I agree with the argument about people engaged in the creative arts. I just started using lilypond, which does put out some very nice looking charts. It may also be the least intuitive code I've touched in maybe five years. There is a windows tool called bandbox that works very well. What I don't understand is the false dichotomy between a free OS and proprietary code that would run on top of it. Would I buy bandbox ported to Linux? YES. Even more important are games. My children run XP because the games run on XP. There are now a few games ported to linux that I'm trying to check out, but there have to be significanly more (like a majority) before I can evict XP from the house.
Port games to linux and the adoption rate would skyrocket (IMHO). Art Edwards On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 01:06:45AM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > On 7/21/06, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It costs a lot (in terms of money > >and developement) to take any current linux software and make it 'newbie > >fiendly' and close to the supposed ease of 'ms products'. You are free > >to work on this and ask for help but so far the only folks doing it are > >ubuntu and they are backed by a billionaire. If only warren buffet had > >given few billion to Debian! > > I agree, but as far as ease of use, that does and always will matter > to the majority of people using computers as a means to an end. I > installed AGNULA Linux out of curiosity, and no, none of the audio > programs come close to the customizability and ease of use of > something like Digital Performer. The most brilliant artists are not > the most brilliant systems people, as much as the brilliant systems > people might want that to be true. Anyone doing something creative > with computers wants to spend as little time as possible thinking > around the interface, and it seems, to an extent, this is something > the proprietary teams spend far more time on than most Linux > developers. So be it, but until this (gradually) changes, most > professional artists and content people will strongly prefer to spend > a few hundred dollars extra to shave a few nanoseconds off their > production time (e.g., a hotkey instead of a mouse click). > > One exception I've noticed already is Blender, which seems to be all > about the interface, which its users love. This is not the case with > Rosegarden. :( > I know the usual response is "Well Linux doesn't want those people." > But I don't buy it. Linux *has* gotten far easier to use and I have > no doubt much of the software will continue to do so. No, we don't > need those people, but we'll be glad to have them as they (gradually) > migrate over, and we'll brag about it once they're here. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
