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In article <41cndr$86h@sundog.tiac.net>,
Jim Williams  <williams@tiac.net> wrote:
>cardinal@swcp.com (Carlos Carbajal) wrote:
>>
>>Linux is great: for an educational experience. It is not
>>user-friendly. But everyone is missing the point of OS wars: apps
>>determine the success of an OS. Right now this is why DOS/WIN is in
>>the lead. Linux versions of Word, Excel, Notes, Photoshop, CorelDraw
>>are unlikely for now.
>>
>
>You seem to have different application needs than I do.  I need: a good
>Web server, a good mailserver, a good news server, etc..

Even if you had similar application needs, they could be met:

Word --> I use TeX. I get compliments about my typesetting work. LaTeX
allows me to bang out software documentation without worrying about layout,
cross-referencing, fonts, etc.

Excel --> I do my budgeting using "sc". If I needed a more complex sheet,
I would get Xess.

Photoshop --> I don't know of any freeware X package that integrates all of
'shop's features, but they can be replicated with various image processing
software.

CorelDraw --> I use Xfig. I have used Corel, and I thought that it rather
sucked big time!  It did put me out of my misery with a GPF.  I've
received compliments about my graphics work that was done in Xfig.

I find that producing quality documents with great graphics using UNIX
freeware is a straightforward affair.  Incidentally, I used to do some
occasional graphics work on Mac computers; it's a pain in the rear by
comparison.  I had to use five different draw programs to do everything
I wanted, and porting graphics between them was troublesome.  Mac
zealots claim that you can freely cut and paste graphics between various
applications.  This is simply not true.  Each app seems to have its own
idea about what to do with a PICT resource when it's imported or pasted
in. One program ruins the stacking order, another quantizes the coordinates
to fit some grid, a third one still decides to revert your stretched fonts
to normal form, a fourth one turns transparent objects into opaque ones...
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