way. I don't even have an antivirus on it, just malwarebytes. Should've guessed it wouldn't need it. Thanks guys.
 
the info given is not 100% accurate. There are viruses for Linux out there, but there is only like 10 of them, and most were designed to prove a point to people.

download chrome from google.co.uk/chrome from within Linux and you will get it. Chromium is not as up to date as full chrome.
VLC is in the software center, just look for it.

Ccleaner, may be able to run in Wine. i have never seen a copy for linux before. i would venture to say that you do not need it. Linux doesnt hang on to the crap that widows does.

defrag is unneeded. Its enabled by default on EXT4. Maleware isnt needed most of the time. There are some out there, check the software center for it.
 
the info given is not 100% accurate. There are viruses for Linux out there, but there is only like 10 of them, and most were designed to prove a point to people.
There aren't really any "out there", it is true that proof-of-concept and such viruses have been created but at least I've never heard none of them are able to spread themselves and they've never escaped lab setting.
 
i figured that there must be one, or why have a AV program?
It's only for Windows malware. Apparently it's popular among people running mail servers, though I suppose it's handy to have if you want to make sure that no infected portable media ever gets to a Windows system.
 
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