Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think
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@penguinwrangler Change happens regardless of what you do. Look at windows 7 vs. windows 10. You have to learn whether you want to or not. We just decide what you're going to learn.
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@wirestyle22 said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@penguinwrangler Change happens regardless of what you do. Look at windows 7 vs. windows 10. You have to learn whether you want to or not. We just decide what you're going to learn.
There were a few times that open source won big when it changed less than closed source did. Windows 8 was a huge leap, but those staying on LXDE saw very little change from Windows Vista and 7. When MS Office 2007 released, OpenOffice got tons of customers because it kept Office 2003 style interfaces that were better known to users.
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@coliver said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@john-nicholson said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@coliver said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@john-nicholson I find it funny but Linux on the workstation has been much more stable then any of our OSX laptops.
When your best app option is TuxRacer, this doesn't surprise me. I used Linux on the desktop in college because it limited hugely what I could do and that provided more stability than anything.
My OS X laptop hasn't been rebooted in 2 months so I'm not sure what your doing wrong with your mac's but stop doing it!
@Scott - OpenBSD are the guys who like singing funny songs about CARP. For this reason, I like them for firewalls, and if you want Linux on the desktop hate systemD and don't like Debian it's an option?
Just generic unprivileged users. App crashes and system crashes are fairly common.
In last 9 years I had 2 kernel panic crashes on Macs. Both caused by 3rd party apps (Hands off and Teamviewer). My apps don't crash, at least I don't recall any, and os never crashed, since I started using Macs. Your hardware might be messed up, but that's what Apple Care and local Apple stores are for.
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@scottalanmiller said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@stacksofplates said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@penguinwrangler said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
I have no problems finding apps for my Linux Desktop. What are the apps that everyone can't find for Linux?
Ya idk. I've never had issues either. But then again I'm not a pretend graphic designer who "needs" every Adobe product ever created.
I'm always amazed by the weird people and situations where people claim that they need an Adobe suite. Both that they think they need any app like that, and that they claim that only Adobe works.
Has Gimp managed to get CMYK support yet? Ask any serious designer that needs to produce something for press printing to do it in Gimp and they'll happily hang you by the nuts.
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@marcinozga said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@scottalanmiller said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@stacksofplates said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@penguinwrangler said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
I have no problems finding apps for my Linux Desktop. What are the apps that everyone can't find for Linux?
Ya idk. I've never had issues either. But then again I'm not a pretend graphic designer who "needs" every Adobe product ever created.
I'm always amazed by the weird people and situations where people claim that they need an Adobe suite. Both that they think they need any app like that, and that they claim that only Adobe works.
Has Gimp managed to get CMYK support yet? Ask any serious designer that needs to produce something for press printing to do it in Gimp and they'll happily hang you by the nuts.
Yes it has.
http://cue.yellowmagic.info/softwares/separate-plus/index.html
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@scottalanmiller said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@marcinozga said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@scottalanmiller said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@stacksofplates said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@penguinwrangler said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
I have no problems finding apps for my Linux Desktop. What are the apps that everyone can't find for Linux?
Ya idk. I've never had issues either. But then again I'm not a pretend graphic designer who "needs" every Adobe product ever created.
I'm always amazed by the weird people and situations where people claim that they need an Adobe suite. Both that they think they need any app like that, and that they claim that only Adobe works.
Has Gimp managed to get CMYK support yet? Ask any serious designer that needs to produce something for press printing to do it in Gimp and they'll happily hang you by the nuts.
Yes it has.
http://cue.yellowmagic.info/softwares/separate-plus/index.html
With limitations.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GIMP/CMYK_support
That's still far off from professional use.
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@marcinozga said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@scottalanmiller said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@stacksofplates said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@penguinwrangler said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
I have no problems finding apps for my Linux Desktop. What are the apps that everyone can't find for Linux?
Ya idk. I've never had issues either. But then again I'm not a pretend graphic designer who "needs" every Adobe product ever created.
I'm always amazed by the weird people and situations where people claim that they need an Adobe suite. Both that they think they need any app like that, and that they claim that only Adobe works.
