At Thu, 04 Sep 2003 01:01:19 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 07:00, csj wrote:
> > Indesign, a program for Joe Public?! Come on, how many Joe and > > Jane Public's are there who would be interested in doing > > high-quality layouts for outputs to color-separting film setters? > > We don't need In-Design. We need (gasp) M$ Publisher! > > Thats quite true, most people have no use for 99% of what even > the gimp can do, and those that need more don't have the rest > of the options. A mac is probably a better solution for those, > because if you do need photoshop you probably also need > freehand/after effects/etc which don't exist at all under linux > (and iirc not all of them also under M$ ) What Joe public needs > is a striped down version of gimp thats easier to use with some > nice scripts that create fancy web buttons, gif animations and > such. I don't know if a stripped down version of The Gimp exists. But I do know that there are already gimp scriptfu's for doing "fancy web buttons" and the like. > Linux need to change its public image and start coming > pre-installed. There is also the problem of too much > options. Unlike M$ where people exactly what program does a > given job, on linux there are 10, and when there are so many > its actually sometimes harder finding the right one for you or > even finding what programs there are to do a given job. Too > much choice can sometime be as much a liability as not enough > (as much as I like the options). I think you've stumbled on the fallacy that Linux is a system. You probably need to qualify the first word of that paragraph to "Linux distros". Linux is just a kernel. The rest of the OS are parts cannibalized from projects that Linus has no control over, indeed, might not even care for. The problem for the non-geek user is that most distros don't make a judgement call as to the best of the best. It's okay for me that I can use emacs to send mail. But maybe for the so-called "average user" ramming Evolution down their throats isn't such a bad thing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
