2.1 No good stable standardized API for developing GUI applications (like Win32 API). Both GTK and Qt are very unstable and often break backwards compatibility.
Those shortcomings might be true, but I think that it will change over time.
2.3 Many GUI operations are not accelerated. No analogue of GDI or GDI+. Text antialiasing and other GUI operations are software rendered by GUI libraries (GTK->Cairo/QT->Xft).
I know of at least one application that uses Qt, and its only for Windows. It didn't use Qt before, they switched - those masochists!
5.2 No games. Full stop. Cedega and Wine offer very incomplete support.
For games, people usually use console now, and I guess that soon even those games that now would be hard to play on console will change (MMORPG, RTS etc.). So no games for desktop OS shouldn't be that big problem in the future, especially when chunk of people tend to shift to portables with their games.
That said - I still have Windows to play those.
5.1.1 No equivalent of some hardcore Windows software like AutoCAD/3D Studio/Adobe Premier/Corel Painter/etc. Home and work users just won't bother installing Linux until they can work for real.
People that use apps like AutoCAD, StudioMAX and stuff like that aren't majority of PC users, so it always amazed me as people whine about it. Linux is free, you don't lose money if you install it. It is AutoCAD issue that it requires you to buy expensive Windows, if you don't have it yet (and didn't need to, until AutoCAD came!).
5.3 Incomplete or unstable drivers for some hardware. Problems setting up some hardware (like sound cards or TV tuners/Web Cameras).
As for hardware issues - it was always their producers issue, not Linux. Even if Linux has drivers that accidentally work with given hardware, but configuration files aren't set properly - its still manufacturer issue - he didn't provide CD with utility to do this for user, or his (I doubt its his!) driver isn't configured as it should (ie. don't need any configuration at all with defaults) - still, he's issue, not Linux. Of course you could say that it is Linux fault, that manufacturers aren't interested, perhaps documentation is crappy as TFA mentions, but is for windows really that better? They had a lot of issues with Vista, and I guess that they spent a lot of money do get those done. Hell, my printer still doesn't wont with drivers provided with it on CD (for XP, using XP), but on Linux I just plug it in and thats it - works.
3.2 No unified installer across all distros. Consider RPM, deb, portage, tar.gz, sources, etc. It adds a cost for software development.
Unified installer? Not so long time ago, I installed a game - it had its own installer in a very Windows-style, "create shortcut, input installation path, next, install etc."
Make your own, I bet its simple, and if you like - give it away.
3.4 Applications development is a major PITA. Different distros can use a) different libraries versions b) different compiler flags c) different compilers. This leads to a number of problems raised to the third power.
Then setup for the installation your own safe c-flags, how hard can it be Mr. Developer?
There are 2 major repository managers - apt and whatever there is for.rpm usually used. All other ones are non-mainstream and their users are expected to be geeks, if they use non-mainstream distros. As for apt - you can easily check and install what you need in your own unified installer - for rest - display what they lack and tell them to DIY. I use Gentoo at home and don't really expect ebuilds or integrated portage interface from ever1.
5.5 Questionable patents and legality status. US Linux users cannot play many popular audio and video formats until they purchase appropriate codecs.
And those are free for Windows, right?
7. A galore of software bugs across all applications. Just loo
I think that Google doesn't care that much about bringing Chrome to the Mac or Linux, since they only bother is most likely IE, with is very backwards in its technology and pretty much restricts Google on what they can write for their users.
Safari seems to be pretty compatible with community-approved standards, and in fact, it even is ahead in many of them, implementing what is still in draft. While someone might argue, that this way they might actually break websites when - yet not finished - standards change, but I think that people who tinker which them actually know that, and design their pages in a way, that won't break them in the future, just cause they relied on some experimental feature. Okay, seems like I'm getting off-topic here.
We rely on computers those days a lot. And in many cases computer failure or unexpected behavior might cost lives. Its almost like blowing up something.
Also, if some1 steals some confident information and that will cause loses in - for example - actual war, then why not punish them like spies?
If they knew when pirated copy of game was trying to connect (like Blizzard does?), they should have blocked that connection and perhaps temp_ban that IP.
This looks like "We are stupid, but we blame for our problems our no-DRM policy and would like to switch. See how bad no-DRM is?". Wonder who they gonna blame after they switch.
