On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 22:38 -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > As someone who's been using Linux since 2000, and who's wife also > > exclusively uses it, I must ask you, "Are you smoking crack?" > > No. Care to tell me why you think I'm smoking crack because I think > that anything Windows does Debian Linux does as well or better? Not to in any way support Windows as I use Debian exclusively at home and at work, but to just back Ron up here, there are some things that are better done in Windows (for the time being at least). Video editing tools (at least the free ones that I've found for Linux) are ages behind those available in Windows. Games are also another big one. There are still no CAD applications to compete with the likes of AutoCAD. There are no civil engineering tools that I know of for Linux to compete with Microstation. And though I hate to admit the need for tools such as these, SIMPLIFIED GUI tools for specific tasks tend to be better in Windows. As a great case in point, most digital cameras come with software included that lets you quickly and easily crop, resize, or otherwise manipulate photos. These are all things that can be done with Gimp or a few command-line tools in Linux, but none of them are all that SIMPLE. There's a great program by Kodak which makes cropping pictures a breeze. It automagically suggests a selection of the photo to crop and, GASP, it lets you DRAG the crop selection borders. (This has always been a pet peeve of mine with The Gimp, though I believe Photoshop suffers from it as well. WHY OH WHY can't we drag the borders of a selection after we've made it??!?!?!) As I said previously I am not at all a MS supporter, I'm just playing the Devil's advocate here. Ron, I guess that would make you the Devil. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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