That's how it's done. A person who doesn't worry about "support ending", or having the latest version, or what other people think about him using old tools. He has a perfectly fine tool in his hands, so he grabs it and starts working.
I hope the notifications system gets an improvement. It's horribly cluttered in KDE4.
The worst case is when you start a system upgrade: you get a good bunch of weird progress bars and gauges in the notifications area, with a text saying "Waiting for service to start..." That label never disappears, and no progress is ever shown either. Still the updates install fine. Seriously! Does anyone test these systems?
When new updates are available, it shows the number of them but tries to also shove a long list of package names in a small box.
When you copy files, after the process has completed it shows only the name of the last file copied, giving an impression that only that file was copied.
Not very elegant. I'm getting that "open source feeling" again, with my hand trying to reach the anti-depressant bottle.
This will probably not prevent bitrot, but is just an additional trick. There was a document describing how some kind of data archival library stores their CDs. They recommended to store them vertically. During a very long time span, it could be possible that the discs will warp slightly if stored horizontally.
What do you mean? Of course we can't change the speed of light, but it's likely that we could still make also some latency improvements if we redesigned the networking and Internet to the core.
Ahoy, mod parent up. That's an important distinction. In addition to the claimed "eyes searching for bugs", there's already a sea of bugs that have been found and properly reported, but they get fixed slowly. Some of these are critical bugs. Now someone comes to say "you ignore the fact that proprietary software is no better". And it isn't! But the claim that bugs get fixed quickly in OSS is not true. It's a myth, just like the eyeballs thing.
Just today installed Fedora 20 (KDE spin) on a HP 2230s laptop. After the initial installation of all system updates I restarted the computer. Now every time I login to my desktop, I'm greeted with "KWin crashed unexpectedly". I cannot start KWin at all and have no desktop effects. Please help.
At the same time I'm personally working with the Intel guys with an issue of backlight flickering on this same laptop under Linux.
I have to deal with problems like this all the time. Open source is garbage!!!
Don't try to differentiate it as "Open Source", because if you do, decisions makers and stakeholders will wonder why you're putting extra effort into justifying it.
Well, why put the extra effort into justifying it, then? What's the real answer? Is it because I have been brainwashed to like it, and must turn everything into OSS just because it's so awesome?
I like to rant about OSS, and will continue to, but I also saw a surprising and positive result with the open-source Radeon driver.
On a low-end Radeon 6320, about a year ago Half-Life 2 was extremely choppy on Linux. Of course it might have been a Mesa or compositor problem too, instead of a driver issue.
However, I recently tried it again and the frame rates are now almost as good as under Windows. Nice improvement.
Particularly the STFU NEWB part. This is exactly the reputation open source software has.
It's kind of understandable though. What if you went poking the Windows Kernel Team with questions like "how do I get this printer to work"? They would say "we don't have the time to help with that". Then you would contact a Microsoft support engineer and his response would instead be "I'm happy to help you, let's get started".
In open source world, commercial distros like Red Hat do have proper customer support in place, but various random open source projects do not have that kind of support options. You can contact the developers directly, and that's it.
I would be happily already gaming under Linux, if the desktops in general weren't so buggy. I will never go to Linux as my main OS until the quality assurance of the desktop reaches a professional level.
It's kinda sad that no one will reverse engineer the stuff and post all the specs and diagrams it can anonymously. I guess egos are just too important.
My god that's naive. Good luck reverse-engineering a modern GPU. It would be extremely complex and extremely time-consuming. It wouldn't be worth it at all.
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That's how it's done. A person who doesn't worry about "support ending", or having the latest version, or what other people think about him using old tools. He has a perfectly fine tool in his hands, so he grabs it and starts working.
I hope the notifications system gets an improvement. It's horribly cluttered in KDE4.
The worst case is when you start a system upgrade: you get a good bunch of weird progress bars and gauges in the notifications area, with a text saying "Waiting for service to start..." That label never disappears, and no progress is ever shown either. Still the updates install fine. Seriously! Does anyone test these systems?
When new updates are available, it shows the number of them but tries to also shove a long list of package names in a small box.
When you copy files, after the process has completed it shows only the name of the last file copied, giving an impression that only that file was copied.
