linux design question

[mareee]

what types of design software can you use on linux? I'm told many european countries use Linux, is it better than microsoft?

[Jeff Wheeler]

it really depends on what you're used to, their are many tools that work for linux, check out http://www.linux.org/apps/ for a list of applications that work for linux

[λ]

GIMP is good: http://gimp.org/
I use the GIMP to do design, and GVim to write code (it's a text editor not a WYSIWYG app).

I think it's better than winblows by far(posting this using MF on Gentoo Linux "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040704 Firefox/0.9.1"), but it's all a matter of opinion and experience.

[mdipi]

Moved to Computers and Games, this wasnt really related to Server Side Scripting :D

[ol4pr0]

Designing is mostly something best done with MAC :), the reason people use *nix OS systems is mostly because of security and stability. Also its a free