Sounds like you are making a case of OS X (which is a *nix OS) -- I
haven't seen IDVD or Garage band on windows, and while not being a
huge walmart fan -- know their business and they don't stock stuff
that they don't sell, so my guess is there are lots of people either
bootlegging windows or installing a linux desktop for a home
machine. I hope the later is true!
Andy
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On Aug 16, 2005, at 11:19 PM, Chad Smith wrote:
On 8/16/05, Jonathon Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
a) What applications / programs?
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe GoLive, Adobe Pagemaker, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe
InDesign, Adobe Distiller, Intuit Quiken, Intuit Quickbooks, Intuit
Quickbooks Pro, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia
Freehand, Microsoft Office, Age of Empires 3, The Sims 2, Halo 2,
iTunes, HalfLife 2, iDVD, GarageBand, do I really need to go on?
b) Do not exist for *Nix, or the equivalents in *Nix are bad?
No they don't or yes they are. Scribus is no InDesign. GnuCash is
*NO WHERE NEAR* Quickbooks. Nothing compares to Half Life or Halo or
the Sims. Exporting documents to PDF in OOo is not the same as making
them with Acrobat, nor is exporting Impress files to Flash the same as
making a Macromedia Flash movie or game. OpenOffice.org can't fully
replace MSO (as discussed eariler in this thread, so please read my
eariler post before killing me) and the GIMP, while awesome, isn't a
1-for-1 to Photoshop.
Disclaimer: I have a Win2K box, simply because that is what two of
the
best programs in their class/application run on. The *NIx
equivalents
are pretty bad, and are not likely to improve.
So, you see that it is true. If you knew that already, why did you
ask?
-Chad Smith
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