Introducing GNU/Linux Via Applications

An anonymous reader writes "A common problem with GNU/Linux for new users is not the operating system, but the switch in applications they must undertake to use it. Many who try to make the switch have little experience with the common open source applications available under GNU/Linux. The Kutztown GNU/Linux User Group, in Pennsylvania, is helping to change that on a large scale by distributing open source applications to faculty on Microsoft Windows machines first. Instead of selling GNU/Linux, the group is selling open source. Faculty at the school have been provided discs containing a number of popular open source applications compatible with Windows as part of a larger program to get more users to consider switching operating systems."

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Photoshop != Paint Shop Pro

[DogDude]

They're completely different programs. Photoshop is the full blown graphics package aimed at professionals. I can barely get the damn thing to do anything. Paint Shop Pro is a very long running shareware program (recently purchased by Corel) that lets most people do all of the basics in terms of graphics. I use Paint Shop Pro on a daily basis. Photoshop costs $600+. Paint Shop Pro costs $60. Big difference.