apps choice for Ubuntu and installation choices [Was: cross-platform virus]

[Tommy Trussell]

On 4/13/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Brian Burger wrote:
>
> > This is purely anedotal, but: Every regular computer user I know either
> > uses Photoshop, the GIMP, or some messy, crippled photo-editor so awful
> > they'd be better off using the GIMP. Most digicams ship with some sort of
> > (Windows/Mac only) photo-editor, and the half-dozen I've tried to use are
> > all far, far worse than the GIMP in terms of usability...
>
> I'm a regular computer user.  I find GIMP to be completely unusable.  If I
> need to do anything more complicated than crop, compress, rotate and
> brighten, I'll get one of my graphics capable friends to help me.

For some reason, I after installing Gimpshop
http://www.plasticbugs.com/ on my wife's Mac I found Gimp easier to
understand. It doesn't really make sense, because Gimpshop puts a
Photoshop-like GUI on gimp, but maybe it just gave me some confidence
that the features I was looking for were actually present somewhere.

Actually it probably also helps that I've tinkered with gimp here and
there for several years now, much more than I've used Photoshop in
that time.