>From my personal experience, OS performance is just better on Linux. The memory usage and resource management is hard to beat, and the openness and extreme configurability of absolutely everything is very welcome. I also love the window management you mentioned (and man, Compiz wobbly windows are so much fun!)
Ubuntu is my favourite distro but at work we use CentOS (which is based off RedHat.) I think if Soft work on Ubuntu we'd see more people trying it since the distro is so friendly to newcomers and power users alike; heck, even its motto is "Linux for human beings", haha. On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Christoph Muetze <c...@glarestudios.de>wrote: > ...you do realize that i can make the exact same statement with a search > and replace for linux vs windows, do you? > > just sayin'... > > but joking aside: for me switching to linux brought a lot more advantages > than staying with good old windows. > > first i don't miss any tools. i have softimage, mudbox, maya, photoshop, > inkscape and all our inhouse editors. they all work fine. secondly, the > killerfeature of linux is its window managers. in my case mate desktop. its > slick, fast and powerful. i can have as many virtual desktops as i want, > keep several apps open in parallel (and not stacked up behind each other), > each screen is customized to my needs. sessions get saved, i can switch and > shuffle them around with a few keystrokes and i almost never reboot - > updates happen in the background...i have two monitors chained to one > desktop and another monitor on a second x session that kind of acts like a > second computer with a shared mouse, keyboard and copy/paste-buffer for > email etc.. it's the real life equivalent of those funky > hollywood-operating systems that we've all seen so many times before and > it's boosting my day2day performance a LOT. > > oh, and i can switch between wacom intous and bamboo without deinstalling > and installing drivers. try that with windows :) > > cheers! > chris > > > On 08/16/2013 06:05 PM, Mirko Jankovic wrote: > >> yea so far I also saw only problems with linux after trying to switch >> couple times.... >> fro missing so many other tools to making every day tasks a nightmare. >> sorry but if you don't have an Linux guru around then you will spend more >> time trying to do something on system instead of actually working on your >> job. >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Martin <furik...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> And why is that? What does make SI Linux better than Windows version? >>> From >>> an artist point of view I see more cons than pros in switching from >>> Windows >>> to Linux, apart from dealing with Linux based networks and farms. >>> >>> M.Yara >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On 2013/08/17, at 0:43, Bruno-Pierre Jobin <bpjo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Totally agree with Miquel. I'd switch to linux tomorrow if the >>>> >>> installation process was easier. >>> >>> >