Has Gimp managed to get CMYK support yet? Ask any serious designer that needs to produce something for press printing to do it in Gimp and they'll happily hang you by the nuts.
Don't do any print work with Gimp so I never looked. Point was there are 0.1% of the people that say they need Photoshop that actually do. If you seriously need it that's fine.
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@stacksofplates last time I tried to ditch PS for Gimp I felt like I couldn't do anything I needed but maybe it was just a learning curve.
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@bigbear There definitely is a learning curve but it was also capable of less as well. This is going back years though.
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@bigbear said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@stacksofplates last time I tried to ditch PS for Gimp I felt like I couldn't do anything I needed but maybe it was just a learning curve.
It is different. It also doesn't hold your hand with anything. You need to leverage layers a lot more.
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@stacksofplates There are other costs to GIMP (I've used it, honestly prefer Paint.NET).
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Training. There are a bazillion classes, youtube videos, books, and even college courses that include photoshop. GIMP has significantly less available in this realm and while it has some free content it's less than 1% of what is out there for PS.
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Sunk Cost software - Photoshop for many is a sunk cost (They own it, have an Adobe subscription for Illustrator or other things you use, their company has paid for it). This also extends into arguments for why you should leave other commercial products when you already have an ELA etc for given software.
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Sunk Cost Training - If my staff knows how to use PS or other software, and has 5000 hours of experience with it, it's going to take a while for them to switch to GIMP. Even at 200 hours of lost productivity or slow work to get back up to speed on GIMP, if my labor is at $150 an hour (what I got quoted for a conversion job recently) It's going to cost me 30K to switch to GIMP.
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@john-nicholson said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@stacksofplates There are other costs to GIMP (I've used it, honestly prefer Paint.NET).
- Training. There are a bazillion classes, youtube videos, books, and even college courses that include photoshop. GIMP has significantly less available in this realm and while it has some free content it's less than 1% of what is out there for PS.
All that matters is that there is one good one, not that there is lots of random stuff. Maybe the stuff out there isn't good, I don't know. But like support or jobs, you only care that there is one for you, not lots that you don't use.
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This thread seems to have derailed into a full blown PS/GIMP thread... but anyway, I know PS used to be drastically more expensive, but it is now ~$115 a year for the subscription. The vast online resources are well worth that cost alone. I can google anything in PS and have about a million different solutions presented almost immediately. This isn't a case where having a massive community of non-professionals is detrimental and can seriously break important things. It's image editing... if you get bad advice you hit undo and try the next guide. I use it about twice a month and it's well worth the $115/year.
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@john-nicholson said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
The only issue I have is Outlook crashes one a day, Skype 4 Buisness is unusable (but that's true on Windows) and Onedrive is a giant turd.
Now there are three reasons to install Nextcloud
Our Outlook add-in can help Outlook crash more, you can dump Skype and OneDrive and use the Nextcloud Video Calls and file handling. Kidding about the first one
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I'm a long time Linux advocate - heck, I volunteered in the KDE desktop community for over a decade and was community manager for openSUSE so you can't claim I have no horse in the game
But, honestly. Linux desktops are great for sysadmins and ppl who, like me, live in the browser and their mail client. Marketing folks, thus
But a designer or people who MUST use Microsoft office - I concede they're more productive with a WIndows or Mac, provided some expert (who probably runs Linux themselves) maintain and secure it and clean up the shit when it inevitably goes wrong...
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@john-nicholson said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@stacksofplates There are other costs to GIMP (I've used it, honestly prefer Paint.NET).
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Training. There are a bazillion classes, youtube videos, books, and even college courses that include photoshop. GIMP has significantly less available in this realm and while it has some free content it's less than 1% of what is out there for PS.
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Sunk Cost software - Photoshop for many is a sunk cost (They own it, have an Adobe subscription for Illustrator or other things you use, their company has paid for it). This also extends into arguments for why you should leave other commercial products when you already have an ELA etc for given software.
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Sunk Cost Training - If my staff knows how to use PS or other software, and has 5000 hours of experience with it, it's going to take a while for them to switch to GIMP. Even at 200 hours of lost productivity or slow work to get back up to speed on GIMP, if my labor is at $150 an hour (what I got quoted for a conversion job recently) It's going to cost me 30K to switch to GIMP.
