While I was trawling through Net Applications' operating system share trend data for the past 24 months, something struck me. June 08 marked a big month for Linux. The OS saw the largest increase in market share for the whole 2 year period - a growth of 0.12%.
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Member since:2005-07-06
what really should be educated, is understanding how to do something is a ui neutral way.
most complaints these days are not about how a replacement app miss some feature or other, but that the ui is different from what apps the user have been using to perform some task until now.
it seems a lot of people would love to use gimp as a photoshop replacement, if the gimp gui was more like photoshop for windows.
Member since:2007-09-06
That's been my stance for a long time now. Teach how to do a skill not a brand of tool that performs that task. I can't remember what brand of hammer I first put a nail to wood with and I've never required that same brand of hammer to attach two pieces of wood since. If I by Brofasco nails, I don't required a Brofasco branded hammer to use them.
Schools are a very traditional and backward thinking institution though. Teachers may start with all the passion and enthusiasm imaginable but eventually, they are just trying to get through the school year and make it to retirnment. Just regurgitate the lesson plans from last year and mark the papers.
Bah.. teach a kid to use a computer rather than teaching them how to use a brand of software application.
Member since:2006-07-26
Doesn't Photoshop run under wine? I would think that running photoshop would be a requirement before making any release of Wine.
Its a real shame that Wine works so well...maybe that is the reason they don't release a native version of it.
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That won't work. Imagine a discussion between gradma and the salesman:
"Well mam now you need to choose your operating system"
"What was that son?"
"Oh never mind, Windows will be fine for you."
My bet would be on education. Get them while they're young. Push Linux teaching in school and then when they grow up they'll probably want to use it on their own.
Maybe by then Adobe will release Photoshop for Linux so people can pirate it on Linux too.