Photoshop I can understand, but personally I use Gimp for everything now and am happy enough with it so have no need for Photoshop any more.
I know you can install a basic command line environment on top of Windows using MinGW or Cygwin, but I generally need more than a few basic commands. I think it's more about Python libraries and the ease of installing them, rather than available Linux commands to work with a bit too. When it comes to Python, not all libraries I use are compiled for Windows, and then you have to setup a whole GNU-based build environment on Windows which can be a bit of a mission. It's usually not long before I end up pulling my hair out on Windows. It's just so much easier to get things from apt-get where everything is in one place, than hunting the web for a Windows installers for the libraries you need. I also do a bit of C++ development, and I am just more comfortable with Linux and compiling software on Linux I think. I should probably stop there ;) don't want to get into a flame war either. -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
