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marly421:
My two cents. Can I change my vote? No hate mail please but I said maybe but Linux is simply a lost cause. I've tried every distro (version) under the sun for the last 7 or 8 years and forget it. If you're a Linux power user maybe you can get something done...but for every one else, stay with windows or what you have. I tried to get a 1 year old HP printer to work properly and no go. I had to install a 5 year old ATI video card to get even the most basic of functions. My AMD HD7970 card works great in Windows...not Linux.
The Linux community won't pay. They won't buy into program software or support for same. My experience is the drivers for any hardware you might think of is 5 or 6 years behind. Video cards, scanners, printers, camera's, web-cams etc. is pitiful to the extreme. Modem and router support is woeful, even today.
Most of us can't or won't write drivers for Linux. I'm a Programmer and System Analysis and have been for years. Linux users have this issue: They want people like me to work for free. They want everything for free and be damned if someone wants to be able to feed or house themselves. I make $40 an hour, will the Linux folks pony up? Not in my lifetime.
Most all the 'free' programs for Linux is unsupportable, it's badly written and the simplest of documentation is either missing, simplistic and filled with simple misspellings. If JRiver does finish a media center for Linux, great but don't expect any rewards. Last thing I read, Linux had about 2% of the computer fan base. Unless you count smartphone and tablets as 'Computers' and I don't. Apple computer present is about 4% and Samsung is handing Apple smartphones a real whooping, selling more than double Apple numbers.
Matt:
Linux is important for JRiver because we believe it may open up hardware business.
You're right that Linux on the desktop is a bit of a question mark.
Regardless, we're committed to doing it and are hoping for the best.
notzippy:
--- Quote from: marly421 on September 29, 2013, 10:32:11 am ---My two cents. Can I change my vote? No hate mail please but I said maybe but Linux is simply a lost cause....
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I am afraid you are misinformed. Most of your issues are not so much with linux but with the drivers. But business is changing - manufactures are realizing there is a large community of people running linux based distros and so they are releasing proper drivers for there hardware. This is especially true since steam for linux was released both AMD and nvida are releasing drivers for linux. It is true that older hardware can be a problem but to generalize by saying it is a lost cause is going overboard to the extreme.
Nz
JimH:
--- Quote from: Matt on September 29, 2013, 04:20:11 pm ---You're right that Linux on the desktop is a bit of a question mark.
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I don't agree. Linux is fine as a desktop OS.
Matt:
--- Quote from: JimH on September 29, 2013, 05:16:28 pm ---I don't agree. Linux is fine as a desktop OS.
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The question mark isn't about either of our personal feelings towards Linux or the technology behind it.
The question mark is about whether the Year of Linux is really ever coming for home desktop use.
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