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Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by JupiterMoon »

JupiterMoon wrote: post #255
scholia wrote: post #231

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Any good examples of closed source applications being financially successful on Linux? How do the opportunities on Linux compare with investing in applications for other platforms? It's not so much about "caring" as about the ability to pay programmers to create profitable software.

Loads. Mainly very expensive high end niche scientific packages (scientists tend to use Linux at a higher percentage than ordinary people so the market percentages are more favourable).

I'm thinking stuff that is available on Linux as well as Windows/OSx.

Examples include Matlab, the Avizo image analysis suite, a certain simulation package that was described as AllSIM in a controversial discussion relating to CERN last week on HN and Maya (not scientific but it does illustrate the sort of high end very expensive niche stuff that tends to have Linux versions).

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by JupiterMoon »

giovannibajo1 wrote: post #282
pmelendez wrote: post #263

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Inkscape is nice and I use it all the time, but I am not a designer so it works for me just fine (I suspect is the same case in your office). On the other hand, my sister is a designer, and there are so many missing features on Inkscape that prevent her to use it in her profession life. The comparison seems unfair, but it is the closest thing to an alternative for Illustrator in the software free world.

I find that many programmers find Inkscape or Gimp more than enough for their graphic needs, but it's really hard to come across a designer that would agree. Nobody likes to pay and pirate software; if designers found Gimp really up to the task, they would be rushing to use it and drop the Adobe monthly fee. The fact that this mass migration is not happening and has never happened in the past 10 years should tell us…

I think that for a professional designer a £15 (or whatever it is now) monthly charge that can probably be expensed or tax offset anyway is small compared to learning a new UI or the potential difficulties that can arise when handing a non-Adobe file to a print shop.

What Adobe have achieved with photoshop is become the de facto standard for many aspects of design and image work. They have done this through a mixture of (1) being the best practical option and (2) some vendor lock in. We may not like it but well done to them.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by JupiterMoon »

Karunamon wrote: post #332
flurpitude wrote: post #274

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But professionals now have a very good, non-ideological reason to choose a Linux OS over Windows. How many professionals are comfortable with an operating system that collects and sends everything they load, type or save to Microsoft and their corporate and government partners?

Has it actually been proven that this happens? Vague wording in a EULA isn't proof.

In some cases (e.g. legal and medical services) the very potential may be illegal in some countries -- and the proof could lose not just someone's business but their license to practice.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by scholia »

thawkins wrote: post #342
scholia wrote: post #231

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Any good examples of closed source applications being financially successful on Linux? How do the opportunities on Linux compare with investing in applications for other platforms? It's not so much about "caring" as about the ability to pay programmers to create profitable software.

Steam

Linux users are only 0.89% of the Steam user base, which is 95.79% Windows....

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

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Post by JimmaDaRustla »

shock wrote: post #316
JimmaDaRustla wrote: post #171

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Don't forget, system updating typically isn't straight forward depending on distro. I was explaining to my brother the other day the need to perform diffs on system configuration files after performing a system update. His eyes kind of glazed over as his brain understood the concept, but refused to accept that major linux distros hadn't evolved past it.

I've used Ubuntu for a considerable amount of time and done numerous system updates. Please tell us what diffs you needed to perform, otherwise I call FUD.

Ubuntu uses aptitude and will prompt you when there are conflicting files and creates .dpkg-new for diffing: https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/09/21/debian-conffile-config...

Arch (pacman) creates .pacnew files for diffing later.

RPM creates .rpmnew files, not sure if you're prompted or not at the time of updating.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by tracker1 »

wrenky wrote: post #242
tracker1 wrote: post #215

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It's funny, but my gripes with linux aren't the UI.. I use an Ubuntu Server VM via SSH most of the day... my desktop is windows, my laptop is OSX, and the computer I use the most not working is my Ubuntu HTPC (Unity)... I actually like Windows 7's UI the most.. though 10 is tolerable after disabling all the damned search options. That said, every single time I've tried to use a Linux OS either as my primary laptop or…

> hat said, every single time I've tried to use a Linux OS either as my primary laptop or desktop OS I experience significant problems that no end user should have to deal with... the last time, I added a drive after install... the system updates included an update to grub.. next reboot, wouldn't even load... after 3 days of setting up my environment, applications, vmware, etc, etc... I can't even fucking boot. was t…

The HTPC suspend issue is with current Ubuntu 15.04, Actually, I'm in pre-release channel because of another audio bug that rolled into regular updates for my chipset, I had no audio at all after said update. I had hoped the fixes would also fix the suspend issue with audio disappearing, but it hasn't.

The issue with booting was mid-late 2013, I haven't tried running Linux as the main OS on my desktop since, Windows 10 has me considering it.

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Post by Spoom »

MichaelGG wrote: post #247
Spoom wrote: post #109

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But if the friend who got the password via Wi-Fi Sense has access to the network, that means that at some point, the password had to be in clear text on their computer (since otherwise it wouldn't be able to authenticate to the network). This means that at best, they use reversible encryption, and at worst, it's just stored in cleartext somewhere (this being Microsoft, my guess would be in the registry). I guarantee…

You'd need to look up the details, but I think the key derivation for WPA allows you to store a hash of the password. It's almost just as valuable, but technically means you don't have the plain password.

Hmm, interesting. It sounds from your comment like you would still be able to replay the hash in order to connect though, unless there's a bigger system at play that I don't know about.

Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

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Post by shock »

JimmaDaRustla wrote: post #355
shock wrote: post #316

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I've used Ubuntu for a considerable amount of time and done numerous system updates. Please tell us what diffs you needed to perform, otherwise I call FUD.

Ubuntu uses aptitude and will prompt you when there are conflicting files and creates .dpkg-new for diffing: https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/09/21/debian-conffile-config... Arch (pacman) creates .pacnew files for diffing later. RPM creates .rpmnew files, not sure if you're prompted or not at the time of updating.

From the blog you linked: "Dpkg keeps a checksum of the last installed version of configuration file. When it must install a new version, it calculates the checksum of the currently installed file and if it doesn’t match anymore, it knows that the user has edited the file. In that case, instead of overwriting the configuration file, it asks the user what to do."

If you didn't modify the system config you don't get prompted about what to do.

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