Comments on: Why Mark Pilgrim is switching to Linux http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/06/24/why-mark-pilgrim-is-switching-to-linux/ entertaining hundreds of millions of eyeball atoms every day Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:06:22 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/06/24/why-mark-pilgrim-is-switching-to-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-720 adam Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:23:55 +0000 http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/06/24/why-mark-pilgrim-is-switching-to-linux/#comment-720 One thing I need is reliable color management. All of the hardware monitor colorimeters I know of only work for Windows or Mac, and have no Linux support (not even third-party). I would consider switching to Mac for photo editing and layout work, but I don\'t see any real advantage to doing so, especially after spending more than a few thousand dollars on hardware and another thousand to buy CS2 again. As far as apps go, it\'s really Microsoft Project and Visio. I\'ve tried some alternatives on the Mac, but they really don\'t hold up. Omnigraffle, for example - I couldn\'t make it easily do the kinds of detailed diagrams I do in Visio for specifications work. Also, interoperability is important and not quite entirely there yet. Openoffice is great, and I use it a lot. It produces Word files that can be mostly read in Word, but it\'s useless if you do a lot of back and forth collaborative editing with someone else using Word - too much gets lost in the translation. It\'s not enough for the files to be mostly compatible if they get mangled when you go back and forth - things like numbering, table structure, and embedded images often get clobbered. I had a linux desktop as my primary workspace for a while, and it was mostly okay except for those things. VMWare is an acceptable solution for the app problems, but not the color management one - it doesn\'t provide a sufficient hardware emulation driver for the video board to enable the color management software to work. Does that answer your question? One thing I need is reliable color management. All of the hardware monitor colorimeters I know of only work for Windows or Mac, and have no Linux support (not even third-party). I would consider switching to Mac for photo editing and layout work, but I don\’t see any real advantage to doing so, especially after spending more than a few thousand dollars on hardware and another thousand to buy CS2 again.

As far as apps go, it\’s really Microsoft Project and Visio. I\’ve tried some alternatives on the Mac, but they really don\’t hold up. Omnigraffle, for example – I couldn\’t make it easily do the kinds of detailed diagrams I do in Visio for specifications work.

Also, interoperability is important and not quite entirely there yet. Openoffice is great, and I use it a lot. It produces Word files that can be mostly read in Word, but it\’s useless if you do a lot of back and forth collaborative editing with someone else using Word – too much gets lost in the translation. It\’s not enough for the files to be mostly compatible if they get mangled when you go back and forth – things like numbering,
table structure, and embedded images often get clobbered.

I had a linux desktop as my primary workspace for a while, and it was mostly okay except for those things. VMWare is an acceptable solution for the app problems, but not the color management one – it doesn\’t provide a sufficient hardware emulation driver for the video board to enable the color management software to work.

Does that answer your question?

]]> By: daw http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/06/24/why-mark-pilgrim-is-switching-to-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-717 daw Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:40:16 +0000 http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/06/24/why-mark-pilgrim-is-switching-to-linux/#comment-717 So what things are those that you need from windows? apps or core OS features? would be very interesting to hear. So what things are those that you need from windows? apps or core OS features? would be very interesting to hear.

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