GIMP Not Enough for Linux Users?

nursegirl writes "Novell has been running a survey about apps that people need in order to convert their data centers or desktops to Linux. The online survey has been running since Jan 13, and Adobe Photoshop was at the top of the list as of February 1. Desktoplinux.com has an interesting article about why the existence of the GIMP isn't enough for many professionals."

Comments

bunch of whiners

[idlake]

Photoshop didn't use to have 16 bit/channel images, and apparently it was good enough for "professional" use back then.

There is legitimate usability complaints and then there is whining. There are legitimate usability complaints one can make about both the Gimp and Photoshop. But the dislike of those vocal "professionals" for the Gimp is mostly whining: they aren't willint to learn anything that's different from what they are used to.

Let these people stick with Photoshop on Windows and pay a significant part of their earnings to those copmanies. Sooner or later, a new generation is going to figure it out.

Re:Perfect example of OSS problems

[killjoe]

LOL. So how was it shoved down your throat again?

Re:GUI perhaps?

[Hosiah]

And yet a style that is retained in every serious image editor*... but nooo, the GIMP people are right and everybody else is wrong.

You mean like the serious image editors in the screen shots in this article? Or are movie studios not "serious"?

No, I could care less about your karma. It's clear, for whatever reasons, that you're committed to screaming down all FOSS no matter what. Dime a dozen...

Re:How can we take this seriously...

[xtracto]

I will answer just to some of your comments, as one answer covers all of them.

. I had to write my own sleep command in VB script just to accomplish a simple "sleep 5s". And since VB script is such a fucking mess, my script would only run on some machines unless I wanted to do version checking.

So, you can program a bash script and manage to install a tarball but you whine for a pretty basic "idiot-based-language" VB script?. Cool that you only have this *some machines* problems with a sleep thing that can be done in other ways (or at the end, you achieved in your own way); there are things that can NOT be done on any Linux flavor, like for example using some hardware. Darn...

using Linux and all I needed to do was compile one external driver for the PVR-250 card and write a bunch of Bash scripts utilizing Zenity for GUI interaction.

Whoopewho, Compile? wow 1337. On windows you only have to double click on a program and it will be there!

Everything I needed was in my base Fedora Core 3 installation. I didn't need to buy anything other than the PVR-250... I challenge you to do the same with Windows.
I do not care how much did it costed, as a lot of companies. Remember, the advantage of OSS is not in the price. If I wanted a PVR I would just bought a softare (you could do it too!.

Now, I will conclude saying again, I am not against any OSS, but it is not true that Windows
is too limiting compared to Linux. All the new applications available for Linux are "replacements" of Windows applications. That is not bad, they make some functionality available.

The difference is that with Windows you pay for the software so it just work while on Linux you have to make it work. Some people do not want to waste their time on that. The same way as I do not want to waste my time looking at the motor in my car, I just want it to take me from my office to my home.