Phillip Bloom goes to the dark side

[Michael Gissing]

[Claude Lyneis] “There is a cost in time and effort to deal with Windows vs buying more expensive hardware from Apple. None of this is new. I would rather spend my limited brain cells on editing than operating systems.”

Fair enough. I find little actual effort or time is spent on OS. I found OSX to be as much an effort as Win. There are annoying things about both when it comes to managing networks and updating. But if OS management was as much as 1% of my computer work I would be surprised. Compared to time spent waiting for lesser hardware to perform while I am working, there is no doubt for me that building machines and managing multiple OS is saving me time and frustration when working which is 99% of my time on a computer. Boot – open Resolve/ Fairlight – work. The OS is almost irrelevant. The hardware is not.

Building machines takes time but the money saved, the flexibility to use powerful GPUs and to upgrade is time well spent for me. But if you don’t want to do it and you can afford to pay more for hardware that takes longer to do the work then fair enough.

[Martin Curtis]

[Steve Connor] “Here’s an update on Phil’s move to the dark side”.

Phillip Bloom goes to the dark side and gets eaten by a grue.

[Bernard Newnham]

“There is a cost in time and effort to deal with Windows vs buying more expensive hardware from Apple. None of this is new. I would rather spend my limited brain cells on editing than operating systems.”

Perhaps you could give some examples. I’ve used a good few operating systems, and although I haven’t touched OSX since FCP7 went away (my favourite editor), I don’t remember Windows and OSX being particularly different. They both have good bits and bad bits.

I’ve just undated a machine from 2014 Linux Mint to 2018 Linus Lite. It’s amazing how rapidly Linux moves on. You used to have to spend an awful lot of time writing stuff like “wget –save-cookies cookies.txt –post-data ‘user =
foo&password=bar’ https://server.com/auth.php” , but that’s nearly all gone.

Bernie

[Greg Janza]

thanks for sharing your workflow. It sounds like it works for you and that’s all that matters.

FWIW- I do have anti-virus protection running in the background but I only do manual updates and overall I’ve never encounter any performance issues.

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