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Poll: What is your primary operating system
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Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#242I think the most important thing is that you should be able to cope with what ever operating system you might be in.
Understand where to get tools to do development with LAMP on windows, or how to cross-compile windows applications on Linux, et cetera.
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#243Windows, but I'm trying to make the switch to using Linux.
Primarily a .NET developer, the lure of Node and Ruby have been calling to me lately
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would just like to add that there is a valid reason why Linux or the *BSDs are superior to Windows or OS X - they are Free. As in Speech. And I'm sad this doesn't even warrant a mention.
Besides that, while I'm not sure it's still a valid concern: When I switched from Windows to Linux in the mid 90's it was a transition from a box with an illegal copy of MASM and a not-really-working copy of a C++ compiler to a box with a plethora of PL's, databases, code-examples and whatnot with an enormous educational value for me. On the winbox I learned Assembler, on the linbox I learned to program, that made th…
There are various ports of the GNU tool system and Microsoft has been making recent compilers available for download (and use, the free editions include redistribution rights).
Lots of other programming systems also enjoy at least decent Windows support.
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you able to explain the term "lambda user"?
Sorry it's a very bad translation from French, it's Monday morning ... I think something like "non-power-users", or "random/average user" would be a better term ?
That's an excellent term, and I am going to start using it.
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#246For desktop use I'm migrating back to Windows after having used Ubuntu almost exclusively for the past five years. It's a shame, because Ubuntu was soooo close to surpassing Windows from a "I just want to get stuff done without mucking with the machine" standpoint. But then Windows got much better with version 7 and Ubuntu took a nosedive into crazy UI fantasy land. The final straw was when text started randomly disa…
Here follows nostalgic reminiscence and some ranting.
I used to run OpenSUSE exclusively. That was fine when the world was young and my job didn't demand too much of my time. I didn't need any graphics support, WiFi or even ACPI.
10 years later, I don't have the patience and the time to sculpt a unique snowflake that will work with all the hardware in my laptop, and have it work in any reasonable network I might have to plug in to. Windows 7 works well enough. This is also a pity, since I've come to strongly dislike the post-Vista Windows UI - the new start menu, the new task bar, the new Windows Explorer windows. Everything was Just Fine with the Windows 2000 UI.
At work it's all Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a tiny bit of AIX (ewww). And I run NetBSD on Prgmr just for the heck of it.
I hate where we've gotten to. Opera is the only browser that still has a g*ddamned proper status bar.
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#247Arch Linux with Awesome Window Manager is my preferred setup. I appreciate that each screen has its own virtual desktops.
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I use Windows 7 for music production I am fascinated by this claim. The last time I looked at Windows for music production was a long time ago, but back then CoreAudio beat the pants off of ASIO for real-time work. Is that not still the case? What software do you use? Two packages that I use heavily, Logic and DP7 are mac-only.
I use Reaper by Cockos. I make rock music. I have previously used Cubase and Sonar. Regarding ASIO vs. CoreAudio performance: http://www.dawbench.com/win7-v-osx-1.htm There are a few freeware plug-ins I use that are Windows only. If I could afford to buy Altiverb 7 right now, which is OS X only, I'd probably switch to OS X (at least till Altiverb came out for Windows).
I use Reaper on Win7 as well. It is available on OSX though.
Mac is a better platform for audio but the difference is getting smaller.
It's true that they are a lot more freeware (vst) plugins on Windows. Great one like http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com for example.
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#249For desktop use I'm migrating back to Windows after having used Ubuntu almost exclusively for the past five years. It's a shame, because Ubuntu was soooo close to surpassing Windows from a "I just want to get stuff done without mucking with the machine" standpoint. But then Windows got much better with version 7 and Ubuntu took a nosedive into crazy UI fantasy land. The final straw was when text started randomly disa…
"Ubuntu took a nosedive into crazy UI fantasy land"
Is that really your reason why you ditched linux????
It is so easy to install a different UI. Nothing is so clean and consistent as window maker or any other of the extremely lightweight UIs linux allows to use.
Compared to that: whenever I start up Winodws (XP) in vmware to get my tax stuff done, I am horrified by all the messages that pop up (repeatedly), antivirus practically paralysing my computer for minutes (and longer), genuine advantage stuff etc. For my taste, windows still needs so much work invested in configuring these annoying things until the stuff is usable.
Is that 1500% improved with win 7?
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#250Primarily I use Linux (ubuntu flavour), not for any specific reason other than it is what I am most comfortable using.
I sometimes I do despair at the fanatical and near religious arguments going on over a god-damned operating system as if it truly matters.
Pick your system, use it, enjoy it, get to know it. Just don't be a muppet about it.