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Posted by: Mitch 74 (Saturday 25 June 2005, 8:30 AM)
True, the GIMP is available on windows - but the day Jernej Simoncic stops compiling the Windows version, it won't be easily updated anymore...
About multimedia on Linux, it IS true less software has been written for the platform - however, people not afraid of using CLI will find Mplayer quite powerful (very large playback capabilities, but also encoding), and Xine is just more versatile than WMP - in some cases such as opening multi-channel AVI, Matroska and Ogg files, and playing DVDs.
Sound treatment? MIDI works; Audacity provides wave mixing and treatment similar to SoundForge; OpenGL touts as many advantages as DirectDraw/Direct3D (and is cross-platforms to boot). However it is true I have yet to find a Premiere - like tool.
As many people said before, Linux is for people who know what they are doing.
If you don't know what you're doing in Windows, you can install multimedia capabilities - and still crash your computer.
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