6/10/2023 0 Comments Absynth plugin![]() ![]() ![]() The primary purpose of my post wasn’t to slam windows(although i couldn’t help myself), I find it adequate for my purposes. At the job, we use both XPpro and Win98 machines basically mickey-moused together on the same network with some Sharp industrial scanners. Think about MAC OSX with iLife, it’s even more bloat than Windows XP! But iLife is realy cool and in many case, needed.Īt home i use XPpro because of the Acrobat issue, and to a lesser extent for games. I know many of this is not allways needed and it would be nice to be able to uninstall them. I like to think that the bloat is what we can call feature rich. Bill Gate is rich, we know that but we cannot say that for any other Linux company. Upgrading may cost more but remember that those software developers don’t live on air. Well, Windows come pre-loaded on most PC sold today. “expensive and filled with bloat, this we all know” ![]() Insecure? That’s what hardware firewall are for in most case. Then again, you can use something else for your e-mail, no need to stay with Outlook. With any good ant-virus that plugs into Outlook you can flush just about any virus. “To answer your question of “why”, Windows is flaky and insecure in numerous ways”Īre you talking about Windows XP? Or even Windows 2000Pro? Yeah, you need to apply the Service Pack but I find them rock solid. If anyone can point me to a reliable Acrobat emulator, I’ll start testing it out tomorrow. If anyone can show me a linux distro that can run Acrobat, i’d be glad to recommend it. To answer your question of “why”, Windows is flaky and insecure in numerous ways, expensive and filled with bloat, this we all know, but until Acrobat works well on linux, we seem to be stuck with Windows. An Acrobat Reader is nice, but we need the full app. I would love to switch to SUSE or something other than Windows, but until Codeweavers can do better than an honorable mention with Acrobat, we’re basically stuck. I don’t, because then I’m forced to theraputically re-boot everything with an old guy ranting behind me about how he “hates computers”. He hates to change anything, and seems to accept the network crapping out 3x a week acceptable. Windows is what he feels comfortable with, its what he knows. We are currently a Windows-only shop primarily due to inertia and extreme technophobia on the part of the founder. Software: I work for a small digital media company which is primarily involved in converting old, out of copyright books of historical interest into. Gimp is also way more than enough for people doing artistic stuff, since that hasnt changed much over the years.Īnd what is more amazing, is that every single artist that I asked why did they say “gimp is not enough” they just say that they couldnt find the feature or way of doing it in the very brief time they used it, so it must not be there.(and it is in all cases). Photosshop for mac is like this and mac users dont complain.ģ-Photoshop existed for too long without this, and it’s not a key feature, plus you can allways use sodipodi and importĤ-It has all the “useful” filters, and some much better ones (like gimpressionist, flare designer, resynthesizer, etc)ĥ-again photoshop didnt have this for a long time, and you can achieve the same effects with a bit of work. Those are basically the “three important missing features”,ġ-Its only useful for people that does printingĢ-Group the windows and use a dedicated desktop, They can care less….Ģ-i hate yaddayadda floating windows yaddayaddaģ-yaddayadda no vectorial layers yaddayaddaĤ-yuddeyadda allways not enough filters yaddayadda What ease of use will I get? And just saying that Linux is free and OpenSource is not good for average joe user. What will Linux give me that Windows don’t. We all pay for Windows so why format the HDD to install Linux? That’s the question that needs an answer. ![]() – Linux need to have a Killer Apps… Or something else to catch the eyes of people. Where is the ICON of the application that I just installed? Where is it in the endless start menu of Gnome or KDE? Where is the UNInstall feature? Is it easy? Do I have to go to a command line? – Linux has to be frendly, easy to use, fast, easy to install, with someting like InstallShield for distributing package/software. No need to search and install patch to play MP3, DivX, or else… – Good full feature MediaPlayer that can handle every file format, or as a nice plug-in thing to add new file format but again, VERY easy to use/configure. – Better Office Suite (OpenOffice needs some work) – Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, PDF Writer. Bring more software to Linux, and not only OpenSource software. ![]()
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