"10 days? Well that hardly sounds hard enough! Sure, it doesn't sound so hard but take in account that over 500 million of us use a Windows OS at least once, everyday of the week and you too will see that going cold turkey from XP to KDE might be harder or more limiting than first thought."
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Member since:2005-07-06
I disagree Linux is an excellent development platform, with lots of developer tools available. Of course if you are going to develop widows only programs windows you naturlly will need to use windows. How else would you be able to test your programs. Howeer, for serverside and cross platform stuff you would probably be better of using Linux.
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2005-08-08
> [...] LINUX is fine but if ur a gamer or into developemnt then LINUX just doesnt cut it.
It depends. If you need (and can afford) to use proprietary development tools, Windows is probably better. But if you want to use free development tools, Linux and BSD are much better platforms.
Member since:I don't see where you are coming from with your development remark. I am a developer and the main reason I use Linux is because it is a superior development platform. Windows is a mamed cripple by comparison.
I use Windows XP too (I'm posting this from a Windows box) when it makes sense (games, client requirements, etc) but for development, you can't beat Linux and/or BSD.
Member since:I am a developer and the main reason I use Linux is because it is a superior development platform. Windows is a mamed cripple by comparison.
Yes, this is absolutely true. Back in school, most of the computer science majors I knew prefered the UNIX/Linux environment over Windows as far as development is concerned. Need to do some performance testing on that code? Just write a shell script to run the program several times with different parameters, and go do something else (like have fun!). Windows doesn't have a functional shell. You could write a BATCH file, but those pale in comparison to the power of a fully functional shell script. Then there are really good programming languages that just seem to work better in a UNIX/Linux environment, like O'Caml, Python, Lisp, and Haskell. Sure, code completion (IntelliSense in VS.NET) is nice, but there is something lacking in the Windows environment when it comes to having the full power of an operating system at your disposal.
Member since:2005-07-02
Member since:2005-07-06
Nice article.....my experiences and feelings about LINUX have been pretty much the same. If ur just gonna use ur PCfor wordprocessing, browsing and chatting then LINUX is fine but if ur a gamer or into developemnt then LINUX just doesnt cut it.
I am a gamer, but most of my favorite games were ported to Linux (and the rest run fine under Wine) so I don't feel the pain of being a Linux gamer. (If only HL2 had a native port 
)
I do agree that Linux is *not* for 'generic' gamers, though. Too much of a hassle.
As for the development part... well, I doubt that you catch the irony of your statement.
First of all linux was designed by free software developers for software developers; You can literally change the OS to suite your needs.
Second, Linux comes with a wrath of development tools and by far suppress anything Windows has to offer.
I assume that by development you mean: .NET vs. World. I can't really argue with you on this one; while my current workplace is chewing rocks since they switched from cpp to c#, it may be a clear case of YMMV.
However,
A. Software development ranges from asm code inside a kernel to web scripting. .NET is only a (small?) part of the story.
B. Linux has very good java tools that match anything has to offer.
C. While kdevelop + qt still fails to compete with .NET 2003/2005, it does offer something Windows cannot offer: Out of the box portability to anything with a CPU on it.
D. Mono.
Having said all that, nothing beats vim! (on both Windows and Linux)!
Gilboa
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2005-07-06
Nice article.....my experiences and feelings about LINUX have been pretty much the same. If ur just gonna use ur PCfor wordprocessing, browsing and chatting then LINUX is fine but if ur a gamer or into developemnt then LINUX just doesnt cut it.