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posted by janrinok on Friday December 23 2016, @08:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the try-another-distro? dept.

I've been using MacOSX as my primary desktop since the days of Rhapsody. But I always had Linux virtual machines running on occasions. A dwindling number of machines at home were running Linux, most notably a couple of Raspberry Pi and a Synology Diskstation. And when I installed Linux, I usually went for Ubuntu, which did a good job polishing the user experience. The build ring for Tao3D includes a number of virtual machines running several major distros for testing purpose, but it's been quite inactive for a while, and repairing it is on my short-term to-do list.

Working for Red Hat, I thought I had to use Fedora as my primary desktop. And the experience has been a bit underwhelming so far, unfortunately. In just three days, I managed to render a Mac Book Pro unbootable in OSX, had several different issues with skippy or laggy mouse cursors and even non-responsive keyboards, had a driver crash attempting to access my home Wi-Fi, found out the hard way that NFS performance is just horrible, and had to use Google for trivial things way too often.

I complained several times on this blog about what I perceived as a degradation of OSX software quality since 10.6, but this experience with Linux puts all this in some serious perspective.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by chromas on Saturday December 24 2016, @03:22AM

    by chromas (34) Subscriber Badge on Saturday December 24 2016, @03:22AM (#445384) Journal

    We're training them to expect applications to be web-accessible

    This prospect disgusts me. But on the other hand, history implies thin clients are just a fad and we'll soon be back to full applications again. Perhaps Qt and GTK software will replace them, with their XML+javascript (and other script language) support. Applications could be run off the web but with native widgets.

    Webapps suck, though. I'm using Google Docs right now to tweak a spreadsheet for someone and it's sloooow and has far fewer features than Quattro on DOS.

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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Saturday December 24 2016, @09:44AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Saturday December 24 2016, @09:44AM (#445501) Journal
    Between Canvas, WebGL, WebCL and WebAssembly, web applications are gradually becoming a mechanism for delivering sandboxed thick client applications.
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