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I wavered in and out of using Linux for years, OS X, and roughly speaking have given up, and focus on Windows nowadays. The main reason I stopped using Linux i
by Zyst 8y ago
I wavered in and out of using Linux for years, OS X, and roughly speaking have given up, and focus on Windows nowadays.
The main reason I stopped using Linux is that a lot of "small" stuff won't just work, so then I go down a google quest, and fix it in anywhere between 5 minutes, and never. OS X mostly just works, Windows mostly just works.
There are a lot of compromises to privacy, or games, or worse development environments, or worse performance for some hardware, or worse UX, or having to track down byzantine errors. I mostly reached the conclusion that no matter which OS you choose you are going to sacrifice something.
Right now, I like games, I want to be able to play effortlessly. The friction between having to restart from OS X/Linux to windows is too much for me, I like to open Dark Souls, play 15 minutes, die, rage quit, get some work done, open Dark Souls again. That's a hard flow to get working in those operating systems.
The future of Linux GPU VM dedicated pass through looks amazing, and my next computer I intend to at least give a shot of getting that to work, but I suspect that much like the author there will just be either a lot of tiny issues, or one big issue that will end up making me go back to Windows full time.
There is no lesson to be had here, I'm just sad.
- nickjj 8y ago> That's a hard flow to get working in those operating systems. That is my exact use case for not dual booting either. Sometimes you want to do something without losing your entire context / environment from a reboot. With recording it's even more tricky because a dual boot won't work since you need to record the Linux environment and dual booting to break up the recording and editing aspect is no way going to happen. That's where the GPU pass through VM will come into play. I will try the GPU pass through approach in a few months once this course is done, assuming I can resolve the audio pops on Linux first since I would still be recording in Linux no matter what approach I went with.
- happytoexplain 8y ago>There is no lesson to be had here, I'm just sad. This pretty perfectly sums up how I feel after two decades of obsessing over the concept of a "good" OS. There is and will never be any such thing as an OS with a good UX + ecosystem that hits all three major use cases: development, productivity, and fun. Maybe I'm being pessimistic or maybe my standard are too high, but coming to grips with this conclusion has brought me some measure of peace.