On my Athlon XP 2500+, 512 MiB RAM, Radeon 9200 SE Ubuntu was faster. OSolaris was booting for.. like ages. I was wondering if I didn't install some Mojave on my PC or whatever. Then, applications were launching slow as well. Like 2x slower than on Ubuntu. And from time to time I experienced some hiccups. But usually after launch - apps were performing more or less like on Ubuntu.
There was also this issue with my keyboard setup, it was using some ancient polish layout, used like.. back in Win98 or sth like that. Had to google a fix for that. But thats fine, its a fresh system, so shit happens.
Flash - while on Ubuntu finally it stopped crashing, on OSolaris it wasn't crashing my browser, but making it hog all resources and practically making whole system unusable.
Last thing - I couldn't enable Compiz, while on Ubuntu it was enabled by default and after some time I had do disable it, cause I got bored with it - on OSolaris I couldn't enable it at all. I guess I wasn't lucky enough to have Nvidia card, that had its driver installed by default, regardless it detected my card before installing as Radeon 9200 SE.
Still, I must admit, that network stack for utility apps was nice, more useful that those I found on Ubuntu.
It was like 2 weeks ago, it was still RC2 so perhaps this was fixed by now. Maybe in a year it will get decent, but by then on Linux we should have some alternative to ZFS, so basically OSolaris won't have this advantage anymore.
Ubuntu is actually using version naming like: 08.10 with means 2008 year, 10 month 08.04 with means 2008 year, 4 month Intrepid Ibex/Hardy Heron is just.. for people that find it easier to remember those that way?
In videogame you kill children by yourself.
In books/tv/whatever you just read/watch some1 else doing this.
I guess its a difference, but I personally don't mind games where you can do this kind of things - they are for adults after all.. on the other side - theres a lot of people over 18 years old, that still have childs mind, so I guess some people might get worried about such game.
If corporations and such finally ditch IE6 for (i guess) more secure and standards compilant browser, I won't have to bother with IE6 anymore while making websites targeted at people browsing from work.
So yeah, I thank MS for defaulting to Compability mode in intranet, and Standards in internet. Finally, a >very< good decision by them.
Just to clarify - my Job is programmer at mid-small telecom company, where we have just one PC with Windows - and thats for testing only. Rest of them are Linux - so its not like it will benefit my job - I can use cutting edge tech while making intranet sites, all they care is "it works" on their constantly updated FF and Opera browsers.
Its good for my hobby/side jobs.
That would be an absolutely terrible thing to do ("load the page and then warn the user").
So you have been already fooled to send some data to some site that you know shit about, and you believe, that FF3 will protect you from delivering that data to that next scammer site, that is actually using SSL encryption?
And this assumes that this next scammer site IS using SSL encryption, since if it doesn't, then FF3 will gladly send the data. Why all that effort? I mean.. just make it send data to the site this idiot is already in and voila! Yet another moron scammed.
And hey! Do you really check source of all those forms that you fill, before sending it? You know.. to make sure it has https:/// in its action value. And why would you fill those forms in the first place?
And no, Cookies won't be sent to a different domain, that they originated from. Unless you were attacked via XSS, but thats different story
btw. my point is not telling that CA or SSL is useless, this post is entirely related to parent post.
1. Make it default to leftclick even if some1 rightclicks.
2. Shift some of the keybindings in a random order.
3. OS X Dock is a must!
4. Tell people that it has top-notch security.
5. Sell it for 5000$, expensive = cool!
6. Profit!
Imagine this: Apache announces, that it will remove some of its features, like for example mod-php, mod-perl, mod-rewrite.. moved to modules! Gone - forever!
It might have locking failures even when one user is using it. And you have to workaround it by fetchingAll data from query results into variable, with is not very RAM friendly.
Still, its a good database (as a default one) for desktop apps - and thats were I use it - and probably most people do.
Most of those 40.9% are probably people that can't upgrade, cause IT people won't let them.
And they won't let them, cause they use some piece of shit apps that depend on software thats exactly the same piece of shit as them. Usually you don't really need to care about those people browsing experience on your website, unless its meant to be browsed by those people.
