What does Team Dolphin think of Linux?

[magmarock64]

(05-28-2017, 12:53 PM)Kurausukun Wrote: Linux is generally meant to be lightweight, so it makes sense that people prefer to use shared libraries--why download the same thing multiple times and use up more space than you need to? But I do agree that application managing is more annoying than it needs to be on some Linux distros. Ubuntu isn't a very good distro to use for this reason IMO.

Well like I said the reason is to retain a sense of portability. What other distro's do you think do it better then Ubuntu. I'd be interested in look at them. I don't like using apt but I would still prefer it from pacman because apt has better tools for portabilizing apps and repos.

[Kurausukun]

My friend uses Antergos as his main OS and says it's great, but unfortunately it does use pacman, so I guess I can't recommend it. I personally have a little Kali install alongside my Windows, but I can't really recommend that either as it's pretty volatile and only useful in pretty specific situations. I guess I'd look at what kinds of Debian-based distros people like.

[ThorhiantheUltimate]

Huh, really I thought that if you wanted something really nice and portable you would use something like Docker to make its own container these days, it seems to be on the rage in several companies along with its other purposes. I could be wrong though.

[Helios]

Everybody I know likes using Docker in Not Production It's a pain to use in production.

Anyways, Docker is hugely overkill for This. AppImage/Flatpak is better for this.

[Burstaholic]

(05-29-2017, 04:42 PM)Helios Wrote: Everybody I know likes using Docker in Not Production It's a pain to use in production.

Anyways, Docker is hugely overkill for This. AppImage/Flatpak is better for this.

Huh, Docker has been a huge help for my team with production deployments; I have a hard time imagining a scenario where it is less desirable from a deployment standpoint. Ofc that's pretty off-topic, just stumbled on this browsing the forum.

On topic, in my admittedly limited experience centralized package management has made programming much easier in Linux vs. Windows; the few times I've tried to build something random in Windows wrangling dependencies was much more frustrating than usual for me. Obviously this could be mostly inexperience.

I mostly play games in Windows because it's the path of least resistance/most performance. I've decided I'm happier dual-booting than fighting a never-ending war with WINE, etc.

[Helios]

pfffft, do what I do.

Maximum overkill, Windows in KVM with GPU passthrough! entirely forget how to reboot your system!

[ThorhiantheUltimate]

(06-02-2017, 08:29 AM)Helios Wrote: pfffft, do what I do.

Maximum overkill, Windows in KVM with GPU passthrough! entirely forget how to reboot your system!

I wish I could do that. XD I don't have multiple GPUs though.


@magmarock64 I can see why you would some more portability within the Linux ecosystem. However, that hasn't really diminished the use of repositories and package managers (especially Pacman on a stock Arch install). I would love to try Gentoo, hearing that Portage is pretty slick, but you may not like how you pretty much compile everything, including at install. I've seen people swear by portage though, claiming that systems that may not have been updated within 5 years could still be brought up to date with portage giving telling all the needed changes you need to do to prevent the system from breaking beforehand, but I don't have any experience with it, so I couldn't really say for sure. Maybe somebody else here has some experience with portage and maybe RPM around here?

[spycrab]

(06-02-2017, 02:32 PM)ThorhiantheUltimate Wrote: I wish I could do that. XD I don't have multiple GPUs though.

An integrated GPU is sufficient (any modern Core i* has one, AMD probably too).

(06-02-2017, 02:32 PM)ThorhiantheUltimate Wrote: @magmarock64 I can see why you would some more portability within the Linux ecosystem. However, that hasn't really diminished the use of repositories and package managers (especially Pacman on a stock Arch install). I would love to try Gentoo, hearing that Portage is pretty slick, but you may not like how you pretty much compile everything, including at install. I've seen people swear by portage though, claiming that systems that may not have been updated within 5 years could still be brought up to date with portage giving telling all the needed changes you need to do to prevent the system from breaking beforehand, but I don't have any experience with it, so I couldn't really say for sure. Maybe somebody else here has some experience with portage and maybe RPM around here?

I use Gentoo on my laptop and portage is awesome, it is the most flexible package manager available.

Also have some past RPM experience: It seems to do it job, but the package eco-systems associated with it (Fedora, SUSE) are a bit disappointing and often very stubborn.

[ThorhiantheUltimate]

(06-03-2017, 06:18 PM)spycrab Wrote: An integrated GPU is sufficient (any modern Core i* has one, AMD probably too).


I use Gentoo on my laptop and portage is awesome, it is the most flexible package manager available.

Also have some past RPM experience: It seems to do it job, but the package eco-systems associated with it (Fedora, SUSE) are a bit disappointing and often very stubborn.

The AMD Phenom II doesn't include intergrated GPUs