People seem to be quick to forget Linux was really the first to get rootkitted. Rootkits are fairly new (in the way of software intercession) to the Windows Platform, and most AV software wasn't ready for it. However, AV for Linux (or at least the flavors I am aware of) were primarily RK detection software.
So, Linux as a root-kit-cleaner is about as accurate as hiding this book in the sand. Ignorance does not make you safer, just happier when you don't notice it happening to you.
Actually, as a photo hobbyist, as well as a former employee of a major commercial graphics (PSP) application, and friend to photographers, as well as being familiar with and friends with Professional photographers, no, they are not moving away from PhotoShop. They are discovering a concept every Linux user should be proud of. Diversified application suites. While all-in-one has been a marketing campaign to sell to the masses, the more a person becomes familiar with their need for specialized use, specialized applications become more of a necessity.
In the case of PhotoShop, it is still used, with LightRoom, and Aperture for example. Typically a photographer will have the same image open 2-5 times, and work on it through different apps/copies, and merge or compare results.
However, that is mostly the Photo-Editor group. There are still the Photo-Purists who believe that opening an image on a computer is for 1 of 2 purposes. "Developing" a raw image for print; Or Printing said image. All other things are not photography (or at least their idea of it).
In the case of the Gimp, it still doesn't have the native, or near native support for Raw images, so, the comparative analysis of an image from say the native camera software, or from PhotoShop is not there. And as PhotoShop has proven through it's years of doing some basic graphic functionalities wrong, it's not how good the image is, it's how much the person likes the results. Because at the end of the day, it's still art. And art is interpretive. So, there are expectations on how a feature will work, and the baseline is PhotoShop.
This is not a happy idea, nor is it really something that anyone technically inclined likes to admit. But it's the truth with Linux, with Microsoft, With PhotoShop, and predominately with the world. It's not what's right way to do something, it's what way is the accepted way of doing something or what result is the accepted result. I love SBP (Standard Business Practices)... Rock the boat and we all sink...
I guess we all end up realizing their are other ship's in the sea, and when we jump ship, or get pushed overboard, we either learn to swim, find a new ship, or drown trying...
Ok, I carried the boating analogy alittle too far.
I apologize, I am a programmer, not a writer, so, I appear to have failed in my point, but yes, that was the idea that I was trying to get across thank you.
Irony = "incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result." (Provided by Mirriam-Webster).
By this definitation the statement was infact Ironic. Your pathetic attempt at flaming a writer is insulting and demeaning on many levels. Especially by bringing up one of the most over-quoted bad examples. The leason to be learned is that by missing a Christmas release has proven devastating to companies. Therefore, by a company not following through on such a well known issue would fall as a catastrophic error. The irony is in the fact that it is not considered as an issue when it fact by most standards it is. Get it? It is not an issue, but it is... That is what some (if not EVERY ENGLISH SPEAKING PERSON ON THE PLANET) would call ironic!
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People seem to be quick to forget Linux was really the first to get rootkitted. Rootkits are fairly new (in the way of software intercession) to the Windows Platform, and most AV software wasn't ready for it. However, AV for Linux (or at least the flavors I am aware of) were primarily RK detection software.
So, Linux as a root-kit-cleaner is about as accurate as hiding this book in the sand. Ignorance does not make you safer, just happier when you don't notice it happening to you.
Actually, as a photo hobbyist, as well as a former employee of a major commercial graphics (PSP) application, and friend to photographers, as well as being familiar with and friends with Professional photographers, no, they are not moving away from PhotoShop. They are discovering a concept every Linux user should be proud of. Diversified application suites. While all-in-one has been a marketing campaign to sell to the masses, the more a person becomes familiar with their need for specialized use, specialized applications become more of a necessity.
In the case of PhotoShop, it is still used, with LightRoom, and Aperture for example. Typically a photographer will have the same image open 2-5 times, and work on it through different apps/copies, and merge or compare results.
However, that is mostly the Photo-Editor group. There are still the Photo-Purists who believe that opening an image on a computer is for 1 of 2 purposes. "Developing" a raw image for print; Or Printing said image. All other things are not photography (or at least their idea of it).
In the case of the Gimp, it still doesn't have the native, or near native support for Raw images, so, the comparative analysis of an image from say the native camera software, or from PhotoShop is not there. And as PhotoShop has proven through it's years of doing some basic graphic functionalities wrong, it's not how good the image is, it's how much the person likes the results. Because at the end of the day, it's still art. And art is interpretive. So, there are expectations on how a feature will work, and the baseline is PhotoShop.
This is not a happy idea, nor is it really something that anyone technically inclined likes to admit. But it's the truth with Linux, with Microsoft, With PhotoShop, and predominately with the world. It's not what's right way to do something, it's what way is the accepted way of doing something or what result is the accepted result. I love SBP (Standard Business Practices)... Rock the boat and we all sink...
I guess we all end up realizing their are other ship's in the sea, and when we jump ship, or get pushed overboard, we either learn to swim, find a new ship, or drown trying...
Ok, I carried the boating analogy alittle too far.
I apologize, I am a programmer, not a writer, so, I appear to have failed in my point, but yes, that was the idea that I was trying to get across thank you.
Irony = "incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result." (Provided by Mirriam-Webster). By this definitation the statement was infact Ironic. Your pathetic attempt at flaming a writer is insulting and demeaning on many levels. Especially by bringing up one of the most over-quoted bad examples. The leason to be learned is that by missing a Christmas release has proven devastating to companies. Therefore, by a company not following through on such a well known issue would fall as a catastrophic error. The irony is in the fact that it is not considered as an issue when it fact by most standards it is. Get it? It is not an issue, but it is... That is what some (if not EVERY ENGLISH SPEAKING PERSON ON THE PLANET) would call ironic!