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reply "Abdulhaq" <alynch4047 gmail.com> writes:
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
Other:               6:
          "ArchLinux"
          "Android"
          "Centos 6"
          "MAC OSX, LINUX 64, Windows 64, FreeBSD 64"
          "bsd64"


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.

If anyone has an OS other than the ones mentioned above then 
perhaps they could mention it in this thread.
May 31 2014
next sibling parent reply "Abdulhaq" <alynch4047 gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 13:37:26 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:

 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
 Other:               6:
          "ArchLinux"
          "Android"
          "Centos 6"
          "MAC OSX, LINUX 64, Windows 64, FreeBSD 64"
          "bsd64"


 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.

 If anyone has an OS other than the ones mentioned above then 
 perhaps they could mention it in this thread.


See the graph at https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-5GGGJV5/
May 31 2014
next sibling parent reply Rikki Cattermole <alphaglosined gmail.com> writes:
On 1/06/2014 1:45 a.m., Abdulhaq wrote:

 On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 13:37:26 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:

 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
 Other:               6:
          "ArchLinux"
          "Android"
          "Centos 6"
          "MAC OSX, LINUX 64, Windows 64, FreeBSD 64"
          "bsd64"


 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.

 If anyone has an OS other than the ones mentioned above then perhaps
 they could mention it in this thread.


 See the graph at https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-5GGGJV5/


I'm personally not surprised by these results. But they will be skewed 
because of time zones and the limited number of participants. Which is a 
shame.
Not to mention all those who use D plus don't read the NG.
May 31 2014
parent reply "Abdulhaq" <alynch4047 gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 13:52:46 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:

 On 1/06/2014 1:45 a.m., Abdulhaq wrote:

 On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 13:37:26 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:

 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
 Other:               6:
         "ArchLinux"
         "Android"
         "Centos 6"
         "MAC OSX, LINUX 64, Windows 64, FreeBSD 64"
         "bsd64"


 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.

 If anyone has an OS other than the ones mentioned above then 
 perhaps
 they could mention it in this thread.


 See the graph at 
 https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-5GGGJV5/


 I'm personally not surprised by these results. But they will be 
 skewed because of time zones and the limited number of 
 participants. Which is a shame.
 Not to mention all those who use D plus don't read the NG.


Shame it didn't make 24 hrs as all time zones would have been 
covered, still I think it's probably a pretty fair picture of the 
whole thing.

I'm wondering what's the Linux 32 bit usages - embedded I guess. 
64 bits seems to dominate in general. A couple of linux users 
seem not to know if they are 32 or 64 bit?
May 31 2014
parent reply "justme" <justme example.com> writes:
On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 13:59:17 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:

 I'm wondering what's the Linux 32 bit usages - embedded I 
 guess. 64 bits seems to dominate in general. A couple of linux 
 users seem not to know if they are 32 or 64 bit?


On many laptops there's no extra benefit from running 64 bits.

I have never ever written code that honestly needs 64 bits, 
although I understand that big data or game developers may need 
it.

Just too many people run 64 bits "just because".
Jun 03 2014
next sibling parent reply Justin Whear <justin economicmodeling.com> writes:
On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 16:20:42 +0000, justme wrote:


 On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 13:59:17 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:

 I'm wondering what's the Linux 32 bit usages - embedded I guess. 64
 bits seems to dominate in general. A couple of linux users seem not to
 know if they are 32 or 64 bit?


 
 On many laptops there's no extra benefit from running 64 bits.
 
 I have never ever written code that honestly needs 64 bits, although I
 understand that big data or game developers may need it.
 
 Just too many people run 64 bits "just because".


How else you gonna use 256GB of RAM?
Jun 03 2014
parent reply Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> writes:
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!
Jun 03 2014
next sibling parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 03/06/14 18:54, Nick Sabalausky wrote:


 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!


Use Flash instead, then it will eat the CPU as well :)

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Jun 03 2014
prev sibling parent "Kapps" <opantm2+spam gmail.com> writes:
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).
Jun 04 2014
prev sibling parent "Kagamin" <spam here.lot> writes:
On Tuesday, 3 June 2014 at 16:20:43 UTC, justme wrote:

 I have never ever written code that honestly needs 64 bits, 
 although I understand that big data or game developers may need 
 it.


Disk cache is one big data application especially important for 
notebooks with HDD.
Jun 03 2014
prev sibling parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 5/31/14, 6:45 AM, Abdulhaq wrote:

 See the graph at https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-5GGGJV5/


100 voters - no decimals in percentages :o). -- Andrei
May 31 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Benjamin Thaut <code benjamin-thaut.de> writes:
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.
Jun 04 2014
next sibling parent Bruno Medeiros <bruno.do.medeiros+dng gmail.com> writes:
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.

-- 
Bruno Medeiros
https://twitter.com/brunodomedeiros
Jun 06 2014
prev sibling parent reply "Paulo Pinto" <pjmlp progtools.org> writes:
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.

--
Paulo
Jun 06 2014
parent reply Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> writes:
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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Jun 06 2014
parent reply "Dicebot" <public dicebot.lv> writes:
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.
Jun 06 2014
parent reply Paulo Pinto <pjmlp progtools.org> writes:
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.

--
Paulo
Jun 06 2014
parent reply "Dicebot" <public dicebot.lv> writes:
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.
Jun 06 2014
parent reply Paulo Pinto <pjmlp progtools.org> writes:
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.

