Mac/Linux Thread

[Phaze]

HA! you still have staff.png and those DBZ micspams, those are gold.

Of course I do! Why would I get rid of those?

Granted, I do need to sort them into appropriate folders, but still.

Win7 is really nice.

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Linux love

That it is! I think it's probably gonna be my last Windows OS, too.

As for Lunix, I actually do have an Ubuntu dual boot... but I don't boot into it too often. The main reasons being touchpad driver weirdness (not quite the same as Win7, i.e lacking working edge-scrolling, very important), having difficulty getting comfortable with a DE (to which LXDE is closest but it has annoying quirks - gonna try Cinnamon) along with some niggling program issues like vidya availability.
Thankfully Steam is starting this Linux movement which will hopefully see many more games on the OS!

Overall, I'm hopeful that if I don't adopt Lunix fully with this aging laptop, I'll almost certainly be using it a lot (hopefully entirely) on my hypothetical future Desktop. I just need to find/make a good DE and not need to deal with touchpads.

I really love the underlying services and file system structure of UNIX-based OSes. To this effect I have an old Desktop running Ubuntu Server that is a joy to administrate via SSH from my Windows Laptop (shame about CMD window width...). I use it to run game servers and a simple web server for providing HTTP access to files I don't want to or can't put on file hosters ¦D
It's just the awkwardness of the Linux desktop that has prevented total adoption here... and to think I hated Linux some 5 years ago.

I would honestly use Linux if 1) I had my own PC and 2) Windows wasn't the only platform 99.9% existing programs can run on. To be honest the only program I regularly use that doesn't have a Linux port is FlashDevelop, but every now and again I use one or other obscure .exe or small tool that'll only run on Windows.
Once I get my own PC I might dual-boot it though

Thankfully WINE is making this issue... well, less of an issue! We'll probably never see 100% compatibility but outside of the more obscure programs, we'll hopefully see equivalent programs or better WINE compatibility on Linux in the future as more users adopt it.

Or maybe some people will actually port their programs over, who knows