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6233638:
--- Quote from: jmone on September 29, 2013, 07:46:48 pm ---I agree - hence I said they were Unix spin offs
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Sorry, I thought you were saying they were Linux's "year of the desktop".
imugli:
I use Ubuntu on my laptop day to day and have done so for a few years now.
CUPS lets me print to my HP printer over wifi no problem.
Wifi just works, as does bluetooth these days.
Literally the only things I still keep windows on my drive for these days are MC and Adobe products (an even then GIMP and Gedit are OK most of the time for what I use them for).
Bring on Linux MC! :-)
jmone:
--- Quote from: 6233638 on September 29, 2013, 08:40:06 pm ---Sorry, I thought you were saying they were Linux's "year of the desktop".
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Edit - Sorry what I poorly communicated was:
- Unix spawned Linux and for 20 years, "next year" is always "the year for Desktop" but it never quite makes many eyeballs
- ....and yet other Unix decedents (iOS and Andriod) have already won more eyeballs than Linux ever has.
sgomes:
I don't see the argument of "it's never going to be good enough to be the mainstream desktop" as reason enough to warrant abandoning this project. That's a bit of a short-sighted view when you take the entire entertainment market into account.
To start with, presumably JRiver's refactoring of the MC codebase made it economically feasible to explore new options, even if there's a bit of risk involved. We have OS X to thank for that, I suppose :)
You also need to remember that Linux isn't just the "desktop Linux" of years past. There is a huge range of devices out there using Linux as the OS, from routers to media centre units to, as recently announced, future home consoles (the upcoming range of Steamboxes). I can definitely see a market for people buying MC for these devices, or JRiver selling custom hardware of their own (which would be a lot more flexible and cheaper than shipping barebones PCs running a heavily customised Windows install).
Also, you need to remember that having MC on more OSes is *good* for the Windows version. This might sound counter-intuitive, but the more platforms a piece of software is on, the better the codebase usually becomes, since developers tend to try to rely on fewer and fewer platform-specific hacks. We've seen time and time again since JRiver started their massive porting effort that this leads to things like better performance across all OSes.
Really, Linux opens up a huge range of opportunities, and I'm excited to find out where we'll see MC running a year or two from now :) It'll be in my Linux media centre come October, that's for sure ;)
6233638:
--- Quote from: sgomes on September 30, 2013, 08:59:33 am ---Also, you need to remember that having MC on more OSes is *good* for the Windows version. This might sound counter-intuitive, but the more platforms a piece of software is on, the better the codebase usually becomes, since developers tend to try to rely on fewer and fewer platform-specific hacks. We've seen time and time again since JRiver started their massive porting effort that this leads to things like better performance across all OSes.
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It also splits development resources and means you are less likely to have good OS integration, when focus is split over multiple operating systems and having feature parity across them all.
I would much rather see development focused on things like proper High DPI support on OS X/Windows, touch support, taskbar/dock integration, and general improvements, than focus on porting to other systems. Obviously we're past that point now though.
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