--
Paulo
Jun 06 2014
next sibling parent reply "Dicebot" <public dicebot.lv> writes:
On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 22:04:35 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:

 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.


Then use normal recent distro release (i.e. latest non-LTS 
Ubuntu). It will actually require _less_ tinkering because of new 
kernel versions.
Jun 06 2014
parent reply Paulo Pinto <pjmlp progtools.org> writes:
Am 07.06.2014 01:38, schrieb Dicebot:

 On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 22:04:35 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:

 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.


 Then use normal recent distro release (i.e. latest non-LTS Ubuntu). It
 will actually require _less_ tinkering because of new kernel versions.


And then start tinkering because of lack of distribution support for 
certain software, specially closed source one with lots of libc fun.

--
Paulo
Jun 06 2014
parent reply "Dicebot" <public dicebot.lv> writes:
On Saturday, 7 June 2014 at 04:34:06 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:

 Am 07.06.2014 01:38, schrieb Dicebot:

 On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 22:04:35 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:

 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.


 Then use normal recent distro release (i.e. latest non-LTS 
 Ubuntu). It
 will actually require _less_ tinkering because of new kernel 
 versions.


 And then start tinkering because of lack of distribution 
 support for certain software, specially closed source one with 
 lots of libc fun.


It is exactly other way around. Most recent distro releases have 
best software support. You are trying to use commercial software 
mentality which does not work well with the way Linux software is 
developed. Same for libc issue - you can use stuff built vs old 
libc version with new one, it is actually what we do with DMD 
distribution.
Jun 07 2014
parent reply Paulo Pinto <pjmlp progtools.org> writes:
Am 07.06.2014 11:47, schrieb Dicebot:

 On Saturday, 7 June 2014 at 04:34:06 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:

 Am 07.06.2014 01:38, schrieb Dicebot:

 On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 22:04:35 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:

 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.


 Then use normal recent distro release (i.e. latest non-LTS Ubuntu). It
 will actually require _less_ tinkering because of new kernel versions.


 And then start tinkering because of lack of distribution support for
 certain software, specially closed source one with lots of libc fun.


 It is exactly other way around. Most recent distro releases have best
 software support. You are trying to use commercial software mentality
 which does not work well with the way Linux software is developed. Same
 for libc issue - you can use stuff built vs old libc version with new
 one, it is actually what we do with DMD distribution.


I do have quite some experience with .so dependency hell.

--
Paulo
Jun 07 2014
parent "John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 7 June 2014 at 09:53:52 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:

 Am 07.06.2014 11:47, schrieb Dicebot:

 On Saturday, 7 June 2014 at 04:34:06 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:

 Am 07.06.2014 01:38, schrieb Dicebot:

 On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 22:04:35 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:

 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.


 Then use normal recent distro release (i.e. latest non-LTS 
 Ubuntu). It
 will actually require _less_ tinkering because of new kernel 
 versions.


 And then start tinkering because of lack of distribution 
 support for
 certain software, specially closed source one with lots of 
 libc fun.


 It is exactly other way around. Most recent distro releases 
 have best
 software support. You are trying to use commercial software 
 mentality
 which does not work well with the way Linux software is 
 developed. Same
 for libc issue - you can use stuff built vs old libc version 
 with new
 one, it is actually what we do with DMD distribution.


 I do have quite some experience with .so dependency hell.

 --
 Paulo


In my experience - and by design iirc - compiling against an old 
libc and then loading a newer one is always fine. If you use an 
up to date distro (as an end user) you are always on the right 
side of this.
Jun 07 2014
prev sibling parent reply "ed" <gmail gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 22:04:35 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:

 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.

 --
 Paulo


I gave up on Ubuntu due to bugs, crashes and general instability 
that started to appear around 9.10. I switched to Fedora 16 after 
Ubuntu 12.04 still had not resolved all the stability issues, X 
crashes every package upgrade etc. Fedora has never given me any 
real problems...

I switched to Arch about 12 months ago because I wanted the 
latest clang, gcc et. al. and didn't want to wait 3-4 months for 
the next Fedora release. I've never looked back.

Arch is by far the most stable and up to date Linux I've ever 
used.
Jun 06 2014
parent Paulo Pinto <pjmlp progtools.org> writes:
Am 07.06.2014 06:12, schrieb ed:

 On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 22:04:35 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:

 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.

 --
 Paulo


 I gave up on Ubuntu due to bugs, crashes and general instability that
 started to appear around 9.10. I switched to Fedora 16 after Ubuntu
 12.04 still had not resolved all the stability issues, X crashes every
 package upgrade etc. Fedora has never given me any real problems...

 I switched to Arch about 12 months ago because I wanted the latest
 clang, gcc et. al. and didn't want to wait 3-4 months for the next
 Fedora release. I've never looked back.

 Arch is by far the most stable and up to date Linux I've ever used.



The time I used to jump around distributions is long gone. I realized
how much time I was taking away from my social life not doing anything 
else than re-installations.

This is a travel netbook, which after these issues now works as it 
should, except for not doing hibernation properly, which I can live without.

I am not opening the Padora box trying out other distributions and a 
sequence of lost evenings and weekends.

--
Paulo
Jun 06 2014
prev sibling parent "Dejan Lekic" <dejan.lekic gmail.com> writes:
 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.
Jun 06 2014