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I hear this type of thing a lot but then I see numbers where Windows 7 buy itself in just a month passed ALL deployed versions of OS X using traffic to derive the numbers. So we're going to need Windows skills for a bit at least.
Unfortunately Linux really isn't ready for mainstream desktop support. Not in general, anyway. Flash support is inconsistent, java support is sometimes flaky, and upgrades almost always break one of those, which needs to be fixed by manually editing configuration files, something the majority of people don't want to have to deal with.
For me personally, (I have just recently switched my primary desktop over to ArchLinux from Win7x64) I like the customization, and Bash is a much more elegant scripting language than Powershell or Batch. Also, its free, and after the first couple of weeks, my workflow efficiency has gone up considerably, so it has been worth the extra time it has taken to get setup properly. (Running enlightenment WM, though considering switching to a 'box' based WM, or going with gnome and heavily modifying it. Also, being able to combine IRC and my messengers into irssi is just amazing, coupled with screen and multiple terminal windows on my second screen.
For me, linux is wonderful, for the general user, unless they have the support of someone who knows what they are doing, linux is not yet ready.
I didn't take linux seriously until Ubuntu 9.10. I've got it installed on a machine now, and I love it. It is a much more efficient platform than windows could ever hope to be. I just recently started programming for linux, CLI and GTK, and I am finding it much easier to program for linux than to program for windows. Compile my source code with -m32, and I get a 32-bit executable. Compile with -m64, and I've got a 64-bit executable from the same source code without editing. That is slick.
ANY real compiler does this. Migrating code from 32 to 64 bit has far more to do with the code in question than the compiler.
True, but it was far easier to set it up and make it work. Fewer hoops.
I hear this type of thing a lot but then I see numbers where Windows 7 buy itself in just a month passed ALL deployed versions of OS X using traffic to derive the numbers. So we're going to need Windows skills for a bit at least.
still trolling this thread i see
If it's logical and reasonable its not trolling.
you were trolling because in the post LightningCrash was referring to, you just randomly injected windows yet again into the conversation, when the thread (and the post you quoted, which didn't refer to windows at all) are about people's personal reasons for using linux
not every thread has to include your love of windows and your touch pro 2....
I never mentioned ANY of the things you just did in this last exchange with OldSchoolCoder over 32/64 bit compiling. He said that compiling 64 bit was simply a matter of a compiler flag with Linux dev tools.
I simply pointed out that's the way any real compiler does it and I mentioned VC++ works the same way and that going from 32 to 64 with C/CC++ especially has a lot more to do with the code in question versus the compiler.
Please tell me how this was trolling or where any of the stuff you mentioned (Windows, TP2) EVER came up on this exchange EXCEPT from you.
yikes, reading comprehension fail
Very cool.
What do you do where Linux has helped improve your efficiency? I love linux and use it on most machines, but I found when I try to focus and get more done, I stumble across another cool program for Linux that I want to test out. lol
If it's logical and reasonable its not trolling.
But it's off-topic, so it is.
We get it, you love Windows.
You were directly comparing a Linux compiler option with a compiler ONLY usable in windows, how is that not about windows?
Then pick another compiler. I only mentioned VC++ because that's what I'm most familiar with. EVERYONE keeps missing the point. 32 to 64 portability has far more to do with the code in question than the compiler. And that's got NOTHING to do with any OS.
So why bring up the fact that your pet compiler is able to do this too? It's completely irrelevant. This is not a Windows v. Linux or gcc v. VC++ thread. A 'me too' post is totally offtopic.
The thing was I wasn't even talking about Windows, I was simply addressing a comment left by OldSchoolCoder and 32/64 bit compiler flags and that what he thought was cool about whatever compiler he was using on Ubuntu wasn't different from any other real compiler and I mentioned that VC++ work the same way. The actual code has far more to do with easily creating 32 and 64 bit executables from the same code base.
How this was trolling or had ANYTHING to do with Windows per se... well some people just want to see what they want to see and not reality I guess.
FFS, you might try actually reading the post I quoted.
lol, like i said before, reading comprehension fail (for heatlesun)
hehe
So I just installed Linux and was curious why all of you have installed Linux. I am looking for ideas of what to do with my new Linux box
I use it for anything anyone would use a O.S. for. My main and only OS is Linux and I don't say that while firing up a virtual session of Windows. It does anything and everything I want. I have a PS3 to play games.
Well, you are one of the lucky few who can do that.
I disagree. Linux users, outside of the fan boys, tend to be more pragmatic about their software choices.I seriously doubt this statement. I know tons of people. I would say 85% of Linuxquestions.org just use Linux only.
Has anyone ever donated to a Linux distribution for their supports? I am just wondering. I know I have donated $10 to both Debian & Arch projects for their time and my love for both distributions. I figured I have been in love with Linux for years and using it for so long, the least I could do is donate something to show appreciation for their hard work and effort.
Has anyone ever donated to a Linux distribution for their supports? I am just wondering. I know I have donated $10 to both Debian & Arch projects for their time and my love for both distributions. I figured I have been in love with Linux for years and using it for so long, the least I could do is donate something to show appreciation for their hard work and effort.
Has anyone ever donated to a Linux distribution for their supports? I am just wondering. I know I have donated $10 to both Debian & Arch projects for their time and my love for both distributions. I figured I have been in love with Linux for years and using it for so long, the least I could do is donate something to show appreciation for their hard work and effort.