The issue I have with linux - it stops me cold - is video. I also think this is true for a lot of people who otherwise might switch to the OS. (I use it on an Asus EEE PC, on two old Sharp Zauruses, and on a Kubuntu flashdrive.) There's no support as far as I've been able to find for .mov or .avi which are pretty much standard. .mp4 plays as audio; there's no handling for the H264 compression among other things. There may be fixes and workarounds, but it's a nuisance. And unless you're an animation farm, the editing is useless. I also don't like Audacity for that matter - too much of it is obscure, and at least with CoolEdit I have total control over reverb/echo/sweetening, notch filters and the like. Linux is still a hacker's paradise (I use the command like all the time), but it's way behind on multimedia - and that's the way the world's going. So I'm stuck. Damn!
Can you say something about AHCI? (I think this is worthwhile for other users on these lists, since a lot of us work linux one way or another, and the OS is free, lean, and relatively fast.) - Alan On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, james morris wrote: > > Yeah I think you are probably right about AVG, I might have just got > carried away there. It was Zone Alarm that was playing up. Last time I > used ZA, it seemed fine - 3 months ago. > > Also, I've not really noticed any particular difference in disk speed > between having AHCI on or off. In Linux, using the hdparm -t command > shows very little difference in performance with AHCI on and disabled. > > There's an article on wikipedia about AHCI and Vista, with links to > fixes. It's nice to see that Windows has a long list of problems with > AHCI, while Linux is only struggling with one or two issues particular > to certain hardware. > > Both Intel and AMD are contributing code to the Linux kernel for it to > work with their new technologies within their latest processors (not > that I can afford them) while Linux is also going to be the first OS to > support the new USB3 hardware. > > > On 15/8/2009, "Alan Sondheim" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> more reasons - >> >> the UAC is miserable. the audio balloons are almost impossible to turn >> off. it's slower than XP. constant permission messiness with the console. >> no tweakUI without paying for it. too much configuration - too many >> effects to disable. AVG does work btw and auto-updates. I'm waiting for 7, >> see if I can put it on top w/out losing efficiency or the programs I'm >> using. >> - alan >> >> On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, james morris wrote: >> >>> >>> why i'm tempted to delete vista >>> ------------------------------- >>> >>> 1) I must disable SATA AHCI mode in the BIOS because Vista Home Premium >>> can't handle it. Consequently the hard drives are not operating at full >>> speed. If I don't do this, Vista crashes around 2 seconds after it >>> first begins booting up. >>> >>> 2) I've got no software that makes using Vista worth the hassle. I have >>> two games, Tomb Raider, and Crysis, but I can't be bothered to play >>> them because it feels so unproductive and a waste of time learning how >>> to. >>> >>> 3) Somewhere along the line while Windows was downloading and installing >>> updates, it broke something. While I was fumbling around in Tomb Raider, >>> Windows suddenly decided it had better things to do and began >>> configuring updates. It got halfway along configuring update 2 of 3 and >>> then decided it wouldn't bother after all... it rebooted the computer >>> instead. >>> >>> 4) The firewall and anti virus software crashed and I can't be bothered >>> to keep updating them either. They suck. So does the trial version of >>> the Nero or something media player which does nothing but suck. >>> >>> 5) Because I don't ever use Vista. It would free up some disk space if I >>> were to delete it. >>> >>> 6) It's good to do a bit of cleaning and dump things which are unused. >>> >>> 7) It's been at least 3 months since I used Vista. And I only used it >>> then because someone sent me a Word document as an attachment. It seemed >>> that OpenOffice.org could not read the contents. Turned out I was sent >>> an empty document. >>> >>> >>> >>> ONE NOT VERY GOOD REASON WHY I SHOULD NOT DELETE VISTA >>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> 1) I might need it for some irritating reason, presently unknown to me, >>> in the future. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >>> >> >> >> | current internet text file: http://www.alansondheim.org/qf.txt >> | Alan Sondheim Mail archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >> | Webpage (directory) at http://www.alansondheim.org >> | [email protected], [email protected], tel US 718-813-3285 >> ! http://www.facebook.com/alan.sondheim >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > | current internet text file: http://www.alansondheim.org/qf.txt | Alan Sondheim Mail archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ | Webpage (directory) at http://www.alansondheim.org | [email protected], [email protected], tel US 718-813-3285 ! http://www.facebook.com/alan.sondheim _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
