Re: 64 or 32 bit Win 7

[Raphael Tennenbaum rtennenbaum@xxxxxxxx]

J R FOX wrote:
> I have to say upfront that I've had really minimal exposure to
> 'Nix apps -- Rafe or someone else should comment there -- but
> in what little I've seen there seems to be a lot more work
> involved in setting them up, and the UI for them tends to be
> rather lacking in Win or Mac terms. While it would be great if
> free 'Nix apps could give their Win counterparts a serious run
> for the money, it hasn't really happened yet and I'm doubtful
> it ever will. And only a portion of that is due to market
> share and marketing.
I have seen very few open-source Linux apps that don't match their
commercial equivalents -- PS is a rare exception, but that's largely
because as Paul points out, no matter how evolved Gimp is -- and it
looks a good deal like PS did 7-8 years ago -- no one who uses PS a lot
can really afford to set aside its tools and conventions.
elsewise, very little difference -- though I should say that I haven't
used anything beyond XP in Windows. apps that burn CDs, for instance,
look just as they do on other platforms. and there are lots of games
and applications -- flight simulators, shoot-em-ups, beautiful
planetarium simulators -- that look just stunning.
on the other hand, a lot of tools which cost money and complexity on
other platforms are free in Linuxland. I don't know what it's like to
join PDFs now, but a year ago, you had to buy a shareware app to do it
under windows. likewise DVD ripping these days -- simple under Ubuntu,
costly under Windows.

-rafe
>  Jordan