Disappointed

joeyjojo · 29 Jan 2007 at 20:07

Had a pretty crap experience with linux so far. Main problem right now is none of my games work. I've tried to get wine to work with steam for two days now and no luck. I refuse to pay for cedega.

The filesystem is confusing. I just want a partition of data, is that so difficult? Why does it have to be mounted?

And why does firefox keep crashing? And a few times now the bars at the top and bottom have completely hung, leaving me unable to do anything. "More stable than windows" my ass.

Going back to xp I think. Nothing linux can do which xp doesn't do better. My x64 was completely stable, everything worked, never had a virus or spyware, and it was as fast a year on as the day I installed it.

joeyjojo · 29 Jan 2007 at 20:37

Mohinder said:
You know the answer.

Get a Mac!

Well that's certainly an answer

joeyjojo · 29 Jan 2007 at 20:42

Beansprout said:
You have to mount disks in XP, too

If I want a drive of data in xp, it's right there in my computer. Apparently in linux I need to mount the drive just to put data on it. Say I want a certain app installed on a separate drive? :confused:

joeyjojo · 30 Jan 2007 at 17:54

Thanks for all the replies guys - I guess it takes 24 hours to get any interest

Opening post was written when I was particularly angry about again failing to get cs:s working in wine, then cedega having a hard time when it's meant to be good with source. I didn't mention any of the good things about Linux; there are loads, it does a lot of things better than xp.

Yes, it's understandable that games don't work. After all, they're not meant to

The filesystem thing would probably be easy to figure out given time. I had the weekend playing with it and learnt a lot actually, much less noobish than when I first installed it. Maybe I didn't take the time to understand the documentation on mounting (confusing). It would be so much easier if they just told you right at the start that your bits go in home, and where to put other things.

Clark and mortals, don't say either are better/crap. It's just not true. I particularly dislike anti-windows talk when it's just jumping on the "bashing MS" bandwagon. XP is a really good OS. If you have problems with viruses/crashes/spyware you're treating it badly. I found that with linux for the first few hours. I'd cause things to crash by being too rough or impatient for example (rough is the best word I can think of).

Lol at Jes with the pro-linux talk :rolleyes:

Augmented, nice post

As we're all agreeing here (except for those biased opinions), use the best OS for your needs. As I (sadly) require games, it's windows for the moment. I much prefer the ideals of Linux though. Hopefully they will continue gaining support