Kicked Ubuntu to the side for now.
Sunday, January 6th, 2008
The subject of this article sounds rather harsh, but with all my commitment and effort to Ubuntu in the past 8 months it seems its exactly what I did, pushed it to the side.
Ubuntu is probably the best distribution that I have used, considering I have used pretty much all of them over the years. But I made a pledge to myself and actually to my work mates, that if any Linux distribution interferes with my productivity than its back to
Windows.
I can hear you calling me a traitor*, or sticking a label on my head reading "Quitter", for one I use Photoshop, yes, I could use GIMPShop, but I dont want to worry about compatibility issues handing designs to a printer who uses Photoshop exclusively.
I need to use Visual Studio… MonoDevelop is not really compatible with Visual Studio
in regards to opening solutions etc. I need to use Office 2007 Excel worksheets, it really
does look bad emailing a client asking them to convert it to xls, why should they suffer
for my choice of OS? Or hinder another co-worker to convert it for me.
Alot of solutions I have tried out and researched to get around these obstacles, my favorite of all is using VirtualBox with their new "co-herence" feature that allows
me to run these applications seamlessly into my Linux desktop.
Office 2007 worked in this environment, Photoshop just hated it, glitching on loading large PSD files which would eventually crash out VirtualBox, thinking it was a memory issue I upgraded my laptop to 2.5 gig, still the same. Visual Studio also was darn slow to,
3D Studio Max had glitchy GUI display issues.
Right now I am running Vista, sure is slow compared to Ubuntu and I dare not open and
unleash IE onto the web, even though I have 2 virus killers running as well as Windows
Defender. But I am pretty much compatible now and can run what I need to get through my work day with little hassle. Some would say I am now part of the "collective" again, but I just see my productivity get where it should be, I dont have to
worry about compatibility issues with regards to my clients with any form of data exchange.
With all this said, I will be install Hardy Heron, because I am actively interested in Ubuntu, since I use it for many server applications, but with the advances that Ubuntu
put into every release it will be exciting to see what they put into Heron.
*Grow up..
