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What *can't* you do in Linux?
Faust:
I've played with EAX effects in Windows and the distort is shocking. I just don't think that non-hardware solutions are really effective for real time sound work - the best equipment I've seen was a little box in a Melbourne "sound engineering" studio. The dude playing that thing got the most realistic faked piano sound I have ever heard out of an electric guitar and that little black box...
I agree with you 100% about the 3D sound but not about the "special effects."
Faust:
Oh and Debian needs:
"Nicer" looking windows ala Red Hat, (is this GTK2?)
Some pretty default themes (chosen from in the install?)
Incredibly easy Wine / WineX support. Like "automatic" incredibly easy.
XFree86 4.3.0
xyle_one:
i want to see more apps that are self-contained, so there is no install or uninstall hassle. Like OSX. I would like to see Adobe, Macromedia, & Autodesk software ported to Linux, becuase GIMP is a joke, and i prefer their software to any of the free stuff available. And since i already get to use these in OSX, what it is the point in using Linux? (baiting.....I'm an asshole ;) )
spencerpi:
The development tools we use at work (Centura Team Developer, Toad, XML Spy and many others) are not available for Linux.
Colin McRae (and about a zillion other games) does/do not work under Linux.
Photoshop is not available for Linux (tell a REAL graphics artist that Gimp has no cmyk support and s/he will laugh at you)
I bet OpenOffice is not fully compatible with MS Office which means that you're not compatible with documents 90% of desktop users send you. While the last bit is easy to overcome when you're sending documents between friends this *IS* a real problem when dealing with customers. They simply do not care if you have a C64, Amiga or a Linux box. They will send you MS Office docs and if I can't read them they I have a problem.
Also, as long as the Office market is dominated by MS I don't see OpenOffice competing. Why ? Because of the closed fileformats from MS. Let's say for the sake of argument that Office 2003 (or whatever they will call it) will have a new fileformat for Word and Excel. It means that several people in the opensource community will have a hard time figuring out that format. It will take months before a new version of OpenOffice appears that will support them. And how good will it support them ? Even right down to the subtropical features that we get from MS : embedded this's and thats ?
We have tight roadmaps for new verions or service updates from our products at work. Keeping in mind that our main development tools have no Linux version using Linux is not an option.
xyle_one:
quote:Originally posted by M505:
The development tools we use at work (Centura Team Developer, Toad, XML Spy and many others) are not available for Linux.
Colin McRae (and about a zillion other games) does/do not work under Linux.
Photoshop is not available for Linux (tell a REAL graphics artist that Gimp has no cmyk support and s/he will laugh at you)
I bet OpenOffice is not fully compatible with MS Office which means that you're not compatible with documents 90% of desktop users send you. While the last bit is easy to overcome when you're sending documents between friends this *IS* a real problem when dealing with customers. They simply do not care if you have a C64, Amiga or a Linux box. They will send you MS Office docs and if I can't read them they I have a problem.
Also, as long as the Office market is dominated by MS I don't see OpenOffice competing. Why ? Because of the closed fileformats from MS. Let's say for the sake of argument that Office 2003 (or whatever they will call it) will have a new fileformat for Word and Excel. It means that several people in the opensource community will have a hard time figuring out that format. It will take months before a new version of OpenOffice appears that will support them. And how good will it support them ? Even right down to the subtropical features that we get from MS : embedded this's and thats ?
We have tight roadmaps for new verions or service updates from our products at work. Keeping in mind that our main development tools have no Linux version using Linux is not an option.
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i laugh everytime i think about GIMP not supporting CMYK. as for open office, it is very compatable with MS office. I use it at work and our office manager (and everyone else) uses MS office, and i can open and save to their files with no problem. Because i am a "graphics guy", i cannot seriousely use a linux distro yet. I say "Yet", because i have faith that open source software will dominate and be superior to anything the proprietary markets can push out. until then, i will use my mac...
if only i could code, then i could at least contribute to the GIMPs develpment.
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