Re: Why GIMP Is Better Than Photoshop

On 1/8/25 5:09 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:

On 1/8/25 5:04 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:

On 1/8/25 4:43 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

GNU/Linux never was intended for the unwashed masses and never will be
for the unwashed masses.  Success in this area would actually mean the
destruction of GNU/Linux as a superior OS.

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I think you're confusing two different aspects of Linux as one and the same feature. Linus does have other capabilities that Windows doesn't offer. But I was not talking about that. I was talking about a particularly needed development that it doesn't strangely have.
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That absent development, when developed, won't replace any of the strong features of Linux. It will just be another feature added to the set of other features it has that Windows doesn't.
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  That development won't be part of the more intricate features that certain users can use. But will be a needed feature in addition to all others, which will be a must have for unwashed masses.
 "Success in that area" makes Linux superior to Windows without destruction of its other intricate features.
 

And failure in that development makes Linux _inferior_ to Windows for Windows customers. And Windows customers aren't there by choice. They're there by necessity.
I'd add that having a working computer and printer (and internet access) isn't exclusive to "computer scientists". A lot of governmental and business stuff for _every_ unwashed mass as well as every cute computer scientist are done by mail, because hard copies are demanded for legal reasons; and that means printing. Printing for someone in the USA is as necessary as having electricity and water. If you haven't had use for it, you haven't been in court of law, you haven't been conducting serious business with government, or you haven't been graduating from any school. You haven't been doing anything serious enough to require the support of law, for that matter.
Try to keep your degree's dissertation in electronic form if you can. Hehe :) See if that works. No, you have to print it, cause the school's library should have a copy of it. It must be in a form that can stand in a court of law.
So when your choice of Linux cannot run the most common printer that exists, then that Linux can go fuck itself. And hey, it does. All the time. It goes and fucks itself by sending people back to Windows again.
When Apple got rude with their smartphones OS, Linux was used instead and took what didn't belong to Apple away from it. Why hasn't that happened for linux on desktops?