Oh, one more thing, and I wish to do mobile development and you kind of have to have a Mac for parts of that to use a lot of the mac developer's tools. At least that's my understanding for now. Thanks again. Dan
On 3/5/12, Daniel Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Kevin, you just had to throw it in about Linux, didn't you... >>:) > I totally agree with you though. > I actually used to run Ubuntu with Gimp on that, and loved it. > But I come from long graphics experience, and wish to use many > of the other programs, video, audio etc that run on macs. > But thanks for the help. I love this list, btw. Lots of very nice, > smart and helpful people here. > Daniel > Houston > > On 3/5/12, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <[email protected]> wrote: >> Daniel Smith <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Hi all. >>> I'm switching from Gimp on Windows to a Mac. >>> (It's an older one, a G5 tower with Leopard only, >>> but it's nice to be back on a Mac again.) >>> Before I just download and install without >>> thinking, I thought I might ask anyone for >>> advice they might give for the best install for mac, >>> or perhaps any packages on mac that are better >>> or features not available on Windows, etc? >>> Thanks for any ideas. >>> Daniel >> >> Last time I used a Mac, the "GIMP on OS X" link from >> http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/ seemed like the most user-friendly option >> to me. Leopard and newer have X11 included, so it's only the one >> download, and http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Photo_editing.html says >> Resynthesizer etc. is included, so you get lots of plugins that you'd >> have to download and install one by one on Windows[1]. >> >> If you want the 2.7 beta, I guess you'll have to compile / use MacPorts. >> >> >> -Kevin >> >> >> [1] Of course, on Linux, it's even easier =P >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gimp-user-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list >> > _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
