Topic: ethminer-0.9.41-genoil-1.1 - page 32. (Read 397387 times)

Not just better for pools - you can find two shares in a row, and submit both with Stratum. With shitty Eth getwork, it forces new work every submit.

Time is still money, downtime is also money. If you can't fix a machine when it breaks because you have to spend uptine hours googling around for answers you're wasting mining time. It makes it all the worse when you have to take to forums, which if you're lucky you'll receive a condescending snotty answer within 24 hours... If you're unlucky... 24-72 and they wont give you a answer, they'll try to 'lead you to the answer' by dragging you through the mud and making you feel bad for being a no good muggle that has used Windows in the past, all the while talking about how superior Nix is which is currently broken for you and you're trying really fucking hard to fix. And then if you're lucky, maybe in 2-3 iterations of that (a week) they'll finally give you a one line answer (usually a command line sequence) which does everything you were looking for.

(Notice the responses and tone in this thread to people trying to fix WinDoze problems by Nix users? Yeah, now imagine trying to deal with people like that to fix problems with Nix while time and money are on the line.)

Linux is definitely 10,000% harder to use. 'Desire to learn' has nothing to do with usability and everything to do with being able to accomplish what you're trying to do in some sort of meaningful time frame. There is a reason there is a job in the market that caters to people that administrate Nix machines.

"Also, why do see TONS of Windows questions and very few Linux questions?"

Almost no one mines with Nix and the few that do are using prebuilt installs that someone else made, which they themselves can't fix and instead reinstall whenever something breaks.

Or we could go back to my first paragraph about people generally looking down upon anyone who wants to actually figure out how to make the OS work when it's broken... wonder if that hampers peoples desire to learn or use a OS.

I've used Nix. It's a PITA. IT's great for tiny niches it fulfills that makes the internet and backbone infrastructure run, but in this case there is no point in using it. This is also why a 'Steam Machine' will never take off. No one tried to make Nix as user friendly as WinDoze, they've only thrown shiny new UIs on top of it which are still next to worthless if everything isn't working properly.

There is definitely a market for a user friendly Nix OS that mimics the usability of WinDoze... meaning when something breaks, you can fix 99.999% of advanced problems with the UI and you never touch the CLI (blasphemy I know). But it will never happen because Nix users are so obsessed with their 'knowledge' of their OS they can never contemplate making that knowledge readily available for the plebeians that want to use their OS (who are obviously filthy WinDoze users).

Think how often you touch CLI when fixing a WinDoze problem. Yes, just like that.

This isn't even touching on compatibility, performance, and applications that aren't available for Nix.

When you put this all into context, regardless of whether or not you spend $100 per machine for WinDoze it's obviously well worth the money compared to the alternative. I'm too old to deal with know it all fuck twats that have no real interest in helping you fix shit and just want to make themselves feel good about using a OS almost no one gives a shit about and those that do are usually paid to do so. They're a waste of my time, my energy, and my money.

No, Stratum is a lot better, which is why I'd rather SGMiner use it than getwork. But fucking NiceHash had to reinvent the wheel (again) - are there actual specs for any of these stratum versions? Specifically 2 and 3?