So yeah - forget about quirks for IE6, and shift your suicidal thoughts to IE7.
As for the people who don't want to upgrade their Opera 9.27 or Firefox 2 to the new ones - just tell them to upgrade/install one of them. People usually have either FF or Opera as a 'backup', so upgrading your 'backup' won't break any preferences/habits that setting up took you ages - cause there aren't any.
I can only hope for brighter future, where IE supports most of the stuff thats used by latest FF/Opera, and people are actually upgrading to it.
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I know of at least one application that uses Qt, and its only for Windows. It didn't use Qt before, they switched - those masochists!
For games, people usually use console now, and I guess that soon even those games that now would be hard to play on console will change (MMORPG, RTS etc.). So no games for desktop OS shouldn't be that big problem in the future, especially when chunk of people tend to shift to portables with their games.
That said - I still have Windows to play those.
People that use apps like AutoCAD, StudioMAX and stuff like that aren't majority of PC users, so it always amazed me as people whine about it. Linux is free, you don't lose money if you install it. It is AutoCAD issue that it requires you to buy expensive Windows, if you don't have it yet (and didn't need to, until AutoCAD came!).
As for hardware issues - it was always their producers issue, not Linux. Even if Linux has drivers that accidentally work with given hardware, but configuration files aren't set properly - its still manufacturer issue - he didn't provide CD with utility to do this for user, or his (I doubt its his!) driver isn't configured as it should (ie. don't need any configuration at all with defaults) - still, he's issue, not Linux. Of course you could say that it is Linux fault, that manufacturers aren't interested, perhaps documentation is crappy as TFA mentions, but is for windows really that better? They had a lot of issues with Vista, and I guess that they spent a lot of money do get those done. Hell, my printer still doesn't wont with drivers provided with it on CD (for XP, using XP), but on Linux I just plug it in and thats it - works.
Unified installer? Not so long time ago, I installed a game - it had its own installer in a very Windows-style, "create shortcut, input installation path, next, install etc."
Make your own, I bet its simple, and if you like - give it away.
Then setup for the installation your own safe c-flags, how hard can it be Mr. Developer? .rpm usually used. All other ones are non-mainstream and their users are expected to be geeks, if they use non-mainstream distros. As for apt - you can easily check and install what you need in your own unified installer - for rest - display what they lack and tell them to DIY. I use Gentoo at home and don't really expect ebuilds or integrated portage interface from ever1.
There are 2 major repository managers - apt and whatever there is for
And those are free for Windows, right?
I think that Google doesn't care that much about bringing Chrome to the Mac or Linux, since they only bother is most likely IE, with is very backwards in its technology and pretty much restricts Google on what they can write for their users.
Safari seems to be pretty compatible with community-approved standards, and in fact, it even is ahead in many of them, implementing what is still in draft. While someone might argue, that this way they might actually break websites when - yet not finished - standards change, but I think that people who tinker which them actually know that, and design their pages in a way, that won't break them in the future, just cause they relied on some experimental feature.
Okay, seems like I'm getting off-topic here.
Well, if you are gonna try to escape, they won't let you get to any Windows.
We rely on computers those days a lot. And in many cases computer failure or unexpected behavior might cost lives. Its almost like blowing up something.
Also, if some1 steals some confident information and that will cause loses in - for example - actual war, then why not punish them like spies?
And suddenly their chips aren't so good in comparison to AMD. Yes, there is a point.
If they knew when pirated copy of game was trying to connect (like Blizzard does?), they should have blocked that connection and perhaps temp_ban that IP.
This looks like "We are stupid, but we blame for our problems our no-DRM policy and would like to switch. See how bad no-DRM is?".
Wonder who they gonna blame after they switch.
Yeah, as long as you already have mobo + RAM for i7, but then - why would you buy yet another i7?
On my Athlon XP 2500+, 512 MiB RAM, Radeon 9200 SE
Ubuntu was faster.
OSolaris was booting for.. like ages. I was wondering if I didn't install some Mojave on my PC or whatever.
Then, applications were launching slow as well. Like 2x slower than on Ubuntu. And from time to time I experienced some hiccups. But usually after launch - apps were performing more or less like on Ubuntu.
