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Windows is free if you break the law.
Anyway, I do occasionally use windows. I haven't got used to The GIMP yet, so I use photoshop on windows. I'm not sure if wine can run it, and I haven't tried getting photoshop on Ubuntu yet.
Anyway, I do occasionally use windows. I haven't got used to The GIMP yet, so I use photoshop on windows. I'm not sure if wine can run it, and I haven't tried getting photoshop on Ubuntu yet.
| Windows is free if you break the law. |
God, I hate the word "free" applied to software. I curse Stallman to the lowest depths of the semantical Hell.
I mean as in price.
I like rms. He's a bit eccentric, but I still like him.
I like rms. He's a bit eccentric, but I still like him.
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I seriously doubt photoshop will run under wine. photoshop is its own OS practically, and even if it did "run", it would probably be very slow (i've never tried nor researched the possibility...)
GIMP is, well, rather gimpy, IMHO. I wish someone would write a good photo-editing package for Linux.
GIMP is, well, rather gimpy, IMHO. I wish someone would write a good photo-editing package for Linux.
As a non-graphic designer who only does a bit of editing once in a while or pixel-level comparison of two images, I find GIMP is not worse than PS. Furthermore, since GIMP uses FreeType to render fonts, I'd even say it's more useful.
I'm no good at graphic design. I just find it fun.
Comparing GIMP to PS makes no sense. One is a vector graphics editor, and one uses raster graphics. Its like apples and oranges.
Oh god what happen, now we're starting an image editing debate.
Comparing GIMP to PS makes no sense. One is a vector graphics editor, and one uses raster graphics. Its like apples and oranges.
Oh god what happen, now we're starting an image editing debate.
It's a boring story... Windows or anything else... Most free OSes are unix based (freeBSD, solaris, mac os x, HP-UX) and it sucks! Is it so hard to make your own? Maybe even better? Couldn't HP create something new? But again, it's unix-based! %-)
i have to say something about windows too:
XPwas is good. Vista is bad. 7 will try to be better than vista but i hope it will be a total fail and M$ will not rule this world :-)
about graphics: GIMP is a free alternative to photoshop and photoshop has nothing with vector graphics because it's an image editor
i have to say something about windows too:
XP
about graphics: GIMP is a free alternative to photoshop and photoshop has nothing with vector graphics because it's an image editor
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I'm looking forward to the release of Windows 7 so much I've ordered a Mac...
chrisname: You're fairly wrong, then. Both have limited vector capabilities, but they're mainly raster graphics editors.
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Wait, what?
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| I'm looking forward to the release of Windows 7 so much I've ordered a Mac... |
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| EDIT: I'm looking forward to the release of Windows 7 so much I've ordered a Mac... Wait, what? |
I'm unimpressed with Windows 7, so I'm going back to Mac. (for personal use)
I've used os x. I don't like it, and my local apple store is full of idiots who are far too easy to troll. 'Do you know when Windows 7 will be released?'
'No but [some crap about bootcamp]'
'I bet I can run os x on my pc'
'I doubt it'
'Garage band is for noobs'
And then we left, but not before turning the sound up on an iMac and navigating to 'lemonparty.org'. I also made a text file called 'Mac OSX' and put it in the 'trash can'. Good times.
'No but [some crap about bootcamp]'
'I bet I can run os x on my pc'
'I doubt it'
'Garage band is for noobs'
And then we left, but not before turning the sound up on an iMac and navigating to 'lemonparty.org'. I also made a text file called 'Mac OSX' and put it in the 'trash can'. Good times.
Nice.
Next time don't forget to bring up that any distinction between a Mac and a PC is no more meaningful than a distinction between a Dell and a PC.
(Obviously, Macs have always been PCs in the broad sense, but now they are even in the strict sense.)
Next time don't forget to bring up that any distinction between a Mac and a PC is no more meaningful than a distinction between a Dell and a PC.
(Obviously, Macs have always been PCs in the broad sense, but now they are even in the strict sense.)
| You can completly shut down the warnings on vista, tho I hear that they've changed that in w7 |
They've definitely loosened it up a bit, normally only asking you for permission with installations and occasionally updates. Even then, they only ask once.
Loading time for Windows 7 was pretty quick at first, but after the first month of using it, it already has slowed to the point where it takes 10-15 minutes to load. Updates are pretty quick though, and you don't have to restart for installations. However, (I don't know if this is from dual-booting between Vista and 7) the time to start up the BIOS has also started taking 3 minutes for some reason, so they might still have to work out some bugs... (I know that Windows and the BIOS are completely different, but I never had this problem before.)
I tried a MacOS (don't know which one), and loved it. The only thing preventing me from using it is that I want to use VC++ and a few other programs without having to use Bootcamp.
Dude... Your POST routine is taking three minutes? That's longer than it takes for me to completely load my OS. There's something terribly wrong with your computer; possibly faulty hardware. Nothing written to the HDD should make the POST take longer (under normal conditions, it shouldn't take longer than 5-10 seconds).
When I load it from Hibernation, yes. However, when I shut down the computer and turn it back on, it doesn't have that problem.
So it's not your POST that takes three minutes. It's restoring the RAM that does. Still, I think it's too long. And 15 minutes to load the OS... Sounds to me like you did something noobish to that installation.