[luau] Dvorak: Is Linux your Next OS?

[Ray Strode]

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>I agree that Gimp is very powerful and good right now, but its interface is
>so unintuitive so graphic designers and normal users are immediately turned
>off unless someon shows them the basics.
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??? Warren you are a smart guy, but anyone whose used photoshop could use
gimp within 20-30 minutes.  All the windows including the tool box and the
layers dialog are nearly identical to photoshops.

>  I personally don't like the MDI-like window navigation, and I much prefer 
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>the model used by Adobe Photoshop.
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You don't make any sense; both Gimp and Adobe use MDI.  The only difference
is Photoshop uses a Window-in-Window interface (and it didn't used to 
btw).  
There was a lot of usability testing on the GNOME front about the 
different types
of MDI, and Window-in-Window was judged the poorest kind.  W-in-W MDI also
doesn't lend itself to be window manager independent, because it 
requires special
support from the window manager to look integrated or no support from 
the window
manager and no integration either.  

>  I suspect it shouldn't be too hard to modify Gimp to make it
>more like Photoshop in layout, but nobody feels like doing it so it never
>got done.
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FUD

>I'm sorry, but Windows is unfortunately easier than Linux in almost all
>ways.
>
I disagree and I will cite examples if you like, but I do think that in 
some
ways Windows is easier than Linux.  I also think, Linux is easier than
Windows for some tasks.

>I'm sad to say this, but Windows 2000 and XP are simply better desktop
>operating systems than Linux at the moment.  
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Dude, I don't know how you could say something like that.  Windows may
be better for some people at this time, but to say it's better so black 
and white
is junk.

>Even the latest Mandrake 8.2, despite being vastly improved in
>all respects, still needs some Unix knowledge to customize into anything
>useful.
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What is up with all your propaganda?  I'm serious, why use words like 
"vastly improved"  
"all", "anything".  Mandrake may have improved some, but certainly not 
in "all respects".
You couldn't expect software, any software, to prove in "all respects". 
 For one thing,
certainly areas need not be improved.  (Again I can list examples if you 
like).

>However, Windows is still a horrible server platform in both security and
>performance.  That is where Linux has and always will excel.
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Excel eh?  You really are a microsoft junkie now :-)

Seriously though, I do agree that Linux has a tremendous amount of 
potential in the
server marketplace, but I think we as an Open Source community zelously 
knock on
Microsoft's security, when many bugs are uncovered from a lot of 
software open or
proprietary all the time.  

Using words like "horrible" is more FUD too.

>I also haven't given up on the Linux desktop.  I'm throwing hundreds of
>dollars a month toward developers working to improve the Linux desktop.  I'm
>giving money to KDE, Mandrake, Red Hat, CodeWeavers and Transgaming.  One
>day... we will surpass Windows in the desktop and my contributions today
>will be worth it.
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You are certainly one of the stronger people toward Open Source software 
and I
seriously suggest you stop reading articles from John Dvorak.  He speaks 
with
much ego and non-sense and I think he's brain washing you :-).

(I admit I didn't read the article you linked to in hte start of this 
thread, but that's
because I have no desire to read any more of his articles.  He may have 
changed,
I don't know, but judging from your email I think not).

--Ray Strode