On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:57 PM, david wrote: > And, finally, most pro graphic designers use Macs. I'm afraid you had spent quite a while under a shower of marketing bullshit before you posted that :) This is absolutely not true. Perhaps you are thinking in terms of western market, and even then -- a special group of it. Apple indeed made some nice decisions oriented towards pro designers and prepress engineers (e.g. ColorSync), but even then they got some things terribly wrong (which has a lot to do with infancy of color management per se). > programmer, fluent with the command line, etc.) IMHO, Microsoft ignores > graphic designers because in repeated (not-well-done efforts) they've been > unable to crack the market. Other competitors with much stronger Windows > graphics products than MS have barely been able to survive, let alone grow > (CorelDraw, Xara). Corel quitted the Mac market, because they weren't able to justify development with sales. Which, I'm sure, you are fully aware of. > move to Corel's HQ. Considering what Corel did with its other Linux products > (killed them), I may have to find a replacement for it. And the other RAW > processing software on Linux just is not feature competitive. Make sure you've had a look at darktable ;) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
