Is Appications Forum just MS Windows apps?

[dudeking]

Also just to add onto here; in applications is this just MS Windows apps?
Should Linux and Mac App questions be posted in apps or Linux/Mac?

E.g. if I wanted to ask about how to setup the beta of amoraK, to work with last.fm where would I post this?
Linux as it’s a Linux app or apps because its a app?

Sorry to go off topic, just saved starting a new thread.

[rockboy]

I moved your post to this new topic since it seemed to deserve it's own.

If your question is specifically about setting up an app for Linux or Mac, that's the forum I'd put it in regardless of the original app being available for Windows. The ones most likely to be of help in an OS-specific problem usually check in those forums.

It really isn't that critical where you put it, if a mod thinks it's misplaced it would get moved.

[renegade600]

if its about something linux, it would be better to post it in the linux forum. Otherwise you will get replies that would pertain to windows.

[smurfy]

Good question dudeking.
Generally speaking I will move a post to Mac or 'Nix forums if the app is specific to those platforms. If it is a cross-platform app then I'd probably leave it in the Apps forum.

[oracle128]

I would think that for us power users, it wouldn't be about whether the app is for a specific platform, cross platform, or whatever, but whether the question/answer relies on knowledge of a particular OS. Eg. if the question was "How do I get app x to open files with the extension .y?", it would go in the relevant OS forum; but if the question was "How do I change option z in Linux app x?", it could quite comfortably go in Apps.

Put another way, I don't see why Linux/Mac users should isolate themselves in those categories when Apps, Hardware, Networking, Gaming, etc could contain questions that are just as relavent for that topic (because obviously, a Windows-only user wouldn't know a whole lot about an app available only on Linux, and a Linux user probably wouldn't want to browse a category that's 99% Windows-oriented) - making this question more about the browsing habits of helpers than which forum is, by definition, more suitable.