every time, the updates alone take forever (days).Good news for open source creatives as Inkscape 1.1 has been released! You're complaining about 3 hours? Do you have someone else doing your windows setup/installs, app installs, updates, etc? Every time I setup a windows box (it is rare, but it tends to happen at least once every 2 years, and last two happened a month ago - one win 7 enterprise and one win 8.1 pro). Sorry but I don't see a need to spend hours and tear my hair out over software. My last handful of attempts to switch to Linux ended taking a lot more than 3 hours, and I never got to a working config, or to a nicely working config, for a vareity of reasons (grub2 choking on AMD controllers, nice multiscreen handling and video support requiring different drivers, Upstart having no end-user doc.). My time has value, so if I have to spend 3 extra hours researching stuff on Linux that either Just Works or that I know how to do on Windows, Linux ends up more expensive. Serious answer for a question I suspect is pure troll, but Hey, it's my day off, and everyone needs a hobby ) No one can make anyone care about this or much of anything, but quality open-source / Free software has a lot of person-hours behind it, and its worth celebrating, especially when the releases are separated by such a long time. can be playing with and using them now, for free, forever. ), and Inkscape is not Illustrator (ditto), but they're both *good,* and mean you / the 900 students in the school down the street / etc. The GIMP is not PhotoShop (you know how you can tell? You don't have to keep buying it each month.
What's funny is how limited / limiting the default software set is on Windows (a bit better on Mac OS X, but still falls short), if you're used to the kind of apps that come with a typical Linux distro, or are available for instant free download. (And, in keeping with that idea, it's included in the defaults for many distros, which is appropriate.) Inkscape is one of the handful of apps (along with The GIMP, Firefox, OpenOffice, and some others that could round out a nice top-10 or top-20) that together make up a good base set of software that's more than good enough for most people's computerizing needs.
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