War on the Wintrolls 2775

On Thu, 18 May 2006 03:40:47 +0000, George Graves

Build or buy a system with Linux in mind.

Until you actually try to get it working *properly*.

I don't have KDE installed on this box (my desktop machine--the one I use constantly). The only reason I've even got libqt installed was for some game or another. No reason to install both KDE and GNOME, unless you just like switch between the two.

Inkscape is not the only vector graphics program on Linux.

The graphics and tables won't cause a problem--embedded an excel spreadsheet would, though.

The OOo folks have been improving Office compatibility for ages--it's just a difficult task, considering they've got to reverse engineer Microsoft's ever-changing formats.

I don't use Inkscape, so I can't comment on their progress, but it's usually pretty fast. OF course, there are examples of commercial software that's slow to change too. Like Photoshop, or Quark.

Because most people don't like dropping a few thousand dollars in software when there are free alternatives that work well enough?

What inconsistent interfaces? If you have a problem with inconsistent interfaces, why would you set up your Linux desktop to be inconsistent? It's certainly not difficult to avoid-solve.

In some respects. The GIMP is quite a bit better than Photoshop when it comes to developing custom scripts and plugins.

Inkscape isn't the only vector graphics app on GNU-Linux.

So use one of the alternatives.

Then pay attention!

They developed it, actually. ODF was the new OpenOffice document format long before it was an ISO standard.

Feh. OS X is slow, hard to work with, difficult to develop for, and ridiculously expensive. If the best thing Apple can say about it is "It doesn't suck as much as Windows". then they *really* need to take it back to the drawing board.