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People are going to be whining about GIMP 50 years from now no matter where it goes because of what its interface was in 2001. But I’ve never needed to fire up another graphics application to do web graphics work, home photo retouching, and so on. The GIMP’s greatest sin is its interface isn’t exactly the same as Photoshop.Īs for print work, I never do that, so fine, it lacks those features (so I’ve read). 3 months later you didn’t hear a peep out of everyone. We saved money on Photoshop licenses, which my team at work was demanding, and everyone whined and complained about The GIMP. I have to wonder if people have even used this in the last 3 or 4 years. I don’t understand / don’t get what the big problem is with The GIMP’s interface – at all. “Sorry” but I’ve been using GIMP for years for web graphics, exclusively. Others have mentioned dual-screen (TwinView), overlays (Quadro) etc as reasons. Regarding the point on video support: I don’t know how good nv’s Xvideo support is, but it’s all hardware accelerated with the commercial drivers. Finally: what eye candy? It’s difficult as hell to get Xgl to compile and run for any average user (or an advanced one like me: I chose to give up and wait until more work is done) and xcompmgr and friends have nasty screen drawing and performance bugs which leave them unsuitable for non-experimental use. Nv 2D performance is almost as sluggish as the non-existent 3D performance.

It’s not just eye candy: it’s getting the most out of the money you forked over for that fancy graphics card.

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Out of those which do not (vmware, flash, graphics drivers, etc), I do believe nVidia/ATI drivers are the most essential. Things like Opera, Skype, Adobe Reader, Real Player, Nero Linux, Intel Compiler, Parallels and others have open-source equivalents which has resulted in VERY low popularity of these applications on GNU/Linux.

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That said, I think most of us FOSS buffs would benefit a lot from community driver improvements if the driver sources were released…įirstly, the other options are mostly irrelevant. I can see no reason not to expect or aim for this functionality when using FOSS. But I also use GNU/Linux for desktop/games machine and HDTV multimedia machine at home as well, so I need more than a database, text editor, ftp and lynx for my computing. I use my operating systems to get real work done. Moreover, the multiple-screen extensions, HDTV resolutions or on-the-fly switching between different screen configurations are nice and progressing, sort of (these things are somewhat broken in different ways and combinations in each binary release from both companies as far as I know – try setting up a 1080i modeline with a 6200 card the latest nvidia driver and you’ll see). There are many FOSS OpenGL games that cleary benefits from good OpenGL acceleration (jDoom, neverball, planet penguin racer, cube, the patched SEGA genesis emulator generator-gtk comes to mind) and a pile of commercial ones (UT2004, Quake3/4, Neverwinter Nights, X2, Darwinia…). Is Desktop eyecandy really that important to everyone?