Jason, > Actually the install was completely painless. so far everything has > worked with out any problems, granted I don't have the newest machine. > P4 2ghz I think.
That's really good. Consider yourself lucky. ;) > I've been working my way through some tutorials on making gnome look > like OSX. I know that there are a lot of people against that (that's why > I haven't aske for any help getting a dock going) But I basically wanted > to do it to prove to all my friends who are saying they want to go to a > mac, that Linux is a viable option for someone who wants a stable OS > with an attractive GUI. And if you're going to have to learn a new OS, > why not learn one that doesn't require you to drop $2G on new hardware. Many of the GUI's out there are either a clone or have been inspired by another OS. The default ubuntu theme "clearlooks" was inspired by the beta versions of Vista. Simon mentioned beryl. If you want to look at some of the beryl stuff, go look for "beryl" or "compiz" on youtube.com. Another cool plugin for beryl/compiz is called "lowfat" > Anyway I'm really enjoying my Ubuntu Linux experience. The only thing > I'm wondering about is I'm really going to miss Illustrator and > Photoshop. I've read some tut's on getting them to work with wine. Any > thoughts about wine (the software that is)? Wine is okay -- it works for many people, but not for all apps. If you find yourself not being able to live without Illustrator or Photoshop, I recommend you purchase VMWare so you can run it natively. Also, if you save a copy of the clean XP VMware image, you can use it if/when things slow down again. Or if you're too cheap for to buy VMWare, download the VMWare player (free) and an empty vmx image from easyvmx.com (also free) and install XP into that. There are people out there that would say, GIMP GIMP GIMP... but if you're used to photoshop, the GIMP just isn't the same. --R _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
