On Tuesday, 3 June 2014 at 16:54:33 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On 6/3/2014 12:28 PM, Justin Whear wrote:
>> On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 16:20:42 +0000, justme wrote:
>>>
>>> Just too many people run 64 bits "just because".
>>
>> How else you gonna use 256GB of RAM?
>>
>
> By using Java, HTML5 or Node.js ;)
>
> I'm sure that way it'd be very easy to get your memory usage up that high!

Or compiling a ctRegex apparently (yesterday's IRC chat).

Am 31.05.2014 15:37, schrieb Abdulhaq:
> There's been 100 votes and the results are:
>
> Linux 64 bits:      53
> Linux 32 bits:       4
> Windows 64 bits:    27
> Windows 32 bits:     3
> Mac:                 7

Thats a lot more windows users then I would have expected.

On 04/06/2014 19:58, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> Am 31.05.2014 15:37, schrieb Abdulhaq:
>> There's been 100 votes and the results are:
>>
>> Linux 64 bits:      53
>> Linux 32 bits:       4
>> Windows 64 bits:    27
>> Windows 32 bits:     3
>> Mac:                 7
>
> Thats a lot more windows users then I would have expected.
>
>

I suspect a lot of them could be D newbies, lurkers, or otherwise people who don't code in D that much.
That's why I thought the NG poll was more interesting, so we could see who is voting for what.

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> One 'other' vote was spoiled. It turns out that the free SurveyMonkey account only allows 100 votes max, but the profile has been much the same since 50 votes so I think the ratios are clear.

Perhaps you should try http://www.surveygalaxy.com . That is what I use when I need a survey.

On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 at 18:58:09 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> Am 31.05.2014 15:37, schrieb Abdulhaq:
>> There's been 100 votes and the results are:
>>
>> Linux 64 bits:      53
>> Linux 32 bits:       4
>> Windows 64 bits:    27
>> Windows 32 bits:     3
>> Mac:                 7
>
> Thats a lot more windows users then I would have expected.

I spend most of my days on Windows. At work it is company policy, unless one is doing iOS related development.

At home, I got fed up tinkering GNU/Linux since my Slackware days (1995), as laptop support still tends to fall in some parts, namely graphics support, wireless chipsets and battery usage.

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On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 13:34 +0000, Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d wrote: […]
> At home, I got fed up tinkering GNU/Linux since my Slackware days (1995), as laptop support still tends to fall in some parts, namely graphics support, wireless chipsets and battery usage.

Is this still true? As far as I am aware nVIDIA and Intel graphics support is fine on Linux, ditto Intel wifi support. My AMD card in my dual graphics laptop is 4 years old and AMD have given up supporting it, so that's a fail compared to nVIDIA who are still supporting my 7 year old card.

As for battery life, my X201 still gives about 6 hours use per charge, would Windows do any better?

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On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 13:58:59 UTC, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 13:34 +0000, Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> […]
>> At home, I got fed up tinkering GNU/Linux since my Slackware days (1995), as laptop support still tends to fall in some parts, namely graphics support, wireless chipsets and battery usage.
>
> Is this still true? As far as I am aware nVIDIA and Intel graphics
> support is fine on Linux, ditto Intel wifi support. My AMD card in my
> dual graphics laptop is 4 years old and AMD have given up supporting it,
> so that's a fail compared to nVIDIA who are still supporting my 7 year
> old card.
>
> As for battery life, my X201 still gives about 6 hours use per charge,
> would Windows do any better?

Battery usage is still a common problem. Everything has been working perfectly for years now.

Am 06.06.2014 16:36, schrieb Dicebot:
> On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 13:58:59 UTC, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 13:34 +0000, Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> […]
>>> At home, I got fed up tinkering GNU/Linux since my Slackware days
>>> (1995), as laptop support still tends to fall in some parts, namely
>>> graphics support, wireless chipsets and battery usage.
>>
>> Is this still true? As far as I am aware nVIDIA and Intel graphics
>> support is fine on Linux, ditto Intel wifi support. My AMD card in my
>> dual graphics laptop is 4 years old and AMD have given up supporting it,
>> so that's a fail compared to nVIDIA who are still supporting my 7 year
>> old card.

Not if you care about the latest versions of OpenGL, OpenCL and WebGL support.

Having Windows also allows playing around with DirectX from time to time.


>>
>> As for battery life, my X201 still gives about 6 hours use per charge,
>> would Windows do any better?
>
> Battery usage is still a common problem. Everything has been working
> perfectly for years now.

Not really, case in point my Netbook Asus EEE PC 1215B, which was sold in Germany via Amazon with GNU/Linux support pre-installed.

After one year usage, the wireless card stopped working with IPv4 routers, because Ubuntu devs decided to replace the proprietary driver in the LTS distribution, although the open source version was still work in progress.

So I got stuck using a cable until the open source driver reached feature parity with the removed closed source driver. Undoing what the Ubuntu update did was a mess that would require re-flashing the driver firmware, as such I had better things to do than hack around.

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On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 19:44:53 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Battery usage is still a common problem. Everything has been working
>> perfectly for years now.
>
> Not really, case in point my Netbook Asus EEE PC 1215B, which was sold in Germany via Amazon with GNU/Linux support pre-installed.
>
> After one year usage, the wireless card stopped working with IPv4 routers, because Ubuntu devs decided to replace the proprietary driver in the LTS distribution, although the open source version was still work in progress.

> LTS distribution

This is the problem. Don't use LTS releases for desktops and your Linux experience will be much more pleasant. It is natural but wrong approach simply because kernel and driver support is evolving so fast that LTS versions can never really catch up.

Bleeding edge distros have best h/w support, though that may cost some time wasted of system tinkering once in a while.

Am 06.06.2014 22:24, schrieb Dicebot:
> On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 19:44:53 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>> Battery usage is still a common problem. Everything has been working
>>> perfectly for years now.
>>
>> Not really, case in point my Netbook Asus EEE PC 1215B, which was sold
>> in Germany via Amazon with GNU/Linux support pre-installed.
>>
>> After one year usage, the wireless card stopped working with IPv4
>> routers, because Ubuntu devs decided to replace the proprietary driver
>> in the LTS distribution, although the open source version was still
>> work in progress.
>
>> LTS distribution
>
> This is the problem. Don't use LTS releases for desktops and your Linux
> experience will be much more pleasant. It is natural but wrong approach
> simply because kernel and driver support is evolving so fast that LTS
> versions can never really catch up.
>
> Bleeding edge distros have best h/w support, though that may cost some
> time wasted of system tinkering once in a while.

I got tired of tinkering. It must work out of the box, otherwise I have better things to do with my life.

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