[FFmpeg-user] Yes or No? About the processing pipeline.

[Mark Filipak]

On 19/06/2025 10.42, BloodMan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> W dniu 2025-06-19 o 16:03, Mark Filipak pisze:
>> Linux is FOSS. There are no interface standards in Linux because no one is paid to establish and 
>> enforce standards. The result is programs that don't interoperate -- Hell, Linux applications 
>> don't even have consistent font sizes.
> 
> You use arguments that are not arguments - they are misunderstanding.
> 
> If someone pays a lot for the system, wants to have a sugary interface of the system and programs, 
> at the same time assumes that the creator forced it, standardized, designed, polished, smoothed and 
> pampered (supposedly) and prohibits otherwise and tramples the rights of the owners of the purchased 
> equipment and system - they go to Apple.
> 
> If someone pays for the system, allows chaos of various interfaces because at the same time the 
> creator constantly introduces new standards, designs but does not prohibit otherwise, so there is 
> more freedom - they go to Microsoft.
> 
> If someone likes chaos or assumes that chaos can occur when no one takes money for it, at the same 
> time has full painful power over the system and programs (sometimes even too painful) but is certain 
> that the system will run just as efficiently on a supercomputer as on the controller of an old 
> machine tool - they go to FOSS / Linux.
> 
> I, I suspect like most (I hope), chose Linux not because it is so modest - but because I have and 
> can have control over almost everything.

I understand everything you've written, BloodMan, and I agree with all of it.

For example: If Windows ran only if I allowed it to access the Internet, I'd switch to Linux in a 
heartbeat. That's because Microsoft has earned a reputation for betraying its customers. I use Linux 
to access the Internet because it has earned a reputation for protecting its users.

But I do my work in Windows because my Windows applications are very good. I don't do work in Linux 
because Linux applications are generally not good. They're not good because there are no consistent 
standards. That's a failing of Linux because Linux is just a runtime executive, not an operating system.

I have the best of both worlds, and I like it that way. I work in Windows and I communicate via a 
Linux virtual machine -- but not Microsoft's virtual machine. ;-)

Would I be happy with only Linux applications? Not at all. Would I be happy if the developers of my 
Windows applications brought out Linux applications? You bet I would. Is that ever going to happen 
in the FOSS world? I don't think so.

FFmpeg transcends both worlds.