Quote from: quiller on December 05, 2013, 08:20:38 AM
It took me a while to get the hang of Paintshop Pro (back about ten versions ago, and I never changed). But that's for Billy Gates's Windows. May I offer up the blatant heresy here that Ubuntu may not allow what this CPFer is seeking, and a PC-based program like PSP would work better, with vastly more features?

I bought my copy for $10 at a computer show. Call it almost freeware, if it's old enough but can still produce images you'll like.

http://issuu.com/gimpmagazine/docs/whitepaper-gimp-vs-ps

Quote from: milos on December 05, 2013, 02:10:00 AM
Thanks. At a first glance, I found a couple of pages in the manual. They philosophize something about the size of a pixel is relative. Gimp loads my photos of 314 dpi as they are 72 dpi by default, and then I have a possibility to adjust the resolution for printing. I don't want to adjust the resolution, I just want my photo editor to recognize the original resolution, no matter the size of a pixel.

http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-tutorial-quickie-scale.html

http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-tutorial-quickie-scale-print.html

Milos, now you got me curious.

Can you post the exif data for your image?

Quote from: quiller on December 05, 2013, 06:50:24 AM
For the sake of comity between myself and a certain high-ranking forum officer here, I'll let you figure out if Ubuntu is right for you...but don't expect all freeware to behave well while using Ubuntu.

Ubuntu is not for me. It was a painful, but necessary decision. Windows XP has less and less support for the various software. Even watching the videos on You Tube became very hard because of the sound and image problems. XP worked very good for me the last six years, it has never crashed, except for just one time when I got the blue screen, but it was because of a problem with Firefox. I actually find IE to be more stable than Firefox on Windows, but only much slower. On the other side, Ubuntu is less stable on my computer than XP, I have it for five days now, and I think it crashed three or four times. It does not recognize my graphic card, and I have some issues with toolbar icons not showing in Firefox, and with media players, for example they automatically open in upper left corner instead of in the center of the screen, which looks weird. I miss PhotoScape, RealPlayer, Winamp. And of course, my flight simulators FS 2004 and CFS 3.

Quote from: taxed on December 05, 2013, 01:08:37 PM
Milos, now you got me curious.

Can you post the exif data for your image?

I think this is not the real EXIF. First one are image properties from the folder view, and the other one are image properties from Gimp. But I remember image resolutions from my camera were 314 dpi on Windows. When I adjust the resolution of 300 dpi for printing, image dimensions come to approximately 30x20 centimeters, which should be true for an 8.8 MEGApixels image in 300 dpi. But why oh why they complicate, they are confusing me.

Quote from: milos on December 06, 2013, 11:42:03 AM
Ubuntu is not for me. It was a painful, but necessary decision. Windows XP has less and less support for the various software. Even watching the videos on You Tube became very hard because of the sound and image problems. XP worked very good for me the last six years, it has never crashed, except for just one time when I got the blue screen, but it was because of a problem with Firefox.

I liked XP, it was the last good operating system since Win 98.

It boggles the mind as to why Windows keeps making a new product more confusing and less accessible than it's predecessor.
If I had my way, I'd bring back 98 with all the latest drivers and security, the public would be ecstatic.

Quote from: Solar on December 06, 2013, 12:03:13 PM
I liked XP, it was the last good operating system since Win 98.

It boggles the mind as to why Windows keeps making a new product more confusing and less accessible than it's predecessor.
If I had my way, I'd bring back 98 with all the latest drivers and security, the public would be ecstatic.

LOL there no money in having something ever one can use (fix) or understand.  Now they ask for 50$ to 100$ to even look at your computer. 

Quote from: Solar on December 06, 2013, 12:03:13 PM
I liked XP, it was the last good operating system since Win 98.

It boggles the mind as to why Windows keeps making a new product more confusing and less accessible than it's predecessor.
If I had my way, I'd bring back 98 with all the latest drivers and security, the public would be ecstatic.

