[carlosponti]

Originally Posted by techieMoe

It is indeed, and I agree that it sucks. There aren't many other options at this point. I might look into setting up a dual-boot with Linux on my MacBook. So far there aren't a lot of tutorials on that that don't involve phases of the moon and goat slaughtering.

hey if it isnt against your religious beliefs go ahead and slaughter a goat on the full moon

[techieMoe]

Originally Posted by carlosponti

hey if it isnt against your religious beliefs go ahead and slaughter a goat on the full moon

Well, the first half of my faith's holy book (the Bible) does actually have an awful lot of goat slaughtering, and cow slaughtering... and people slaughtering for that matter. But I don't mean to start a religious conversation.

[carlosponti]

[fingal]

Originally Posted by techieMoe

Well, the first half of my faith's holy book (the Bible) does actually have an awful lot of goat slaughtering, and cow slaughtering... and people slaughtering for that matter. But I don't mean to start a religious conversation.

As a student I remember getting over enthusiastic and saying, 'Yeah! Let's go to the top of the hill [not named for reasons of privacy] and hold a vegetarian pagan sacrifice!!' This was of course a joke, and I say things like that all the time. However, it meant that some of the people I was doing group work with decided to avoid me from then on ...

I tried that line some months later with a hall mate, and he said, 'Yeah! I'm up for that! Just say the word and I'll help you out.' We became very good friends. Funny how some people get things ... other's just take you literally and don't understand.

I certainly like the moon ... But then I read a lot of ghost stories when I was 12.

[carlosponti]

people need to chill out sometimes my sense of humor is rather blastphemis

[GNOME_n00b]

Originally Posted by techieMoe

I don't mean to dismiss your statement. I've been reading about performance issues with Apple's X11.app (which is required to run GIMP since there is no native port of GTK+), so it's very possible that my issues are stemming from that. I just don't want to jump to any conclusions.

so in other words, you're agreeing with me?

[techieMoe]

Originally Posted by GNOME_n00b

so in other words, you're agreeing with me?

I'm open to the possibility. I don't know enough to say definitively that X11 is the reason. It could be a combination of X11 and something peculiar to GIMP.

[psic]

Just a thought, have you looked into Xara Xtreme? They've not only ported it to linux but also made it open source. It's a great program, though as far as I know, it's more a vector drawing program. I saw it in action on a Kubuntu laptop yesterday and it's VERY fast.

[Alex Stan]

Originally Posted by carlosponti

i run it in windows with good results although it takes forever to load but i never get lags. all that is done on windows to get it to run is you have to install GTK2. i am surprised that they didnt have a better route to install it on a mac.

Photoshop takes forever to load too.

[techieMoe]

Originally Posted by psic

Just a thought, have you looked into Xara Xtreme? They've not only ported it to linux but also made it open source. It's a great program, though as far as I know, it's more a vector drawing program. I saw it in action on a Kubuntu laptop yesterday and it's VERY fast.

Their OS X version isn't in a usable state yet, but thanks for the heads up. I'll keep an eye on it.