Oh mah gawd...I'm now a Linux convert!

[cheesehead]

I've tried Ubuntu before, but it was always a headache - it never supported my old laptops' wireless cards, and ACPI was a nightmare.

This time, I spent the extra bucks to get a better quality laptop that would out-last its predecessors - an IBM Thinkpad X40. While a little poky by some standards, it's more than adequate for what I use it for - surfing the web and papers.

After finally finding a USB CD burner it would boot off of (more of a Tinkpad glitch than anything else), I installed the Edgy Eft version of Xubuntu to see if they finally fixed it up.

HOLY CRAP!

Everything is lightning fast. Everything works. Suspend, ACPI, you name it - it all works. Even the dorky keyboard light.

I can now run more programs, and I've got access to tons of one of my favorite vices - silly arcade-style games. There's even two seperate freeware speaker design suites, both of which are almost as good as hideously expensive commercial products without the hefty pricetag.

And I never have to worry about #@$#@$ spyware again.

While it's currently unpolished, I must say that Linux really is a superior OS. It does a lot of the same things as Vista does (and looks just as good thanks to Murrine), while running on a fraction of the hardware. It also runs on cheap CPUs like Freescale's PowerPC line very well - Windows is just to bulky to run on such a weak processor, but Linux works just fine.

So, yeah...I'm a convert.

Now, if only they'd release Google SketchUp for Linux....

 

[Arkaign]

Wait till you get a load of OS/2 Warp! hehhehe 😛

 

[drag]

I can now run more programs, and I've got access to tons of one of my favorite vices - silly arcade-style games. There's even two seperate freeware speaker design suites, both of which are almost as good as hideously expensive commercial products without the hefty pricetag.

Speaker design?

That's something I am interested in, but I didn't know they had applications for Linux. I was going to try my hand at that this summer sometime, hopefully.

This sort of thing is very much fun for a Do-it-yourself'r.

I found some websites on how to make a cheap microphone with flat frequency response for evaluating sound systems. It's uncalibrated, but it uses the same bits and peices that you'd get on a calibrated microphone so it's very close...

 

[cheesehead]

http://www.katix.org/speakerdesigner/

Trust me, a mic is not so much important as good specs and good modelling.

Also, if you're looking for some awesome DIY designs, check out zaphaudio.com. The Dayton Budget MTM is good if you need a lot of volume, while the Silver Flute/Vifa combo is a nice option for smaller rooms at a lower pricetag.

 

[greylica]

Try Blender, it will worth for your, and worth for me !!!
Ok, be carefull, everytime we see here someone that really like linux and tell Linux is better, some friends do that not like it tell us that we are radicals. Yeah, we turn to be radicals as long as they are too. There is no problem.

Linux is superiority, because it's free. Preserve our liberty to use our computers WITHOUT ANY FEAR or F.U.D.
We can choose how our computer works, what is his purpose and have certainty that our computer is ours.
Thanks Linus and all of the team that spend time and efforts to something really useful and superb for the humanity and for the future!

 

[stash]

Ok, be carefull, everytime we see here someone that really like linux and tell Linux is better, some friends do that not like it tell us that we are radicals.

Nice try, but that's a load of garbage. Nobody here (at least nobody that anyone takes seriously) will call you a radical if you use Linux or any other OS. Frankly, I could care less what everyone wants to use, use what works for you and gets the job done. Religious debates on software are pretty silly IMO.

People will call you names when you post rabid anti-Microsoft FUD, which you tend to do frequently.

edit: I should say, rabid-anti-Anything FUD will get you called out, not just anti-MS crap.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: Cheesehead
http://www.katix.org/speakerdesigner/

Trust me, a mic is not so much important as good specs and good modelling.

Also, if you're looking for some awesome DIY designs, check out zaphaudio.com. The Dayton Budget MTM is good if you need a lot of volume, while the Silver Flute/Vifa combo is a nice option for smaller rooms at a lower pricetag.

Ya, I 've seent he dayton budget before. I quite like this sort of thing, but after making a speaker or two I'd like to play around with tweaking designs or making my own for simplier things like subwoofers and such. Also amplifiers are neat things to muck around with.

Thanks for the link.

 

[bersl2]

Originally posted by: stash
Religious debates on software are pretty silly IMO.

vi vs. emacs is not silly.

😛