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- Nov 10, 2004
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I have been using Ubuntu as a secondary OS for about 2 years now and I love a lot of things about it. However I do a lot of bitmap image editing and I absolutely have to use Photoshop to do it.
I never really thought about why before, without thinking about it I had just labeled GIMP as a piece of crap. However I was playing around with GIMP on a windows machine recently and something struck me. It wasn't crap, in fact it was very usable. I think the original interface is messy but this is probably the result of having grown up with another product, and GIMPshop could help fix that. So I tried it under Ubuntu again and much to my surprise, no dice. It doesn't seem to be GIMP that is the problem, but Gnome.
I have never really noticed it in normal use, but when using a mouse or graphics tablet for image editing, Gnome seems too laggy and imprecise. I tried tweaking the mouse settings, swapping my Razer Deathadder for a friend's Logitech G9, tweaking my Wacom tablet, but even on the maximum sensitivity settings the laggy and imprecise feeling remained. In case it was some quirk of my old Yonah laptop I installed Ubuntu on my brand new Wolfdale build and everything was exactly the same.
Now I know that there are at least a few gfx people who use Linux, so I'm hoping one of you might shed some light on my situation. Should I switch to KDE or XFCE? Is this just a mad quirk of all Linux GUIs? Or will I have to run a machine with Windows and Photoshop for ever more?
I never really thought about why before, without thinking about it I had just labeled GIMP as a piece of crap. However I was playing around with GIMP on a windows machine recently and something struck me. It wasn't crap, in fact it was very usable. I think the original interface is messy but this is probably the result of having grown up with another product, and GIMPshop could help fix that. So I tried it under Ubuntu again and much to my surprise, no dice. It doesn't seem to be GIMP that is the problem, but Gnome.
I have never really noticed it in normal use, but when using a mouse or graphics tablet for image editing, Gnome seems too laggy and imprecise. I tried tweaking the mouse settings, swapping my Razer Deathadder for a friend's Logitech G9, tweaking my Wacom tablet, but even on the maximum sensitivity settings the laggy and imprecise feeling remained. In case it was some quirk of my old Yonah laptop I installed Ubuntu on my brand new Wolfdale build and everything was exactly the same.
Now I know that there are at least a few gfx people who use Linux, so I'm hoping one of you might shed some light on my situation. Should I switch to KDE or XFCE? Is this just a mad quirk of all Linux GUIs? Or will I have to run a machine with Windows and Photoshop for ever more?