98SE was still blue screen territory, but with XP it became much easier for me. The company is issuing security updates for XP but even that is expected to end relatively soon. I take that to mean XP will still be splendid for MOST home use but not suited for Internet surfing once security patches do end.

One idea does come to mind, for those wanting to make XP last forever but all they have is a factory-install OS without accompanying hard-disk DVD copy. To compensate, OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturers) disks for XP are available at computer fairs, but will not include patches you will soon cannot get anyway without taking action right away.

The fast action part would be to buy an outboard hard drive for your PC and load XP, then get to Microsoft for the patches (while still available)...and leave it on the external/portable drive to plug in wherever you need it. A good safe place to find other files is at CNet (or at Major Geeks).

Serious geeks can point you to various mirroring software to copy your entire drive, although a few such programs do not carry over a handful of files that are open during the copying process.  That appears to be the only drawback to mirror software (and not in all cases).

Quote from: milos on December 06, 2013, 11:42:03 AM
Ubuntu is not for me. It was a painful, but necessary decision. Windows XP has less and less support for the various software. Even watching the videos on You Tube became very hard because of the sound and image problems. XP worked very good for me the last six years, it has never crashed, except for just one time when I got the blue screen, but it was because of a problem with Firefox. I actually find IE to be more stable than Firefox on Windows, but only much slower. On the other side, Ubuntu is less stable on my computer than XP, I have it for five days now, and I think it crashed three or four times. It does not recognize my graphic card, and I have some issues with toolbar icons not showing in Firefox, and with media players, for example they automatically open in upper left corner instead of in the center of the screen, which looks weird. I miss PhotoScape, RealPlayer, Winamp. And of course, my flight simulators FS 2004 and CFS 3.

What type of computer do you have?  If it is an older setup, Ubuntu is definitely not right for you.  Ubuntu is as every bit of a resource pig as Windows, and you should run a different distro.  If you have a newer computer, then something else is an issue.  I dumped Ubuntu and am running Xubuntu, which has a different desktop than Unity.  I hate Unity.  Can you describe your computer configuration, and what video card?

Regarding games, I'm not a gamer, but as I understand it from other gamers, and Linux gamers, you are coming in at the right time during the evolution of Linux, and Linux as a desktop overall.  A lot of people, like you, are being forced to dump Windows because of the support drops, and there is a gaming distributor that runs on Linux now, and many believe this will force new development on the desktop side.  You can run Windows programs from Linux with Wine, but I only had success with about half of the stuff I've tried to run, and the rest is a config nightmare that should be used as interrogation techniques at GITMO.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2049369/amd-nvidia-ramp-up-linux-driver-support-after-valves-steamos-announcement.html

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I think this is not the real EXIF. First one are image properties from the folder view, and the other one are image properties from Gimp. But I remember image resolutions from my camera were 314 dpi on Windows. When I adjust the resolution of 300 dpi for printing, image dimensions come to approximately 30x20 centimeters, which should be true for an 8.8 MEGApixels image in 300 dpi. But why oh why they complicate, they are confusing me.

I'll check it out..........  I may have you send it to me so I can mess with it also...

Quote from: milos on December 06, 2013, 11:42:03 AM
XP worked very good for me the last six years

Eight years actually.

Quote from: quiller on December 06, 2013, 12:26:52 PM
The fast action part would be to buy an outboard hard drive for your PC and load XP, then get to Microsoft for the patches (while still available)...and leave it on the external/portable drive to plug in wherever you need it.

This is a splendid idea. But could it actually work? Should that external hard disk be formated to be bootable, or not, to run an operating system from it? I have my original Windows XP CD, and that way I wouldn't even need the patches, nor antivirus or firewall. Just the software I want to use with Windows, and that is it.

Quote from: taxed on December 06, 2013, 01:12:16 PM
What type of computer do you have?  If it is an older setup, Ubuntu is definitely not right for you.  Ubuntu is as every bit of a resource pig as Windows, and you should run a different distro.  If you have a newer computer, then something else is an issue.  I dumped Ubuntu and am running Xubuntu, which has a different desktop than Unity.  I hate Unity.  Can you describe your computer configuration, and what video card?

