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"The problem goes deeper" Virtual machines are now more easy to use than ever. Your host OS matters less and less. Furthermore, Linux flavored OSes don't supp
by fideloper 12y ago
"The problem goes deeper"
Virtual machines are now more easy to use than ever. Your host OS matters less and less.
Furthermore, Linux flavored OSes don't support the "secondary" applications we require that Macintoshes do - Microsoft Word/Excel, Photoshop...and working sound card drivers.
- sz4kerto 12y ago> Your host OS matters less and less. True. So when you decide what your host OS is what ultimately matters is _drivers_. On my desktop PC I almost always have a few Linux VMs open, and I develop on them. However, Windows as a host OS makes my AMD GPU run cool, it can resume/suspend perfectly, and so on. So for development, Windows as host with Linux guests is close to perfect (and you can version/snapshot/backup your VMs so you can just continue if you change machines).
- cmiles74 12y agoKind of on the same riff as the article, it seems like tighter integration between virtual machines and the desktop environment could be another place where the Linux desktop could enjoy an advantage. This is an area that we're unlikely to see Microsoft or Apple touch, as it's so developer-centric. It's not hard to imagine what something like this might look like. QubesOS[0] is doing interesting things in this space, although their concentration is clearly on security and security researchers rather than developers (and definitely not the average end-user). [0]: http://qubes-os.org/trac http://qubes-os.org/trac
- amatheus 12y agoWhat kind of integration? At Desktop level VMWare Fusion is very integrated into OS X.
- pyre 12y ago> working sound card drivers Has this really been an issue in recent times? The last time I had serious sound card driver issues was trying to run Linux on an old Powerbook G4 back ~2006.