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Date/Time: Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:42:37 +0000
Post From: Comments and Concerns for 2026 Linux Direction - Users and Devs Need Better Communication
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| User677437 - Posts: 95 |
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Be considerate, how much you are asking of people, and how divisive of an issue this may seem. I don't think people are going to be comfortable running Sierra on Linux in a Virtual Machine. And if you're asking people to move over their entire desktop into Linux, and learn Linux UI - That's going to take time, and some of the user base may not even have that technical expertise to wonder why their audio isn't working, or graphics are not as good - because they simply do not know that they have to download drivers. People will have to use VM to access Windows 11 and use Adobe and Microsoft Office Suite. Or they'll just buy a stand alone trading computer - But ram and gpus in 2026 are going to be very expensive... If yall go this route, - You will have to do a real online demonstration, step by step - thinking of every single need that someone could have when making the switch from Windows to Linux. This could be someones first time changing the OS. Some people might even need to hire IT support to do this. Yall do have older users that are not tech savy. People will have to boot from USB, download Sierra, download chartbooks and pray, before they do a hard install of linux. If chartbooks don't work or people have to rebuild - that's an extremely hard ask. *Also be very concerned that Linux has horrible multi-monitor functionality Truthfully, I'd like more of a discussion, and community of user feedback, than forum posts that get lost everyday. People are having performance issues with the timers with one of the links you shared. These posts happen every week. I'm just shocked why there hasn't been a more friendly process to trouble shoot. There should be a YT video. Are you guys afraid that people will get the wrong idea and this will be bad marketing, and that this will turn new customers away if they had to watch an hour long video on how to optimize Sierra Chart ? Sierra Chart is more popular than ever on X / Twitter, YouTube, and within Discord communities. Everyday people are drawn to SC for all the charts that can be made, all the market profiles, volume profiles, footprint charts. Low time frame charts. DOMS. Creating amazing chart layouts with detached windows or in program windows. The idea is - you can have it all, you can see 50 charts on the screen, and the program won't crash and charts will be as smooth as butter. This is why you guys are the best. Please keep in mind - Nearly every person that has chartbooks that make people interested in SC - They all recommend to turn on OpenGL on because it helps with chart scrolling, and often these layouts consist of a dozen or more charts all up at once, in detached or attached mode. It'd be nice to benchmark Sierra Chart using the same operating system ( because the majority of us are not on Windows 7 ), and use similar charts and layouts, use similar studies as your customer base and most importantly to beta test updates, before someones decides to upgrade to the latest version, and they experience charts are frozen, windows closed or deleted, or program crashes and very shortly after a fix is always made and a new version is out. Some of us are wondering why aren't these things tested before hand. If yall want to go all in on Linux - Please think about creating a community to beta test that before it becomes official. With all that being said, I'm okay with this idea if the multi-monitor support and driver issue is solved #1 , especially if Linux makes yall happier with using Vulkan or OpenGL, and it solves the networking side of things with timers and opens up a new pathway for future development, and everyone will get better Ram and CPU utilization. - but if my chartbooks don't work that's a hit in the gut. And if that happens to other users - it definitely kills momentum and hurts your brand in this competitive industry. We don't want that. We want yall to succeed. The problem with Linux, will be what distribution and versions yall will develop on and potentially incompatibility issues. Yall will have to specifically go with the verbage of Linux development ie " Official Build Target = Ubuntu LTS " + " Verified Compatible = Linux Mint Cinnamon. Don't even think about Arch..... And some of us are not happy when it comes to 3rd party API integrations. We are paying monthly subscription services for custom trading resources, I will name names. Menthor Q and Gexbot for me specifically and because of this whole timer thing Vendors are now creating new API's to only be compatible with newer versions of Sierra, and they are not in the know with some performance issues that we are experiencing, where the answer is " We don't know, it's because you're not using Windows 7 ". If these 3rd party vendors would now have to create something additional to work with Linux - that's something to think about Date Time Of Last Edit: 2026-01-05 13:44:01
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