LINUX v. Windows

[DiM]

I had a machine running Linux, a few years ago. It was fine for web-browsing, and word processing, but after having to run a windows emulator to access any of the other programs I wanted to use, I decided to cut out the middle man and went back to Windows XP.

I pointed that out in a previous post: Linux distros, a few years ago, were still a work in progress, but if you try again today, you won't be disapointed.

so you're saying wine is no longer needed to play all games?
how about photoshop?

[natty dread]

so you love linux because windows has sins?

Sure. If windows were as good as linux, and had all the good qualities of linux, then there'd be no reason to use linux, and we could all just be using windows. But since it isn't, I'm glad that a better alternative such as linux exists.

[nietzsche]

I had a machine running Linux, a few years ago. It was fine for web-browsing, and word processing, but after having to run a windows emulator to access any of the other programs I wanted to use, I decided to cut out the middle man and went back to Windows XP.

I pointed that out in a previous post: Linux distros, a few years ago, were still a work in progress, but if you try again today, you won't be disapointed.

so you're saying wine is no longer needed to play all games?
how about photoshop?

gimp is pretty awesome. and free.

I'm not a gamer, don't know shit about games, but if I was I wouldn't play windows games from linux, neither with wine or virtual box. Makes no sense really, so I understand why you love windows DiM.

[Army of GOD]

>mfw I use MS Paint to edit images

[john9blue]

the article deals with free software other than the operating system, not the OS itself

i use a lot of free software (gimp, openoffice, firefox, opera, winamp, etc.)... in fact, i almost never use built-in windows programs if there is a better, free alternative.

but i prefer windows itself over a free alternative (such as linux) because i find dual booting to be rather inconvenient. plus, i'm much more familiar with the way windows is structured. i do have an old, slower laptop running linux mint, but i only use it if my new laptop can't be used for whatever reason.

my laptop is free of bloatware and viruses, so what reason do i have to be running linux? what will linux offer me that i don't already have?

[natty dread]

what will linux offer me that i don't already have?

[Army of GOD]

anti-Semites?

[natty dread]

anti-Semites?

no silly

how would that even work, like they'd jump out of your monitor or something

try to think with your brain(s)

[Haggis_McMutton]

what will linux offer me that i don't already have?

grep

[Army of GOD]

anti-Semites?

no silly

how would that even work, like they'd jump out of your monitor or something

try to think with your brain(s)

blue face paint?

[nietzsche]

Seriously, Linux offers more power and options to do stuff.

Anyone that didn't consider the change hard would do it, the only problem is that most people is so acostumed to windows that the change is difficult.

But I guess that if you teach your kid to use Linux, he won't be changing to Windows for any reason.

[Timminz]

anti-Semites?

Nope. Even better.

Violent, alcoholic anti-Semites.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

anti-Semites?

Nope. Even better.

Violent, alcoholic anti-Semites.

Just crazy in general.

-TG

[Army of GOD]

[nietzsche]

Multitasking:

When I was in windows, I remember that at times I wanted to do something, like create an image or change the tags of mp3s or something, and i would decide against it because I would have to open 3 or 4 apps besides the ones i was already using, and it would be a mess to minimize and all that shit.

In linux you can use workspaces, and ever since I'm in linux I do much more stuff than when I was in Windows because of that, I change workspaces and there, everything organized all the time. And it helps too it that I can just look for an app for doing something and I always find someone: just a few minutes ago i grew tired of taking a screenshot (tho the screenshot feature in gnome is way more advanced that in windows) and then selecting from it what i wanted in gimp, so I thought there must be a tool like snipping tool, so i googled, and surely shutter exists! installed easily from the software manager list and it turns out is waay more advanced that snipping tool

[AndyDufresne]

In the future, when we install operating systems into our brains, which will be the best choice?


--Andy

[nietzsche]

In the future, when we install operating systems into our brains, which will be the best choice?


--Andy

It will depend in your hardware, in your case Windows 3.0 will be enough, or DOS with BASIC.

[nietzsche]

We haven't heard anything about BBS cocmputers with linux so I think this was indeed a trap thread.... good one..

[AndyDufresne]

In the future, when we install operating systems into our brains, which will be the best choice?


--Andy

It will depend in your hardware, in your case Windows 3.0 will be enough, or DOS with BASIC.

I'll let you hack into my brain any time, neitzsche. I'll reserve my favorite banana brain corner.


--Andy

[natty dread]

We haven't heard anything about BBS cocmputers with linux so I think this was indeed a trap thread.... good one..

This can't be a trap thread because no one was trapped...

Multitasking:

When I was in windows, I remember that at times I wanted to do something, like create an image or change the tags of mp3s or something, and i would decide against it because I would have to open 3 or 4 apps besides the ones i was already using, and it would be a mess to minimize and all that shit.

In linux you can use workspaces, and ever since I'm in linux I do much more stuff than when I was in Windows because of that, I change workspaces and there, everything organized all the time. And it helps too it that I can just look for an app for doing something and I always find someone: just a few minutes ago i grew tired of taking a screenshot (tho the screenshot feature in gnome is way more advanced that in windows) and then selecting from it what i wanted in gimp, so I thought there must be a tool like snipping tool, so i googled, and surely shutter exists! installed easily from the software manager list and it turns out is waay more advanced that snipping tool

Quite true, I also use workspaces - they're an efficient way to manage windows when there's lots of them open - I can be playing a game in one workspace, have the browser & email on one workspace, gimp in a 3rd workspace... and if you need terminal or file manager in all workspaces you can just (at least in ubuntu) right click on them and set the same window to be at all workspaces at once...

Really convenient

[john9blue]

which distro did you use as a linux beginner? which one do you use now?

@ any linux user in this thread

[Haggis_McMutton]

which distro did you use as a linux beginner? which one do you use now?

@ any linux user in this thread

ubuntu, ubuntu (yeah my linux e-penor is tiny).

when I have some time to play around I wanna install some minimal distro (as in lacking X or any real GUI) on my old-ass netbook. should be fun.

[natty dread]

Ubuntu was my first distro and I still use it on my desktop. The earlier versions I tried (10.04 and 11.04) weren't that great, especially 11.04 as Unity was still really buggy in that version - 10.04 was nice but I didn't like that it came with Firefox 3 and there was no easy way to update to Firefox 4 or 5 at the time - I wanted the tab groups because I have tons of tabs open most times, so I sort of only used it sporadically and did most of stuff in windows still - but when ubuntu 12.04 came out I was like "dang, this is the shiznit right here" and I haven't gone back to windows ever since. It just simply offers everything I need from an OS.

Currently I also have lubuntu on my old laptop - the thing that was so slow with xp that it was pretty much unusable, now runs smoothly. Imagine that. The only problem is I can't get it to connect with my dsl modem but that's probably a hardware issue (it was the same on xp), probably network card is broken or some shit.

As for other distros, I've heard good things about mint & fedora - they're the ones I'd try if I had a spare computer that wasn't an old piece of crap. Lubuntu is perfect for an old computer though, it's lightweight and runs very fast but still has a graphical interface and everything you expect from a modern OS - also it's great for laptops as the power consumption is very small.

[natty dread]

when I have some time to play around I wanna install some minimal distro (as in lacking X or any real GUI) on my old-ass netbook. should be fun.

arch

[Haggis_McMutton]

when I have some time to play around I wanna install some minimal distro (as in lacking X or any real GUI) on my old-ass netbook. should be fun.

arch

yeah, I think it's either that or slackware.