Operating Systems

Kit Hannah said:
What did you get fed up with?
I use Win7 Pro 64, very happy with it.
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OK, I think I'll re-phrase that. I was using 7, and then I tried Ubuntu. Once I had tried Ubuntu, the flaws in Windows 7 became much more apparent. For instance, a Windows machine is vulnerable to viruses 10 minutes after the first time it is turned on. An Ubuntu computer... well, they just don't seem to write viruses for Ubuntu! Also, it's much more customizable, most all the software is free (and yet good!) and hey, it has Kdenlive!
 
I'm running Vista 64 bit on my loaded Toshiba laptop. Works great. We have XP 32 bit on an older P4, Mac OS 10 on a G4 laptop, and Mac Snow leopard on son's new 27 inch iMac in the house too. I'm platform agnostic, whatever the software requires. For work that is Windows apps, Autocad, audio and video engineering and test apps.
 
Just as a note of caution -- if this thread turns into yet another platform debate, it'll disappear very quickly.

To the OP -- you're new here, so you probably don't know, but this kind of thing never goes well. It's not personal. :)
 
static and timecodes said:
OK, I think I'll re-phrase that. I was using 7, and then I tried Ubuntu. Once I had tried Ubuntu, the flaws in Windows 7 became much more apparent. For instance, a Windows machine is vulnerable to viruses 10 minutes after the first time it is turned on. An Ubuntu computer... well, they just don't seem to write viruses for Ubuntu! Also, it's much more customizable, most all the software is free (and yet good!) and hey, it has Kdenlive!
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What do you edit video with? Is there a good image editor? DVD and Blu ray support for burning?
 
static and timecodes said:
OK, I think I'll re-phrase that. I was using 7, and then I tried Ubuntu. Once I had tried Ubuntu, the flaws in Windows 7 became much more apparent. For instance, a Windows machine is vulnerable to viruses 10 minutes after the first time it is turned on. An Ubuntu computer... well, they just don't seem to write viruses for Ubuntu! Also, it's much more customizable, most all the software is free (and yet good!) and hey, it has Kdenlive!
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And that's cool, but will it run Sony Vegas and Photoshop and After Effects?
 
Al MacLeod said:
What do you edit video with? Is there a good image editor? DVD and Blu ray support for burning?
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Once a quality video editor becomes available for Ubuntu, I'll consider it. Until then, I'll stick where I am. I really like the idea of open source, though.
 
As far as video editing software goes, I haven't done a huge research project yet, but kdenlive looks rather promising.
In regard to image editing, there are a few options, and I haven't tried many out yet. So far, the best one appears to be GIMP.
And for disc burning I use Brasero.
 
Kdenlive is like going back to the dark ages.
Interesting, but definitely Open-source, not ready for prime time, for a long, long time.

I never did like GIMP.
 
I use GIMP all the time. It's not PS, but does 99% of what I need. Used it for all of the still image processing on my feature. But though companies like PIXAR write quite a bit of high end proprietary software for Linux, there really isn't any consumer software that can come close to other options.
 
All I ask of my operating system and software is that it be invisible. They are tools, and I don't really care what goes on under the hood, only that they allow me to do what I need to do without getting in the way. I have no compelling reason to switch from OS X. In fact, if they never updated the software again I'd probably be content for quite a while. Same with my hardware. I only write and edit, though. If my processing needs were more stressful I might feel differently.
 
Batutta said:
All I ask of my operating system and software is that it be invisible. They are tools, and I don't really care what goes on under the hood, only that they allow me to do what I need to do without getting in the way. I have no compelling reason to switch from OS X. In fact, if they never updated the software again I'd probably be content for quite a while. Same with my hardware. I only write and edit, though. If my processing needs were more stressful I might feel differently.
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Yeah, I hear you. My needs are a little different, so like I need an OSx box for iOS dev, and since I came up with UNIX, it's very nice to me to have a UNIX machine with a nice interface as Mac does. I do a lot more under the hood stuff, though. But on the other hand, certain MS-based projects can only be written on a Win box. So I have to have one of those around too.

Now toss into the mix iOS and Android, because I never read news and stuff on my computers anymore, just phone and tablets. Whatever works.

But I agree 100%, and that's the reason I never went to Linux on the desktop. I know UNIX inside and out, and even I don't want to hassle with it if it can't see my wireless card, etc.

On the server side, Linux is fantastic, so lean and so easy to use on cheap hardware. And just as iOS is BSD-based, Android is Linux-based. It's all over the place. And I kind of don't know why some other company hasn't done what Apple did with BSD, take a linux dist, and just make it out of the box the most amazing thing anyone's ever seen. Maybe there's no money in it, but...
 
Fahad said:
Like Google did with Android but for desktop computers? That would be great. I would hazard a guess that Google will come up with something along those lines. Have you heard about Android-enabled TVs?
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Yep, there will also be Android powered refrigerators, cars, etc. A lot of embedded systems use Linux now. I think those kinds of things will start seeing more Android as well.
 
I use Nexradix (a GNU/Linux distribution that is a derivative of Ubuntu). Of course I'm a bit biased, as my company maintains it... :cheesy:

Sadly, I still have a system running Windows 2000 so I can run Sony Vegas for my video editing. I've been trying to rid myself of it for quite a while, but haven't been able to get the Free Software equivalents to do what I need yet. Perhaps with Lightworks going open source (and eventually coming to Linux), this situation will change. Meanwhile, my plan is to move the Windows install over to a virtual machine and run it from within Nexradix.
 
I'm running win7 x64 on the offline workstation, Ubuntu 10.10 x64 for all other machines connected to the net, OS X at work.
 
I use Ubuntu 10.04 at work, Vista on laptop. XPS3 on a PC at home (just for browsing and watching movies). Imac for editing...
Some times I use winff on Ubuntu to compress the HD files to 480p and copy them to my Imac scratch disk for offline editing.
Totally I'm a multiplatform guy :)
 
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