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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Windows victims: go ahead and pretend you don't want or need
 the greatest PC software available
Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 15:00:12 -0000 (UTC)
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Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote at 14:02 this Wednesday (GMT):
> On 2024-05-08 9:43 a.m., Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>> 
>>> On 2024-05-07 10:07 p.m., RonB wrote:
>>>> On 2024-05-07, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
>>>>> Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2024-05-07 8:08 a.m., Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>>>>> vallor wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sun, 5 May 2024 22:54:19 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>> <6638465a$0$8092$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://imgur.com/a/R0ARmN0
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ALL the Linux "equivalents" are pure junk compared to this masterful
>>>>>>>>> Windows application.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It's proprietary but free of cost for personal use.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Along with other apps, the creator has worked on it since 1999.  ONE
>>>>>>>>> competent, dedicated Windows developer puts to shame the entire universe
>>>>>>>>> of FOSS crapware developers that have tried to do what this guy does.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Linux has a command (with the same name) that outputs TONS of info, but
>>>>>>>>> it's basically unreadable.  The output is made for... I don't know who
>>>>>>>>> the intended audience is, but it's not regular users.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This app is yet more PROOF that in a world where Windows exists, there's
>>>>>>>>> no reason to run Linux on your desktop.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It doesn't prove squat, GUI-boi.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You're mocking him for enjoying a GUI? What decade are you in?
>>>>>> < snip >
>>>>>
>>>>> The 2020's, where I can use vim, gnu autotools, meson, gcc/g++, clang/clang++,
>>>>> slrn, mutt, mpd + ncmpcpp, alsamixer, git, latex, ssh, and more in a terminal
>>>>> window.
>>>>>
>>>>> I do use gvim when I want edit two or more source-code files side by side.
>>>>> Use zathura to read PDFs. GIMP for photo-tweaking. Libreoffice for short
>>>>> how-tos. Conky for system info. GUI browsers mostly. And of course the sddm
>>>>> display manager and the fluxbox window manager.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not mocking him for enjoying a GUI, I'm mocking him for crowing like
>>>>> a fool about it, as if there's only one true way to us a computer.
>>>>
>>>> I'm using slrn to respond to this post. It's efficient and quick. What does
>>>> DuFuS "think" I'm supposedly losing by using this CLI app instead of a GUI
>>>> application?
>>>
>>> I think the most common complaint of people using Linux CLI or GUI tools
>>> is that they look dated. I'm not sure why this is such a problem,
>>> especially if they still manage to get the job done, for free, in the
>>> same amount of time.
>> 
>> Dated? Old ones, yeah. Gvim, yeah. GIMP? Naw, it seems pretty clean and
>> "modern" to me.
>
> I watched a video a few days ago where a guy demonstrated just how dated 
> GIMP is. It turns out that you can use the PhotoPea web app if you can't 
> afford Photoshop, and it's more or less a clone of the commercial 
> software. Most importantly, it is more modern and performs better than 
> GIMP does. I'm sure GIMP is still fine for most, but there are much 
> better free alternatives.
>
>< snip >


Webapps don't really work as well though..
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