Looking for some good alternatives for W*nd*ws programs

[herrold at owlriver.com (R P Herrold)]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Olaf Greve wrote:

> - Ultraedit (!!! very important !!!) - vi is cool for terminal stuff, but for 
> programming etc. I prefer Ultraedit (column mode, multiple windows, replace 
> in files, regular expressions, etc.).

joe does column mode fine, just like Word*Star  ;)

> - Jasc Paint Shop Pro, or Adobe Photoshop - often The Gimp is mentioned, but 
> is it really as powerful? I particularly like PSP (as I think it's more 
> intuitive than PS), but over here at work we also use PS a lot... I fear this 
> may be one of the very few remaining reasons to keep W*nd*ws at all on the 
> 2nd drive...:(

yes, the Gimp is

> - Flash MX (7.20). I fear there is no Linux variant of this one, but I'm 
> asking just in case...

MM Flash works here -- no issues

- Russ Herrold