Posted on 10/01/2010 1:50:14 AM PDT by Ancient Drive
I just dumped Windows 7 and went with Linux. I got it all configured for multimedia and other good bits. Man exciting! Watching movies, youtube etc... no worries about viruses. Thank the open source community! It's a very beautiful OS, very clean and functional none of the bloatware and all of the eye candy. woooohooo!
As long as you’re into separate hard drives for two different operating systems, if you computer is newer that 4 or 5 years old, then just leave both HDs in the PC and use the BIOS boot order to select which one is first in the boot order.
That looks pretty clean I remember having 20 and 30 icons under Windows 3.1.
Bought CS5 earlier this year and I absolutely hate Adobe's pricing and licensing schemes.
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Well, I use both Linux and Windows heavily. Some of the best apps that I used at my last job were open source ported for Windows. Gimp 2.2, ImageMagic, ghostscript, PDFtk, Scibus, Gnumeric, and Grep for Windows.
I honestly like Gimp 2.2 better than Photoshop & Illustrator from CS2. I used it every day for many years.
I used ImageMagic to batch process images for the company website. It is an amazing app. Command line, but very very fast. At one point I created over 80,000 images with it plus the matching thumbnails. It worked flawlessly.
I used Grep (for Windows) to extract sequence intelligence from previous work. Used PDFtk to unzip the .pdf of the previous work and opened it in Notepad++ editor and did a little pre-conditioning and used Grep to extract the sequencing information from the last publishing. (the catalog I maintained was 3,000 pages long, excluding the indexes)
Gnumeric spreadsheet will do RegEx find/replace and is one of the most powerful spreadsheets I have used. It also will make excellent HTML tables directly from the spreadsheet. It will not do everything Excel will do, but there are things that Excel will not do that Gnumeric will. I needed both.
Don't look down your nose on Open Source software and Linux. I have used Linux for over 10 years and truly love it.
Yep, and the system load due to "bridge" is huge. Talk about software bloat. And it infuriated me that you had to open some images in Illustrator because Photoshop would not work. With Gimp 2.2 (plus ghostscript) you could do it all in one app.
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