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Re: WHY Photoshop tops most-wanted Linux app list

  • Subject: Re: WHY Photoshop tops most-wanted Linux app list
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 05:09:52 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / MCC / Manchester University
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__/ [ Bill H ] on Thursday 23 February 2006 16:30 \__

> roySchestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ds4701$1gp3$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> __/ [Au79] on Sunday 05 February 2006 06:24 \__
>>
>>> Desktop Linux - USA
>>>
>>> When Novell recently reported early results from its survey of what
>>> applications people wanted ported to Linux, a lot of people were
>>> surprised
>>> to see ...
>>>
>>> <http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2471885182.html>
>>
>> People who request that port are people who have never put their hands on
>> other toolkits or have previously taken pricy courses on Photoshop. Same
>> principles apply to MS Office, which is taught everywhere, sometimes due
>> to
>> curricula of the Government for schools.
>>
>> Any Windows user knows that Corel Draw and JASC Paintshop Pro can, in
>> practical use, do almost everything which Photoshop does.
>>
>> * http://www.gimpshop.net/
>>
>> * http://www.gimp.org/screenshots/
>>
>> * http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php
>>
>> (Among dozens more, not to mention ray tracers and renderers...)
>>
>> The fact that Photoshop has become a dictionary term in its own right
>> (much
>> like "Google") does not help either. A crushing majority of the
>> participants
>> in the GIMP newsgroups (and mailing lists go) about with statements like
>> "In
>> Photoshop I do X, now how can I do it in the GIMP?"
>>
>> Roy
>>
>
>  Linux sucks that's why  use it every day. Because I  am water

You are very smart, too.

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