@hybotics The vast majority of my time in Linux is spent in terminal windows. All other uses, outside of being a server, are better handled by Windows or Mac.
Yeah. With the CAD stuff, you're going to need cores, horsepower and RAM. That's for sure.
The ThinkPad I am looking at can be equipped with Xeons and go to 64GB of RAM which struck me as ludicrous but, apparently, there are folks who actually require that power in a laptop.
// @larand @kdfrawg
@matigo And this answers the question I've been meaning to ask but never got around to..
"Who is @x and why is everyone spamming him/her with random stuff?"
// @jmreekes
@larand That's kind of the way we talk to each other. :) I think it was a culture clash more than anything else. I do know he wasn't meaning to make you angry at all.
@hybotics There are some things Linux will always be superior at. For me, unfortunately, it's short-comings in everything else keep me in MacOS or Windows.
// @larand @kdfrawg
@larand Hate to see that. Especially over a programmer/non-programmer failure to communicate.
@matigo I've been in similar situations before.
"Your product is stalled because you've tied our damned hands and we can't actually finish it!"
Got to the point where we'd say, "Screw this. Let's play Quake then go home"
@larand
They got over it eventually but I wasn't really interested in taking part anymore.
// @kdfrawg
@larand For your perusal.. An email exchange that lead to me being unwelcome at the Linux User Group
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http://windows7sins.org/ [windows7sins.org]
An extreme point of view perhaps, but a good one.
That's the sort of thing that makes it difficult for people to take Linux
seriously.
It started out so promising. Then the FSF got involved.
Now we have little more than 1970s operating system technology, championed by 1960s style radicals under a banner of 18th century socio-political theory -
Not exactly forward thinking.
What the Hell happened to just making good software?
And, who in their right mind truly believes that the road to Utopia is lined
with consumer electronics? Seriously, it's as if a prophet came down from the
mountain, brandished a toaster oven at the teeming masses and cried "Freedom
for my people". It's just silly.
Slashdot went from a veritable "Who's Who" of the tech industry to a legion of
15 year old boys, 1st year comp-sci majors and paranoid cranks crying, "M$
oppressed me and stole my freedom!….Give me your code!"
Eighteen years, billions invested and only a single percentage point of
marketshare to show for it.
It isn't the tech or the idea. Apple slapped an API/ABI over an open source
micro-kernel and every Birkenstock wearing, Volvo driving yuppy on Earth
lined up to pay premium prices for it.
It isn't going to happen for Linux until someone manages to take the asylum
back from the inmates and start moving forward again.
People find the desktops aesthetically unpleasing. Regardless of what you
might think, it is important. (See Apple)
When people say the applications have stupid names, illogical menus and
annoying bugs, do not shout them down. Fix the damned things. It isn't
because of Microsoft-induced low expectations that the first mental picture
people get of The Gimp is of a cripple or the guy in Pulp Fiction. They
couldn't care less about recursive acronyms. Also, starting every application
name with 'gnu' or 'K' isn't kute, it's gnupid.
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// @kdfrawg
@larand
Be gentle. I was a lot less experienced eight years ago. :-)
And this is precisely why Linux failed on the desktop. Not everyone has an IT degree.
// @kdfrawg