On 02/25/2014 02:43 AM, Tres Finocchiaro wrote: > Well, the only OS I've really felt comfortable recommend it to an end > user is MacOS, where it has it built into the context menus: "Create > Alias". Unfortunately, Apple is so ignorantly simple that you can > only create "Aliases" in their own directories, which breaks for stuff > owned by root (forcing user to fall back to a terminal, which is a bit > taboo on Mac). > > Linux started from the terminal so it's a bit more in the culture of > things to say "ln -s" on a wiki..
Nitpicking, but X is actually older than Linux... so arguably it's a bit of a fallacy to say Linux started from the terminal. Back in the 90s, people who used computers were used to the command line - Microsoft was more known for MS-DOS than it was for Windows. At some point, hiding functionality behind GUIs has become more important than actually having the functionality in the first place... which is kind of stupid. Anyway, someone who uses their computer for any kind of productive work should know their computer a bit better than the average facebooker... I'm firmly of the opinion that if you aim to do any kind of content production on a computer, you shouldn't be afraid of learning how the technology you depend on actually works, at least enough that you can configure things so that they at least stay out of your way. If an OS (any OS) doesn't give you any proper tools to do so, then that OS is not suitable for productive work. /offtopic > > Symlink in Windows work pretty well in Vista and higher on NTFS > formatted volumes using the "mklink" command, but the only software > I've ever seen make productive use of these Symlinks were malware. > Since everything has a drive letter assigned, the idea of a symbolic > directory must be too complicated for the average "power user". I > actually fantastically enjoy many features of the Windows OS and I've > grown to enjoy the speed of installing application as well as the vast > assortment of utilities available for the platform. i.e. I prefer > Putty over Gnome-Terminal for administering AIX (FYI - they do make > Putty for Linux now too). I also prefer the snipping tool to anything > built into any major Linux distro. Mac has a snipping tool, but > there's no laucher icon for it, so you have to know the magic three > finger salute, which I find myself Googling every few months or so. Snipping? You're of course entirely free to use any platform you feel comfortable with. > > I also find Java applications to generally be more predictable on > Windows, including NetBeans, my choice IDE. It looks terrible on > Ubuntu and I can never get the shortcut keys right on Mac, but I digress. > > The first issue at hand is that VSTs (from my understanding) are > stored as absolute paths in the config file, which again I feel is > minor given the other improvements in 1.0.0. VST's are stored as relative paths now, at least in presets and projects (where it counts). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list LMMS-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
