I dont have a spare PC laying around so I am forced to dual boot again.
Couple of days ago Steam released CS:GO for Linux and that was the only app/game in my collection running on Win. So now Im left with a spare partition witch will be for beta releases and other distros to play with.
With so many games coming, rapid pace of development, modernization of Linux how many of you dual booters quit M$?
Still have a dual boot machine for testing things in Windows. (Could do the same by virtualising but why bother disturbing a Windows setup that runs?)
Never quited. Impossible: never had it.
On 2014-09-25 18:46, SLK021 wrote:
> With so many games coming, rapid pace of development, modernization of
> Linux how many of you dual booters quit M$?
I can’t quit.
Not everything are games. And there are many things that only work on
Windows.
I have to use Windows because I own several hardware gadgets that their
manufacturer only support with Windows applications. Say TomTom car
navigator, Samsung phone (via Kia), previously Nokia phone. Some have
community Linux support applications, but feature limited, or faulty.
Some nothing.
Another issue is buying and downloading DRM protected ebooks: you need
a certain adobe application to install them in the device. Yes, DRM can
be broken (for backup purposes), but first you have to download the
file, only doable in Windows, and the crack runs in Windows.
So now and then, once or twice a month, I have to boot Windows and spend
several hours.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Same for me - at least in my work environment. I have largely got by using openSUSE for the past several years, mostly for network deployment and configuration, but more and more my colleagues are using and sharing MS Project, MS Visio, and even some .xlsx files (which LibreOffice can’t always handle correctly). So, I may even need to consider working in Windows again.
I’ll make sure that I’ll continue to have a Linux environment at home though!
On 2014-09-27 03:26, deano ferrari wrote:
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> robin_listas;2666595 Wrote:
>> Not everything are games. And there are many things that only work on
>> Windows.
> Same for me - at least in my work environment. I have largely got by
> using openSUSE for the past several years, mostly for network deployment
> and configuration, but more and more my colleagues are using and sharing
> MS Project, MS Visio, and even some .xlsx files (which LibreOffice
> can’t always handle correctly). So, I may even need to consider working
> in Windows again.
>
> I’ll make sure that I’ll continue to have a Linux environment at home
> though!
There is another field that previously worked in Linux, and now does
not: there it no Linux PDF reader capable of verifying signatures!
I get invoices and receipts as signed pdfs. I simply can not
verify their validity in Linux. Even less create them.
Another field is PDF Forms: some of them, or rather many of them, use
javascript code inside, and there is no reader in Linux that supports
this. Often what that code does you can ignore, but other times it is
crucial.
(PDF forms are often used to communicate with government,
instead of going in person. And they will want you to start
not going, but sending instead)
All that, except document creation, was supported only by Acrobat
Reader. And they decided to no longer provide a reader for Linux… The
old one still runs, but it is no longer maintained, security holes will
not be plugged, and new features will be inaccessible.
I think it may be possible to use version X or XI under wine. When I
tried months ago I failed. Maybe now it works.
(I wonder how the people of the city of Munich project handle that?)
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
I completed a pdf with forms the other day. That when received by the recipient was blank. --scratch head–
Opening the file I had sent to check it and it was fine for me in Okular.
My solution was this:
With it viewing correctly in Okular I did a print to file and saved.
This apparently now made it readable to the recipient.
Just fyi
I know you’ve mentioned these issues previously, and I don’t see a Linux solution to this, so one must be pragmatic about it. Anyway, thankfully, I haven’t encountered that situation . I get bills sent as PDFs by email as many others do, and it is also possible to view accounts online as well. The trust only comes from knowing the service provider is genuine, and my payment is actually done via my bank set up as a payee, so not really possible to spoof that way as such.
Another field is PDF Forms: some of them, or rather many of them, use
javascript code inside, and there is no reader in Linux that supports
this. Often what that code does you can ignore, but other times it is
crucial.
Again, our (NZ) government departments have PDFs available, but I’ve only ever needed to fill these out manually, scan and send back by email as required. Tax can be done online, but this doesn’t involve PDF files at all. Instead, all done with web pages.
Sad news here. A few weeks ago I read in the news that they are going back because of to many problems exchanging documentss with others
On 2014-09-27 11:06, hcvv wrote:
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> robin_listas;2666667 Wrote:
>>
>>
>> (I wonder how the people of the city of Munich project handle that?)
> Sad news here. A few weeks ago I read in the news that they are going
> back because of to many problems exchanging documentss with others
No, the rumour is false and with bad (malign) intentions.
It happens that M$ has moved their offices to that city, and will try to
pester the city officials and people to switch back to M$. The city
itself has no intention of doing that, an is in fact planning an upgrade
of the Linux release they use, which is old (derived from an Ubuntu
LTS). There has been a post on the mail list requesting openSUSE to send
ambasadors or whatever is needed so that they use openSUSE instead. Or
at least, try (they do not want commercial solutions such as SLES).
There is also political bickering. The political enemies of the people
that switched to Linux want to be the politicians in charge instead of
the current politicians in charge, so they take any news or report from
people having a problem with the current software solution, and engross
it and give it wide publicity.
So if an employee hates Linux, or just has, or had problems, they go
in full gear. The team handling the support does not have knowledge of
such big problems as the rumour says.
Of course that there is a document exchange problem with people outside
of the city, using Windows.
Some links, some in Spanish, some English, one German (that I could not
read):
http://www.neoteo.com/munich-se-arrepiente-de-linux-y-considera-volver-microsoft/
http://www.noticias3d.com/noticia.asp?idnoticia=61926
http://www.pcactual.com/articulo/actualidad/noticias/13741/windows_linux_caso_munich.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Thanks for the upgrade on München. I am glad to hear that the battle is not given up.
On 2014-09-27 16:46, hcvv wrote:
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> Thanks for the upgrade on München. I am glad to hear that the battle is
> not given up.
The battle is not over, and can go any direction. With politicians
involved, and money gains involved, you never know.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
-did I have ride/meeting late wednesday last week and was listening on consultants for some business. I took a decision and pointed out Libreoffice there.
If I I was satisfied? Let me serve a smile:
http://www.jodo.nu/pic/pic2/dsc00151.jpg
regards
I need to keep the current versions of Windows running to help people with Windows problems, so most of my machines are dual boot.
That said, since I am semi-retired, I hardly ever see the inside of Windows anymore … perhaps once every 6 weeks or more.