That, and the fact that any animation would always open in High Quality mode, with insanely high anti-aliasing. While there were hacks available to automatically load things in Medium or Low quality mode, they only occasionally worked, and some sites disabled the right-click Quality setting entirely.
That made it much more of a resource hog that it ever should have been.
Not entirely necessary. But better. Virtual desktops are great too, but when switching virtual desktop the user has to context switch so loses concentration for a moment.
Well it will be nice to not have to install Redshift for my GNOME users, but since most of my Linux users do not use GNOME as their desktop environment this isn't going to affect me much.
A useful feature for GNOME users though, but hardly worth top billing in the feature list.
Ardour can be a bit "heavy", but I have been known to use the video editor kdenlive to edit audio tracks when I've badly needed clip resizing. For other sound work that doesn't need chopping and synching, I still mostly use Audacity.
Does Audacity have the concept of clips like other sound editors and nonlinear video editors?
The last time I tried to use it, it seemed to treat each track as a single waveform, so if I trimmed a bit off a track I couldn't just drag to grow a bit of it back. This made simple tasks like synchronizing multiple tracks extremely difficult.
You develop Windows software, so perhaps Windows is the right platform for you.
I am in video production, web page design, mobile platform development and system administration, and Linux works best for me.
You're right that on Slashdot most pro-Linux posts are philosophical, but this isn't exactly the most pragmatic forum around. And that's probably a good thing.
Several of your statements above are incorrect. Your last sentence, though, is completely correct. There is however no plausible step of logic from that point that gives you, as a deaf person, any right to deprive a hearing person of something just because you cannot appreciate it.
Just one reason I run Linux and not Windows or OSX.
Pretty much all the software I need is only a dnf install away. YMMV.
Well, that and the desktop experience for someone who knows what they're doing is still ridiculously ahead of anything Apple or Microsoft have to offer. Every time I have to use a Mac or Windows 7/8/10 box feels like trying to climb a staircase in a wheelchair.
Even for accessibility, none of the silly utilities on OSX nor Windows come close to the simple Alt-wheel desktop zoom.
This is all on modern hardware of course. The difference in performance is much more profound on older or netbook-grade hardware.
And we don't have to deal with silly crap like licensing or the topic at hand.
But, no, Linux users only use it out of religious zealotry.
Perhaps I didn't explain it very well. They run like molasses at the shop, and I haven't seen them do anything that could be considered CPU intensive. Perhaps the bloatware isn't helping.
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That, and the fact that any animation would always open in High Quality mode, with insanely high anti-aliasing. While there were hacks available to automatically load things in Medium or Low quality mode, they only occasionally worked, and some sites disabled the right-click Quality setting entirely.
That made it much more of a resource hog that it ever should have been.
Not entirely necessary. But better. Virtual desktops are great too, but when switching virtual desktop the user has to context switch so loses concentration for a moment.
"remote big iron"
Who's stuck in the 80's now?
For development, where you need actual performance for reasonable build times, run nothing virtually nor remotely.
Grunty desktop PC, triple monitors, with local storage and frequent scripted rsync backups to a shared server.
Also pop tarts and Xena tapes.
What you're proposing is effectively ditching Integrated Drive Electronics and going back to CPU or card-based disk controllers.
I look forward to seeing 1701 error codes again.
So... just route around Intel by buying AMD and you're good, right?
Well it will be nice to not have to install Redshift for my GNOME users, but since most of my Linux users do not use GNOME as their desktop environment this isn't going to affect me much.
A useful feature for GNOME users though, but hardly worth top billing in the feature list.
Ardour can be a bit "heavy", but I have been known to use the video editor kdenlive to edit audio tracks when I've badly needed clip resizing. For other sound work that doesn't need chopping and synching, I still mostly use Audacity.
When?
While I hold him in high regard and wish him the very best, I suspect by the time the travel actually happens, he will be travelling there in an urn.
Ardour, though I have played with Pro Tools a bit (obviously not FOSS).
Does Audacity have the concept of clips like other sound editors and nonlinear video editors?
The last time I tried to use it, it seemed to treat each track as a single waveform, so if I trimmed a bit off a track I couldn't just drag to grow a bit of it back. This made simple tasks like synchronizing multiple tracks extremely difficult.
You got that the wrong way around. Why would anyone still be running Windows 8.1?
You develop Windows software, so perhaps Windows is the right platform for you.
I am in video production, web page design, mobile platform development and system administration, and Linux works best for me.
You're right that on Slashdot most pro-Linux posts are philosophical, but this isn't exactly the most pragmatic forum around. And that's probably a good thing.
Several of your statements above are incorrect. Your last sentence, though, is completely correct. There is however no plausible step of logic from that point that gives you, as a deaf person, any right to deprive a hearing person of something just because you cannot appreciate it.
Hey, me too!
Just one reason I run Linux and not Windows or OSX.
Pretty much all the software I need is only a dnf install away. YMMV.
Well, that and the desktop experience for someone who knows what they're doing is still ridiculously ahead of anything Apple or Microsoft have to offer. Every time I have to use a Mac or Windows 7/8/10 box feels like trying to climb a staircase in a wheelchair.
Even for accessibility, none of the silly utilities on OSX nor Windows come close to the simple Alt-wheel desktop zoom.
This is all on modern hardware of course. The difference in performance is much more profound on older or netbook-grade hardware.
And we don't have to deal with silly crap like licensing or the topic at hand.
But, no, Linux users only use it out of religious zealotry.
Who? Please provide a list so we can know what brands to avoid.
You already *have* the exact same access as the next guy.
Not anyone's fault if you cannot assimilate the material because of language barriers, disability, lack of education, or not owning a computer.
Don't try to take away other's access because you have a problem.
No, but copyright law is.
Try to follow this:
1 / 3 = 0.333...
0.333... x 3 = 0.999...
(1 / 3) x 3 = 1
ergo 0.999... = 1
Or they could just admit that nobody actually wanted it.
Pretty sure Firefox already does something very similar to this. The mobile version does, anyway.
Perhaps I didn't explain it very well. They run like molasses at the shop, and I haven't seen them do anything that could be considered CPU intensive. Perhaps the bloatware isn't helping.
First step when they get there:
Kick over the American flag.
Never store important passwords electronically.
By all means use the password manager built into your browser for very low security systems if you like the convenience.
Three. The first of which is worthless.
Was that the best you could do?