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Novell Suggests Linux Program Replacements

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gimp-!=-photoshop dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As a result of over 14,000 votes since the beginning of January, Adobe Photoshop, Autocad, Dreamweaver, iTunes, and Macromedia Flash are currently the top 5 'most wanted' Windows/MacOS-only applications in Novell's online survey. From comments made by the survey participants, Novell has also listed suggested substitutes for each of the five. What do readers think of these suggestions?"

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  1. Why? by PeterSomnium · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Adobe Photoshop : The Gimp Dreamweaver: Bluefish or Quanta iTunes: Amarok And who wants those annoying flash-images anyway :P

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  2. Re:PhotoShop 7 reportedly works with WINE by bored · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    But the problem is that Windows IS broken. The annual cost of dealing with security problems, viruses, worms, spyware, etc. is staggering. There's lots of great reasons to abandon the Windows platform.

    This is the same kind of FUD that the linux people accuse the windows people of throwing. There is _absolutly_ nothing in linux that is inherintly more secure than windows. Linux has bug after security bug just like windows and its less than a few percent of the total market which makes me think windows is probably more secure. I've been using windows for a long time (linux too for that matter, I have CD's with .9x series linux kernels). In all that time i've never gotten a virus and companies I work for have had little in the way of virus problems. I've seen them but they are in no way as big of a deal as people make them out to be, its like the war on terra... 2 thousand people die and its all the US talks about for years, and spends billions of dollars fghting. Its the same with windows, there is a CNN windows security article about a bunch of people getting infected because they are running insecure machines, or they didn't keep there machine patched and the /. crowd thinks "windows is broken". Bah...


  3. Re:Un-Gimp the UI first. Examples follow... by Trogre · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nothing wrong with the UI. If you know how to use it properly. Perhaps your problem is that it doesn't feel exactly like Photoshop (for which we can be thankful)?

    Maybe some UI changes would be useful, but fix what's missing or broken first.

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