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Originally Posted by Qiaozhi
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I don't really care whether I dump Windows or not. I care about using easy ways to get the PC to do what I want. The reason I use Windows is because it can run a few of my favourite programs that work better than other programs, and because I need it to be able to read my business partners files like quickbooks, MS project, and a lot of other programs that are interlocked into MS office. Linux cannot run these things unless I spend the cash for a Windows emulator and install Windows to run in it. In that case I may as well run my dual boot or pure Windows machine without spending any money or dealing with decreased processor performance from running 2 OS at the same time.
There are a lot of freeware applications that will sort files or rename them or convert them to a different format. Also a lot of freeware applications that will allow simple image manipulation and play sound or video files. But does any of them do it all in a single program that is only 430 KB? The closest clone is XNView. But even XNView requires more mouse and menu work that is just plain simpler in Irfanveiw.
The menus for Irfanview are intuitive. I learned them in less than an hour just by trying them out. For Gimp, I had to read tutorials for several months before I understood the basics well. And I still need to look online occasionally to find ways to do tricky editing effects. Irfanview is easy and intuitive to accomplish most simple tasks very quickly by pressing a minimum of buttons. In order to get this much utility from other software, I would need to open several programs in overlapping windows, and I would be clicking a lot more menu buttons, and I would see a lot more system resources being used. So I will stay with Windows to run Irfanview and other Windows applications for now. When Irfanview is ported to Linux, maybe I will remove the Windows hard drive from this PC.
But back to the original topic, I did find a way to make Windows run well.
See my previous post for some tips:
http://www.geotech1.com/forums/showp...&postcount=183
Best wishes,
J_P