30 Days with Linux

[Bad Company]

Here's an article from the mighty hardocp.com about a guy who spent a month using ubuntu linux instead of Windows.
http://consumer.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTI5OCwxLCxoY29uc3VtZXI=

Quite a good read, I'm prob too much of a MS fanboy to go any other way though.

[Xero]

LOL, wrong forum.

I'm using Mepis for my Laptop OS. If I didn't game I'd use it on my main PC as well. Very good OS.

I'm not crazy about Ubuntu, tried it a few times and there are quite a few problems I run into including BOTH my PCs (Laptop and tower), especially with sound.

Unfortunately, as I said and as the article says, it's not easy to game well on Linux. Well, really it's not easy to game well on any platform other than Windows. If I had the choice between a Mac and Linux box I'd go Linux any day.

[Bad Company]

yeah, I had to make a tough choice about what forum to post it in, but the Computer help forum doesn't really get many views, and I figured some people might be interested in it to run their video games on ;)

[DS]

I'm a fan of Ubuntu but I would never use it for gaming.

[Funky Fly]

I've got knoppix on a cd somewhere, but I never use it much.

[Silent]

I've never cared much for Linux. I tried to install Redhat on my machine once, I spent 2 days downloading it, cleaned my hard drive, installed Linux and.. What? This looks just like DOS.. I saw screenshots of an actual OS, and I spent about a day trying to figure out how to boot up the actual OS, and I couldn't for the life of me find out. So I reinstalled Windows.

Really I don't see what the big deal is, Windows does everything I need it to.

[Xero]

The main difference (for average users) is that every bit of software is (legally, since I know this forum loves the Piracy thang, yarrr) free. It takes a lot to set it up (a bit less with a distro like Ubuntu), that's true, but once it's up, unless you game it's an extremely stable system.

[Just John]

Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux.





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[Xero]

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[Funky Fly]

I've never cared much for Linux. I tried to install Redhat on my machine once, I spent 2 days downloading it, cleaned my hard drive, installed Linux and.. What? This looks just like DOS.. I saw screenshots of an actual OS, and I spent about a day trying to figure out how to boot up the actual OS, and I couldn't for the life of me find out. So I reinstalled Windows.

Really I don't see what the big deal is, Windows does everything I need it to.
When you try to d/l it free (and it's perfectly legal to do that) there is not really any help and quite often no GUI. If yo buy a certain distribution, you usually get their GUI, their program suite and their support (as well as a DVD-ROM and sme documentation).

So unless you're really good at doing everything command line, you might want to consider buying it. I'd probably have it myself, tbh, but I can't e arsed screwing round too much with my tempermental computer.

[Silent]

Ah, maybe I'll buy it sometime just to check it out then.

[St. Jimmy]

I'm going to try Ubuntu and see what it's like. The interface looks much simpler than Redhat (which made my brain hurt). If i like the Live CD version then i'll just install it to my other HD.