On Dec 21, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Bryan Lund wrote:
Ronald Vogelaar wrote:
In short, the state of RB on Linux perfectly matches the state of
Linux itself?
...looks promising, but (still!) not quite there yet.
Maybe you're using an old distro or something. I run REALbasic
everyday under multiple distro's. In all cases RB is running fast
and stable (as is the underlying OS). Build times under Linux are
essentially identical to those under Vista on the same machine.
Sure there are a handful of bugs and problems in RB on Linux, but
the same is true on the Windows and MacOS X side. Heck, I've had
more problems with the Windows version than the Linux version in
the latest release.
Now, earlier this year RB was not in a great state for Linux. It
was slow, and crash-y. But all that cleared up as the year
progressed. And R4 is certainly solid enough for day to day
development.
Linux on the desktop has come a long way and is quite usable, once
you figure out which of the hundreds of distro's you want to use,
what pieces you want installed, etc.
It's still not as usable to the average consumer as either Windows or
OS X because of the plethora of similar choices.
Choices are good but sometimes too many choices is just paralyzing
and Linux seems to fall into this pit of too many choices thereby
paralyzing potential adopters.
The American Psychology association has an article on exactly this
phenomenon http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun04/toomany.html
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