Last week I decided to switch sides on something in my life. My life consist of a lot of switching sides. But this one is KDE related:
I switched back to Windows.
I think many people on the planet will now think that I’ve gone crazy, but for me it has advantages too (video performance, run 3ds max)
I obviously still run KDE now (trunk compile) and I cannot even begin to understand how I could have ever worked on Windows without using KDE. I finally understand why the German translation for Desktop Environment translates back to ‘Surface’, while in Dutch it translates back to ‘Surrounding’. KDE really is a surface when used in Windows and greatly improves the workflow (at least mine).
It still has some bugs (The ThinkPad TrackPoint scroll function is not forwarded to Qt scrollarea’s, so I can’t scroll, Ark tries to create files in /C:\, which Windows automatically opens in the browser as http://C:\ and deleting files in Dolphin only works on the second try), but in general I can recommend people stuck to a Windows PC/Environment to replace the standard Windows applications by the KDE equivalent!
In before the haters.
Good luck, use what’s best for you and keep helping KDE onwards!
Seconded. Good luck with your attempt, and possibly improving KDE on Windows
Hah! Now I know who will be my preferred Amarok on Windows tester/fixer
Haha, will compile that later today
I switched “back” to Windows earlier this year… then a month later I reinstalled Linux (Currently running GNOME but will go back to KDE once 4.3 final is out). ^_^
My next switch is currently planned to be OS X later this year/early next year. It’s been a while since I’ve used a Mac as a primary machine.
And please do not forget, without reporting bugs at http://bugs.kde.org/ there is little chance they might get fix (e.g. the Ark one you mentioned)…
Well … after that switch … you are going to die by headaches … but , something keeps on my mind , what weed did you smoked for switching to a inferior OS ? ( Yes , having the capabilities you described , is not windows beeing superior , is beeing more like gsm , almost everyone uses it , and , it sucks =) ) .
Well , its just my opinion … i’ll keep with speed yeayyyay
well, go buy yourself a tablet PC and think: hmmm, did I really pay X amount more for a PC to just lose the added functionality because the OS doesn’t support it?
And then the age old Linux thingy comes in: if it doesn’t work: fix it yourself, but that’s not what I can do.
You are absolutely free to switch to your platform of choice.
However I see this as one example how the kde multi platform strategy will harm open source and especially linux in the long run.
Steve Ballmer: “I would love to see all open source innovation happen on top of Windows.”
One rain does not make it autumn…
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s/will/might/
KDE on Windows also makes heterogeneous environments possible, where there are teams on Linux and some on Windows because they really have to.
3dmax? You should really have a look at Maya and Blender on whatever OS
Sure, it’s just that I used 3ds max for the last 9 years and my university does not allow me to use anything else than what they use (I even need to use Photoshop, while GIMP is definitely better). So in some ways I’m glad that I never started using Blender…
I use Windows most of the time too – Canon’s proprietary RAW Converter doesn’t work on Linux… the same thing applies to PanoramaStudio, Hugin just sucks in comparison.
I really like Linux (and Windows often plainly annoys me), but since most of my computer time is bound to these two programs I’m just too lazy to boot Linux for the rest. This will probably change once Bibble 5 is out, but at the moment a Linux environment clearly isn’t the best for people photographing in RAW.
P.S.: I know that the only ones to blame are Canon, Nikon etc. for having proprietary, undocumented RAW files, but I simply have no choice.
When I was stuck with Windows, one of my favourite apps was Okular to replace Adobe Reader. At the time Amarok was beta and had a bit of stability trouble in Windows. I have since switched to KDE on Linux. The KDE team has done an extraordinary job to bring such great software to a wider audience. And EVE Online works great in wine, so no trouble
I would love to hear about the differences between Blender and 3ds max if you could provide such insights. Most people have used one or the other. It’s rare to find someone who used both.
Wow, gives thanks a bunch m8
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