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Re: Valve’s Newell: Windows 8 “catastrophe” driving Valve to embrace Linux

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Post by kevhsu » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 4:10 PM UTC

icarus127 wrote: post #36

Permit wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>One is more polished on better hardware for people who have the money and want the best. Is this at all true? If you spent an identical sum of money on a PC would you not get better hardware?

Depends on what you mean by better hardware. The specs will probably be better, I have a Thinkpad and it would have cost me twice as much for an equivalent Macbook. That said, the build quality of the Thinkpad isn't even close to the MacBook, it just depends on what's important to you. For me, an aluminium case isn't worth $1500, and I don't really want to be seen with an Apple product anyway :)

Well with the thinkpads and other business-centric laptops you tend to get the advantage of modularity as well. Keyboards, screens, hard drives, RAM, batteries, and optical drives can all be replaced fairly easily on Dell Latitudes and Lenovo Thinkpads. (The ones I've had at least.) On a Macbook, replacing the RAM and hard drive are the only ones I know to be fairly simple.

Re: Valve’s Newell: Windows 8 “catastrophe” driving Valve to embrace Linux

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Post by rrreese » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 5:28 PM UTC

nl wrote: post #31

Yes, Steam breaks on Windows 8. But people shouldn't take that motivation as something that makes what Newell is saying automatically wrong. He's far from the only person to say Win8 is going to be a disaster for MS - perhaps it is worth looking at the possibility he is actually right.

I'm running Windows 8, and I'm running steam. I've had no problems with Steam or with Steam games.

Re: Valve’s Newell: Windows 8 “catastrophe” driving Valve to embrace Linux

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Post by thenomad » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 10:02 PM UTC

kevhsu wrote: post #50

thenomad wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking as a visual arts professional, GIMP won't do as a replacement for Photoshop for me. In addition, there's no replacement for After Effects, and no equally good alternative (IMO) to Premiere as a current-generation video editor. I take it the difficulty of making these apps work in Linux is basically impossible?

what about wine? does performance suffer too much?

I've just looked through WineHQ, and my understanding is that even on CS5, After Effects doesn't work at all, Photoshop is fairly buggy, and Premiere doesn't work at all.