> Sorry, the indies love the App Store. They get exposure right up with the big boys without the multi million dollar ad budgets.
If they are lucky...
It's like a big lottery. If you are lucky you will get noticed by the gaming commision and put up front where everyone see's you and you make lots of money. Otherwise, you're going to get lost in the noise.
I would love to have more Free Software on these kinds of platforms just to avoid some of the dreck freebies that you see. This is what happens when you try to get rid of the altruists. You end up with an app store that is infested with adware even if it doesn't have actual trojans.
You also end up with a lot of payware crap that seems like you would be better off with Free Software.
Yeah. It was all the fault of the guy that wrote the code.
It wasn't the fault of the Walled Garden vendor that created terms of service that are intentionally incompatible with Free Software. The individual should just "shut up and take it" while his rights are being violated rather than the corporation playing nice with the rest of us.
Unfortunately, there's a lot of stuff that Apple simply doesn't make available. This is true for their Music store as well as their video store. Unfortunately, there are higher barriers for getting video to and from their platform.
Apple and it's fanboys lower the bar.
They try to lower everyone's expectations regarding what you can do with your own data and how much portability you can have with simple data formats.
At least a Jurassic physical media player is not a single (monopoly) vendor solution.
Bringing "Free Software" into this is just a red herring because we aren't even talking about that kind of freedom anymore. At this point we're talking about basic fundemental property rights and the ability to do whatever you want with your stuff.
The funny part about your statement is the fact that it is flatly contradicted by every other product in the market including Apple's own.
You don't need to be an "expert" to us a PC, just Windows.
The fact that Linux is ultimately less bother is why I started using it in the 90s. It was less shiny then but it was also less likely to get infected, or crash, or corrupt it's boot disk.
The fact that Apple is a "premium" vendor and most consumers are "cheap bastards" may be what ultimately saves the day here.
My local iPad fan would laugh at you if you actually suggested that she do something productive with it. It's a nice toy for people with sufficient disposable income.
Your attitude is simply a loser hoping that the new fad will make up for being humiliated last time.
Although there's a good chance that the previous pattern will repeat itself.
Cydia provides an infastructure to take payments and it is quite visibly nothing more than a frontend to the Debian packaging tools. So the potential certainly is there.
Like any other tool that's open to be used by others, the Linux packaging tools can be adapted by anyone for any purpose.
They represent precisely the sort of unpredictable adaptation that the author of the article is concerned about. Linux package managers provide most of the same benefits of an "app store" while not interfering with things that may be disagreeable to the developers that created the tools.
Given the prevalence of gratis software, I'm not sure how relevant the payment aspect is with either model.
Frameworks only harm portability of both users and applications.
They don't prevent applications from being created or presented to the end user just because some platform tyrant decide he doesn't like them. Conflating frameworks with walled garden app stores is dishonest to the point of absurdity.
In traditional artisan jobs, you don't have to worry about age-ism so much because physics catches up with you and your body starts to fall apart. Employers don't have to explicitly exclude you. Nature is already doing it for them.
I know certain people probably don't want to hear it but: Women of that age may simply be "misogynists" themselves. Even now, boys and girls are indoctrinated in different ways to expect and tolerate different things. It will likely impact what people are willing to put up with and how they approach the job market.
It's the sort of thing that might cause more women to flee from corporate America and become their own boss causing a statistical distortion that makes it look like the "glass ceiling" is still in place.
There is nothing about an engineering degree or 20+ years in the industry that magically transforms women into men.
> , and its memory footprint is smaller than OS X or Ubuntu
No it isn't. Not by a long stretch.
Set your sights a little lower. This is a monopoly product you are talking about. If you try to talk nonsense, all of use that are forced to use it by corporate overlords or have to fix computers for relatives are going to know that you're full of it.
> I have no doubt you can change your configuration, but you clearly spent too much time deciding how to layout your first Linux box.
