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Lifer
- Feb 22, 2007
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I go where the applications I need are.,if that is win8 then I will have to use it, no choice.
Thankfully programmers are taking interest in some of the non MS OS .
In my situation I do embedded electronics, that basically means I design hardware with chips like ARM or PIC and write the code. Most of the ARM designs run some form of linux so it would seem that linux is the obvious choice here, but that isnt always the case since i have some ARM tools that only work in windows, so I use windows and linux for development and there is nothing wrong with that. Would I like linux to be able to do it all ? Sure , but that isn't realistic.
Linux is a great OS but the one thing that made it great is also the very same thing that is holding it back, openness. Right now there are hardware devices I use like chip programmers or logic analyzers that only have windows software. The companies are not willing to release any source code and in the past when they released binary only drivers all they got for their efforts was ' where is the source code' and a million other complaints about how not being open wasn't what linux was about . Linux users need to realize that there are companies that want their property protected, they do not want to release information about their property to third parties and if users don't like that fine , they just will not have a linux version.
People complain all the time about no netflix on linux, well users only have themselves to blame. I write code that runs on devices that access netflix, they use linux, but they have hardware DRM protection, silverlight and anything MS is not involved like linux users like to keep suggesting, it is all about protecting content and you can't on linux because the users want access to everything from the drivers to the kernel. Try to add DRM to linux and the backlash is outrageous, fine, they can do without DRM content and a lot of other windows applications and hardware .
I still use winxp on my laptop, it is light, low resource and drivers are easily installed, removed and altered. The same thing that made xp vulnerable to virus or malware are why I still use it.
My desktop is the only windows7 install I have. The network is run on freeBSD and everything else is either linux or older windows. I have no need to go to win8, it doesn't do ANYTHING I need from and OS and as long as that remains true I will not use it.
Use whatever OS suits you and forget about what others think is the best OS, because you are the one that has to use it, not them.
Thankfully programmers are taking interest in some of the non MS OS .
In my situation I do embedded electronics, that basically means I design hardware with chips like ARM or PIC and write the code. Most of the ARM designs run some form of linux so it would seem that linux is the obvious choice here, but that isnt always the case since i have some ARM tools that only work in windows, so I use windows and linux for development and there is nothing wrong with that. Would I like linux to be able to do it all ? Sure , but that isn't realistic.
Linux is a great OS but the one thing that made it great is also the very same thing that is holding it back, openness. Right now there are hardware devices I use like chip programmers or logic analyzers that only have windows software. The companies are not willing to release any source code and in the past when they released binary only drivers all they got for their efforts was ' where is the source code' and a million other complaints about how not being open wasn't what linux was about . Linux users need to realize that there are companies that want their property protected, they do not want to release information about their property to third parties and if users don't like that fine , they just will not have a linux version.
People complain all the time about no netflix on linux, well users only have themselves to blame. I write code that runs on devices that access netflix, they use linux, but they have hardware DRM protection, silverlight and anything MS is not involved like linux users like to keep suggesting, it is all about protecting content and you can't on linux because the users want access to everything from the drivers to the kernel. Try to add DRM to linux and the backlash is outrageous, fine, they can do without DRM content and a lot of other windows applications and hardware .
I still use winxp on my laptop, it is light, low resource and drivers are easily installed, removed and altered. The same thing that made xp vulnerable to virus or malware are why I still use it.
My desktop is the only windows7 install I have. The network is run on freeBSD and everything else is either linux or older windows. I have no need to go to win8, it doesn't do ANYTHING I need from and OS and as long as that remains true I will not use it.
Use whatever OS suits you and forget about what others think is the best OS, because you are the one that has to use it, not them.
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