Should I switch to Linux?

[Mill]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: oniq

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: oniq

Originally posted by: Ameesh
i'd say try it out and you will see why windows xp rocks.

:roll:

im dead serious.



let it be known that I, Ameesh, biggest MS fanboi on this board, challenge all of you to install linux. i dont care what distro or version.


i bet 95% of you switch back to windows after a month.

The only reason you would switch back to Windows would be if you *need* a particular application or game that doesn't run under Linux. That is Microsoft's only strong point right now, and thats just because its been in the public eye much longer than Linux. Other than that, Windows XP doesn't have anything that anyone couldn't do under Linux. Might take a bit longer in some instances, but you'll learn a bit more about your box.

thats a big reason, if the software someone wants to use doesnt run on linux, then linux is useless to them.

I also don't want to spend hours playing with something to get it to work.

Or wait for have workable drivers for your new hardware, whereas it ships with XP support out of the box. Don't get me wrong Linux is great for many things, but when it comes to home usage, and you run a lot of Windows only apps... well XP cleans up.

 

[Sid59]

installing linux to use konqueror to brag on message boards is like buying a google email (@gmail) on ebay for more than 10 bucks just to say you have one.

 

[GRIFFIN1]

I would be using linux right now if I didn't need windows to play games.

 

[Staples]

If you can't afford Windows I guess. Linux desktop works just fine for just a web browser. Anywho, Windows is prettier and more user friendly for just about everything so I will stick with it. $100 for 3+ years of use is nothing.

Edit: And I accidently selected yes instead of the third option.

 

[bluewall21]

Plus, you can support open-source stuff!!

 

[tarak]

Originally posted by: GRIFFIN1
I would be using linux right now if I didn't need windows to play games.

ditto. winex doesnt support the games i want to play. so for now i dual boot.

gonna agree with trying it out first using knoppix off cd.

 

[yllus]

Originally posted by: bluewall21
Plus, you can support open-source stuff!!

Why is this a good thing? Open source puts nice young developers like me out of work just so we can create some kind of communist software paradise.

 

[Vertimus]

I first used linux 5 months ago, and now I use 100% linux. Since I don't play many games, linux has everything I need. In fact, I haven't touched a windows computer in two months. Also, anyone that tells you it's hard to install is BSing. I'm 15 years old, and I got Gentoo working w/ all drivers on my first try. Dual boot is simply adding 3 lines to the grub config file. There is no reason to buy a new hdd either. Just resize the partitions so you have about 10 GB for linux, which is more than enough.

Hardware support is a bit lacking, but I find it good enough. I just finished installing Gentoo on a Dell 300m w/ ACPI, Intel wireless, and DRI completely working.

 

[halik]

if you dont know anything about it and don't know why would you wanna switch, theres no point in switching.

I use gentoo on most of my computers (work and home) and I do have personal reasons to do that (im more efficent when i use linux ... it gets outta my way and i can get stuff done).

Vast majority of people on this board will tell you to stay in windows, but its gonna be mostly due to the fact that they know jack about linux alltogether (cough ameesh cough) and or dont know how to use it.

Installing gentoo on my main machine (2.8ghz 400sc) took about a day and i haven't really had any problems since. I do boot back into windows once in a while (ie right now), when i need to do some graphics work and such. Flash MX doesnt seem to like linux all that much.

I dont think I've ever had windows on my machine at work. I do mostly server side java development and XML data exchange and stuff - linux lets me be very efficent at what i do. It gets outta my way and I configure everything precisely how i want it. Plus I can test everything on my machine before deployment, because our servers are either linux or solaris based.


<- waiting for someone to make some dumbass nt-server comment

 

[damonpip]

Obviously not if you want to use Photoshop. It's be fine for internet, and OK for school stuff (OpenOffice). OpenOffice however is a pain because it isn't 100% compatible with MS Office.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Try DSL and see if it works for you.

 

[kalster]

Originally posted by: halik

Vast majority of people on this board will tell you to stay in windows, but its gonna be mostly due to the fact that they know jack about linux alltogether (cough ameesh cough) and or dont know how to use it.

not true

i have been using unix for a LONG time, i am no GURU but i know enough


I just dont need it for home use (emails/web/divx/music etc), all of these things can surely be done in linux, its not worth the effort when its already done out of the box in wndows

i dont see how you really learn by just installing it. how does installing drivers which other people write make you knowledagble about it, all you are doing is finding the right driver, building it and installing it, at most changing some flags in a .config file
if you want to become a sysadmin or somthing makes sense

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: oniq

Originally posted by: Ameesh
i'd say try it out and you will see why windows xp rocks.

:roll:

im dead serious.



let it be known that I, Ameesh, biggest MS fanboi on this board, challenge all of you to install linux. i dont care what distro or version.


i bet 95% of you switch back to windows after a month.

Too bad I did that a few months ago and never looked back. I especially like how your rubbed it in everytime I ran up against any install issues.

P.S. My install issues were user error.

Edit: I lied, I looked back a few times. Never regretted it though.

 

[JoPh]

no

 

[Beattie]

if you are curious, just do it for the experience. When I first installed linux, I was just curious and wanted to see what it did. I got hooked and used gentoo for a long time... until I started playing more games again, then I just dual booted.

actually, I am installing gentoo on my box right now. I left a partition on it for windows, but I dont know when/if I will even install it.

 

[bluewall21]

Originally posted by: yllus

Originally posted by: bluewall21
Plus, you can support open-source stuff!!

Why is this a good thing? Open source puts nice young developers like me out of work just so we can create some kind of communist software paradise.

Read "Just for Fun", Linus Torvalds' Autobiography.