apps choice for Ubuntu and installation choices [Was: cross-platform virus]

[Derek Broughton]

Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:

> On Thursday 13 April 2006 22:48, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Brian Burger wrote:
>> > This is purely anedotal, but: Every regular computer user I know either
>> > uses Photoshop, the GIMP, or some messy, crippled photo-editor so awful
>> > they'd be better off using the GIMP. Most digicams ship with some sort
>> > of (Windows/Mac only) photo-editor, and the half-dozen I've tried to
>> > use are all far, far worse than the GIMP in terms of usability...
>>
>> I'm a regular computer user.  I find GIMP to be completely unusable.  If
>> I need to do anything more complicated than crop, compress, rotate and
>> brighten, I'll get one of my graphics capable friends to help me.
> 
> Try one of the simpler programs to do this sort of thing. Kolourpaint is a
> good one which is easy to use.

Absolutely.  I use quite a few programs - depending what machine I'm on at
the time - all of them less feature-rich, but far simpler.
-- 
derek