Actually, that's the beauty of Unix. I don't have to be married to that initial layout. It is trivial for me to split and merge things pretty much anywhere and at will.
So, I can take the Windows-esque Ubuntu default and tweak it to my hearts content later.
Now I think that being able to blow away my boot partition and not touch "my data" is a really cool and useful thing. I can also preserve "apps" in much the same way in a manner that's similar to MacOS. If people with no taste don't see this, then that's their loss.
Even "Grannies" have personal data they are interested in protecting these days.
" WinMerge 3 will be modern compare/synchronization tool. It will be based on Qt library and cross-platform. You can use the same tool in Windows and in Linux. "
Like I said. Photoshop is a professional tool for real artists. It costs more than the average computer these days. It's not something that's really relevant to the vast majority of people.
If you are droning on about Photoshop then you are a poser that has no clue what Photoshop is used for. It's a canned Lemming Troll for idiots with no real clue.
If you're bringing it up, you aren't even well enough informed to know what its' actually used for.
Basically, unless your last name is McQuarrie then STFU about it.
No. Linux was needed because the FSF takes too long to finish anything. Even without the lawsuits, GNU would have had broader mass market appeal than the BSD.
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> Sorry, the indies love the App Store. They get exposure right up with the big boys without the multi million dollar ad budgets.
If they are lucky...
It's like a big lottery. If you are lucky you will get noticed by the gaming commision and put up front where everyone see's you and you make lots of money. Otherwise, you're going to get lost in the noise.
...yeah. There's that.
I would love to have more Free Software on these kinds of platforms just to avoid some of the dreck freebies that you see. This is what happens when you try to get rid of the altruists. You end up with an app store that is infested with adware even if it doesn't have actual trojans.
You also end up with a lot of payware crap that seems like you would be better off with Free Software.
Android has 3rd party Chinese app stores that you've never heard of.
So what Android apps do I have to worry about as an Android user on this side of the planet?
You're just engaging in some self serving fear mongering based on some crude, incomplete, and misleading information.
Yeah. It was all the fault of the guy that wrote the code.
It wasn't the fault of the Walled Garden vendor that created terms of service that are intentionally incompatible with Free Software. The individual should just "shut up and take it" while his rights are being violated rather than the corporation playing nice with the rest of us.
Unfortunately, there's a lot of stuff that Apple simply doesn't make available. This is true for their Music store as well as their video store. Unfortunately, there are higher barriers for getting video to and from their platform.
Apple and it's fanboys lower the bar.
They try to lower everyone's expectations regarding what you can do with your own data and how much portability you can have with simple data formats.
At least a Jurassic physical media player is not a single (monopoly) vendor solution.
Google is not doing the same thing.
I can side load apps onto my Android devices.
Google allows for alternate stores.
Bringing "Free Software" into this is just a red herring because we aren't even talking about that kind of freedom anymore. At this point we're talking about basic fundemental property rights and the ability to do whatever you want with your stuff.
The funny part about your statement is the fact that it is flatly contradicted by every other product in the market including Apple's own.
You don't need to be an "expert" to us a PC, just Windows.
The fact that Linux is ultimately less bother is why I started using it in the 90s. It was less shiny then but it was also less likely to get infected, or crash, or corrupt it's boot disk.
The fact that Apple is a "premium" vendor and most consumers are "cheap bastards" may be what ultimately saves the day here.
My local iPad fan would laugh at you if you actually suggested that she do something productive with it. It's a nice toy for people with sufficient disposable income.
Your attitude is simply a loser hoping that the new fad will make up for being humiliated last time.
Although there's a good chance that the previous pattern will repeat itself.
Cydia provides an infastructure to take payments and it is quite visibly nothing more than a frontend to the Debian packaging tools. So the potential certainly is there.
Like any other tool that's open to be used by others, the Linux packaging tools can be adapted by anyone for any purpose.
They represent precisely the sort of unpredictable adaptation that the author of the article is concerned about. Linux package managers provide most of the same benefits of an "app store" while not interfering with things that may be disagreeable to the developers that created the tools.
