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[Nvyseal]

[banj0]

I guess that settles it, eh?

Kinda funny that the two heavyweights were trying to out-bench each other and then the skinny geek came over and owned 'em both.

[Nvyseal]

Ya know, i really am starting to get to like linux, but i wish they could get completely away from the command line. I also didn't know there were so many apps for linux. - go "skinny geek"

[banj0]

I understand the thought Nvy. But holy cow, how much more specific you can be with a command line! It's like X64bit.net------we type to convey specific thoughts, feelings, news, etc. It'd be hard to have a whole thread with nothing but emoticons.

Ok, bad example considering we've done that on multiple occasions.

I see two glaring problems with *nix OS's that, until being dealt with, will ensure the continued domination of the two party system in the average home:

1. DirectX. It may seem kinda dumb, but a lot of us enthusiasts OC our rigs and tweak and tweak in order to play games. I'm that guy. Wine and Cedega are great for a lot of things and I like a lot of OpenGL games. But the good stuff is still DX and I don't see it changing anytime soon. The irony is that a lot of enthusiasts use Windows just for games and *nix for everything else. (Again, I'm that guy.) Brew could probably put a finer point on it but it seems the game developers are in love with DX. I guess writing hardware calls went out with the bath water around 1999 or so.

2. Plug and play. Nvy, I think this is your point and I agree with you whole-heartedly---It might well be a chicken or the egg thing but no one can deny that if they use Windows or OS(X), their digicam, their scanner, their microphones, their wireless NICS, and their bluetooth dongles will just "work" (despite some exceptions). Point and click to install drivers, point and click to restart. Until nix users have enough of a marketshare to insist on mature drivers for their stuff, and, for the average Net surfer, an easy way to install them, frustrated casual users will look to one of the two major troughs.

Hell, come to think of it, I've had some major issues installing hardware drivers on certain nix platforms and I don't think I'm an "average net surfer." Maybe though.

Edited by banj0, 14 April 2008 - 06:37 AM.

[brewin]

In all honesty, with a decent CPU and enough RAM, this can probably be done on any modern OS. Even Vista... maybe.

I remember a demo video of BeOS back in the late 90s that showed it running hundreds of videos simultaneously. And that was on a P2-266 with like 64 megs of RAM or something. In BeOS, everything was threaded. BeOS was built from the ground up as a desktop OS. It was superior in every way to Windows and Microsoft still was able to kill it. Linux as a server OS has no hope on the desktop.

Yeah, I'm bitter.

Maybe Haiku will be like a phoenix rising from the ashes of Be. Probably not.

[Nvyseal]

brewin, on Apr 14 2008, 08:23 PM, said:

In all honesty, with a decent CPU and enough RAM, this can probably be done on any modern OS. Even Vista... maybe.

I remember a demo video of BeOS back in the late 90s that showed it running hundreds of videos simultaneously. And that was on a P2-266 with like 64 megs of RAM or something. In BeOS, everything was threaded. BeOS was built from the ground up as a desktop OS. It was superior in every way to Windows and Microsoft still was able to kill it. Linux as a server OS has no hope on the desktop.

Yeah, I'm bitter.

Maybe Haiku will be like a phoenix rising from the ashes of Be. Probably not.

You Scrooge! Now i feel like a kid that was told there is no "S"

[m.oreilly]

now i long for beos...