Microsoft sucks!

[Praxius]

You can run a minimal distribution of Linux on pretty much anything.

I dual boot Ubuntu and XP, and the only reason I keep XP is because I like to play games sometimes...WIne works well for most games, but not all that I play.

I have a lot of desktop effects enabled that are just so wicked compared to Vista...

The only problem I'm having is there is limited support for my video card, so any time I update the kernel, I have to recompile my video drivers...which is where I'm at right now...I'm hoping that this will be addressed with Intrepid...

At any rate, Linux is the OS of choice for the discerning computer user.

Yeah I checked out Linux a few times in the past, and the first few times I never bothered to look further into it other then reading reviews on the web sites..... sounded like a load of extra work for a bunch of simple things, there were so many damn versions and types of the OS to choose from I didn't have a clue which one to pick.

I eventually decided to give Linux a try and downloaded what seemed to be the best choice from what I could understand, which was called Fendora Core or something like that.

After burning off several CD's to install what I downloaded, and backing up all my files, and then installing the damn thing, I got to the OS screen.......

"Ok.... now wtf am I supposed to do?" I sez to myself.

Where do I see where my files are located on the hard drive? Where is the word processor? How the hell do I get this thing to connect to my existing internet? What about my programs? Games? Where the hell is the control panel? Is this the only paint program that comes with it?

Quite honestly, I'd rather use a Mac over Linux, because at least with Windows and Mac OS, installing things, fixing things, figuring out what went wrong when the time comes is easy enough to do to some degree.....

Anyways a long story short, that Linux OS stayed on my system for about 7 minutes before I said screw it, reformatted yet again and put windows back on.

As far as I am concerned, unless your some code wiz hacker, Linux sure as heck ain't user friendly, it's layout requires a lot to be desired and trying to figure out which Linux to put on your system is like having a monkey pick the lottery.

And I do consider myself an experienced computer user, I build them, I fix them, I help my friends with them, both Mac and PC.... and when something happens on those, it's not too too difficult to fix the problem.

Linux? Just give me a shotgun and I'll fix the problem because that's about as far as my experience goes with that OS.

Then again, maybe I missed something. All I know is that my experience with Linux sure wasn't a positive one.

 

[Risus]

Microsoft went through the same thing with ME, and came out with 2000 soon after. They do have a new OS in the works. I had one of the later versions of ME and it was fine, so maybe the later versions of Vista are ok, too.

 

[Vanni Fucci]

Linux? Just give me a shotgun and I'll fix the problem because that's about as far as my experience goes with that OS.

Then again, maybe I missed something. All I know is that my experience with Linux sure wasn't a positive one.

I had similar problems when I tried setting up Gentoo...I couldn't get the X server to run, so I was stuck in a command line shell, and had no idea where to go from there...that and I had a mish mash of IDE and SATA drives that I had to write custom scripts for and still couldn't get them to work properly...

However, I've been most impressed with Ubuntu, it's easy to setup and use...it comes with all the office software you could want, and there are a wide variety of truly excellent programs that you can download and install with a few clicks in the package manager...

If you ever used Amarok or VLC you'd never look at another media player with anything but contempt...

I use the Gnome version, called Ubuntu, and there is a KDE version called Kubuntu which is a little more "windows-like"...

Something about free software always makes me smile...:smile: