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On 2024-03-30, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> chrisv wrote:
>
>> -hh wrote:
>>>
>>>I'd also like to see the original statement made, because the above 
>>>kinda looks like a misquote or misstatement:  I've never claimed that 
>>>Adobe Photoshop was an expensive waste.  
>>
>>Again, -highhorse conjures shit up that no normal person could have
>>thought what the issue was, at all.
>
> I need to correct myself.  DumFSck's quote
>
> 'What -hh said about Photoshop - expensive, waste, Gimp does the same
> for free - is exactly the written position of most if not all
> "advocates" on cola.'
>
> does read as if -highhorse said that Photoshop was expensive and a
> waste. It's poorly written, because that was not its meaning, when it
> was posted.  
>
> -highhorse dishonestly attacked the cola advocates for, allegedly,
> saying that Photoshop "is a waste", when we had not. (See sig for the
> -highhorse quote.) DumFSck *lied* when he claimed that -highhorse's
> claims were "exactly the written position of most if not all" the cola
> advocates.
>
> The advocate's position on the issue was always reasonable.  Saying
> that a product is a poor value propostion, or even a "waste of money"
> for casual or occasional users, is cannot be honestly shortened to
> the product "is a waste".
>
>>FFS, all along he's been a Photoshop defender!  Obviously!
>
> The second -highhorse and DumFSck lie is their assertion that cola
> advocates said that gimp had "the same" capabilities.  We didn't.
>
> Both of them *lied* to attack our quite-reasonable position.

The way I put it is that Photoshop is an expensive niche application. If you 
need to use it, then you'll have to run Windows or a Mac. We used it in the 
print shop where I worked (though I didn't, personally, because I wasn't a 
graphic artist). For what "photoshopping" I do occasionally, GIMP works fine. 
And I'm guessing most "regular" computer users would say the same.

It's not the fault of Linux that Adobe won't make a version of their 
software for it. If you have to have Photoshop go for Windows or OSX. I 
don't need or want it. And I'm sure not going to suffer by using Windows on 
the off chance that I might need Photoshop once or twice every fifth year.

-- 
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entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." 
"It was pride that changed angels into devils..."     — St. Augustine