The excuse USED to be how friendly and EASY windows/was to use. Now it seems not so. I use pure data several courses and the students who are tech(y) and want to use cool linux stuff gravitate there. Usually 1 per semester. The rest have windows7 from the computer they had to get or they have a 3,000$ MAC they use to check email.
-----Original Message----- From: pd-list-bounces@iem.at [mailto:pd-list-bounces@iem.at] On Behalf Of patko Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 10:40 AM To: Bernardo Barros Cc: pd-list Subject: Re: [PD] Pd-extended 0.42.5 release candidate 6 released!
Konichiwa,
Windows in itself is very crappy, it's not really about multimedia, almost everything isn't good on this platform, maintaining a list of crappy things on windows would just be a waste of time.
Just stop removing fresh air from windows users when they can find in it applications like PureData, when they are available on this crappy platform.
Also the little cd isn't able to handle any computer hardware, without a little bit of knowledge about what is X server for example, Or simply without the matching hardware.
(please don't read this serioulsy)
This even sound very elitistic, the windows users would just use the great cd that has been compiled by the real people who know things, and just keep windows for playing their games, or to run the great music softwares they bought because on linux there are no real solution that is handling mainstream music composition without knowledge about computers.
Sorry to put those misplaced arguments, but sometimes I'm wondering about solutions instead of closing doors.
The windows version is probably the most downloaded because users aren't satisfied, and are waiting for the big changes.
----- "Bernardo Barros" bernardobarros2@gmail.com a écrit :
BTW SuperCollider did not released the 3.4 verion for Windows. Widows is just crappy for audio. That means more bugs and more issues to fix. more work for developers etc. The situation is that anyone can put a puredyne live-cd and work with pd/supercollider/whatever on any computer on earth.
2010/9/17 András Murányi muranyia@gmail.com:
Maybe i'm short of rationality, (and i may sound weird, please don't misunderstand) but for me it's like a race issue... we shall not discriminate windows users, because most of them were "born into"
windows.
It's not like you buy your first computer and the vendor asks you
"which OS
please?", and you have a 360 degree view of them you if you are cool
you
choose linux, and if you are a jerk you choose windows. Be more
tolerant,
and of course be happy that you are already "on the right side", but
try to
help those "on the dark side" rather than abandoning them. Just 2 cents.
Andras
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Bernardo Barros
wrote:
Just stop losing energy with Windows. Better concentrate our
limited
resources.... Linux is better for audio anyway, and it's so easy to
use/install/try
these days.
2010/9/16 ydegoyon@gmail.com ydegoyon@gmail.com:
ola,
> The Windows package is still the most downloaded.
so what? that's where the big illusion stands ( having more
customers? )
do you expect any of these to be great creators???
we'll see hey
sevy
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