Operating System Review!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Oct 05, 2014 12:59 am

My main desktop for games & programming at home is Windows 7. I had a condition for years where, when I did a cold boot of the computer, it would work for maybe a minute or two after booting and then blue screen. I would try all manner of sorcery to get it to stop doing that. It seemed to be related to what USB devices I had plugged in. It stopped happening at the same time that I moved, in January. Maybe they released a fix. Maybe it was a USB thing. Who knows. If the computer worked for more than five minutes, it would work forever. That's the kind of Microsoft problem that would drive me crazy. I got a different blue screen each time. Where to even begin.

I ran a Mint machine with Cinnamon when I first moved. I loved it. There isn't anything like Photoshop for it (I looked) but with all the games that work in Linux for Steam now, I had PLENTY to do. I liked Kate and I now like Sublime Text for programming. I'm in a CentOS shell at work all day, so that part is great, too. I was all set to make that my primary machine when it auto updated and broke a few things. That's on me to not let it auto-update, but if I get two nights a week for my personal projects, I can't lose a day trying to fix my desktop computer.

I've only been using it for three months at work, but Mac OS is terrible. However, Air Drop and Air Display have made it incredibly easy to collaborate with others.

RealNC · Post by **RealNC** » Sun Oct 05, 2014 1:41 am

You should try Qt Creator for dev work. I use it for everything and it seems like the best, no-bullshit IDE ever invented.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Oct 05, 2014 9:49 am

I would like something that does what Eclipse does for me in Java. (Everyone at work has switched off to Intellij, but I haven't had the time to learn that yet.)

I do have time to learn an IDE that can be adapted for Hugo, so thanks.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 8:12 am

ICJ, I always hear people say Gimp is the equivalent of Photoshop on Linux machines. Will Gimp not run on your setup?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 11:31 pm

Oh, it runs.

Gimp can't do a full indexed color mode. I actually have to give the Gimp People credit. I'd been hearing for 10 years that if I really want to run Linux I should try it! It was always terrible.

It's not terrible any more, I just can't do graphics for Cyberganked in it. In Photoshop I can downgrade all pics to 4 colors, but choose a "percentage" for diffusion. This radically changes the resulting image.

Gimp doesn't give me the option for percentages on diffusion, so I get one choice which isn't always usable.

But otherwise it really is up to where Photoshop is.

RealNC · Post by **RealNC** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 2:27 am

There might be scrips that help out. Gimp uses Python for scripting (so in theory, you can do whatever you want to your images if you know Python.)