Im not arguing with any of that. What I'm saying is 99.9% of the times I've seen someone say they can't use Linux because they can't use Photoshop they didn't need it. They aren't graphics professionals and rely on stolen/hacked versions of PS to do their work.
If you really need it you really need it, no argument there. But some hipster who "needs" it so he can make a new age poster for his craft beer room doesn't really "need" it.
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@stacksofplates said
If you really need it you really need it, no argument there. But some hipster who "needs" it so he can make a new age poster for his craft beer room doesn't really "need" it.
Are you talking about me?
Nah, I'm nowhere near a hipster.
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@john-nicholson said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
Sunk Cost software - Photoshop for many is a sunk cost (They own it, have an Adobe subscription for Illustrator or other things you use, their company has paid for it). This also extends into arguments for why you should leave other commercial products when you already have an ELA etc for given software.
I'm in the same boat when I have to use a Windows machine. If I'm on Windows, I'm the least productive person. Git on Windows sucks. I don't have a lot of the daily tools I need to perform or have to make workarounds. So again I'm not disagreeing.
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@scottalanmiller said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@john-nicholson said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@stacksofplates There are other costs to GIMP (I've used it, honestly prefer Paint.NET).
- Training. There are a bazillion classes, youtube videos, books, and even college courses that include photoshop. GIMP has significantly less available in this realm and while it has some free content it's less than 1% of what is out there for PS.
All that matters is that there is one good one, not that there is lots of random stuff. Maybe the stuff out there isn't good, I don't know. But like support or jobs, you only care that there is one for you, not lots that you don't use.
Given the nature of graphics (There are endless amounts of techniques, plugins, designs, workflows) I'm going to disagree with you. This isn't training someone how to change a car filter, this is an art, not a science so while quality does matter, the breath of training is huge.
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@stacksofplates said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@john-nicholson said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@stacksofplates There are other costs to GIMP (I've used it, honestly prefer Paint.NET).
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Training. There are a bazillion classes, youtube videos, books, and even college courses that include photoshop. GIMP has significantly less available in this realm and while it has some free content it's less than 1% of what is out there for PS.
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Sunk Cost software - Photoshop for many is a sunk cost (They own it, have an Adobe subscription for Illustrator or other things you use, their company has paid for it). This also extends into arguments for why you should leave other commercial products when you already have an ELA etc for given software.
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Sunk Cost Training - If my staff knows how to use PS or other software, and has 5000 hours of experience with it, it's going to take a while for them to switch to GIMP. Even at 200 hours of lost productivity or slow work to get back up to speed on GIMP, if my labor is at $150 an hour (what I got quoted for a conversion job recently) It's going to cost me 30K to switch to GIMP.
Im not arguing with any of that. What I'm saying is 99.9% of the times I've seen someone say they can't use Linux because they can't use Photoshop they didn't need it. They aren't graphics professionals and rely on stolen/hacked versions of PS to do their work.
If you really need it you really need it, no argument there. But some hipster who "needs" it so he can make a new age poster for his craft beer room doesn't really "need" it.
When I was a storage admin it was pretty much impossible to do your job with Linux. Way too many windows specific dependencies. Even when I carried a MAC I ran Fusion to keep a windows VM for stuff.
Now that I'm at VMware 99% of our stuff is web based internally and we have a SSO portal (Workspace one) that I can sign into once a day and get into anything (even my 401K and external stuff).
Still, I do feel the need for a Full version of outlook (The web version has some issues and workflows are weird for some stuff), OneDrive and other tools to work with my team.
My podcasting and video production stuff (Camtasia, Audio Hijack) lacks anything of reasonable quality on Linux. Also, I collaborate with team members and we use proprietary project file formats for the editing and exporting to MP4 would lose the layering stuff.
I have to use Lync/S4B plugins to get on conference calls with some companies (The web version of this suck horribly).
I used to do a TON of EUC stuff (VDI Architect) and the reality is that on any OS or end user computer project all it takes is a SINGLE application not working for a project to fail.
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