Not everything is peaches and cream in Ubuntu land.
Sunday, May 4, 2008 @ 12:14 am by -DS-
The root of my problems has a name, and it’s called ATI. When I bought the video card it never crossed my mind that I would switch over to Linux and it turned out that the ATI support to linux is very, very poor. I mean, the card works like it should, I have 3D acceleration, Compiz works great, even some linux-made games like Warzone 2100 look beautifully, but when I try to run Guild Wars or Sim City 4 through Wine it fails miserably because there are some calls that the ATI driver failed to implement and there is no work around.
The other main problem I have is with MythTV. I am able to set it up, I can record programs, change channels (that one was a pain in the ass to make it work), browse the guide, but thats just it. I can not watch live TV or view the recordings trough MythTV because there is an audio buffer problem that fucks the video making it flicker. The only way I can watch TV is through gzine, mplayer or vlc, but I can deal with that.
The rest works beautifully, I can access the network shared folders of other computer without problems, and they can access mine. I know that in Windows World no one has to ever bother configuring that, but in Linux World you had to configure Samba to get that, not anymore because Ubuntu does it for you, like it should be.
As a Web Developer there is something I can not live without. Dreamweaver. Some people would say that “real” programmers use notepad, and I have this for those people. Go fuck your mother. If you want to waste time coding everything manually thats fine, I don’t. Nothing, absolutely no software on Linux is able to give me the same amount of freedom and tools I get from Dreamweaver, and thats a shame. But as you can see in the picture below I can still use Dreamweaver with a little help from VirtualBox.
Ubuntu, and Linux in general has its problems but the root of those problems is the poor or sometimes lack of support from hardware vendors and since this computer was not made with Linux in mind it will keep failing, a lot. That is why I’ve been considering to exchange computers with Kaiser, Ill be loosing because this one is much more powerful than his computer, but his computer is more Linux Friendly. Maybe next month I will try that because I will have lots of spare time to burn since I will be unemployed and with nothing else to do.
Dallas
65°
May 4th, 2008 at 12:39 AM
DON’T YOU TOUCH MY COMPUTER YOU BITCH.
…unless you plannin’ to buy me that Powerbook <3<3<3
May 6th, 2008 at 9:50 PM
“Some people would say that “real” programmers use notepad”
ese argumento me lo monda tanto… si es asi pues que no usen word y vuelvan a las maquinillas, jodios mamaos
May 7th, 2008 at 5:13 PM
Yo he usado linux desde que salio Slackware 1.0 en 1986, y lo dije antes y lo sigo diciendo. Linux es tremendo sistema operativo y las distribuciones de Ubuntu y Suse lo han puesto alfrente como un buen “contender” de windows en el desktop environment. Pero aun, con todas las cosas nitidas que tienen estos distros no esta listo para el desktop 100%. Linux es excelente como server, pero como desktop tiene aun sus limitaciones.
Creo que la unica distribucion de *nix que es tan versatil o mas que las actuales de ubuntu y tienen al menos el apoyo de la industria (como adobe, macromedia, etc), es OSX. Entiendo que la gran mayoria no le gusta el detalle que apple obliga a usar su hardware y no tienen planes de vender el sistema operativo OSX para hardware que no sea el de ellos.
Sin embargo de la misma manera que truckeaste Ubuntu, para hacer lo que tu querias, podrias quizas intentar correr Hackintosh, que es un distro “hackeao” de OSX que corre en cualquier plataforma Intel o AMD. Al menos en OSX tendrias todo lo que tienes en ubuntu, podrias correr parallels o vmware o conseguir Dreamweaver para OSX.
Yo voy a intentarlo en la PC de mi novia, a ver que tal. Pero de lo que he leido el producto es bastante estable.
Estos dos articulos describen con lujo de detalle lo que tienes que hacer:
http://lifehacker.com/348653/install-os-x-on-your-hackintosh-pc-no-hacking-required
http://lifehacker.com/software/hack-attack/build-a-hackintosh-mac-for-under-800-321913.php
Asi que puedes intentarlo y ver que tal, y no tienes que comprar el hardware de apple que tanto te jode, aunque yo creo que es buenisimo. Mi macpro 8core se la hecho a cualquiera.
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A Evaristo: yo nunca me meto en comentarios ignorantes, pero hoy me voy a meter, porque hay que ser bien bruto para confundir los dos.
La razon por la cual notepad es preferido entre programadores, es que es un editor de texto, que no mete comandos escondidos como lo hace Word, que es un procesador de palabras. Algunos programadores prefieren la sencillez de notepad, y otros como yo o Darkie nos gusta tener herramientas mas completas, pero al final del dia, si tengo que hacer un quick edit, lo hago en notepad.
May 8th, 2008 at 1:33 AM
I love Dreamweaver (and Fireworks), and you’re right…”hardcore” programmers talk all sorts of shit about it. Although I can program, I’m a visual person, so Dreamweaver is the best tool for me.
Windows drives me crazy. I honestly think that if I had to work on an IBM I would have never had the patience to use a computer, let alone make a living with it. Thank goodness I was brought up on Macintosh…
May 8th, 2008 at 4:22 AM
mala mia no lei bien yo me refiero a otra cosa, me equivoque.
y bruto el la madre que te pario mamabicho
May 9th, 2008 at 2:24 AM
WTF Hace tiempo que no se daba un flame war por aquí! LOL!!
May 12th, 2008 at 10:56 AM
Evaristo;
Te tienes que cambiar el nombre a “TurdNugget” porque cuidao que hablas tanta mierda… jajajaja
saludos;
Badr
May 13th, 2008 at 3:38 AM
hablando de ti obviamente es mierda
May 13th, 2008 at 11:57 AM
evaristo… no te projectes…
May 13th, 2008 at 12:28 PM
Evaristo… no te proyectes…
May 14th, 2008 at 9:34 AM
Darkie – Para editar paginas no has probado Kompozer? Bajalo, instalalo y me dices.
May 14th, 2008 at 10:01 AM
@P!
Si lo use, junto con Bluefish, Scream, Eclipse y no dan el grado por si solos, hay que utilizarlos en conjunto, por ejemplo cssed para manejar los CSS, Kompozer para la interfase y Bluefish para el PHP lo que hace un crical hehehehe