BaBene

That's a real pity. Hope to see it in a later patch Thank you for answering that quick! Cheers, BaBene

Hi, I am wondering if the switch on/off positions will be customizable in the final product? Jan mentioned in his videos that Lufthansa (and a couple of other airlines?) did reverse the switch on/off positions to make it more intuitive (you want something? pull it to you! ). He also mentions that they will switch back to the standard configuration in the release version. I found a similar question in the youtube comments which has been left unanswered (I didn't look at all youtube comments of all your videos though). Personally I would really love to be able to customize the switch behavior for different liveries. Best regards, BaBene

Hey tkyler, no worries. As already mentioned I do accept your apologies Give your linux box a hug from me Thanks for replying! Best regards, BaBene

Hey Cameron, thanks for giving me the opportunity to express and to react to my thoughts and opinions on this topic. Best wishes from me to you and your team as well. You might want to sweeten my holidays with the release of your great product? Never mind, just kidding. Take your time to amaze us all Best regards and wishes, BaBene

Hi Cameron, don't get me wrong, as I already mentioned I'm totally with you for those niche applications. I don't think that it's financially viable to support all three platforms. If you would have preferred the combination Linux / Windows I would be more happy (and I guess this could be a serious thought, since the quantitative difference between linux and mac users isn't that big), but I totally accept running my Simulators under Windows (This is not just due to your upcoming software release. I mostly run FSX/P3D, so I'm bound to Windows anyway). My experiences regarding software development may differ quite drastically to yours when it comes to deployment for linux due to the fact that my background is another. I started with development under linux and since then solely developed under and for linux. And as i mentioned in my post above, deployment for windows is giving me really hard times. It's just not that easy to generalize the aspects of software development and deployment regarding the different platforms, it all depends from where you are coming from and which background you have and what you are developing (as mentioned I'm developing numerical simulations, and It is a pain in the a** to find precompiled libraries for Windows that I need for my software. Compiling them from scratch can be a pain in the a** too under Windows) . I just wanted to point that out As for the "wannabe" linux users (I might have been too harsh with the word "wannabe" here. It depends on what you want to define as a "true" linux user For me it's the kind of persons that stops crying and starts developing his own open source aircraft and simulator. I'm not crying though, so don't expect me to even try developing one ). You are only reading and hearing from those linux users cause the others simply don't engage on this kind of topics. I mean why would they? The only thing you'll ever hear from the linux users is them asking or demanding for linux support. I bet there might be quite a few people, even on this forum, that use linux on a daily basis, for entertainment, work and development, that are totally fine with running your software under Windows or Mac, like me. And none of them will come up and say "Hey great work in not supporting Linux, greetings the Linux guy". It's just not the way internet works nowadays. You either are happy and say nothing or you give the developers a hard time. And due to the anonymity quite a few of them are likely to get offensive and choose the wrong words. Just read a few YouTube comments There are of course quite a few black sheeps under all those linux users, like in any other community. And i truly understand that they will leave a bad taste in your mouth. I simply beg you to not generalize Best regards, BaBene

Hi, I've never looked into using the Aerosoft AIRAC and personally buy a monthly subscription from Navigraph now and then. Until now I never really had problems with Navigraphs AIRACS and the LIDO Charts are realy awesome. That being said, I'm perfectly fine of switchting to Aerosoft AIRAC Cycles. But as already mentioned I'm used to subscribe on a monthly basis to navigraph, It's far more expensive than a yearly subscribtion but also far more flexible I really would appreciate Navigraph support in the future though There is also another thing I wanted to talk about: Let me get this off first before commenting to your post: I'm really amazed of how you deal with the community, you seem to be really interested in the opinions of your customers, and your activity (both you and cameron) in this thread is amazing. I will buy the IXEG B733 no matter which platform and AIRAC support it ships with. And now for the comment on your post: You are generalizing here a lot. My favorite platform of choice for the past years is linux, mainly used for developing and work though. And I'm quite offended by your statement above. From my personal point of view the great majority of linux users do not demand for linux support, hell, most of them don't even ask for support cause they don't care or are aware that most companies won't put the effort in supporting linux due to the facts you already mentioned. There is however a small minority, as in all communities, of linux users or "wannabe linux users" who are trolling the community forums demanding linux support. Those are the people you are erroneously thinking do represent the linux community/users, cause those are the only people you are hearing from. The only thing you are doing with your post is feeding those trolls, and maybe offend a few nice linux users while doing so. I'd love to have linux support for the IXEG but I totally understand that it's not financially viable for a niche application like an aircraft addon and I totally accept running windows for my hobby though I honestly hate every bit of it (I couldn't survive without MSYS) I do however accept your apologies since I think I've been swept up by your prejudices But due to the fact that you opened Pandora's box here, and since I'm a developer too (actually I'm not, but I am forced to write a shitload of code in my phd) could you give me some insights what exactly is so time consuming in supporting linux? As far as I understand it you are going to support mac? Shouldn't be a great difference between mac and linux, though I admittedly never dealt with mac and addon developement for X-Plane. Sure, libraries tend to change a lot. But if you're using a library in your application that is not platform exclusive (e.g. closed source) you are dealing with the same problem for every platform. There are also a lot of quality libraries and developers that do try their best to keep backwards compatibility. You also don't need to include every library change into your final application, just stick with a version and occasionally include security or stability patches for that version. Just ship the libraries with your application (shared or statically linked, if the license allows you to do so) as you would do in windows. You don't need to struggle with libraries supplied by distro packages. That's the way I'm used to develop my application, and it works quite well. Steam for example ships a great deal of libraries, which should be rather stable (from a versioning point of view). Deploying on windows is the hard part for me (Though it is a numerical application, so this might be a completely different topic). I don't want to give you advises I just want to understand what the difficulties are, since, as I already mentioned, am not a addon, mac or windows developer Keep up the great development and community work! Best regards, BaBene