# Linux design question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linux-design-question/115113>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 5, 2004, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linux-design-question/115113 "2004-07-05T20:08:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![mareee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@mareee](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mareee)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linux-design-question/115113/1 "2004-07-05T20:08:56Z")

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

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linux-design-question/115113/2 "2004-07-05T20:10:39Z")

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

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linux-design-question/115113/3 "2004-07-05T20:22:01Z")

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GIMP is good: [http://gimp.org/](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.