Top Ten Apps That Make Linux Fun To Use
  • navindjnavindj
    I was searching for some applications to run on linux and I came accross this http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3891361/Top-Ten-Apps-That-Make-Linux-Fun-To-Use.htm ..Strictly speaking i have not tried all of them..but i get the idea of the nice applications to enjoy..
  • CedricCedric
    Thnks navindj going to check them. Just experimented with The GIMP yesterday and it looks pretty cool and easy to use. Linux rocks!!!
  • nadimnadim
    Hello. I a newbie in Linux (been using it so for the past six month or so). Surely I love Linux (have tried Fedora, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu). Only thing that I find not good enough in Linux, for the moment, is GIMP. As a front-end developer, I find Photoshop/Fireworks better - unfortunately we do not have them on Linux (though some have tried to run it on WINE). Consequently, I have to keep a copy of Windows...
  • avinashavinash
    Sure. Keep Photoshop and Windows around if you need them :-)

    Personally, I've been using The Gimp and Inkscape on Linux as well as a few affordable but not open source software on the Mac for some years now and everything works well enough for me.
  • nadimnadim
    The main problem with GIMP, for a front-end developer who has to frequently do the "slice and dice" operation, is that GIMP doesn't handle layers well. If on GIMP you try to open PSD files provided by web designers (BTW there is much misunderstanding who is a web designer and who is a front-end developer), you'll find out that layers are missing, some are merged, effects missing, etc - e.g. if the PSD file is from the latest PS, say CS5 (MAC or PC). Most web designers work on MAC btw.

    If you really want to optimise your images, then Fireworks is very handy. In the old days when internet connection was slow, the image optimisation was a significant task. Now we have better connections compared to the 56K modem, so one might think that we can perhaps have images of size 100k each. But the truth is that we still need to optimise them -> mobile devices are here now!

    If you are not doing any slice and dice operation then GIMP is the automatic choice.
  • nadimnadim
    Find the difference betw' GIMP and Photoshop with this example:
    http://pages.intnet.mu/nadim/GIMP-vs-Photoshop.png

    Note that most designers work with Photoshop and especially on Mac. So when front-end developers receive PSDs from designers (which contain effects, masks, vectors important from illustrator, etc...) for slicing, they need Photoshop instead of GIMP for the reasons mentionned above.

    I must explore the plugins provided for GIMP though - i admit i haven't.
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