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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. Photoshop vs Gimp by Fiachra06 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Has anyone considered that regular joe soap computer (windows) users might be put off by using software called (The) Gimp. I use it all the time now but before I switched of to linux on my desktop I would have assumed it had somthing to do with a prono site.

    Although, Joe Soap: "I went looking online for some porn and I ended up a photo journalist. I'm so confused."

  2. Re:Obligatory by PeterSomnium · · Score: 0, Troll

    it

    --
    I rm -rf /*, therefore I am?
  3. Re:this is SO going to be a troll-fest... by cortana · · Score: 0, Troll

    Krikey, Krita sounds like a neat problem. If only there would be a GNOME port? :)

  4. Re:AutoCAD by jackbird · · Score: 0, Troll
    Yeah, but with each release, Autodesk are bigger and bigger dicks about the fact that they're the standard. The arm-twisting they employed to get firms from 2000 to 2005 was unconscionable. A lot of CAD managers dream of the day they can storm Autodesk HQ with pitchforks and torches.

    Combine that with the fact that now apparently Revit is the future and ACAD is dead (never mind that nobody seems to really like it), and you have a lot of people looking to jump off that train. Bentley's marketing material really hammers it home - I've never seen anything talk more openly about their competitors abusing their customers.

  5. Re:PhotoShop 7 reportedly works with WINE by nbritton · · Score: 0, Troll

    "As of the most recent release (yesterday), WINE 0.9.8 has reportedly fixed PS7 to run in Linux (obviously x86 only).

    Your still two versions behind the industry, everyone runs CS2 now.