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on Monday, December, 17, 2007 6:38 PM
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TheReelTodd
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on Monday, December, 17, 2007 7:17 PM
You know, I hear so many people singing the praises of Linux, but I've never used it. I've seen videos of it in action. Saw a video of it's features up against some of what Vista had to offer. Linux seemed more impressive visually (eye-candy stuff). It has a very loyal following, but small in comparison to the others (Windows, Mac OS).
There are some people in my office who are talking about switching over to Linux (at home), now with things like Open Office readily available. One guy, our network guy (who can easily techno-talk well over my head) was very frustrated with his Vista and how long it took him to get a single application functional in it (having to register DLL files manually and all).
Well, I'm sticking with what I got for now. The main reason is because I don't have anything powerful enough to run Vista (nor do I want to try it just yet) and Linux is too much of a change for me as I don't have anything compatible with it, nor do I have the time to play with it.
But it's fun learning what I can from folks about what they use. 
 
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Compucore
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on Monday, December, 17, 2007 7:47 PM
You know what todd if you have an old PIII machine with around 256 megs of ram and a decent hard drive like a 20 gig or so to try for fun linux will do on that. The eye candy stuff is nice as well. I had starting using the eye candy with Feisty fawn from ubuntu. But with Gutsy gibson i couldn't do it for my laptop with a 16 meg video card from ATI. something simple to start learn is always good to try it out. And the same thing for the ilder versions that I have of linux. I never had the eye candy installed at all. and it works great. Thats what I did. even with my new server that I am going to try and get going will more likely have ubuntu on it for the learning experience with it.
Its like anything else when we all started to use windows. Whether your using 3.1, 3.11 wfw
TheReelTodd Wrote:You know, I hear so many people singing the praises of Linux, but I've never used it. I've seen videos of it in action. Saw a video of it's features up against some of what Vista had to offer. Linux seemed more impressive visually (eye-candy stuff). It has a very loyal following, but small in comparison to the others (Windows, Mac OS).
There are some people in my office who are talking about switching over to Linux (at home), now with things like Open Office readily available. One guy, our network guy (who can easily techno-talk well over my head) was very frustrated with his Vista and how long it took him to get a single application functional in it (having to register DLL files manually and all).
Well, I'm sticking with what I got for now. The main reason is because I don't have anything powerful enough to run Vista (nor do I want to try it just yet) and Linux is too much of a change for me as I don't have anything compatible with it, nor do I have the time to play with it.
But it's fun learning what I can from folks about what they use.
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David1
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on Monday, December, 17, 2007 8:17 PM
Linux is really kind of an IT person's operating system. That might change with the new generation of low-cost laptops coming out with Linux (No wonder Microsoft suddenly wants to give Windows away with them) but unfortunately, Windows is still the most practical operating system.
It's not that I'm a fan of Windows particularly - I've been using Linux for more than 15 years, since it was the only choice for early ISPs, and I have always had a linux server running during that time (It sits above my windows box right at the moment, running my firewall, web server etc.)
But what I like most about computers is games, which Linux really doesn't do well. Only recently have the 3D card manufaturers (well, AMD/ATI) even released specifications for their cards.
You can't play Tron 2.0 on Linux... Nor Crysis or Bioshock.
This might slowly change now if low-cost Linux laptops prove popular with kids, but otherwise, I really see Linux's main role in the server area.
You can use it in the home/office as a desktop or workstation, but you often need to have a decently experienced IT staff member supporting it- or to be able to support it yourself.
Anyway, just an opinion.
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Compucore
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on Tuesday, December, 18, 2007 12:51 PM
Well I know that there are some distros that are changing that in the forfront to make it easier for the non technical guys to do so. I am used to some of the intricacies of the os in the background as well still trying to learn and tweak on some of them myself over here. But for most should try it out on a older system just to see what they think of it. For learning purposes only. I don't try and force it down their throats to change it. but a small nudge to see what they think of it. For me I do like it since it is an alternative you know to windows and seeing what windows is doing right now with vista and their latest one that they are trying to create as well. Sometime but not all of the time windows is sometimes just a rehash of the old put under a new dressing you know.
David1 Wrote:Linux is really kind of an IT person's operating system. That might change with the new generation of low-cost laptops coming out with Linux (No wonder Microsoft suddenly wants to give Windows away with them) but unfortunately, Windows is still the most practical operating system.
It's not that I'm a fan of Windows particularly - I've been using Linux for more than 15 years, since it was the only choice for early ISPs, and I have always had a linux server running during that time (It sits above my windows box right at the moment, running my firewall, web server etc.)
But what I like most about computers is games, which Linux really doesn't do well. Only recently have the 3D card manufaturers (well, AMD/ATI) even released specifications for their cards.
You can't play Tron 2.0 on Linux... Nor Crysis or Bioshock.
This might slowly change now if low-cost Linux laptops prove popular with kids, but otherwise, I really see Linux's main role in the server area.
You can use it in the home/office as a desktop or workstation, but you often need to have a decently experienced IT staff member supporting it- or to be able to support it yourself.
Anyway, just an opinion.
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