Re: Any experience with "The Last One"?

From: Richard Heathfield (dontmail_at_address.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 11/30/03 

Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 07:12:15 +0000 (UTC)

Gerry Quinn wrote:

> In article <bq9o5d$8k2$1@hercules.btinternet.com>,
> binary@eton.powernet.co.uk wrote:
>>
>>I must agree with you here, but only because of the driver issue. If I
>>knew I could walk into Office World, pick up a scanner, a printer, and a
>>network card at random, and /know/ that I could find and install Linux
>>drivers for them easily, I'd be recommending Linux to /all/ my friends and
>>relatives, not just the techies.
>
> The ones who like to play games would not be too happy with it.

Well, there is that, although game availability on Linux is increasing.

> And
> from what I've read, Open Office isn't quite MS Office,

Don't get me started on MS Office. I don't think it's terribly funny. (No, I
don't use Open Office either.)

> Gimp is not quite PhotoShop...

Oddly, I find the Gimp easier to use than PhotoShop. And it doesn't crash as
often. And it seems to do everything I want it to do (or at least, it
doesn't not do anything I want to do that Photoshop does do).

If you can parse that, you get a medal (specially printed to your standard
output device). 

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