Re: Any experience with "The Last One"?

From: Corey Murtagh (emonk_at_slingshot.co.nz.no.uce)
Date: 11/30/03 

Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:29:04 +1300

Richard Heathfield wrote:

> 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.)

Yeah but Richard, we've already discussed this. From what we can tell
you've had an atypical experience with MS Office. The others of us who
responded (and no, we weren't enough for a representative sample, but
still) had never had anywhere near as many probs as you did.

Personally I still think MS Office 97 was the greatest version. Most of
what they've done since has been window dressing and pointless slowdowns.

>>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).

Oooh, let me try...

"There is no feature provided by Photoshop which Gimp has failed to
provide when I needed it."

Close? :) 

-- 
Corey Murtagh
The Electric Monk
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!"

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