Love hate relationship with Mac OS
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@JasonNM said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Windows users aren't good with change and this is a thirty year backlog
I use both Macs and Windows. And have for a long time but I've always had a file management problem on Macs. I think this is also and issue on macs they don't want to change the OS they've built up, they've taken Unix and thrown so much stuff on top of it that it makes it hard to work.
And HFS+ just sucks too. It is a ridiculous filesystem. Linus was ranting about that recently.
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@RojoLoco said:
I have NEVER been able to wrap my head around why it is (and has been for 2 decades) considered the de facto choice for "professional" audio/video production. I've been multi-tracking on PC since the 90s, never had issues.
It's not as popular now, there used to be times when Mac made sense and you'd be insane to choose windows over it for video or audio work because windows used to suck at font rendering, graphics and audio drivers compared to Macs OSes video drivers and coreAudio. But, now days Adobe software works better on windows, Final Cut Pro 7 went to the consumer grade Final Cut Pro X. and Avid media composer and Avid Pro Tools works better on windows than it does on Mac (not that it works that great on either). Avid even choose to use windows computers for their live audio sound boards, not mac mini's. That shows who they think they work better.
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@Dashrender said:
I guess I like the human factor that file extensions provide that missing them looses. If I'm on a unix system and look at a file called command I can't tell by looking at it if it's an executable, text file, Word document, etc. I'm sure there are tools in unix that will tell me that, but just doing a list - are there arguments that will tell me?
They don't tell you in Windows either. In Windows the file extension is normally hidden so you have no idea without taking an extra step. And the extension might be wrong or be any of a number of things (jpg, JPG, jpeg) instead of just one. In UNIX you can test any single file using the file command.
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@JasonNM said:
@RojoLoco said:
I have NEVER been able to wrap my head around why it is (and has been for 2 decades) considered the de facto choice for "professional" audio/video production. I've been multi-tracking on PC since the 90s, never had issues.
It's not as popular now, there used to be times when Mac made sense and you'd be insane to choose windows over it for video or audio work because windows used to suck at font rendering, graphics and audio drivers compared to Macs OSes video drivers and coreAudio. But, now days Adobe software works better on windows, Final Cut Pro 7 went to the consumer grade Final Cut Pro X. and Avid media composer and Avid Pro Tools works better on windows than it does on Mac (not that it works that great on either). Avid even choose to use windows computers for their live audio sound boards, not mac mini's. That shows who they think they work better.
Like I said, been using PC over mac for those specific applications since the late 90s, which was when it all became even. Mac OS and Pro tools can still kiss my ass, I never believed the hype about "it's what professionals use".
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I think it remains really popular with "entry level" AV people, not the full timers, not the high end shops, it is used there too but I think its big market is heavy saturation in the people who do it at home, as a hobby or are just getting into it. Once you get to the big shops I think you see that drop off and become a secondary player to Windows rather than the market leader. My view of that market is limited but it makes sense and that is what I've seen.
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I've never really had a problem getting my way around Mac or Windows (or Linux, for that matter)... I like using a file extension because to my eyes it makes more sense.... and also in Pretty mcuh every OS, your file's icon will look similar to the application that is supposed to open it. That helps too.
I prefer operating on EXT* or NTFS file systems because they are more easily recoverable in most situations. I've crashed my Mac more times than I care to count and had to resort to a full restore via Time Machine because the partition was so corrupted...
It does happen in Windows and Linux, but I am usually able to at least recover my files in case of disaster.
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I prefer XFS to the EXT family in most cases.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I think it remains really popular with "entry level" AV people, not the full timers, not the high end shops, it is used there too but I think its big market is heavy saturation in the people who do it at home, as a hobby or are just getting into it. Once you get to the big shops I think you see that drop off and become a secondary player to Windows rather than the market leader. My view of that market is limited but it makes sense and that is what I've seen.
Pixar, Provient etc etc standardize on the HP z8xx line. Though with HPs cut in jobs and service who knows where the market will go. If dell actually made their precision lines with higher quality like HP rather than just making them high-end components with the same build quality of the optiplex line it would be a great opportunity for them.
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@scottalanmiller I don't recall ever having to attempt to recover anything from XFS... What are the differences (block size, architecture, etc)... and are there any Linux distros that actually default to XFS?
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller I don't recall ever having to attempt to recover anything from XFS... What are the differences (block size, architecture, etc)... and are there any Linux distros that actually default to XFS?
The big ones, RHEL/CentOS and OpenSuse are XFS by default.
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Well, that's interesting. I never knew they had made the switch. (Been out of the active Linux world for far, far too long.
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@dafyre said:
Well, that's interesting. I never knew they had made the switch. (Been out of the active Linux world for far, far too long.
XFS has been the Linux standard more or less across the board, if any such thing exists in the Linux world, for about two years. It was starting to be recommended for "non-boot drives" even earlier.
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My 2 cents. I use Alfred, which has searching for File Name, and file content. Also, I put everything in my Documents folder and just do my best to keep it well organized so I can find anything.
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@scottalanmiller Just checked one of my recent Fedora installs and it does indeed use XFS... learn something new every day, lol.
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I am only saving documents and Picture stuff. So honestly for me there is no issue at all. I am very careful to keep things organized and am able to keep track of it all. I "lost" a document once when I first got the Mac and have been careful ever since.