I have a 32-bit Pentium 4 Intel Celeron CPU 2.80 GHz with 1 GB RAM and 128 MB graphic card ATI Radeon 9550, bought in 2006. For video card, I don't know.

Quote from: Solar on December 06, 2013, 12:03:13 PM
I liked XP, it was the last good operating system since Win 98.

It boggles the mind as to why Windows keeps making a new product more confusing and less accessible than it's predecessor.
If I had my way, I'd bring back 98 with all the latest drivers and security, the public would be ecstatic.

I ran Win98 for years, long into the XP era. (Or sometimes I ran Me, which was the same vehicle with a bit more chrome and pinstriping.) I liked it a lot, but at the time I was comparing it mostly to Win95, which purely sucked.

(My favorite Win95 fun fact: MS sold you the OS on CD-ROM. But at that time, few if any BIOSes supported CD-ROM drives. MS had to know that, but still they did not include drivers for your CD-ROM drive with your purchase.)

Right now, I'm running three different systems. This machine is running XP, the one out in the shop runs Win7, and my laptop came with Win8. For my money, Win7 is to XP what Win98 was to Win95 -- faster, smoother, more capable, less buggy, but still with a similar look and feel. I do NOT like Win8, which was designed more for portable devices with touch-screens. (For one thing, in Win8 you have to mouse around blind completely off the visible screen to trigger some menus. WTF?)

Quote from: TboneAgain on December 06, 2013, 04:59:33 PM
I ran Win98 for years, long into the XP era. (Or sometimes I ran Me, which was the same vehicle with a bit more chrome and pinstriping.) I liked it a lot, but at the time I was comparing it mostly to Win95, which purely sucked.

(My favorite Win95 fun fact: MS sold you the OS on CD-ROM. But at that time, few if any BIOSes supported CD-ROM drives. MS had to know that, but still they did not include drivers for your CD-ROM drive with your purchase.)

Right now, I'm running three different systems. This machine is running XP, the one out in the shop runs Win7, and my laptop came with Win8. For my money, Win7 is to XP what Win98 was to Win95 -- faster, smoother, more capable, less buggy, but still with a similar look and feel. I do NOT like Win8, which was designed more for portable devices with touch-screens. (For one thing, in Win8 you have to mouse around blind completely off the visible screen to trigger some menus. WTF?)

That's the issue I have with Unity on Ubunu.  It's for compatibility with the touch screens, but it drives me crazy.  I can't stand the Dash thing, and just wanted things to be f*n normal. I hate it when something works fine that users like, and they decide to just change it up.

Quote from: TboneAgain on December 06, 2013, 04:59:33 PM
I ran Win98 for years, long into the XP era. (Or sometimes I ran Me, which was the same vehicle with a bit more chrome and pinstriping.) I liked it a lot, but at the time I was comparing it mostly to Win95, which purely sucked.

(My favorite Win95 fun fact: MS sold you the OS on CD-ROM. But at that time, few if any BIOSes supported CD-ROM drives. MS had to know that, but still they did not include drivers for your CD-ROM drive with your purchase.)

Right now, I'm running three different systems. This machine is running XP, the one out in the shop runs Win7, and my laptop came with Win8. For my money, Win7 is to XP what Win98 was to Win95 -- faster, smoother, more capable, less buggy, but still with a similar look and feel. I do NOT like Win8, which was designed more for portable devices with touch-screens. (For one thing, in Win8 you have to mouse around blind completely off the visible screen to trigger some menus. WTF?)

Yep, same here. I just bought Toy a all in one 24" monitor from Dell, it too has Win 8, what a freakin Easter egg hunt just to use it!

I have an stand alone old Hewlett Packard computers that is running 95 yet.  Also have a stand alone 15 year old computer running 98 yet.  I am running 7 now on a laptop.