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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
GIMP works fine for my needs; I'm aware it isn't enough for professional-level photography works.
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I'm not a professional photographer either, but GIMP does not support adjustment layers. It's not a question of "a nice feature": I NEED that. On top of that, GIMP doesn't support 16-bit color editing, and it lacks many other features that have been available in Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro for years, sometimes for over a decade. Paint Shop Pro would do for me, IF they finally got around to *fixing* the durned color management. But PSP is not a Linux program either.
Therefore, to be able to use Photoshop (without jacking around with something like WINE), I need Windows or a Mac, and at this point, I'd rather install Windows 8, buy StarDock's Start8 for €5, kill Metro, and use Windows 8 as a flat-colored Windows 7, rather than switching to a Mac. On Windows 8, I can at least run everything I can run now on 7, while on the Mac, I'd loose many games and would need to keep a second computer active, instead of having it only as a backup.
However, seeing that I have a license for 7 lying around yet, and it being supported until 2020 at least, I think my next system will be running Windows 7 too, so that I have two computers that are basically the same, apart from speed. In the end, they'd be nice "nostaligc" systems, in the same way you see people still having an Amiga 500 around. (Need to create an image of a fresh and activated installation though, as I don't suppose Microsoft will keep the activation servers around for years after 2020...)
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It's definitely time to seriously think about the open-source OS world.
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The problem with the open source world is that it's full of nerds (*). These people develop software that *they* find interesting or useful, and therefore you often see programs with the weirdest sort of features no sane person would have thought about, but missing features that any normal user not only wants, but actually NEEDS.
(*) I've been a nerd for ages; I've only begun de-nerdifying 5 years or so, seeing that my current computer is 4.5 years old apart from some minor upgrades, where in the past a computer wouldn't last 2 years with me.