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iampriteshdesai says:

You are right Martin Microsoft is improving. I have to say this but Windows Live Writer is the best DAMN blogging software ever. I miss it so much on Ubuntu. Hope Wine will let me use it. Also Windows Live Gallery is farrrr better than Picasa.
Microsoft kick Apple’s iAss.

Rarst says:

Looking forward to new writer. Current one is decent but some quirks are terrible.

I’ll have to try few more blogging clients, but so far those I tried are bad-to-decent quality.

Starboykb says:

I have been using Live writer for many months now even starting beta. I love it very much. I cant wait to grab the latest update!

Josh says:

iampriteshdesai, agreed, I tried to run Live services under Wine but couldn’t get it to work =(

Rarst, there aren’t many, I’ve tried them all and WLW is easily the best. Some others offer nearly the same level of functionality but have worse UI, so why bother?

Rarst says:

> Some others offer nearly the same level of functionality but have worse UI, so why bother?

Because I am borderline sick of unneeded image recompression, unneeded font tags and no portable version of WLW? :)

I like Zoundry Raven but despite releasing “final” version it is still too raw and unusable.

iampriteshdesai says:

@ Rarst
There is a hack to make WLW portable. Google it.
I love WLW, WLG. Picasa 3 isn’t that cool.

Josh says:

If you have a quick Google you should find a portable version of WLW ;)

Rarst says:

But there is no hack to make .net framework portable.

People should stop slapping “portable” on things that really aren’t. :)

iampriteshdesai says:

Come on Rarst!
Most if not all PC’s have .net and there is another decent option I don’t remember the name but it was on DLS perhaps zoundry?

Rarst says:

>Most if not all PC’s have .net and there is another decent option I don’t remember the name but it was on DLS perhaps zoundry

Most don’t have it or very old and broken one. And beleive me across two IT-related jobs I am seeing lots of PCs to make those conclusions. :)

On zoundry - see above. It is good software design but unfinished even less usable than WLW in current state.

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hackyourlife says:

I know what you mean by not having the alignment button. Why they didn’t put it there in the first place is mind boggling.

regards,
hackyourlife.co.cc

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