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Please tell me which of this things you cannot do on Linux right now. With Gimp you can do a lot of what you can do with Photoshop. TeX and any math package l
by partycoder 8y ago
Please tell me which of this things you cannot do on Linux right now.
With Gimp you can do a lot of what you can do with Photoshop.
TeX and any math package like R beat Microsoft Office and produce better documents.
WordPerfect was a much better alternative to Microsoft Word, but guess what happened: Microsoft invested on Corel and suddenly they stopped releasing on Linux.
There's a lot of money invested in making Office a monopoly. By supporting Office and spreading its use you are extending that monopoly further into another generation.
- stan_rogers 8y agoWordPerfect died for two reasons: the transition to Windows (and WP6 for DOS, which was the worst of both worlds); and its lack of a real office suite integration. Lotus 1-2-3, the other application that owned to office, lost out for much the same reason. SmartSuite was a whole lot closer to an integrated solution than bundling WP with Quattro Pro and friends was, but Ami Pro was a less-than-competent word processor for business purposes. TeX/LaTeX may make some pretty documents, but the learning curve is pretty heavy-duty, and compiling a typeset document isn't exactly dash-it-off quick for normal typist/secretary activities. It doesn't matter much what you can do with technical or book-length documents; that's not what the world runs on. And Gimp ain't Photoshop. It's not even a close thing.
- partycoder 8y agoGimp may not have full feature parity with Photoshop but unless you are a professional graphics designer or creative worker, Gimp will provide most of the features you need.
- bitL 8y agoNot at all. Its image processing algorithms are often subpar, missing the final touch that is present in Adobe products, admitting it as much as I hate their subscription model.