usb wrote:
The problem with the people who are $$$$$Micro$$$$$ofter$$$ is that they only look at what M$$$$ does and other don't, never at what others do and M$$$ doesn't.
Of course they do, what else? I'm also getting VERY tired of having a lot of applications in Linux, esp. for graphics and office stuff, where each of them has one really-needed advantage over all others, and they all are completely different, so that you end up using all of them if you want to do any serious work. For example, when I work on some graphics I use xpaint, xv and sometimes gimp (extremely hard to get the result you expect unless you're really into it and read the manual - and don't tell me that's normal, I can use many other such programs incl. on the windows side without ever having to read any docs and I get what I want! exception: gimp.). For office, abiword is the only one that reads/writes Psion Word documents (my handheld PC, Psion's still the best, although I bought it a loooong time ago), Koffice does this and that, soffice can do yet another thing better than all others. And then there's KDE/Gnome and all the apps that have been developed TWICE, like nautilus/konqueror, email clients, browsers (oh my got, yet another full category with at least 4 apps that all have different strengths/weaknesses that should be combined into ONE program), you name it. I am really, really tired of all this wasted development energy, sometimes. I guess I just have to acknowledge that while Linux is great for servers and for corporate IT, for the (home) desktop it may never get there, at least not with the current system of how people develop for it. There ARE people out there who just want to achieve some goal using a computer as just a tool. Michael