Disappointed

[mortals]

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).

I still dual boot with windows xp for some games.

I don't have problems with crashes or anything at all. I do find it is slower than linux and it falls over itself time and time again (which is why I get so many callouts). So I'm not "bashing" XP/microsoft, all I actually said was linux & OSX seem better. (Why do you take that as being anti-microsoft or bashing xp?)

It does get tiresome when people keep posting countless windows vs linux or windows vs OSX threads tho.

Quite simply, if you don't like it, remove it and continue to use windows. Just don't expect it to BE windows. Hopefully it will never be windows (despite how many people try to make it into windows).

Also the gaming thing, native OpenGL games work perfectly on linux. Games which are made on directx might be a bind to get working, but as said, they aren't 'made' for linux.

There seems to be a massive generalisation that 'games' don't work on linux, with no mention of native or non-native etc.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Joe, why not do what I do on my main rig? I have to run Windows for my killer app, AutoCAD. In your case the killer apps are games. When I'm done with using the program for which I needed Windows I reboot and it goes straight back to Folding on Linux.

It's not like it'll be getting many cycles while you're gaming anyway.

 

[cb_linus]

2) Windows filesystem is confusing??

When writing a web site, why does Windows insist on using backslashes for its directory structure when my web site is going to display the directory structure with forward slashes? (e.g. www.somesite.blah/somePage/somewhereElse/etc).

 

[drak3]

Linux is better for me on EVERYTHING except games and whatever needs 3D and high def sound power(my card feels like an onboard chip by the lack of support from the company I paid my monies to get the card--ati, creative). Thats just me and my opinion tho.

Just get to your PC one day you need to work on something (productivity) and go the linux way. Thats what I did and loved it. For games, boot the gameOS.

 

[thelonecrouton]

For games, boot the gameOS.

That'll be Edgy then?

I first played with linux over 5 years ago (Red Hate 7 IIRC) and I red-hated it. By 4 years ago I had a perfectly fine gentoo desktop and I was a'ricin' away like a good 'un compiling everything in sight with -O9 -ffastmath -it's_wednesday -added crumpets_please -*** -afterburners_on_max etc.

I've tried SuSE, Mandrake/Mandriva, true weirdness like Sorceror Linux, and after all that I could get a 100% capable system with them all with minimal effort, and then I found Ubuntu.

And Ubuntu is where I will stay, with the joy that is apt, UT, UT2k4, all the Serious Sams, all the Dooms, all the Quakes, Postal 2, etc. Good job I like FPS games...

After a few years using linux exclusively at home, having to figure out what the hell to do with XP at work to get it to, well, work, is truly painful sometimes.

They will prise Amarok from my cold dead hands...

edit: The latest Beryl is bloody fantastic. Completely pointless of course, but well impressive in the way you can switch seamlessly between Beryl and any other WM you have installed and back again in half a second. And you can spend entire minutes of fun selecting your own skybox pic for the spinning cube where it rains and snows on command - seriously, what more could you want, sunshine?

 

[Vulcan]

Joe, why not do what I do on my main rig? I have to run Windows for my killer app, AutoCAD. In your case the killer apps are games. When I'm done with using the program for which I needed Windows I reboot and it goes straight back to Folding on Linux.

It's not like it'll be getting many cycles while you're gaming anyway.

Are you just changing the boot sequence between the 2 drives when you do this?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Are you just changing the boot sequence between the 2 drives when you do this?

Certainly not. Ubuntu installs the grub bootloader by default. I simply scroll up or down to select the OS I want to boot.

 

[Beansprout]

Just dual-boot - it's what the sensible people do .

But the smartest people get a Macbook and triple-boot

*Ok, VM-wise with Parallels at least

 

[Hades]

I much prefer the ideals of Linux though. Hopefully they will continue gaining support

Go and read Linus Torvald's Just For Fun. Then come back and play with Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora, etc. I used to get very confused by it all but now I fat prefer Linux to Windows

 

[punky_munky]

1) Try Thunderbird.

2) Windows filesystem is confusing??

Open up My Computer. There is a list of all the drives or partitions. Open one, it takes you to the root of that drive. Everything goes from there.

Linux/UNIX - ZOMGWTF? Folders and mount points and jazz all over the shop. Confusing as hell. All the drives are accessed from a folder within another folder. Where is that? On a drive?

No, maybe I'm just thick (or too young to have ever used UNIX) but the MS way seems much more intuitive and sensible.

Windows may have to mount drives, but it (99% of the time) does it automatically without any fuss or user interaction. Easy.

HAH HAH

(unless this is some type of double satire in which case you win)