Linux as a Daily Driver - My Complaints

[stj]

Re: Linux as a Daily Driver - My Complaints

what cant you easily do in linux ?

[shovenose]

Re: Linux as a Daily Driver - My Complaints

Focus on website design and development, managing servers, watching Netflix, and posting on forums, instead of trying to get my computer to work

Speaking of which, I need a PHP project for my spare time - anybody need anything done? I'm currently working on a live chat system and a helpdesk system, but I like to have many going on at once because I always get bored of the previous one 3/4 of the way through and need to do something else to take a break from them and then finish them.

[ratdude747]

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I use arch as a daily driver on most of my systems, with some exceptions:

-Desktops (workstations)- they all have twin monitors or in one case have Ati "legacy" graphics which have poor modern xorg support... and I find gnome doesn't do dual monitors quite as well.
-Software- there is some software with no linux support that I use; this includes PLC software (automation direct click/c-more HMI), ODIN (samsung firmware tool), SLIC bios softwares and codevisionAVR. This is why all my laptops (for the most part) are dualbooted with 7 ulitmate.

For the most part otherwise

[stj]

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there is a Linux replacement for ODIN.

[ratdude747]

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there is a Linux replacement for ODIN.

Noted, still, there is (sadly) stuff in industry that isn't linux compatible. Stuff that is more electrical engineering like and less IT/computer science like.

[Spork Schivago]

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Okay, so I have a Dell Vostro 2420 with a Core i3 processor, Intel HD graphics, 8GB DDR3, and a 160GB Intel SSD. The 14" screen has 1366x768 resolution.

So, I had Windows 7 on there, and I was having a problem with the video while running Windows 7. I replaced the RAM, put an SSD in instead of the 320GB HDD I had in there, and decided to try something besides Windows to see if the problem I was having if not resolved by the RAM or disk replacement might have been software related.

So, here I am, running Fedora 22, and so far so good. My mysterious video issue is gone, so I think the motherboards fine.

I choose Fedora because it's RHEL-based and I administer CentOS based servers every day. Ubuntu has better software compatibility but I'm not quite as familiar with it. I really like Xubuntu but I wanted to try something different.

But now, I have used this enough and here are my complaints, so I'm looking for some genius creative solutions to resolve them, because I really want to like this a Linux laptop is useful in many cases - besides, I already have a Windows laptop.

1. Fonts. Whether it's here on BCN forum or on Outlook.com, the font rendering on Linux sucks. It's either blurry, or just an ugly font in general. I am so used to how nice fonts look on Windows and Mac OS, this whole Linux thing is pretty bad.
2. Skype. I use Skype a lot and it straight-up won't work on Fedora.
3. Sublime Text 3. Not on Fedora dammit.
4. Netflix. Same thing, it doesn't work on Fedora.

Any input appreciated - I really want to have a Linux laptop as a daily driver.

Have you tried the Windows fonts? Like borrowing them from a Windows installation and installing them on your Linux box and seeing if they look any different? It might not be the font rendering so much as just crappy fonts.

For Netflix, I know for a long time you couldn't watch it natively. You had to run a virtual machine with Windows. I was pretty sure they finally found away around that though. I know you're not running Ubuntu, but perhaps this would be of interest to you? Near the end it hints that this should work with any distro...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/28246...rkarounds.html

You just need a recent enough version of Chrome and I think they said your distro must include a semi-recent version of something called NSS.

[Spork Schivago]

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what cant you easily do in linux ?

I can't easily infect my Linux boxes with viruses.

[c_hegge]

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I can't play FSX or run the DS1M12 Stingray Oscilloscope in Linux either. Otherwise, I'd use OpenSUSE on the server.

[ivtec]

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I can't easily infect my Linux boxes with viruses.

Bro that killed them all;Linux is the best OPS in the world,because is free ,because it does everything win does at least for me and i guess for the majority of people;What i do not agree is people complain about fonts,of course there are many distros that are better then others,for example some People don't like Ubuntu because of the Unity desktop,i realy don't care if Unity is not very eye candy,what matters is that ubuntu with Unity works great for me and i never have issues,as i had when i had other Distros and desktops , such as KDE and many others,Ubuntu LTS is trouble free,yet to remember an issue i had since i started to use it.
what people should start looking for,it's an efficient Disto or OPS and not if you have nice beauty-full apps or a nice desktop; many Linux or Win OPs have a nice candy desktop for your eye and run like crap,what is the use.

Also people have to take in consideration your PC Hardware that has much to do about the way any OPS can be good or piece of crap, in my opinion many people blame OPS for it's low performance and never blame their PCs,and when it comes to hardware performance,Linux is the champ, because you can chose any Linux Distro to run on any PC no matter if it's old or new, compared to win OPS that give you no choice but either go with Linux or trash it,just for this,may i ask what is the OPs that wins this battle?,Linux,Linux, and Linux.Yet this is my opinion,and i stand by it,i respect whatever anybody thinks different.

[Spork Schivago]

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I can't play FSX or run the DS1M12 Stingray Oscilloscope in Linux either. Otherwise, I'd use OpenSUSE on the server.

I didn't really look into this very much yet because I have a doctors appointment I need to start getting around for but could this help with the DS1M12 Stingray scope you have? https://github.com/python-ivi/python-ivi

If it doesn't support it right away, perhaps it can be easily modified? I know people have been using it to control a Rigol DP832 power supply in Linux. I have one and that's how I know. I was following a google groups posting about it and someone started talking about using it with their scope. When I get back, I'll look into it a bit more.