My serious impression on trying to migrate to Linux. I work with multimedia (music, photo, video)
This is my impression on trying to migrate to linux. And, first of all, my english is not perfect, so, i'll be happy if the information that I'll pass is understood.
I hope this will help someone who wants to work with music production, video making on linux. If the person only wants to work with photo editing, then I think it will find some nice softwares and not so many problems to install it and to make it work.
The thing that really made my mind in the sense of deciding not to migrate to linux, at least for now, is that one needs to have vocation to look for solutions on the internet [or based in its own talent for solving things related to computation, or information tecnology, or whatever] for the problems that it will meet when trying to install softwares or to make some hardwares work.
Windows sucks. And Mac OS is great but apple toys are really expensive, at least in my country, Brasil. But they give us a thing that linux, untill now, can't give. We just double click a icon and thins are installed. We connect some hardwares and they run.
I tryed to use a interface in linux. But I had a problem with jack not connecting (before I connected the interface). So I started searching for solutions and I found lots of discussions and command-lines and I tryed some of them. Well, sincerely, I just want to make music. I don't want to study computation first so, then, I can make some music.
So, I thought, maybe, great companies are not programming for linux because they know the kind of complexity that the OS can provide not to them, but to the users. We already have great softwares for linux. I would migrate to linux if it was more simple to use, if things just worked without needing command-lines to solve problems. It was discouraging to see people in the forums saying to users trying to solve their problems: "hey, lazy one, if you are not pacient and don't have some curiosity, linux is not for you".
So, what I'm saying is that, maybe, what we needed is some really great investment on trying to improve OS in linux. Ubuntu is great! But it could be greater. We could just plug things and voilà, things would work. Then, people would migrate without concerns and companies would have to start making versions of their softwares for linux.
The problem about video production is that I didn't find a software that could fulfill my expectations. But, you know, if I could only have jack to connect and my drives to be read, and my interface to work, I would give kdenlive or cinelerra a chance, because there are some solutions for things that i could not do with only one software, and I mean by that that I could use natron for basic compositing, slowmovideo for slow motions, and polarr or dark table for color correction exporting image sequences. So, this is one point about videomaking. If you are looking for a video editing software that is complete tool, like premiere and final cut, forget about linux, at least for now (august, 2016).
I have evolved in some points trying to make things work, but I really had no time to stop and study some command-lines, because I had lots of work to do. So, in short, I just want to say that I expect to find a more usable ubuntu in the future when I decide to migrate definitely to linux. Mac OS is the state of art of an OS for a dull user, like me. Things just work. We just unzip a file, double click it, and things work great, using less memory, not crashing, and softwares made for it are insanely nice! I don't expect linux to be like that, but once I need to open terminal to start trying a dozen of command-lines to establish a connection, or to make something work, linux won't be for me.
I hope I could be more expert about computation things. It's not that I'm lazy, only, but it's that I find it difficult to work with command-lines and I have no time to dedicate myself to learn about OS etc.
That's it.
Sincerely,
T. Arquetipo
Comments
-
Please put somthing like this in a Blog and not the Forum.
0 -
This post is based on an opinion not a question for help. It would the community better if it were a blog.
Yet to respond to your content, Linux is not a system that wants to make things "just work". It wants the users to understand how things work, why they work, how they could work. The perpective you were using is that of a non-tech-savy computer user. Not that you don't have skills. All computer users do. Yet your talents does not live in the computer science world. You have a specific job to do and need a computer to help you do it. If I were like you, I would also care not how the system works as long as it does.
If you like to innovate, solve problems, make things better, then maybe Linux could suite you. Infact, any OS will suite you provided you know when and how to use them. Your article is sound. If you are just looking for things to just work, Linux may not be the best choice.
