Comments on: Why does Google hate Linux?

By: Wow

Wow — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:44:49 +0000

“Except one thing; Picasa was good at enhancing photos.”

Digikam is a pretty good editor. Though it’s one-button-fix isn’t as good, the changes you can place and the formats it will handle are all extremely good.

re: “But very few people use Linux ” Odd. Several scores of millions of users are “very few”.

By: im not gay but $20 is $20

im not gay but $20 is $20 — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:16:08 +0000

Just install wine then install the windows 3.9 version.On my LinuxMint-12 system it auto-updated to version 135.9300 and works fine.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:28:47 +0000

So far, the best “software” for handling the files is the system’s file manager, which does come with tools to see the pics. That being managed, it is then a matter of choosing the processing software, and that may depend on what you’re doing with the pictures.

By: Bertram Sludy

Bertram Sludy — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:25:25 +0000

Tormak: I’m with you. I find Picasa is as good as anything else I’ve tried, except that it excels in two departments: the first is managing a huuuuge database of files (223,000+) and the second is facial recognition. Find me a different Linux program that has both these things, and I’ll happily switch.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:55:27 +0000

Haters hating hater haters, I say to you.

By: Tormak

Tormak — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:18:53 +0000

I don’t know about you guys, but I use picasa on all of my machines (which almost all run linux) because it’s:
1) Fast and Easy to quickly enhance and crop photos.
2) Simple to upload them to my google+ account.
3) Can recognize faces and then update my email contacts with user pictures automatically.

I’ve also setup most of my extended family with picasa for the same reasons, but they all run windows.

It’s driving me crazy that Google is eroding the Linux desktop experience by working with adobe to kill flash #1 and killing off picasa on linux #2.

By: Ngarrang

Ngarrang — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:52:00 +0000

Did someone wake up on the wrong side of the keyboard this morning? This was more likely a business decision, than a political statement against Linux. And given your complaint about the quality of the program, why would you even want it on Linux? The program sucks, but you are angry it doesn’t have a native linux version. That makes zero sense. Let the application die.

By: W. Anderson

W. Anderson — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:37:46 +0000

Google does not hate Linux, not if YOU “know” about the many contributions of Google to Linux Kernel and general Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) development.

However Google would have made a smart move early upon the acquisition of Picasa by having their software engineers re-write to application – e.g. in Python – to run on all platforms- thus further eliminating the push towards Windows, which does not aid Google in any way.

The commenter Dan Moutal is emblematic of the stupid thinking and ignorance in society, by claiming no one uses Linux.

Consider Dan, that a significant portion of the 27 governments in the European Union are or have switched to Linux as well as South Africa and most countries in South America, especially Brazil. Even Russia is switching to Linux for it’s entire education system, and with similar thinking taking place in Asia.

Dan may not care what happens elsewhere – if he is in USA, but this rapidly growing adoption outside the USA will affect Google applications use – whether Google likes it or not.

Time to stop the ignorance and ridiculous statements.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 06:53:15 +0000

What do you mean “hate”? Google was giving away for free an app that worked on Linux, now they don’t anymore because nobody used it.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:52:51 +0000

There is no reason for any app to not have a Linux version (given the way software is developed). Only haters don’t make the Linux version.