Thread: Aergh... is Linux just for nerds?
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2008-06-23 , 22:24
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Originally Posted by mwiktowy View Post
In my experience with my victims ... errr ... friends and family that I have introduced Linux to, it is not "favorite" Windows applications they want to run, it is rather the applications that they have learned the step by step methods for how they want to do their day to day stuff; as painful as those steps might be. It is also the applications that they have their data trapped in.
Although there are obviously a lot of things trapped in specific formats, there are many applications that don't have equivalent applications to use in other systems.
As a mac user I find it annoying that there is nothing like visio for another platform, and there are many times I get annoyed on linux forums when people recommend gimp as an equivilent of photoshop.

Obviously there are some things, like word processing, project management and the like that are easy to do on any platform but complicated by a compatibility requirement with some other software (such as MS office). At that point it is irrelevant whether you should need compatibility with that software, just the fact that you do for your job.