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| Ipquarx:
--- Quote from: McJob on January 31, 2017, 11:07:51 PM ---Why would I consider using Linux over Windows in any situation? --- End quote --- It sounds like your use case scenario just doesn't lend itself to Linux very well. Let's take my situation, for example. I have a desktop computer with Windows on it, and a laptop with a Linux/Windows dual boot. My desktop is the family computer, it's meant for gaming, typing up things on Word, and use for my non-tech-savvy family. Those are all things that Windows excels at, and most of those things Linux doesn't excel at, at least nearly as well. My laptop on the other hand is for personal use. It doesn't have as powerful a GPU so I use it for gaming less often, and more often non-triple A titles, which more often are less graphically intensive. Exactly half of my steam library is available and most of my favourite games are in that mix. I also use it for programming in multiple different languages, general chatting and socializing online, school assignments and listening to music. Almost all of these uses can be covered; I can play most of my favourite non-intensive games, I can still program in Mono C#, Python, and C/C++ (The latter is actually made arguably better by linux, and has some nice IDE's available like https://codelite.org/ http://www.codeblocks.org and https://netbeans.org ). My music is covered by DeaDBeeF, which is a highly customizable foobar2000-like music player that suits my needs perfectly. It also doubles as a music file conversion software, and there's ffmpeg for video file conversion. I don't think it supports folder playlists, but it's quite easy to add a playlist to your playlist tabs, drag-and-drop in a folder which will automatically add in all the songs, and I believe it has an option to scan and remove songs that don't exist in the folder anymore for when you've made a change. General chatting and socializing is good, I still have firefox which lets me access web versions of clients that I otherwise might not be able to download and there's discord steam and telegram which are the main 3 that I use. School assignments are actually made a lot easier for me in specific because I'm taking a unix C programming course, but that's unrelated to why I dual booted linux in the first place, and typing up papers and making slideshows is covered by LibreOffice, which is a surprisingly good alternative to the Office line of products if you give them a chance. I can't name any functions off the top of my head that Libreoffice Writer has that Word doesn't, but I believe the Libreoffice powerpoint equivalent is lacking in some of the features that Powerpoint has. My use cases are generally covered by it, and if I think that I'm going to end up needing something windows exclusive that day (Like visual studio, which as far as I know can't be run in Wine) then I just boot up in Windows instead of Linux. Just know that Linux absolutely is not for everyone. By the sounds of it, McJob, it just doesn't seem right for you. You have too many uses for Windows that include windows exclusive programs, having Linux dual booted would seem like a waste of space for you. For other people, a dual boot can work nicely (like in my case), and for yet others, you can get away with exclusively using Linux if all your windows-exclusive needs can be run in Wine. The only thing it's really lacking imo is something like Paint.NET. GIMP is alright for general editing but if you need to actually like, draw a diagram it's really not that great because of its lack of a shape drawing tool. There are solutions but they're not as nice as Paint.NET is. |
| d:
--- Quote from: McJob on January 31, 2017, 11:29:49 PM ---Let's focus on this. I really can't wait to see how you respond to this. I'll grab some big ones from the top of my head. And remember, I am a BIG stickler for the SAME level of functionality. As an example, Open/Libre Office is NOT a valid substitute for the Office Suite I use. Asset extraction tools include things like QuickBMS, Maki, Watto Game Extactor, Riveal, Gibbed's work, dotPeek and hundreds of other specialised tools for specific games. I use Unreal 4, Unity, Visual Studio (with VS Tools for Unreal/Unity), Photoshop CC 2016, Illustrator CC 2016, Maya 2016, Mudbox 2016, 3DS Max 2016, Mixamo Pro, Video Game Design Pro 2006, Microsoft Office 2013 (+Access & Publisher), Articy: Draft. For Video Production I use Adobe After Effects CC 2016 and Adobe Premier CC 2016. My audio management tools are iTunes (several iPods to manage and playlist folders), Mp3Tag and some custom apps my friend made. I also regularly use WinDirStat, PowerDirector 15, AnyDVD and VirtualBox, which in my experience doesn't handle the VMs I need as well if I'm not running Windows. It clips off parts of the beginning and ends of the songs, it has barebones capabilities for dealing with libraries (you can load and export playlists) and its DVD/Blu-Ray support is rough. Really, really rough. --- End quote --- The Unity development kit (or, most of it) is supported on Linux. For Maya, you should read this: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Operating-system-compatibility-for-Autodesk-Maya.html VirtualBox also comes on Linux, but there is alternatives like QEMU which also support Linux. The Adobe software package is not supported on Linux. For Mudbox, you should also read this: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-design-suite/troubleshooting/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2015/ENU/Installation-Mudbox/files/GUID-F83B0171-CA1D-4299-9863-1E2DC15F08E2-htm.html My question is: Why do you refuse to use alternatives or run things under WINE? If the performance of WINE applications worries you, it shouldn't. Pretty much every software thing I tried has run well under WINE. If Linux isn't something you think you would enjoy, then don't use it. I respect your decision. |
| Foxscotch:
--- Quote from: McJob on January 31, 2017, 11:29:49 PM ---It clips off parts of the beginning and ends of the songs, it has barebones capabilities for dealing with libraries (you can load and export playlists) and its DVD/Blu-Ray support is rough. Really, really rough. --- End quote --- never heard it clip off anything at all "media library" is a... a library. it persists after closing the program. playlists aren't your only option never had any trouble with dvd either, but I have admittedly never had a computer with a blu-ray reader so I can't really share my experiences with that (who uses either of those, though?) |
| Awesomebread²:
i used to have raspbian on my raspberry pi |
| d:
--- Quote from: Awesomebread² on January 31, 2017, 11:45:34 PM ---i used to have raspbian on my raspberry pi --- End quote --- What happened to it? |
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