Since I was referring to the number of programs that are included in the OS installation, you must be doing the same.
My experience with XP is, that Notepad and Wordpad is still crap, Adobe Photoshop is still something you have to buy and install separately, so is Microsoft Office. The number of applications on a newly installed Windows XP is very small, and you don't have an Office suite before you download StarOffice. My start menu did not have hundreds of application in it. But maybe I did it all wrong?
Having used DOS and Windows since DOS 2.x, and still using Windows 2000, I have converted to use Linux for everything except creating Windows programs. A quick overview shows the money I save:
- StarOffice replaces MS Office
- Gimp replaces Adobe PhotoShop
- KreateCD replaces something I would had to buy on Windows, since HP doesn't include a program that can write ISO images with their CD-R drive.
- KFax replaces WinFax Pro.
- Kivio replaces Microsoft Visio
- OpenSSH replaces SSH
- CVS replaces SourceSafe
- KDevelop replaces Visual C++ (Visial Studio)
- ark replaces WinZIP
- I don't have to get and install virus scanner and a firewall
- Kate replaces UltraEdit, that I used on Windows
- Konqueror replaces ACDSee, that I used on Windows
- KDict replaces some commercial equivalent product
I save at least $2,500 in software expenses, and I don't miss any functionality. This is how it is now. The number of free applications is exploding, and in a few years, a Windows computer will seem very useless, unless Microsoft buys Adobe, Corel, Roxio and a lot of other software producers, and includes their applications in Windows for free.
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