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LINUX: Give me one good reason for switching to Linux...

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So I am thinking of installing Linux... probably Mandrake or Redhat...

Give me a good reason to switch from Windows XP Pro... I think all Linux distributions are free if you download them from their website & ftp, right?

If you can convince me to switch, I'll give you a cookie 😀 :beer:

 
How will we recieve the cookie and what kind of cookie will it be?

I have no intention of trying to seriously respond to this thread. If you can't figure out a reason for yourself, you probably won't get a good one. Personally, I started using it because I wanted to learn.
 
I have a friend in Blacksburg, can you give her a cookie in my place?

Or, just give yourself a cookie.

Originally posted by: Xiety
I think all Linux distributions are free if you download them from their website & ftp, right?
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That's why.
 
"So I am thinking of installing Linux"

it sounds like u already have some good reasons to. a better question to ask is "why do u guys use linux?"
 
Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
I have a friend in Blacksburg, can you give her a cookie in my place?

Or, just give yourself a cookie.

Originally posted by: Xiety
I think all Linux distributions are free if you download them from their website & ftp, right?
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That's why.
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😀 Hehe yeah, I got a couple of fortune cookies that came free with delivery 😀

Well being free is not enough of a reason... really. I already have XP Pro and since I can't return it for my money back, the cost is not an issue. 🙂
 
Just make a dual boot system, Linux and Windows XP. You just can't jump into it. If you delete XP entirely, you would want to go back to it for some reason, and start missing it. Linux needs getting used to, we have been used to Windows for too long.
 
but just for the rec...

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I started using linux because the company i worked at was in desperate need of new servers, but the economy was getting hit hard after 9/11 and i had to watch lots of my friends get laid off. i was a pure windows guy at that time and was stressing out about how to cut costs. One of my co-workers said to me "i wonder how many people will have to be laid off to pay for these machines". i had slimmed the hardware on these servers down pretty thin, but the huge cost of windows was concerning me. but then i heard somethign about linux.. and it being free and very powerful so i read up on it. it looked pretty difficult compared to windows but i really didnt want to see another friend get laid off! so i poured 3 weeks of day and night studying into it and got our servers off the ground.

I noticed during my experimentation that there were several GUI's available for linux... and the OS itself was very customizable. So i gave it a try for my desktop (or one of them at least). I really liked the amount of customizing I could do with it, moreover I liked how I didnt have to worry about patches every other week (many of which broke my past windows boxes) and how I new exactly what was going on inside it. That to me was worth the time spent tweaking it to get things to work. No more blue screens of death either!

so, i still have a windows box for games (linux will run games if u spend time on it, but my sister knows only windows and likes playing Sims on my machine) but i love my RH9 box.

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Why do you want to switch to linux?
Obviously you have had some thoughts about linux, and think that linux can do something for you
that Windows cannot.

Its not Windows though. So if you want linux to be Windows you have the wrong product.
That always bothers me, when people say that. If you want a product that behaves like
Windows you probably want Windows, not linux.

That said, If you play alot of games, Linux just isn't there yet. Not enough companies that
make video games, make them for linux. And though you can get some Windows games
working through programs like wine, alot of the times it not worth the hassle.

However if all you do is read email and browse the internet, then you probably can get by
with Linux. And its free. Nothing like paying for a Windows license to just do that.
You can pick up linux distributions online, or its usually easy to find them on
www.linuxiso.org.

Personally I like Redhat, and have had no issues to date with Fedora. Then again, I have been using Redhat
since 4.2. To each their own. Some people like Redhat, some Mandrake and yet others prefer Gentoo, Debian,
Slackware, or SUSE (there are others, I just named a few). Great thing about linux is that you can download
these ISOs and burn them to CD and test which one you like the best. Everyone feels comfortable with something.

Another think about Linux, you can tinker. Some people like to tinker with things. Well linux is great for that. Out of the
box, you can usually just leave it alone, however you can also tinker with this or tinker with that. If you generally like to
do something like this, you will like linux.

There are tons of reasons to use linux. However what do you use your computer for? Thats what you have to ask yourself.
And if you ask in general I do this? Is linux a good switch, people will tell you.

And as TommyVercetti said, you can make it a dual boot system. Most linux distributions can easily setup a dual boot system for you.
That way you can go back to XP if you need. I have been using linux for a long time, however I still have to use 2000 every so often.


 
moreover I liked how I didnt have to worry about patches every other week (many of which broke my past windows boxes)
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Um, last I checked there are more updates with major linux distros than there are for Windows. Granted many of them are for specific software packages and generally not as "critical" as some of the MS patches but my point is that if you havent found yourself installing patches you should probably start looking before you miss one that is important.

-Spy
 
Originally posted by: daveshel
Mandrake has gone away, RedHat is on the way to being just as commercial as M$. Debian is the way to go.
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I agree that debian is the way to go, but what happened to Mandrake? SUSE is still around too.
 
Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
Originally posted by: daveshel
Mandrake has gone away, RedHat is on the way to being just as commercial as M$. Debian is the way to go.
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I agree that debian is the way to go, but what happened to Mandrake? SUSE is still around too.
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Mandrake's still around, they just released 9.2
 
"Um, last I checked there are more updates with major linux distros than there are for Windows. Granted many of them are for specific software packages and generally not as "critical" as some of the MS patches but my point is that if you havent found yourself installing patches you should probably start looking before you miss one that is important."

Yes, i meant for critical updates like blaster, etc...
 
Originally posted by: Xiety
So I am thinking of installing Linux... probably Mandrake or Redhat...

Give me a good reason to switch from Windows XP Pro... I think all Linux distributions are free if you download them from their website & ftp, right?

If you can convince me to switch, I'll give you a cookie 😀 :beer:
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Install and use linux if you like it and would like to learn more about it. If it works for you, great, and if not, well, that's great too.
 
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