arstechnica.com— The increasingly popular Ubuntu Linux distribution will soon be sold on the shelves in Best Buy. Will users pay $19.99 for what they can get online for free?
Jul 11, 2008View in Crawl 4
F-spot works very well for a home user who wishes to catalogue and edit the photos. Picasa is also available for Linux.As far as the whole Gimp vs Photoshop, professionals who use Photoshop on a daily basis are more likely to not use Gimp. Gimp works just as well for the average Joe who wishes to edit his pictures.
They're not stupid, they're supporting the people making the OS. And in return they get free support - and if their ISP charges by bandwidth usage, then they save money (and possibly time too, waiting for it to download).
The sort of people who have paid for Photoshop are not the sort who would care to switch to Linux in the first place.Also, iTunes sucks from what I hear - and if people really want iTunes, iPhoto, Photoshop, and other things, they'll use that free support to ask the person how they can set it up with Wine.
methodoneJul 11, 2008
He means 'hole'.
sairgemJul 12, 2008
Maybe if they offered support for 6 months. $20 is too much for Ubuntu when you can get it for free several ways.
prammyJul 12, 2008
F-spot works very well for a home user who wishes to catalogue and edit the photos. Picasa is also available for Linux.As far as the whole Gimp vs Photoshop, professionals who use Photoshop on a daily basis are more likely to not use Gimp. Gimp works just as well for the average Joe who wishes to edit his pictures.
levithesmithJul 12, 2008
One timer troll?
Closed AccountJul 12, 2008
Every lil' bit helps. Brand recognition and so on. A few kind words for it from friends, and the person will just decide to try it out.
avian00Jul 14, 2008
What is up with that picture?! LOL!
linuxpenguinFeb 22, 2009
Which is why there will probably be a sign there informing them of this. . .
linuxpenguinFeb 22, 2009
They're not stupid, they're supporting the people making the OS. And in return they get free support - and if their ISP charges by bandwidth usage, then they save money (and possibly time too, waiting for it to download).
linuxpenguinFeb 22, 2009
The sort of people who have paid for Photoshop are not the sort who would care to switch to Linux in the first place.Also, iTunes sucks from what I hear - and if people really want iTunes, iPhoto, Photoshop, and other things, they'll use that free support to ask the person how they can set it up with Wine.