<font face="verdana,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Hi, I' m not a PD advanced user but here is my story:</font><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I think the dilemma is "Do we need more users for PD (and make it work perfectly in Windows too) or we need to aim the PD development for Linux/ Mac users (and don't waste our "limited resources")?"</font></div>
<div><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><b>Well , I have seen on youtube etc people using windows and they are experts of PureData</b> but how many are they really? </font></div>
<div><font face="verdana,sans-serif">One of the reasons I chose to run GNU-Linux on my previous setup (besides the xp partition) are things you can have in it. And yes, PD was one of my major reasons! I unfortunately had then to buy a Mac because of the support of audio applications generally.</font></div>
<div><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Ok , most of people using a computer have Windows on their setup and in countries like Greece ... you have to even use it in your university. </font></div>
<div><font face="verdana,sans-serif">BUT: Do really people care about programs like PD or the ideology/democratic openess behind GNU-Linux when they use windows? Most of us had the first choice for our system of windows and we MOVED when we saw what we can and we cannot do in it. </font></div>
<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">So, my opinion is to just be more consentrated on Mac/GNU-Linux support. There are not too many people who will really have the interest to learn Pd in depth and then browsing with IE7 their Facebook accounts.</font></div>
<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">I honestly don't want to make Pd/Win users feel stupid.</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div>
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<font face="verdana, sans-serif">Cheers!</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Ps> Let's define Pd:</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><b>"Pure Data</b> is a visual programming language (...) </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "> for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia works...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">" STOP!!! Isn't that "elitistic" enough?</span></div>
</span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 September 2010 21:42, Hans-Christoph Steiner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hans@at.or.at">hans@at.or.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Can we move the Windows bashing to another list? I'm sure there are much better venues. I'd much prefer it if we were friendly to Pd/Windows users rather than try to make them feel stupid.<br>
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Windows7_Error: 001 Windows 7 loaded - Warning your computer is now in danger<br>
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2010/9/17 Mathieu Bouchard <<a href="mailto:matju@artengine.ca" target="_blank">matju@artengine.ca</a>>:<br>
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Hahaha ! Hey, I have one :<br>
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Q: how many Windows users does it take to screw a light bulb ?<br>
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A: None : Windows can very well screw anything on its own !<br>
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