Vivaldi 3.4 RC 1 – Vivaldi Desktop Browser snapshot 2066.64/65
-
First
-
@jon what are specs of your main PC and what OS do you use?
-
@Stardust , I tend to switch every now and then. I tend to use a Thinkpad. Cannot do without the Trackpoint. Currently I have an X1 Carbon 7.
I am running Windows 10 at this time. I feel very much at home on a Linux OS as well, but have kind of gotten stuck on Windows for now.
-
Linux is cool, but you have to screw a lot. Windows comes out of the box and actually does everything by itself.
For average users, Windows is easier. -
@jon interesting, thanks
One more question, what Linux distribution do you prefer? -
-
@Stardust , I do not have a strong preference at this time. There are a lot of great distros out there.
-
@Ice007 , I do not consider myself an average user.
I guess I am pretty advanced. I think the reason I have not switched so far is the switching cost. It should not be so hard to do, but there are certain applications that I use on Windows that I would need to find alternatives to. That being said, I mostly use Vivaldi for everything and I use Libre Office.
-
@jon said in Vivaldi 3.4 RC 1 – Vivaldi Desktop Browser snapshot 2066.64/65:
there are certain applications that I use on Windows that I would need to find alternatives to
I wonder what are they, I guess some professional photo or video software...
-
@Stardust , not really. Just basic setup things that I am used to.
-
@hilumcool I never really delved into the music side of the amiga.i was more art orientated and deluxe paint was a favourite of mine.
On a strange note i bizarrely enjoyed trying to fix corrupt disks with a program called diskdoctor.(DFO:is bad please use diskdoctor lol.)
-
@priest72: I also bought and used some versions of Deluxe Paint (later also Cloanto Paint) and got into the Internet kind of things with UUCP/UUCICO where I discovered my interest for developing software for the Internet (now web applications ;-)). Discdoctor was not my thing, but before having an Amiga, I was on Schneider/Amstrad CPC and tried to fix bad program tapes with some tricks
-
I've never taken advantage of the ability to update stable early, but I did this time just to be able to opt out of using native notifications again (the flag has returned and actually works).
Plus, I read through this thread and the last one and didn't really see any deal-breakers.
-
@hilumcool I never made music myself, but I get that real warm nostalgic feeling just seeing the Protracker screen. I loved listening to the songs, setting the drum and bass to solo or just playing around with the samples
There was so much fantastic music on the Amiga. I had a huge collection of MOD, S3M and XM files - sadly lost in a disk wipe years ago.
Fortunately a lot of the classics have been uploaded to YT, even with the tracker interface. One of my favourite Amiga musicians is Jogeir Liljedahl:
Variations by Jogeir Liljedahl
Amiga Music: Jogeir Liljedahl Compilation #1
Amiga Music: Jogeir Liljedahl Compilation #2It was amazing what could be created with tracker in skilled hands, and I believe it's still used today by many professional musicians.
-
@hilumcool , I do not believe I played Ports of Call. I also did not do any work in Soundtracker. I loved what people were creating, but had no talent myself. Still hoping to discover that the talent was just hiding.
-
@pesala: What you're saying isn't untrue, but I don't think it's that big of a deal. I don't think I'll be playing the game, but it doesn't hurt me or my opinion of Vivaldi/the Vivaldi team that they decided to be a little whimsical. It's not a big deal to me and I think the "99%" of users that you refer to later in the thread won't care as much as you do.
-
@Pathduck For me the Amiga was a real "trendsetter" in many areas:
- sounds/music towards electronic music making for everyone (the mentioned tracks are really nice)
- programming (multitasking, font- and screen resolution sensitive 'elastic' user interfaces, system libraries and app skeletons/builders, i18n with catalogs, cool IDEs like Oberon, ...)
- grafx/video effects (like the spectacular 'morphs')
- DTP (like PageStream)
- high quality printing with Turboprint
And so on.
In the music area, Sun Vox may be one of the most powerful descendants of that time, that is still developed further and available on many platforms.
In the programming area, the Amiga had many 'firsts'.
Ah - that were really good times
-
@jon Your talent is very visible I remember how proud I was, when I got on board of Project Magic at Opera as an external betatester for Opera for EPOC by Keith Hollis with my Psion Series 5! Vivaldi is your current musical score in the browser market - and it sounds excellent
-
@hilumcool , thank you for your kind words. I am lucky to be working with a great team that knows what to do and to have the help from you and others. We could not have done it without your help! The whole idea of Vivaldi is to work with you all to make a great browser, with more to come as M3 gets closer each day!
-
@jon Exiting times in the past, present and the future!