b) MS breaks backwards compatibility themselves, This has happened time and time again in the past. I have quite a large collection of programs that I've spent money on that no longer work on modern versions of windows. Since it's nearly impossible to get drivers for new hardware so I can run stuff like Win98 (soon to be the same for XP!) on my pc, I've found that Wine gives me a much better chance and getting old stuff to work.
That you need a stack of tutorials to get going with a full-range 3D package is the *norm*, not an exception. Blender has some unusual UI concepts (most of which make perfect sense and actually are and allways were innovative) but it is definitely not any more difficult to handle than Lightwave or 3DSMax.
Finally somebody says it. 3D graphics have been a hobby of mine for the past 10 years, so I've played with quite a few trials of various editing packages. NONE, I repeat, NONE of them are "pick-up and learn" tools. The sheer amount of information you work with when modeling in 3D makes any sort of editor horribly complex (or horribly simplified).
I like to think of Blender as "GIMP for 3D" because people like to complain about the UI. It seems complex, but once you get to know it you see how incredibly flexible it is. After several years of using an old Maya license, I actually prefer Blender because I can customize panes and save views into what my "ideal" 3D package would look like. There are also quite a few tools and scripts I can't live without (brush vertex selecting, anyone?).
First of all, a modern OS is centered around the internet. If you don't have a connection of some sort by now, you probably don't use your PC for much.
Ubuntu doesn't need to take any risks, as its a click to install mp3 if you need it. Just play a song, push a button on the dialog that pops up, and you're done.
This really is the best way to make both people who want proprietary stuff like mp3 codecs and people who value freedom happy.
Sorry, but Gnome and KDE are not filemanagers. The window manager on OSX is known as Quartz, not Finder. Thanks for the misinformed rant, have a nice day:)
You were doing fine until that last bit, there.. Care to explain what this is supposed to mean? So what if I prefer using Wine instead of rebooting every time I feel like playing a game; I use Linux for work, and when I want to play I'm not going to wait around for a reboot. Apparently just mentioning the magic L-word is enough to bring up a little FUD from any Microsoft fanboy these days...
I'll tell you right now that Vista is a waste of time if you're wanting a better gaming system. I ran both 64bit and 32bit for a time to see what Dx10 was all about.
A few months later and I'm back to XP for my gaming setup. At first Vista seemed nicer than XP (cleaned up interface, etc) but after a while the annoyances start to wear on you. Horrible surround sound support, random applications crashing, and incredibly slow bootups every once in a while were just too much for me to handle. Never mind that hardly any games actually gain anything from Dx10.
For now I'm sticking with XP for the games that I can't play in Linux.
Epic is bringing UT3 to the PS3 in a very interesting way. You can use a keyboard and mouse, as well as install the game to the internal harddrive. It should have free cross-platform play as well. Of course I'll play it on my PC (I don't have the kind of job that lets me drop ~$500 on a console), but it's still great to see such a feature-packed release on console.
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Just give me adjustment layers, please? Funny you should say that. It's almost like you paid the GIMP devs for their product. Oh wait...
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You are my hero.
It's always struck me that the people who complain always act like it's such a chore to learn a new program. I believe that it's good to have more than one take on a UI, especially when there is such a gigantic "industry leader" dominating the market. As for myself, I think the GIMP UI is vastly superior to Photoshop. It's flexible in all the right spots (you can set shortcuts in menu items on the fly!) and get to pick exactly what dialogs are hogging my screen space. There are a few funny spots that need polishing, but that's true for any program.
If only you had spelled "winers" as "wieners."
criticism 1: I can right click my window in KDE and set it to "Always on Top". Problem fixed.
criticism 2: You can create a custom brush with a bigger size. I'll admit it's not as nice as a slider, but it works enough that you wont be "f*cked".
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Finally somebody says it. 3D graphics have been a hobby of mine for the past 10 years, so I've played with quite a few trials of various editing packages. NONE, I repeat, NONE of them are "pick-up and learn" tools. The sheer amount of information you work with when modeling in 3D makes any sort of editor horribly complex (or horribly simplified).
I like to think of Blender as "GIMP for 3D" because people like to complain about the UI. It seems complex, but once you get to know it you see how incredibly flexible it is. After several years of using an old Maya license, I actually prefer Blender because I can customize panes and save views into what my "ideal" 3D package would look like. There are also quite a few tools and scripts I can't live without (brush vertex selecting, anyone?).
First of all, a modern OS is centered around the internet. If you don't have a connection of some sort by now, you probably don't use your PC for much.
Ubuntu doesn't need to take any risks, as its a click to install mp3 if you need it. Just play a song, push a button on the dialog that pops up, and you're done.
This really is the best way to make both people who want proprietary stuff like mp3 codecs and people who value freedom happy.
Sorry, but Gnome and KDE are not filemanagers. The window manager on OSX is known as Quartz, not Finder. Thanks for the misinformed rant, have a nice day :)
The point is that you shouldn't have to license something so trivial.
I think the proper term is "embrace."
I'll tell you right now that Vista is a waste of time if you're wanting a better gaming system. I ran both 64bit and 32bit for a time to see what Dx10 was all about.
A few months later and I'm back to XP for my gaming setup. At first Vista seemed nicer than XP (cleaned up interface, etc) but after a while the annoyances start to wear on you. Horrible surround sound support, random applications crashing, and incredibly slow bootups every once in a while were just too much for me to handle. Never mind that hardly any games actually gain anything from Dx10.
For now I'm sticking with XP for the games that I can't play in Linux.
Epic is bringing UT3 to the PS3 in a very interesting way. You can use a keyboard and mouse, as well as install the game to the internal harddrive. It should have free cross-platform play as well. Of course I'll play it on my PC (I don't have the kind of job that lets me drop ~$500 on a console), but it's still great to see such a feature-packed release on console.
You are my hero. It's always struck me that the people who complain always act like it's such a chore to learn a new program. I believe that it's good to have more than one take on a UI, especially when there is such a gigantic "industry leader" dominating the market. As for myself, I think the GIMP UI is vastly superior to Photoshop. It's flexible in all the right spots (you can set shortcuts in menu items on the fly!) and get to pick exactly what dialogs are hogging my screen space. There are a few funny spots that need polishing, but that's true for any program. If only you had spelled "winers" as "wieners."
criticism 1: I can right click my window in KDE and set it to "Always on Top". Problem fixed. criticism 2: You can create a custom brush with a bigger size. I'll admit it's not as nice as a slider, but it works enough that you wont be "f*cked".
The average consumer will be using a craptacular $3 mouse, not some expensive specialty hardware.