I have a sh**load of purchased software on my windows boxes. How do I run it in Lynux?
And I've been waiting for the kids to write one. ;)
My days of writing drivers after reverse engineering hardware are over.
Hurry up with those drivers, kids... Sure, it's an edge case, but I need my Mozart!
/johnny
“kernel. It sits in between the hardware and the actual operating system “
Somebody obviously doesn’t know what an OS is and is trying to define Linux as something it is not.
Number 5 is real.
I use Linux and frameworks built on top of Linux extensively in my company (which is powered by Amazon Web Services and their Amazon Linux distribution, built upon CentOS).
But it’s silly to think Linux will ever go anywhere on the desktop. That has been said for 15-20 years. I remember trying it in the late 90s back in the bad old days of Winmodems (well, they’re still here, but wifi and ethernet has replaced direct connections to the internet).
However, I do use a unix-based OS on 100% of my personal devices: OS X and iOS. And Apple has made it fantastic.
“Supporting Linux is important to NVIDIA, and we understand that there are people who are as passionate about Linux as an open source platform as we are passionate about delivering an awesome GPU experience. “
Classy response to Linus’ F bomb. Personally, I feel nvidia should just focus on Android, the linux ‘distro’ that actually succeeded.
Fedora 16 here.
I really liked Linux and it worked with every single piece of hardware attached to it without problems, until we bought a new HP printer about 3 months ago.
The printer works fine with my wife’s Windows 7 machine and even an older XP machine, but I can’t find drivers for it for Linux.
This is they year of Linux on the desktop! LOL
When “investing” in an OS or computing environment there are tradeoffs in terms of
- $$$ paid out (for both OS and apps)
- time paid out (for both OS and apps)
- payoff i.e. enjoyment or benefit of use
With linux your $ cost is minimal and approaches 0. Your time cost is fairly high no matter how smart or experienced you happen to be. Your enjoyment payoff is fairly large at least that’s true in my case.
Over the term of ownership time cost tends to go down while enjoyment tends to go op.
With Windoze and to some extent Mac the $ payout is substantial, the time payout is much less. The enjoyment factor is subjective but speaking personally neither is as high as linux and in the case of Windoze it seems that for many folks it’s a signed quantity meaning it can also take on negative values.
Assess your own situation, see where you want to be on this list of tradeoffs, then pick the platform (Or platforms because there is no need to be monogamous) that meet your needs the best.