There was also this issue with my keyboard setup, it was using some ancient polish layout, used like.. back in Win98 or sth like that. Had to google a fix for that. But thats fine, its a fresh system, so shit happens.
Flash - while on Ubuntu finally it stopped crashing, on OSolaris it wasn't crashing my browser, but making it hog all resources and practically making whole system unusable.
Last thing - I couldn't enable Compiz, while on Ubuntu it was enabled by default and after some time I had do disable it, cause I got bored with it - on OSolaris I couldn't enable it at all. I guess I wasn't lucky enough to have Nvidia card, that had its driver installed by default, regardless it detected my card before installing as Radeon 9200 SE.
Still, I must admit, that network stack for utility apps was nice, more useful that those I found on Ubuntu.
It was like 2 weeks ago, it was still RC2 so perhaps this was fixed by now. Maybe in a year it will get decent, but by then on Linux we should have some alternative to ZFS, so basically OSolaris won't have this advantage anymore.
Ubuntu is actually using version naming like:
08.10
with means 2008 year, 10 month
08.04
with means 2008 year, 4 month
Intrepid Ibex/Hardy Heron is just.. for people that find it easier to remember those that way?
4)Windows
Wasn't that banned by Geneva Conventions?
Google AdWords are still in beta, its a work in progress. Soon we shall see final release without such bugs.
In videogame you kill children by yourself. In books/tv/whatever you just read/watch some1 else doing this.
I guess its a difference, but I personally don't mind games where you can do this kind of things - they are for adults after all.. on the other side - theres a lot of people over 18 years old, that still have childs mind, so I guess some people might get worried about such game.
If corporations and such finally ditch IE6 for (i guess) more secure and standards compilant browser, I won't have to bother with IE6 anymore while making websites targeted at people browsing from work.
So yeah, I thank MS for defaulting to Compability mode in intranet, and Standards in internet. Finally, a >very< good decision by them.
Just to clarify - my Job is programmer at mid-small telecom company, where we have just one PC with Windows - and thats for testing only. Rest of them are Linux - so its not like it will benefit my job - I can use cutting edge tech while making intranet sites, all they care is "it works" on their constantly updated FF and Opera browsers.
Its good for my hobby/side jobs.
So you have been already fooled to send some data to some site that you know shit about, and you believe, that FF3 will protect you from delivering that data to that next scammer site, that is actually using SSL encryption?
And this assumes that this next scammer site IS using SSL encryption, since if it doesn't, then FF3 will gladly send the data.
Why all that effort? I mean.. just make it send data to the site this idiot is already in and voila! Yet another moron scammed.
And hey! Do you really check source of all those forms that you fill, before sending it? You know.. to make sure it has https:/// in its action value. And why would you fill those forms in the first place?
And no, Cookies won't be sent to a different domain, that they originated from. Unless you were attacked via XSS, but thats different story
btw. my point is not telling that CA or SSL is useless, this post is entirely related to parent post.
I second that!
1. Make it default to leftclick even if some1 rightclicks.
2. Shift some of the keybindings in a random order.
3. OS X Dock is a must!
4. Tell people that it has top-notch security.
5. Sell it for 5000$, expensive = cool!
6. Profit!
Imagine this: Apache announces, that it will remove some of its features, like for example mod-php, mod-perl, mod-rewrite.. moved to modules! Gone - forever!
It might have locking failures even when one user is using it. And you have to workaround it by fetchingAll data from query results into variable, with is not very RAM friendly.
Still, its a good database (as a default one) for desktop apps - and thats were I use it - and probably most people do.
Most of those 40.9% are probably people that can't upgrade, cause IT people won't let them.
And they won't let them, cause they use some piece of shit apps that depend on software thats exactly the same piece of shit as them.
Usually you don't really need to care about those people browsing experience on your website, unless its meant to be browsed by those people.
So yeah - forget about quirks for IE6, and shift your suicidal thoughts to IE7.
As for the people who don't want to upgrade their Opera 9.27 or Firefox 2 to the new ones - just tell them to upgrade/install one of them.
People usually have either FF or Opera as a 'backup', so upgrading your 'backup' won't break any preferences/habits that setting up took you ages - cause there aren't any.
I can only hope for brighter future, where IE supports most of the stuff thats used by latest FF/Opera, and people are actually upgrading to it.