Desktop Linux (fwd)

[Michael Costolo]

--- Travis Roy <travis at scootz.net> wrote:
> This is very true. The Linux community needs to understand that the 
> gimp is not photoshop, openoffice is not MS office, GNUCash is not 
> quicken. 

But then again, they weren't intended to be.  People have this hangup over software
titles.  It boggles the mind.

> If you tell somebody that uses photoshop for work and tell them to 
> switch to Linux and they can get the gimp for free they're going to 
> observe 3 things.. One, that the linux and gimp install were easy. Two, 
> that linux is just as fast if not faster then windows, and fairly easy 
> to navigate and Three, that the gimp is nothing like photoshop and 
> there's a reason it's free. Then they'll re-install windows. Then 
> they'll get "well there's a reason it's free" attitude and then not 
> want to touch it again for a long, long time.

You have a point.  But then again, for a long time (and perhaps even still),
industries such as the graphic arts have preferred certain platforms.  Apple catered
to the graphic arts industry and that industry stuck with Apple.  Apple paid
attention to what they needed and they got very loyal customers.  I don't believe
that any particular OS is or ever will be a drop in replacement for everything else
that exists.  Nor should it be.

> Exactly, sometimes people don't want a tech support phone number for 
> help, they want it to yell at somebody that their stuff isn't working.

In my case, my parents call me before listening to hold music.  I don't suspect my
experience is rare.

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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it"
-George Bernard Shaw

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