Re: Talk to your frTalk your friend into switching to Linux(Re:)

[Jeremy Crabtree <crc3419@delphi.com>]

George Graves wrote:
> 
> In article <3568FD81.B24BF6A1@cts.com>, jamess@cts.com wrote:

[SNIPed for brevity]

> 
> I find that the GIMP lacks the tools and flexibility that I need for a
> PS-like program. Don't get me wrong, the GIMP is a good start, and
> it might evolve into something very useful, but it isn't there yet!

Please, elaborate. You need to say specifically what you think is
missing, tell the developers, don't just sit there and assert  that "it
lacks tools and flexibili," you won't get anything done and more than
liklely you will irritate many people.

> >
> > There's also StarOffice 4.0 which I find to be a very useful office
> > suite. The amount of databases available for Linux is astounding. Just
> > within the last couple of weeks InterBase released InterBase 4 to Linux
> > users for free.
> 
> I have StarOffice 4.0. I'm not impressed, Very primitive.
> 

Is it really primitive (I didn't think so) or is it just more conducive
(sp?) to your argument to *call* it primitive?

> So where is the Illustrator-like program?

> 
> Where is the PageMaker/QuarkXpress-like program.
> 
> They are really needed for Linux to be useful to me.

I see you are finally getting to the real issue. The software that *YOU*
need isn't available. To state just that, would have been acceptable,
but instead you decided to be a horses a** about it and assert, point
blank, that there is *NO* software available, when really there is no
software that *you personally need* available. A distinmction you
trollishly ignored.

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and all the other systems I didn't mention. We all compute differently,
get over it.                                          Jeremy Crabtree