Not very elegant. I'm getting that "open source feeling" again, with my hand trying to reach the anti-depressant bottle.
This will probably not prevent bitrot, but is just an additional trick. There was a document describing how some kind of data archival library stores their CDs. They recommended to store them vertically. During a very long time span, it could be possible that the discs will warp slightly if stored horizontally.
Art stored permanently on a physical media (CDs, books, paintings...) gives a nice cozy classic feeling.
What do you mean? Of course we can't change the speed of light, but it's likely that we could still make also some latency improvements if we redesigned the networking and Internet to the core.
Ahoy, mod parent up. That's an important distinction. In addition to the claimed "eyes searching for bugs", there's already a sea of bugs that have been found and properly reported, but they get fixed slowly. Some of these are critical bugs. Now someone comes to say "you ignore the fact that proprietary software is no better". And it isn't! But the claim that bugs get fixed quickly in OSS is not true. It's a myth, just like the eyeballs thing.
Although if you care about stability, then you should also care about security since many malicious attacks can affect stability.
True, but most stability problems do not stem from malicious attacks.
Windows generally works just fine these days. It's been the best choice for me.
I was talking about actual bugs. That's more of an UX choice.
I thought one has to churn like 1000 lines a week.
Because he finds a workaround and quickly forgets about the issue.
Lots of people in their 40s and 50s and 60s have mediocre jobs writing 200 lines of code per quarter in some large corporation.
BTW what's the typical amount of code that one writes in a quarter in a programming job? I just want to know some stats.
It's comforting to know that we can have an open source driver for current-generation NVIDIA hardware by the year 2030.
Just today installed Fedora 20 (KDE spin) on a HP 2230s laptop. After the initial installation of all system updates I restarted the computer. Now every time I login to my desktop, I'm greeted with "KWin crashed unexpectedly". I cannot start KWin at all and have no desktop effects. Please help.
At the same time I'm personally working with the Intel guys with an issue of backlight flickering on this same laptop under Linux.
I have to deal with problems like this all the time. Open source is garbage!!!
Don't try to differentiate it as "Open Source", because if you do, decisions makers and stakeholders will wonder why you're putting extra effort into justifying it.
Well, why put the extra effort into justifying it, then? What's the real answer? Is it because I have been brainwashed to like it, and must turn everything into OSS just because it's so awesome?
I like to rant about OSS, and will continue to, but I also saw a surprising and positive result with the open-source Radeon driver.
On a low-end Radeon 6320, about a year ago Half-Life 2 was extremely choppy on Linux. Of course it might have been a Mesa or compositor problem too, instead of a driver issue.
However, I recently tried it again and the frame rates are now almost as good as under Windows. Nice improvement.
In which way was he trolling? You may not agree with him, but at least he calmly rationalized his comment.
You have probably just used to the glitches.
True. Those are good pieces of software.
Particularly the STFU NEWB part. This is exactly the reputation open source software has.
It's kind of understandable though. What if you went poking the Windows Kernel Team with questions like "how do I get this printer to work"? They would say "we don't have the time to help with that". Then you would contact a Microsoft support engineer and his response would instead be "I'm happy to help you, let's get started".
In open source world, commercial distros like Red Hat do have proper customer support in place, but various random open source projects do not have that kind of support options. You can contact the developers directly, and that's it.
exactly lay out the facts:
product A is owned by commercial company with billions of dollars and developers backing the product
product B is written by some really smart people in their free time that may help you on a forum or in an IRC chat room if they can
You hit the nail on the head. That is one of the big problems indeed.
I would be happily already gaming under Linux, if the desktops in general weren't so buggy. I will never go to Linux as my main OS until the quality assurance of the desktop reaches a professional level.
Intel 20 years behind in graphics.
The performance per watt compared to similar low-end AMD and NVIDIA chips is very competitive.
It's kinda sad that no one will reverse engineer the stuff and post all the specs and diagrams it can anonymously. I guess egos are just too important.
My god that's naive. Good luck reverse-engineering a modern GPU. It would be extremely complex and extremely time-consuming. It wouldn't be worth it at all.
In this day and age I have my doubts whether they have proper manpower to complete the task anyway.