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    Open-source software - world domination...!

    I made the switch to OpenOffice a few months back and have never looked back. Seems like there are more and more viable free alternatives to costly software being developed all the time. Has anyone had any experience with GIMP? Looks pretty useful! GIMP - Feature Overview

    Think it may be set to replace Photoshop....!

    Also if anyone has made any other genius open-source discoveries then please share!

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    Re: Open-source software - world domination...!

    I use GIMP for some basic stuff. It is the only software that I know of that handle EPS images!!!

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    Re: Open-source software - world domination...!

    Lets see... Ktorrent > uTorrent > *
    KDE > DWM > * > Gnome
    Apache > * (obviously)
    md raid > matrix RAID > NT Software RAID
    Amarok > WMP11 > *
    Kaffeine > mplayer > MPC > WMP11 > *

    I could go on, but I think you get the picture.
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    ...every time Creative bring out a new card range their advertising makes it sound like they have discovered a way to insert a thousand Chuck Norris super dwarfs in your ears...

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    Re: Open-source software - world domination...!

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    I could go on, but I think you get the picture.
    Yeh, we do... someone is a fanb0y

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    Re: Open-source software - world domination...!

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    KDE > DWM > * > Gnome
    Not a fan of GNOME?

    Any particular reasons? I've always found it a more intiitive interface than KDE - but then I haven't used it for about 1 1/2 years now, my opinion could well be a bit outdated.
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    Re: Open-source software - world domination...!

    some day i'll sit down to use kde, and it won't **** on me

    i wonder when it'll be, though

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    Re: Open-source software - world domination...!

    But the nice thing is - there is a choice! (although I prefer Gnome myself)
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    Re: Open-source software - world domination...!

    Quote Originally Posted by kidzer View Post
    Not a fan of GNOME?

    Any particular reasons? I've always found it a more intiitive interface than KDE - but then I haven't used it for about 1 1/2 years now, my opinion could well be a bit outdated.
    Because their developers think all their users are total morons and design the UI accordingly, it's (shockingly) more bloated than KDE, doesn't provide enough features (anymore), and all it's accompanying programs are crippled, buggy, & incomplete versions of some KDE apps. I've a few more but that'd be bitchiness/personal things.
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    ...every time Creative bring out a new card range their advertising makes it sound like they have discovered a way to insert a thousand Chuck Norris super dwarfs in your ears...

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    Re: Open-source software - world domination...!

    Quote Originally Posted by SiM View Post
    Yeh, we do... someone is a fanb0y
    No, when AMD were all the rave and it's users digged in their fingernails and were dragged kicking and screaming when the C2D was released, they were in a serious state of deep denial, that is fanboyism. Me, I'd switch if anything better came along in a heartbeat, it just hasn't yet. I have no delusions that gnu/linux/kde is perfect, I know a large amount of it's imperfections, and I still love it because its just less imperfect than anything else I've used.
    Quote Originally Posted by Agent View Post
    ...every time Creative bring out a new card range their advertising makes it sound like they have discovered a way to insert a thousand Chuck Norris super dwarfs in your ears...

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    Re: Open-source software - world domination...!

    I couldnt get on with KDE, XFCE4 here
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    Re: Open-source software - world domination...!

    Quote Originally Posted by mooreslaw View Post
    I made the switch to OpenOffice a few months back and have never looked back. Seems like there are more and more viable free alternatives to costly software being developed all the time. Has anyone had any experience with GIMP? Looks pretty useful! GIMP - Feature Overview

    Think it may be set to replace Photoshop....!

    Also if anyone has made any other genius open-source discoveries then please share!
    Good for you

    How about K3b - great free alternative to Nero for burning CD/DVDs

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    Re: Open-source software - world domination...!

    I'm sure most people have heard of this but I don't see it listed here...

    VLC Player: VLC media player - Overview

    Plays almost everything; most audio and video formats... pretty good DVD player to. Very useful. I found it especially useful for my ex's old laptop when; pretty low system requirements.

    Its also available every operating system under the sun.

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    Re: Open-source software - world domination...!

    Eh, I like Paint.net and Paint Shop Pro 8 a heck of a lot more than GIMP...

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    Re: Open-source software - world domination...!

    PSP 8 you do have to buy, but is worth it.

    Even used by myself (numpty) it can have some good results.

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    Re: Open-source software - world domination...!

    I use open office at home, but for gfx I favour photoshop over gimp, despite the extra expense.
    In the internets, no one can hear you sarcasm.

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    Re: Open-source software - world domination...!

    i'm quite a fan of Paint.Net for a simple yet quite powerful image editor.

    But it really does show the issues of open source programming. Have you ever tried to print from it!

    Its printing system is awful, its just a shell call to the XP photo printing wizard. I mean really, its not what you'd expect from an image editor that has layers support.

    This said i'm a .Net developer, why don't i sit down and write one?

    Why because a decent one would take at least a whole day, if not two, where as i could buy Photoshop, or Paint Shop Pro for less than that, given that i'm in full time employement.

    Without sounding too arogant i'm far better than the average .Net bear, and as such i've got a seamingly endless pile of work to do, thats not only intresting but the most well paid i've yet to find.

    Why would i go on to extend their project? Why would i spend the time doing so?

    Another example is a useful open source project called ExcelDNA for creating a managed .Net excel addin. The problem is, good as the project is, they've missed a major obvious problem (without getting too technical, its to do with concurrent versions of the framework in one process) and as such i had to write a wrapper for it. I can't be bothered to fart about returning the 5 hours of time my company spent to the community. Its too much of a convoluted process, and even then turning round and sayign "guys, your fundamentally doing this wrong with a C++/CLI wrapper for C#, without a C++ shim for that to manage CLR loading" they'd probably be a little hurt and understandably tell me to feck off.

    This is the fundemental problem with open source software.
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