Category: Open source (Page 16 of 20)

Atom 1.0, you have let me down..

2015-06-26 / Muaad Elsharif / 0 Comments

Hey there you guys

I’m about to breakdown my experience with Atom editor 1.0

Introduction

Atom 1.0 was released yesterday and for those who just joined me here are some basic facts about it.

It took me over an hour to download it for Linux & Windows. As it detects your platform, I had to reboot just to download it and install it!;
What I liked is that it remembered all my customization and even reopened some files I was working on! Also all the packages I downloaded were preserved!
In my initial review of Atom I had 3 major draw backs. So I won’t turn the thumbs up until I see some serious improvements!

1. Resource consuming

Still pretty much resource consuming!!

Screenshot of my system monitor

2. It takes a long time to load

It takes about 10 seconds to load on both Linux and Windows (no mac data so far!).

3.File size restriction of 2 Mega byte file size

It took several minutes to be responsive with a 2248 line .js file less than 2MB!!
I took sometime to test it. It took several minutes to render .JS files under 2MB, hung on and totally crashed with other scripts all less than 5MBs. And the computer was under so much stress I though I was gaming at 4K!
I tested on both (Linux and Windows) while Linux was slightly better. Windows was a catastrophe with Atom.
I tried opening some larger .jar archives, it didn’t have a huge issue with those. And a 39MB .sql file that killed it on Windows.
How can .JS files crash it if it’s made out of JavaScripts?

4. Doesn’t recognize Arabic by default!

Still doesn’t recognize Arabic ..**Arabic update: I managed to make Arabic work on Ubuntu by downloading language support and changing the fall back language in Firefox to Arabic. I’ll post more when I test on Windows.;
Also done on Windows.

So far.. It has let me down 🙁
PS: I used the same computer to test Atom now and then ..

Final verdict

Until they take it seriously. I’m not using Atom anymore! It has a nice look and some neat tricks. But I need something serious to work with..

Atom 1.0 is released!!!

2015-06-25 / Muaad Elsharif / 0 Comments

This just in: Atom 1.0 is released!!

Hey there you guys! I’m surprised to see that Atom has released the 1.0!!! They moved from 0.211 to 1.0 so fast?!
I had my doubts about the deadline! But they made it!!
As I was checking the releases page every hour or so.
So that was a really pleasant surprise!
One of the notable changes is that “Atom 1.0 has been released and Atom will be semantically versioned going forward.”
I’ll let you enjoy the introduction video while I dig into Atom 1.0
I’ll be posting more soon!!

So retro!!

Atom.io v1 Atom facts + 1 year of open source!

2015-05-08 / Muaad Elsharif / 0 Comments

Hey there you guys. I hope you are doing well on this fine day

Atom celebrated it’s first year as an open source on the 6th of May by releasing an info-graphic. It contains facts and numbers that are truly interesting!!

Interesting facts

I never would have guessed that most Atom users were Mac users! Or that it has been downloaded 750.000 times!! for full info click this post over here.

Great read

As I was browsing the Atom blog I came across this rather interesting announcement: That the support for deprecated API’s will end on June 1st.
(Sounds really exciting huh? No! Not really!) but the other part of the announcement is what really matters. Announcing that V1.0 milestone will be released sometime later that month (June).
Atom v1.0 will be released in June. That’s according to the official atom blog.

Future hopes

I’m hoping that update brings the removal of the file size restriction. Which has been a real drawback for Atom. I’m also expecting some under the hood improvements. I hope they work the Arabic language problem (it’s shown as scrabble). And maybe the icon. I don’t like it very much :p. Other than that I’m quite happy with the program’s features and performance (on Linux! Of course) Windows boot is almost as long as the Windows boot itself!!

Promised bug fixes

They have published a list of bug fixes to include in the 1.0 milestone. Some of them as you might have guessed were boot time and file size restriction. The rest can be checked from here.
Let’s see if the Atom team can pull it together. I wasn’t in favor of comparing them to industry titans as I kept saying it’s in Beta. But now the play time is over!

Final words

I really wish them the best. As they put together what could impact the coding world!
What do you expect out of V1.0 of Atom? Are you excited as I am? Please let me know in the comments section below. Don’t forget to give Kudos. Share this post and help the blog grow! Have a lovely day 😀

Windows is bloatware

2015-05-02 / Muaad Elsharif / 0 Comments

Hey there you guys!
How are you today? I hope you are doing good!
As I am writing this. You will see a lot of “feel” and “felt” being thrown around. It’s that much devotion I have to my writing. I haven’t really used any tools to benchmark the performance. All I used was my “feeling” and of course. Loading times, shall we?

In case you missed it. I like many others, dual-boot. Which means I use two operating systems on my computer. Why I do that you ask? Please refer to my dual-boot path for more.

Now I happen to use most of the software I have on both systems. And what I have noticed is: It runs so much better and a lot smoother on Linux than it does on Windows!!

Atom takes 18.7 seconds to load on Windows. Linux, 3 seconds!

Gimp takes 30 seconds to load on Windows, Linux 10 seconds (With many plug-ins and effects!).

LibreOffice crashes on Windows often. Very smooth on Linux!

And as I said in the dual-boot path. Windows loads slower. Takes up a lot more resources. Crashes more often. Filled with problems and prone to viruses!

How is it possible that Windows is the most popular operating system on earth?

Closed source

It’s closed sourced. How do you know what does what exactly? How much of the space is actually used to serve your needs. And what is the rest doing?

Windows is a black box. You buy it as it is. You know what it does but not how it does it. Get this. I don’t think it’s doing it very well.

Windows has matured into a heavy, recourse hungry beast. Whom it’s only purpose is to suck and drain every drop of your pocket. And keep you in need for them.

I don’t feel like the computer is dying just to keep the computer on. Or that powering up is an achievement to be celebrated with several minutes of silence and unresponsiveness. My computer is OK. But Windows expects you to update to a new computer every 10 days or so!

Android is not free

And please don’t say you are an Android person, and since Android is already Linux that means you are all for open source. Android has put more money in Microsoft’s pocket than Windows mobile. Five times that is!

More money than Skype, Windows phone and Xbox combined. And the reason is Samsung -_-

I do feel that Windows is forced and over bloated. Not with features. But with crap!

Linux is “Cancer”

Have you seen the licenses lately? They offer you basic usage rights as professional. And then put an oversized price tag on it! And call it theirs!!

They prefer you use hacked software than you using Linux! They think it’s cancer. I think Windows is the real cancer.

If I need to occupy 20 Gigabytes of my HDD and need to have a Core I3, 4GB Ram just to open my files. Then we have a serious problem here, Microsoft!!

It’s consuming. It’s useless. And it’s ugly (have you used Windows 8 before?)

You might take from this that I hate. Well I don’t. I respect all code. And think that paying for code is a healthy practice.

I’m against monopoly and taking advantage of people. And piracy is never a solution.

To be continued ..!How did you like this post? Did you find it useful? Please comment below and let me hear what you have in mind.