Novell Suggests Linux Program Replacements

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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Story posted to the general public at 9:35

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Way to go crew !

Re:Photoshop vs Gimp

[Draek]

yes, The GIMP is a porn site, Vi is a program to teach little kids the alphabet, Bluefish Thunderbird and Firefox are the mascots of a cartoon, and EMACS is an old piece of software dating back to the times when mainframes were cool. Wait, that one is actually right...

Is the article a joke?

[Karma Farmer]

Seriously, is this article a joke? It's full of the same helpful, informative advice I'd expect from The Onion, like:

After checking these applications out a little, some of them look pretty slick. If you need a CAD app, check these out

I read stuff like this, and I can't figure out if it's sarcasm or stupid.

Re:Dreamweaver and flash ...

[Nutria]

I suspect most of the Flash-Haters hate it for what it does,
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And, as per usual, any discussion about Flash tends to stereotype Linux users as stubborn, backwards types that hate everything that regular people like about computers.

And all this time, I thought the reason I hated continuous hypermotion is because I'm an old fart that wants to read the page rather than get distracted by aggrivating monkeys.