On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:03:35PM +1100, David wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Craige McWhirter wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:48 +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: > > > Final straw was trying to set transparent background. I was presented > > > with techno-gobbledegook. > > > > File - New - Fill Type: Transparent > > > > or in an existing image: > > > > Layer - New Layer - Layer Fill Type: Transparent > > I spent 10 years learning photoshop, and it took me an annoying one month > to get the hang of GIMP. I kept expecting it to work EXACTLY the same as > photoshop. > > This thread made me wonder: If people were brought up on Gnu/Linux the way > most people are brought up on Windows, would they then find linux really > easy, and Windows counter-intuitive and confusing? Is it simply what you > learn first that defines what you find easy?
I vote a resounding 'yes' on that one. Mac people say that Windows sucks,
Windows people say Macs and Linux sucks, and I say Windows is a PITA and Mac
OS X is not easy to use. Whatever people seem to have a chunk of experience
with first more or less defines what they think is the best interface.
- Matt
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With enough people around there's a probability ~=1 that one of them is an
MCSE and will give you the wrong answer to your problem.
-- Toni Lassila, in the Monastery
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