Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (16 Viewers)

[JCK]

What's that? A Winblows application?

Anyway I found one, devede, really neat. I just started the conversion process.

 

Buy on AliExpress.com

[Wahdan]

Actually, I was joking

 

[Martin]

ever since i installed Ubuntu 9.04 the new Amarok wont work at all,, songs go to my playlist but wont start

Same here. Actually banshee started failing too. exaile still works.

 

[Martin]

Just installed OSX Leopard 10.5.6 on my PC. Boy, what troubles can you get? Keyboard works and stops working when it pleases, making it difficult to use CLI commands :irritated , dmg files crash the system...

Anyway, OSX is basically linux from what I can see. True, I'm not running it on a native Mac but so far I'm not impressed with the "Best OS ever". The only good side is incredibly fast boot time.

Same impression I had. Not worth the trouble whatsoever. I run it occasionally to see if my own code will run. Other than that it has nothing I'd want.

 

[JCK]

Same here. Actually banshee started failing too. exaile still works.

It works like a charm on Kubuntu 9.04

 

[Martin]

It works like a charm on Kubuntu 9.04

I have kubuntu also. I think maybe it worked at first but then it broke. Can't be bothered to track down the problem, I have all my music on the Gentoo laptop anyway, where amarok works.

 

[JCK]

I have kubuntu also. I think maybe it worked at first but then it broke. Can't be bothered to track down the problem, I have all my music on the Gentoo laptop anyway, where amarok works.

Did you abandon Gnome?

 

[Martin]

Did you abandon Gnome?

Abandon? It was never mine to begin with. To get from ubuntu to kubuntu all you have to do is "apt-get install kubuntu-desktop", so it doesn't matter which installcd you use.

I did run the Gnome desktop for a while, but almost all the applications I use are KDE so.

 

[Rami]

Gnome kicks ass Tried taking a jump back for KDE a couple times, but couldn't really gut it. Maybe KDE 4.3 would convince me....

 

[Martin]

It wouldn't. 4.3 is no better.

 

[Rami]

4.5 then?

 

[JCK]

What's wrong with 4.2? It's the best environment I've ever used.

 

[Martin]

4.5 then?

I see 4.x as being a pretty big failure. I use it everyday and there are a number of things that really annoy me. Especially things that used to work in 3.x and now don't work well (or at all). I have reported bugs for the more egregious ones, many many months ago. Nothing whatsoever has happened with those. So what this tells me is that KDE's vision is clearly not following the same path as the way that I like software to behave. Their priorities lie in making things new and flashy, regardless of whether it's done well. They also just push out stuff that isn't properly configurable with defaults I hate, which is completely contrary to the original KDE ethos "be configurable". Like why the f do I have to right click on a process in the task bar and select Do Not Allow This Program To Be Grouped every f time I start my desktop and open two firefox windows???

Things like that, which are completely trivial to fix, seriously kill the user experience.

 

[Rami]

What's wrong with 4.2? It's the best environment I've ever used.

What Martin said. Too much emphasis on the bling, not functionality.

 

[JCK]

I see 4.x as being a pretty big failure. I use it everyday and there are a number of things that really annoy me. Especially things that used to work in 3.x and now don't work well (or at all). I have reported bugs for the more egregious ones, many many months ago. Nothing whatsoever has happened with those. So what this tells me is that KDE's vision is clearly not following the same path as the way that I like software to behave. Their priorities lie in making things new and flashy, regardless of whether it's done well. They also just push out stuff that isn't properly configurable with defaults I hate, which is completely contrary to the original KDE ethos "be configurable". Like why the f do I have to right click on a process in the task bar and select Do Not Allow This Program To Be Grouped every f time I start my desktop and open two firefox windows???

Things like that, which are completely trivial to fix, seriously kill the user experience.

I have never ever witnessed this behaviour.

 

[V]

Same impression I had. Not worth the trouble whatsoever. I run it occasionally to see if my own code will run. Other than that it has nothing I'd want.

That post was bait for you, so we can bash it together.

 

[JCK]

That post was bait for you, so we can bash it together.

Ok, now I am intrigued. My wife has an Acer laptop with a very rare wireless adapter that I failed to install Linux on it. We simply have to cope with Vista. But Vista is so heavy on the machine it's annoying, would you recommend OSX over Vista? (for a woman) and if so what to do to install it?

 

[V]

Ok, now I am intrigued. My wife has an Acer laptop with a very rare wireless adapter that I failed to install Linux on it. We simply have to cope with Vista. But Vista is so heavy on the machine it's annoying, would you recommend OSX over Vista? (for a woman) and if so what to do to install it?

I wouldn't recommend it at ALL. Not because it's a weak OS, but the installation on a non-Mac is a pain in the ass. I won't even tell you where to start looking for installation instructions because it's not worth it.

You could get the latest Win7 RTM, which is Vista on stereoids. I'm running 7 for close to 2 months and had absolutely no problems with it. I know you don't like to hear it, but MS pulled a great OS. You can run the RTM for 120 days with no crack, which gives you enough time to wait for a crack.

 

[Martin]

Concur with vlatko about OSX.

OSX is not meant to run on your Acer and they basically try to make sure it won't. The thing only has drivers for the narrow line of devices that Apple uses so I've never had a working wifi card with it. It's absolutely not worth using on an unsupported box and I doubt very much it's worth using even on a mac.

 

[V]

...and about 7? umpkin: