Gimp is fine, but it has never been close to photoshop. Holy fudge, I tried to get this going and people just crapped on me for suggesting it.Ĥ) Until recently, installing on laptops was an absolute crap shoot.ĥ) Just, apps, in general. OpenOffice is fine, IF you are ok with the janky ui and no one knowing how it works.ģ) lack of open source exchange type mail/cal/etc server and outlook-like client).
There were too many projects with none focusing on really making a better gui than mac/windows.Ģ) A lack of bread and butter 1st class 'business' apps - you know, office. This will be super unpopular, but Linux missed the desktop boat 20 years ago, and my feeling as someone who at the time built his gentoo OS's from source, it was the fault of a few things:ġ) Fragmented gui development.