Given the prevalence of gratis software, I'm not sure how relevant the payment aspect is with either model.
Frameworks only harm portability of both users and applications.
They don't prevent applications from being created or presented to the end user just because some platform tyrant decide he doesn't like them. Conflating frameworks with walled garden app stores is dishonest to the point of absurdity.
In traditional artisan jobs, you don't have to worry about age-ism so much because physics catches up with you and your body starts to fall apart. Employers don't have to explicitly exclude you. Nature is already doing it for them.
I know certain people probably don't want to hear it but: Women of that age may simply be "misogynists" themselves. Even now, boys and girls are indoctrinated in different ways to expect and tolerate different things. It will likely impact what people are willing to put up with and how they approach the job market.
It's the sort of thing that might cause more women to flee from corporate America and become their own boss causing a statistical distortion that makes it look like the "glass ceiling" is still in place.
There is nothing about an engineering degree or 20+ years in the industry that magically transforms women into men.
No, it sounds like you are describing a statistical anomaly of some kind and trying to portray it as the norm.
The interfaces in Windows generally expose you to the old way of doing things.
Legacy issues are always a tough problem. That's why it's best to avoid them, or at least fix them sooner rather than later.
> , and its memory footprint is smaller than OS X or Ubuntu
No it isn't. Not by a long stretch.
Set your sights a little lower. This is a monopoly product you are talking about. If you try to talk nonsense, all of use that are forced to use it by corporate overlords or have to fix computers for relatives are going to know that you're full of it.
Judging by your original post which mentions both Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro in the same breath, probably not much.
If someone else paid for it, or if you never paid for it at all you can certainly find trivial uses for it.
> I have no doubt you can change your configuration, but you clearly spent too much time deciding how to layout your first Linux box.
Actually, that's the beauty of Unix. I don't have to be married to that initial layout. It is trivial for me to split and merge things pretty much anywhere and at will.
So, I can take the Windows-esque Ubuntu default and tweak it to my hearts content later.
Now I think that being able to blow away my boot partition and not touch "my data" is a really cool and useful thing. I can also preserve "apps" in much the same way in a manner that's similar to MacOS. If people with no taste don't see this, then that's their loss.
Even "Grannies" have personal data they are interested in protecting these days.
You sound like a Mac user that's content to use a very limited definition of what constitutes Unix in order to brag and create misleading ads.
Those of us that actually use multiple Unixen on a daily basis and have done so for decades have a more complete picture of what a Unix is.
The "several other things" are kind of important on a day to day basis.
Linux is much more compliant as a Unix than MacOS is in this regard.
Go play with your pretty pictures and stop trying to lecture real Unix users.
Never trust a recursive acronym.
Just wait for the next version...
" WinMerge 3 will be modern compare/synchronization tool. It will be based on Qt library and cross-platform. You can use the same tool in Windows and in Linux. "
Like I said. Photoshop is a professional tool for real artists. It costs more than the average computer these days. It's not something that's really relevant to the vast majority of people.
If you are droning on about Photoshop then you are a poser that has no clue what Photoshop is used for. It's a canned Lemming Troll for idiots with no real clue.
If you're bringing it up, you aren't even well enough informed to know what its' actually used for.
Basically, unless your last name is McQuarrie then STFU about it.
Windows was born ahead.
It was born ahead, because it was the successor to DOS.
DOS was successful because of it's association with the previous computing monopoly, namely IBM.
No. Linux was needed because the FSF takes too long to finish anything. Even without the lawsuits, GNU would have had broader mass market appeal than the BSD.
Your comment would be more convincing if Unix weren't infact running everywhere and doing a better job at it.
Microsoft sandbagged for a long time. The users suffered for it and a lot of needless extra costs were incurred because of it.
> There's both Photoshop ...which is a pro tool for professionals and comes with a pro price tag.
You are a poser loser and possibly a pirate.