Photoshop has been voted the most important application to be ported to Linux, according to initial results of a survey carried out by software vendor Novell.
The online public survey, which has been running since mid-January, asks people what "key applications they need to use in their business that are currently not available on Linux". Scott Norris, the editor of CoolSolutions, Novell's community Web site that is running the survey, said last week that the survey has already received 10,000 submissions.
So far, the most-requested applications have primarily been design, Web publishing and multimedia tools, with Photoshop, AutoCAD, Dreamweaver, iTunes and Macromedia Studio heading the list.
Norris said that these results show that Linux on the desktop has matured, as in the past there was primarily demand for basic applications such as word processing, email clients and Web browsers.
"As peoples' needs in those arenas [basic applications] were filled, they wanted media players for their music. An interest in graphic design and manipulation became more apparent. Pretty soon, people not only considered the possibility of Linux as a multimedia platform, but, as we can see, they are now demanding it," he said.
Although Norris claims that the need for a decent email client on Linux has been "filled rather nicely", with applications such Thunderbird, KMail, and Evolution, a study published by the Open Source Development Labs in November last year found that the lack of a powerful email application could hinder the adoption of Linux on the desktop.
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KDE is sluggish it can make a state of the art PC computer act like a slow 286 computer.
KDE is rubbish. Any Windows system can outperform KDE and that's a fact..
what Linux needs is a decent desktop interface not some KDE system that blows its own trumpet constantly but cannot perform.
Then I ask myself what state of the art machine you use.
My AMD Athlon 1800+ runs KDE without a problem (of course I have 1GB ram, but my Radeon 7500 is rather old). But then I also run VectorLinux which is super fast. I'm actually looking forward to Enlightenment, seems very promising
Ability to report accurately "critical" for the author of this article
How on earth is the word "critical" justified in this article. I suppose "nice to have" wouldn't have quite the same impact, even though it would have actually been accurate.
Regarding KDE, it works fine. Until very recently I was running KDE 3.4 on a 550MHz Pentium III (hardly a high-end system) and it wasn't at all sluggish. On the same system, Windows ran like a dog.
Given that gimp is a Photoshop clone, I wonder if the people who mentioned it as a must have, have used it?
I voted for Quickbooks and I wasn't alone. That's something that wasn't highlighted in the article. Not sure where the KDE trashing came from? It wasn't mentioned in the article either.
Funny how you are not using KDE to post isn't it
and we all know that you were running KDE
with two baked bean tins and a piece of string
and we all know it was running so well.
Blah blah blah blah blah blah don't waste
my time.
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Philip Davidson: thoroughly useless general comment, particularly about performance. I know, don't feed the trolls...
"Given that gimp is a Photoshop clone, I wonder if the people who mentioned it as a must have, have used it?"
I've used both extensively, and I have to say Photoshop has far more functionality and is far easier to use than GIMP.
"Given that gimp is a Photoshop clone, I wonder if the people who mentioned it as a must have, have used it?"
Nobody that has ever actually used Photoshop in a for-pay project would agree that GIMP any use for professional work. GIMP may have a feature set similar to Photoshop, but as an original Photoshop beta tester from way back, I can say with some authority that the product is more mature, consistent, reliable, and workflow friendly than GIMP by a factor of 10.
GIMP is okay, and I love the fact that all the scripts are written in python, but the interface is klunky and inefficient.
You bet!, The only application I REALLY miss since I switched to Linux is PHOTOSHOP. I've been trhough a couple of websites that describe how to run the Windows version in Linux, but I'm no Linux genious and I failed.
Please, someone tell the guys at Adobe to make a Linux version for their software.
I really can't get into you folk whom are putting The Gimp down compared to Photoshop. Why?
Because contrary to what some say, Photoshop is clunky, whereas The Gimp is not. Photoshop takes up a lot of space and then some both RAM and disk wise, flogs you with all it's got taking up even more precious space especially display wise. Sure, you can configure Photoshop to not show all that gunk at startup. But you shoot yourself in the foot doing so, because the moment you need one function that was in the very things you've been tucking out of sight have to be dug up from various menus. In The Gimp this hurdle is overcome by the fact most, if not all, of the tools/menus are right there, categorised under your right mouse button. What takes me two clicks in The Gimp, takes me 4-5 or more in Photoshop. So what's in 3 clicks? Annoyance, because you could slap yourself for not noticing the function you were looking for three clicks ago in Photoshop. That kind of annoyance puts me off using programs that incorporate hundreds of functions that I will likely never use, but clutter my vision anyway because without them, some things just won't happen.
And in case you've been wondering, Yes I have used Photoshop for more than 5 minutes. In fact it's the primary graphics tool where I work. But I don't use it primarily because I can do whatever needs to be done in half the time using The Gimp, with exactly the same results if not better. I'm sorry, but while Photoshop is a wonderful tool, it's far outgrown it's usefulness when it comes to good rock solid editing by growing out of proportion.
The Gimp is still growing, and is getting -useful- features over time. You can even use Photoshop plugins with The Gimp if you so desire, and there are various ways of adapting The Gimp to your specific needs to bridge the gaps between Photoshop and The Gimp further.
This does not mean a native *nix port of Photoshop would be bad, on the contrary. It would be very good for Adobe to recognize the growing *nix userbase and start providing their tools to them, because it helps those users, and Adobe at the same time by improving their business.