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I'd be especially curious about how this compares to the Win32 version of the GIMP. Any Acrylic testers care to comment?

and safari didn't crash either

WinGIMP once carried a story about a high school digital photography class that made use of the GIMP to, among other things, fix basic errors.

Install

OpenOffice.Org

Mozilla

VideoLAN

7-Zip

WinGimp

Open AntiVirus

Then see if the users can use them and get used to them. Then maybe when you do switch to Linux, they will be using the same apps, but under Linux. With maybe the exception of 7-Zip, no Linux port yet?

Good thing there's also a free-as-in-beer version. You can do that sort of thing with free-as-in-speech programs. You can also try to make a profit if you like.

You're *free* to do whatever you like. Isn't that great?

Maybe he's trying to draw attention to the fact that a compiled version of the gimp for windows costs $79.95, see here for more details.

How's that for *free* software?

While I generally agree with the opinions of OpenCD, I would have to disagree with you that "GIMP is a very difficult program to set up .. on Windows". Have you tried? I did (about four months ago" and it was increidly easy to do, all you have to do is follow the instructions . A few downloads and a couple of installs later and you have The Gimp in a pretty indistiguisable form from the Linux version (though behind). The wingimp.org site suggests that this is now even easier! I would agree that The Gimp is not the simplest of programs to use however as it is a powerful complex program with a non-standard interface (if their is such a thing as a really standard interface for any specific type of program).

GIMP is a very difficult program to set up and use on Windows. Also, like Mozilla, it suffers from a lot of inconsistencies with the standard Win32-type interface.

I do agree that it's a great program and one of the things that hooked me on Linux was the fact that I could, legitimately and for free, have a great graphics editor to work with. (I used to use MS Paint to do graphics. *gag*)

I didn't really have any contact with Photoshop until after I'd used GIMP, which I think was part of the reason I didn't mind the weird interface, Linux being the other part, since most of its interfaces are a little weird.

They have a specific WinGIMP project to work on it, so maybe they'll be able to include it in the future. But right now I think they're right not to include it, because most people trying to use GIMP on Windows would just get frustrated and go pirate a copy of Photoshop. :P

GimpPro -

Why pay for something that is already free?
WinGimp

Ah scratch that, my mistake, the site is www.wingimp.org. The other site just sells WinGimp CD's. The .ORG site has a GPL-compliant version on it.