I've gotta' question how you run your system, though
For me, getting the ability to play Windows videos was a matter of making a one-line addition to my APT sources list and running "apt-get install mplayer-k6".
Try viewing dvds. It meant upgrading the kernel, and (for me) upgrading glibc. The latter failed miserably. Try viewing videos with some unsupported coded. Figure out the codec, search on the internet. If you're lucky, you'll find one. Then install. Then figure out why it doesn't work and try again.
Further, kernel-level issues have been pretty much unheard of for me for a few years now (since reiserfs was unstable -- that was ugly, but it also wasn't part of the official kernel).
I needed something like reiserfs. So I was ready to take the plunge. At first it seemed to work ok. After a while I saw that a complete directory was inaccessible. Thank god I had backups.
The thing is: I want the same sophistication of windows and I want it now. Unfortunately, all to often these things are not just there yet.
Having your entire machine go down due to memory-leaking applications leaves me incredulous, too -- the kernel will start killing apps when they exhaust available memory and swap, rather than risking deadlock, and memory-leaking apps just haven't been a problem for me
Ok, so it doesn't go down. But it does kill applications. I have some serious batch jobs running at night. Killing any of them makes me... well: sad.
Thanks for your comment though, it was one of few positive replies. I've been accused of the funniest things. Like my posts being a campaign by microsoft, being a moron etc. It doesn't bother me personally, but it is a sad example of the narrowmindedness by a lot of people on slashdot. You know, hatred against microsoft alone doesn't cut it.
I assure you I'm not a Microsoft employee, nor have I ever been, nor am I considering to become one.
Like I said, I've used linux since 0.99pl15. I thing I surely don't regret. But looking at the state of the two camps, I'm considering a move to windows.
Then again, one of the most insightful comments was: use Mac OsX. I just might.
I just know this will get modded down to minus 1000, but I can't resist:
For over a year or so I'm thinking of moving from Linux to windows. Why? Because of the stability and usability. Windows 2000 and XP appear to be very stable and no one can deny that they are lightyears ahead of anything on linux when it comes to desktop comfort.
I just hate it when I encounter yet another website that doesn't load using Konqueror, mozilla, opera... you fill in the blanks. I just hate it that I can't play movies on my linux machine without five days of intensive configuration battles.
I've developed a lot of software for unix and am now seriously considering porting them to windows. Hell, it will be a lot easier to sell these things as well. Right now, I don't even have to bother.
About 10 years ago (remember kernel 0.99pl15?) I had to choose between adopting windows, OS/2 or linux, because Dos was dying. For quite some time I was happy to say that "at least linux crashed less often than windows". (never gave os/2 a try though). The last few years, windows gained on stability and user friendlyness. While making the move to the semi-professional desktop, linux became more unstable (I don't know how many times I've grunted after installing yet another 2.4.x kernel) and certainly couldn't keep up with the gains made by windows on the user friendly side. Before playing some video I still have to say a prayer...
Right now, I can't keep my development pc running for more than a week because of some application that leaks memory and uses up my entire memory after a few days.
So how about it... Porting my own software to windows. I can see a lot of problems. filesystem links, permissions. Most applications cannot be scripted...
Anyone have experience going from unix/linux to windows?
If you've got legacy code that used guiding declarations and you need to know how to convert it to standard C++, there's a nice discussion in the kcc documentation [www.hlrs.de].
Thanks, this was a big help. After understanding this rewriting my code was a breeze. I understand this is even more off-topic than my original post, but couldn't resist thanking you.
Hmm. You seem to know your way around in C++/compiler land. Maybe you or anyone else can help me with the following:
For my template classes to compile I need to add -fguiding-decls as an option to g++. Since 3.0 this option has disappeared. I'll gladly fix my code, but don't know what I'm doing wrong. Can't find anything meaningful in the docs, google etc.
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I've gotta' question how you run your system, though
For me, getting the ability to play Windows videos was a matter of making a one-line addition to my APT sources list and running "apt-get install mplayer-k6".
Try viewing dvds. It meant upgrading the kernel, and (for me) upgrading glibc. The latter failed miserably. Try viewing videos with some unsupported coded. Figure out the codec, search on the internet. If you're lucky, you'll find one. Then install. Then figure out why it doesn't work and try again.
Further, kernel-level issues have been pretty much unheard of for me for a few years now (since reiserfs was unstable -- that was ugly, but it also wasn't part of the official kernel).
I needed something like reiserfs. So I was ready to take the plunge. At first it seemed to work ok. After a while I saw that a complete directory was inaccessible. Thank god I had backups. The thing is: I want the same sophistication of windows and I want it now. Unfortunately, all to often these things are not just there yet.
Having your entire machine go down due to memory-leaking applications leaves me incredulous, too -- the kernel will start killing apps when they exhaust available memory and swap, rather than risking deadlock, and memory-leaking apps just haven't been a problem for me Ok, so it doesn't go down. But it does kill applications. I have some serious batch jobs running at night. Killing any of them makes me... well: sad.
Thanks for your comment though, it was one of few positive replies. I've been accused of the funniest things. Like my posts being a campaign by microsoft, being a moron etc. It doesn't bother me personally, but it is a sad example of the narrowmindedness by a lot of people on slashdot. You know, hatred against microsoft alone doesn't cut it.
I assure you I'm not a Microsoft employee, nor have I ever been, nor am I considering to become one.
Like I said, I've used linux since 0.99pl15. I thing I surely don't regret. But looking at the state of the two camps, I'm considering a move to windows.
Then again, one of the most insightful comments was: use Mac OsX. I just might.
I just know this will get modded down to minus 1000, but I can't resist:
For over a year or so I'm thinking of moving from Linux to windows. Why? Because of the stability and usability. Windows 2000 and XP appear to be very stable and no one can deny that they are lightyears ahead of anything on linux when it comes to desktop comfort.
I just hate it when I encounter yet another website that doesn't load using Konqueror, mozilla, opera... you fill in the blanks. I just hate it that I can't play movies on my linux machine without five days of intensive configuration battles.
I've developed a lot of software for unix and am now seriously considering porting them to windows. Hell, it will be a lot easier to sell these things as well. Right now, I don't even have to bother.
About 10 years ago (remember kernel 0.99pl15?) I had to choose between adopting windows, OS/2 or linux, because Dos was dying. For quite some time I was happy to say that "at least linux crashed less often than windows". (never gave os/2 a try though). The last few years, windows gained on stability and user friendlyness. While making the move to the semi-professional desktop, linux became more unstable (I don't know how many times I've grunted after installing yet another 2.4.x kernel) and certainly couldn't keep up with the gains made by windows on the user friendly side. Before playing some video I still have to say a prayer...
Right now, I can't keep my development pc running for more than a week because of some application that leaks memory and uses up my entire memory after a few days.
So how about it... Porting my own software to windows. I can see a lot of problems. filesystem links, permissions. Most applications cannot be scripted...
Anyone have experience going from unix/linux to windows?
If you've got legacy code that used guiding declarations and you need to know how to convert it to standard C++, there's a nice discussion in the kcc documentation [www.hlrs.de].
Thanks, this was a big help. After understanding this rewriting my code was a breeze. I understand this is even more off-topic than my original post, but couldn't resist thanking you.
Hmm. You seem to know your way around in C++/compiler land. Maybe you or anyone else can help me with the following:
For my template classes to compile I need to add -fguiding-decls as an option to g++. Since 3.0 this option has disappeared. I'll gladly fix my code, but don't know what I'm doing wrong. Can't find anything meaningful in the docs, google etc.
Shoot, even CmdrTaco uses Windows
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