On 06 Dec 12:34, Anthony Anson wrote:
Steve Engledow wrote:
Id love a new Mac but cant afford it.
No you don't, that's just the conditioning talking ;)
*I'D* love a Mac too - there are things a Mac can do in its sleep that Linux and Windows make a banquet of.
Erm, such as?
Remembering that a Mac is just a piece of hardware, and is x86 based...
Do you mean "there are things available in OSX that are difficult in Linux and Windows", in which case, the usual one I hear about is "networking just works, it's lovely!" right up until they hit a network that OSX doesn't know much about, or it's having an off day, or the winds blowing in the wrong direction - at which point it's a complete PITA.
If it's printing, then I'm afraid that OSX is actually just using cups, and an out of the box cups on a modern linux is Damned Good at "just working".
And I shall have one, if I live long enough.
Yeah - cos you need to save for years to get the shiny machine, and then you get to consistently pay for OS upgrades because "oh, noes, this piece of software needs the latest version and I needs it, I needs it now!"
So I am looking for suggestions. It will run Ubuntu or Mint alongside Windows (for those times when you have to use Windows).
If you've had a mac for 11 years, what times do you face when need Windows? Go the whole hog, you'll love it :) Life without Gates, Jobs, or other corporate monsters with plural nouns for surnames is far shinier. In the REM sense.
<mode="McEnroe> You *CANNOT* be serious!
</mode> Name me one Linux program which can do what Irfanview does? Name me one Linux program which is as good as Paintshop Pro or Photoshop, and as intuitive?
Irfanview doesn't look far different to Eye of Gnome, actually.
And don't say "The Gimp" - IMO it's a pile of poo.
That's your opinion, and you're welcome to it. It's just as intuitive as either that you've listed (i.e. not at all). Personally I can find things a hell of a lot quicker in GIMP than in PSP or Photoshop, and I used to use PSP "rather a lot".
Which is why my notebook has its native Xandros, but my (bigger) flaptop has Debian as a main OS, but XP, so I can run proper graphics.
There's a difference between "proper graphics" and "what I know how to use". But meh.
Also, see inkscape, sketch, etc for vector stuff. Or Xara LX (non-free, but free to use).
Cheers,