0
Categories
- All Categories
- 207 LFX Mentorship
- 207 LFX Mentorship: Linux Kernel
- 735 Linux Foundation IT Professional Programs
- 339 Cloud Engineer IT Professional Program
- 167 Advanced Cloud Engineer IT Professional Program
- 66 DevOps Engineer IT Professional Program
- 132 Cloud Native Developer IT Professional Program
- 122 Express Training Courses
- 122 Express Courses - Discussion Forum
- 5.9K Training Courses
- 40 LFC110 Class Forum - Discontinued
- 66 LFC131 Class Forum
- 39 LFD102 Class Forum
- 221 LFD103 Class Forum
- 17 LFD110 Class Forum
- 33 LFD121 Class Forum
- 17 LFD133 Class Forum
- 6 LFD134 Class Forum
- 17 LFD137 Class Forum
- 70 LFD201 Class Forum
- 3 LFD210 Class Forum
- 2 LFD210-CN Class Forum
- 2 LFD213 Class Forum - Discontinued
- 128 LFD232 Class Forum - Discontinued
- 1 LFD233 Class Forum
- 3 LFD237 Class Forum
- 23 LFD254 Class Forum
- 689 LFD259 Class Forum
- 109 LFD272 Class Forum
- 3 LFD272-JP クラス フォーラム
- 10 LFD273 Class Forum
- 109 LFS101 Class Forum
- LFS111 Class Forum
- 2 LFS112 Class Forum
- 1 LFS116 Class Forum
- 3 LFS118 Class Forum
- 3 LFS142 Class Forum
- 3 LFS144 Class Forum
- 3 LFS145 Class Forum
- 1 LFS146 Class Forum
- 2 LFS147 Class Forum
- 8 LFS151 Class Forum
- 1 LFS157 Class Forum
- 14 LFS158 Class Forum
- 5 LFS162 Class Forum
- 1 LFS166 Class Forum
- 3 LFS167 Class Forum
- 1 LFS170 Class Forum
- 1 LFS171 Class Forum
- 2 LFS178 Class Forum
- 2 LFS180 Class Forum
- 1 LFS182 Class Forum
- 4 LFS183 Class Forum
- 30 LFS200 Class Forum
- 737 LFS201 Class Forum - Discontinued
- 2 LFS201-JP クラス フォーラム
- 17 LFS203 Class Forum
- 116 LFS207 Class Forum
- 1 LFS207-DE-Klassenforum
- LFS207-JP クラス フォーラム
- 301 LFS211 Class Forum
- 55 LFS216 Class Forum
- 49 LFS241 Class Forum
- 43 LFS242 Class Forum
- 37 LFS243 Class Forum
- 13 LFS244 Class Forum
- 1 LFS245 Class Forum
- 45 LFS250 Class Forum
- 1 LFS250-JP クラス フォーラム
- LFS251 Class Forum
- 145 LFS253 Class Forum
- LFS254 Class Forum
- LFS255 Class Forum
- 6 LFS256 Class Forum
- LFS257 Class Forum
- 1.2K LFS258 Class Forum
- 9 LFS258-JP クラス フォーラム
- 116 LFS260 Class Forum
- 154 LFS261 Class Forum
- 41 LFS262 Class Forum
- 82 LFS263 Class Forum - Discontinued
- 15 LFS264 Class Forum - Discontinued
- 11 LFS266 Class Forum - Discontinued
- 23 LFS267 Class Forum
- 18 LFS268 Class Forum
- 29 LFS269 Class Forum
- 200 LFS272 Class Forum
- 1 LFS272-JP クラス フォーラム
- LFS274 Class Forum
- 3 LFS281 Class Forum
- 7 LFW111 Class Forum
- 257 LFW211 Class Forum
- 178 LFW212 Class Forum
- 12 SKF100 Class Forum
- SKF200 Class Forum
- 791 Hardware
- 199 Drivers
- 68 I/O Devices
- 37 Monitors
- 98 Multimedia
- 174 Networking
- 91 Printers & Scanners
- 85 Storage
- 754 Linux Distributions
- 82 Debian
- 67 Fedora
- 16 Linux Mint
- 13 Mageia
- 23 openSUSE
- 147 Red Hat Enterprise
- 31 Slackware
- 13 SUSE Enterprise
- 351 Ubuntu
- 465 Linux System Administration
- 39 Cloud Computing
- 71 Command Line/Scripting
- Github systems admin projects
- 91 Linux Security
- 78 Network Management
- 101 System Management
- 47 Web Management
- 56 Mobile Computing
- 17 Android
- 28 Development
- 1.2K New to Linux
- 1K Getting Started with Linux
- 366 Off Topic
- 114 Introductions
- 171 Small Talk
- 20 Study Material
- 534 Programming and Development
- 293 Kernel Development
- 223 Software Development
- 1.1K Software
- 212 Applications
- 182 Command Line
- 3 Compiling/Installing
- 405 Games
- 311 Installation
- 79 All In Program
- 79 All In Forum
Upcoming Training
-
August 20, 2018
Kubernetes Administration (LFS458)
-
August 20, 2018
Linux System Administration (LFS301)
-
August 27, 2018
Open Source Virtualization (LFS462)
-
August 27, 2018
Linux Kernel Debugging and Security (LFD440)