I'm all about Open Source
Yo, check out how hip I am because I got a new Switch to Linux animation.
2003-01-16
I actually wrote this one the same time I wrote the Switch to Mac animation, then I ended up scrapping it, then one day I came across the text file and decided,'what the hell.'
I'm actually a big fan of linux, and thoroughly annoyed that I have to spend my day working in windows. Alas until Macromedia and Adobe get off their ass I don't think I'll ever be able to switch to linux myself. Right now all I get to do is play some Quake and do some java doodles.
So maybe this is an advertisement for it's own future usefulness. Linux is getting a LUDICROUS amount of publicity/hype. It's on Tech TV all the time. I really don't think Linux will ever live up to the hype for anyone except programmers. Non-programmers don't really care about shell scripting. Things need to Just Work. Linux isn't that cool yet. I'm still umount-ing my cdroms for god's sake, and half the time they don't mount correctly.
I wonder how many other designers/animators out there, like me, are fed up with Windows and ready to switch to Linux but can't. If any of you are out there email me and tell me what you think. What would make you switch? Would you sign a petition? Are there any of you who have?
For me I work a lot with Flash, ASP(for my day job), Illustrator and Photoshop. Even though the Gimp is an unbelievable product I can't give someone else a gimp file. What makes Photoshop, Quark and fax machines so powerful is that I'm almost guaranteed whoever I'm working with has it. Until I can open someone else's photoshop files in Linux, it's a windows world.
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