Recall - Coming to a Computer Near You (Maybe)

[woodsroad]

I don’t agree with that. The surfing, email, shopping, word processor using user doesn’t want to be bothered with the challenges of Linux and involvement needed to make it what you want. It’s the more technical user that can thrive in it because of their drive and interest.

And obstinance. Think that the majority of Linux users are primarily motivated by “it’s not Windows”.

 

[woodsroad]

Great question! All those things have been done in Photoshop for some time, as you know, but you had to choose the tool (s) and then know how to operate them to good effect.

Selection has markedly improved over the years, and now of course you can automate it, often with decent results. So, all I can say is, dunno. Certainly processing an image or several by machine into something else is AI, but a huge grey area exists in my mind.

This is akin to DeWalt claiming partial ownership of your house because you used their tools to build it.

 

[Elric]

I don’t agree with that. The surfing, email, shopping, word processor using user doesn’t want to be bothered with the challenges of Linux and involvement needed to make it what you want. It’s the more technical user that can thrive in it because of their drive and interest.

I've migrated quite a few such users to Mint and the transition hasn't been that difficult. The challenges are vastly overstated with a modern distro like Ubuntu or one of its many derivitives. I certainly wouldn't give such users Debian or any flavor of Red Hat. If you want off the M$ carousel, you have to learn something whether it's MacOS or Linux. It's not the underlying OS that is difficult, merely the change.

 

[Elric]

And obstinance. Think that the majority of Linux users are primarily motivated by “it’s not Windows”.

Being free doesn't hurt either.

 

[fireground_piper]

I've migrated quite a few such users to Mint and the transition hasn't been that difficult. The challenges are vastly overstated with a modern distro like Ubuntu or one of its many derivitives. I certainly wouldn't give such users Debian or any flavor of Red Hat. If you want off the M$ carousel, you have to learn something whether it's MacOS or Linux. It's not the underlying OS that is difficult, merely the change.

I don’t disagree with the concept, but by your own admission you had to migrate people. Which possibly implies they couldn’t/wouldn’t do it themselves.

An inexperienced person can migrate from windows to Mac without an intervention which has always been the issue for Linux.

 

[sablebrush52]

I don’t agree with that. The surfing, email, shopping, word processor using user doesn’t want to be bothered with the challenges of Linux and involvement needed to make it what you want. It’s the more technical user that can thrive in it because of their drive and interest.

And therein lies one of the reasons that an app like Photoshop isn't authored in a Linux compatible version. Besides the relatively small potential user base, LInux's variability and customizability create an unstable and unpredictable environment for a complicated pig like Photoshop. The package has built-in glitches galore that require debugging in a relatively set environment like Mac's UNIX implementation and Windows.

 

[olkofri]

 

[renfield]