Comment RedHat != GNU/Linux Re: After my last month... (Score 2, Interesting) 519
I can't comment specifically on sound and video editing, but I've never had any of the dependency problems you mention since switching to Debian at work and Gentoo at home.
I can already hear people saying, "But those aren't particularly user-friendly distributions either," and there is some validity to that; you have to know a bit to set them up. But my point is that we have options, and once they're set up and running a Gentoo or Debian system can be quite friendly to the casual user.
I've flushed an incredible amount of time down the toilet over the past few days playing Tribes II on my Gentoo box (works just spiffy, thanks), and plan to get Unreal set up with my next round of mad money (demo worked flawlessly). I was a Red Hat cheerleader for years, they're still good for a lot, but it's the great boon and curse of any set of flexible, powerful tools that when one approach doesn't work, there are infinitely many more left over to try.
Sorry your experience didn't go so well, yes that still happens far too often, yes Windows is still easier on the initial upswing, but no, this particular at-least-as-lazy-as-the-next-guy user will not be going back to Windows any time soon, because my current setup works a lot better than any Windows box I've used ever has. YMMV.
I can already hear people saying, "But those aren't particularly user-friendly distributions either," and there is some validity to that; you have to know a bit to set them up. But my point is that we have options, and once they're set up and running a Gentoo or Debian system can be quite friendly to the casual user.
I've flushed an incredible amount of time down the toilet over the past few days playing Tribes II on my Gentoo box (works just spiffy, thanks), and plan to get Unreal set up with my next round of mad money (demo worked flawlessly). I was a Red Hat cheerleader for years, they're still good for a lot, but it's the great boon and curse of any set of flexible, powerful tools that when one approach doesn't work, there are infinitely many more left over to try.
Sorry your experience didn't go so well, yes that still happens far too often, yes Windows is still easier on the initial upswing, but no, this particular at-least-as-lazy-as-the-next-guy user will not be going back to Windows any time soon, because my current setup works a lot better than any Windows box I've used ever has. YMMV.
