Viable Linux Destop?

[juju]

Linux is an OS designed by programmers, FOR programmers (and power users). If you don't like writing shells scripts, or spending a significant portion of your time at the command line, then Linux is just not for you.

Anyway, what's so good about the Visual Studio IDE? Give me a unix command line any day. Moving the mouse around and clicking on things is just not as efficient as typing it.

As for the clipboard, I don't really know what you mean. I use Enlightenment, and can cut and paste just fine between everything.


As for Word and Photoshop,I am a home user, so I don't need all those missing advanced features.

The most I would use from a word processor would be bold, underline, italics, font sizes, and spell-checking. Mostly just for essays for school.

The most I ever use Gimp for is resizing pictures for my web page (and I don't even use it for that anymore..i found a python script that resizes them and creates the html page for you. :] )

Now, if the other guy on this pages uses and loves ALL of Photoshop, then I would never advocate him "settling for less". That's just stupid. But for people who aren't using those features, it's not settling for less at all.

I can't speak for the database stuff. I know that Linux has MySQL and PostgreSQL, but I dunno how good they are.


Anyway, i'm being pulled into an IM chat now, so to sum up: linux is better, so nyah! :]