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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
About 10-13% of calibre users are linux based, yet the number of complaints I get from linux users is a far higher percentage of the total.
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I was amazed at how quickly I got people literally yelling at me in ALL CAPS in emails. Apparently providing a compiled binary for linux outside of a package like deb or rpm is grounds for a hanging.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Then periodically someone will write to me that they don't like Qt, could I please make a GTK based interface.
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You should probably just say "It's OSS, feel free to make a GTK port" and be done with it.
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Originally Posted by Jellby
Linux users can think for themselves, Windows users will eat whatever you give them  |
So far I've only received kind words from Windows users. Can't say the same for Linux people, although they are the ones offering the most help, too.
It's a different culture I guess. The Windows people take what they can get, the Linux people will complain form dusk 'till dawn but are ready to contribute code to resolve it.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I should perhaps state that I'm a linux user myself  |
I use both Windows and Linux, but I'm partial to my Windows machine. Linux has many things going for it: usability, unfortunately, is not one of them.