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I really feel most Linux distros were made for developers and development. Whenever I try to do things on Windows and OSX I get insanely frustrated with the amo

by TACIXAT 10y ago

I really feel most Linux distros were made for developers and development. Whenever I try to do things on Windows and OSX I get insanely frustrated with the amount of friction. It's nice to have an OS that trusts you and lets you make mistakes.

agentultra 10y ago
I had that problem with Linux where I wanted to be able to seamlessly use my Wacom pad with a decent graphics editing suite... oops no, it's terrible. Mainly because the environment for these tools is proprietary and there aren't enough graphics people in the Linux market to support it as a platform. So... mac it still is. Windows is looking better these days.
- TACIXAT 10y ago
  When was this? Wacom drivers come built into Ubuntu now. I use my tablet with MyPaint. I agree that the graphics suites could be better, but it works for my not-so-artistic pursuits.
  - agentultra 10y ago
    The last I tried it the baseline works. All of the buttons, wheels, pressure sensitivity, tip angles, etc... not good. Just want to re-iterate it's not Linux's fault, it just doesn't work well as a proprietary platform. So if your program needs art assets you'll have to get them elsewhere. And if you want to deploy on Mac or Win you'll have to have one of those anyway... so shrug. I like programming on Linux for sure it's just not there as a personal OS. And I used to run a very stripped down, customized Arch distro... on a desktop PC. It never worked well on any laptop I've owned and required too much hand-holding with rolling releases breaking things occasionally.
pjmlp 10y ago
UNIX developers.
madamelic 10y ago
Windows is quite a nightmare for any time of compiled code in my opinion. All of the Microsoft 'stuff' (anything in Visual Studio) works okay but once you start installing python or node modules, forget about it. I remember the click finally happened when I spent an afternoon installing package after package to get a node module to compile on Windows. When I installed it on OS X, it just installed... I didn't have to do anything. I installed Ubuntu that night and never went back (except to play games because WINE is just ehhh)
- AtheistOfFail 10y ago
  True story, tried compiling a node machine learning thing. After 3 hours on Windows, I just brew-installed the damn thing from github on Mac and it just pulled all the dependencies.

by TACIXAT 10y ago

agentultra 10y ago

I had that problem with Linux where I wanted to be able to seamlessly use my Wacom pad with a decent graphics editing suite... oops no, it's terrible. Mainly because the environment for these tools is proprietary and there aren't enough graphics people in the Linux market to support it as a platform. So... mac it still is. Windows is looking better these days.

TACIXAT 10y ago
When was this? Wacom drivers come built into Ubuntu now. I use my tablet with MyPaint. I agree that the graphics suites could be better, but it works for my not-so-artistic pursuits.
- agentultra 10y ago
  The last I tried it the baseline works. All of the buttons, wheels, pressure sensitivity, tip angles, etc... not good. Just want to re-iterate it's not Linux's fault, it just doesn't work well as a proprietary platform. So if your program needs art assets you'll have to get them elsewhere. And if you want to deploy on Mac or Win you'll have to have one of those anyway... so shrug. I like programming on Linux for sure it's just not there as a personal OS. And I used to run a very stripped down, customized Arch distro... on a desktop PC. It never worked well on any laptop I've owned and required too much hand-holding with rolling releases breaking things occasionally.

pjmlp 10y ago

UNIX developers.

madamelic 10y ago

Windows is quite a nightmare for any time of compiled code in my opinion. All of the Microsoft 'stuff' (anything in Visual Studio) works okay but once you start installing python or node modules, forget about it. I remember the click finally happened when I spent an afternoon installing package after package to get a node module to compile on Windows. When I installed it on OS X, it just installed... I didn't have to do anything. I installed Ubuntu that night and never went back (except to play games because WINE is just ehhh)

AtheistOfFail 10y ago
True story, tried compiling a node machine learning thing. After 3 hours on Windows, I just brew-installed the damn thing from github on Mac and it just pulled all the dependencies.