[Sussex] XP pain

[Desmond Armstrong]

> My wife hates Ooo though she mostly uses Ubuntu now as the M$ partition
> (W2k) is soooo slow (on a 1.2 ghz Athlon).
>
>   
The slowness of Windows is certainly a good reason for going Linux. With 
all the protection that is required, ant-virus, firewall, anti-spyware 
and so on taking so much resource the Linux becomes very attractive indeed.
My machine is also an Athlon 1.2gig but with 512meg ram, and I am well 
pleased with the speed. Having enough ram is really important and now 
that it is cheap there is no reason not to.
> By the way.  Does anyone use the Graphical tools on Ubuntu for their
> photography in a serious way?
>   
Remember that Hollywood do not use Windows, they cannot afford the cost 
of the unreliability. But, they use Adobe Photo Shop on cross-over 
office on Linux. The next versions of Adobe PhotoShop are going to be 
supported on Linux.

Although PhotoShop seems to be the program of choice, fine if you have 
$649 to blow, The Gimp is an amazing package even if it is not so 
intuitive to use.

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