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Originally Posted by phenomshel
You can ask, but if you laugh at me, I'm going to smack you. The programs were Paint Shop Pro and Incredimail. At the time, (2006/2007?) I was doing a lot of graphics and email stationery creating. And don't even whisper about GIMP to me... it's about as far from PSP as you can get. (I don't like Photoshop either...). And for some reason Linux software devs have this unreasonable prejudice against stationery and full HTML support in email programs...  . I LOVED Kmail, but not enough HTML support. You *can* technically make stationery for Thunderbird, but by the time you do, you might as well have created a complete webpage, and I'm spoiled. I like my handy dandy Letter Creator program that goes with Incredimail.
I figure my needs are esoteric enough that it shouldn't discourage anyone else from trying/learning Linux; I just never did find/get used to alternatives to those two programs.
Chris runs Linux (I think the current flavor is Arch), and has for eons. Windows drives him bananas, but he puts up with my running it  . A sign of True Love, maybe?  |
I give my wife credit; she gave it a good college try, not like a number of people who pop in an Ubuntu liveCD for 15 minutes, complain about the system tray or something, then go back to Windows.
I, on the other hand, have no needs as specific as Shel's with the exception of music recording; that's actually a hardware issue as my recording interface only has drivers for Windows, but I have a spare machine strictly for that purpose...in either case, I'm looking at more money than I care to spend to rectify the situation. For the other 99.999999% I could never see going back to a proprietary OS (or even pseudo-proprietary, as Mac OSX is something like 75% open-source).
I'll be honest: For the first 3 months that I ran Linux full-time (Fedora 4), I tried evangelizing. Didn't work. ONE person (besides my wife) tried it and "got it"; everyone else I knew personally still expected their computer to be smarter than they are.