John, Well I'm in near the same boat as I am in my 50s and just now starting with Linux. Not near as computer savy though. It is interesting and fun when it isn't mind blowing and Frustrating.
I think I would agress when you say there are no universal solutions. That is certainly the case with my Mac/Window machine at work. I've yet to try some other distros to make a comparison. Thanks for the insite. StevenD On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:14 PM, John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> wrote: > Well I was well past 50 when I first encountered Linux but > otherwise I qualify I guess. I have been using Linux, principally > Slackware, since that distro came in a tray full of floppies. Tried > Red Hat once but it had too much proprietary software. > > But it has been my observation that: > useful work (like cover design) > is supported by > applications software (like Scribus) > which resides on a gui > which resides on an OS. > > All these levels of software tend to grow but not necessarily get > better. After many years with Slackware and KDE I have given up > on KDE4. To put it another way I find that Xfce gives me more of > the features and the look and feel I am used to with KDE than the > latest KDE does. So I have switched from KDE to Xfce on my > primary Slackware partition but also on my Debian-like partition. > My Debian-like partition has an OS called Xubuntu, basically > Ubuntu with Xfce. > So I have approximately the same interface on either partition. > > It is very easy to download Inkscape, another important tool in my > publishing toolkit, onto a Debian derivative but just about > impossible on Slackware. It is also virtually impossible to compile > it on Slackware. So I downloaded Inkscape to Xubuntu. > > Now I am in the process of migrating Inkscape 46 from that > partition to my main partition. This is easier than figuring out > what editions of which Gnome libraries have to be installed for a > successful compile on Slack. > > In short I am picking and choosing and where necessary voting > with my feet. You can do that more easily in the Linux world than > in the Windows world. If I don't like the Gui I can choose another. > But my wife's laptop is stuck with Vista and its Gui because HP > will not support the drivers for XP, an older but much superior > version of MS Windows. > > There are no universal solutions. So I mix and match. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20090908/245fc12b/attachment.htm>
