I thought linux was a complex "geeky" OS?

MaxP779 · 4 Nov 2012 at 19:21

Ive been messing about with ubuntu and its reminiscent of when i tried out OSX a while back. Half the options that are in windows just arent there, i was looking to have a hard disk spin down after a set amount of inactivity but theres no option there.

Seems like windows is the more complex geeky OS, i tried out kubuntu as well which has more options but there still isnt as many as in windows.

What gives?

MaxP779 · 4 Nov 2012 at 19:51

bledd. said:
Because there's no gui for it doesn't mean it can't do it

Is there a GUI that can do all that jazz thats in windows? Im on a crappy mobile dongle atm so i cant try out all the distros i want to try myself.

MaxP779 · 4 Nov 2012 at 22:58

LizardKing said:
The terminal window can do all the jazz windows can and a whole lot more! all accessible through this little application

I dont think i've ever once heard that Windows is more geeky than linux thats for sure!

So basically i have to resort to a CLI to do anything beyond the basics?

MaxP779 · 5 Nov 2012 at 01:06

Angst said:
What else did you expect from a "geeky OS" GUI is for noobzorz

I dunno i guess i just thought it would be windows with more options

MaxP779 · 5 Nov 2012 at 21:00

PermaBanned said:
This is by far the most important post in the thread, without answering this question nothing anybody has said makes any sense at all.

http://www.windows7update.com/images/Microsoft-Windows-7-Control-Panel.jpg

All that jazz and the bajillion options that come with it

MaxP779 · 6 Nov 2012 at 17:24

PermaBanned said:
I don't know how good your eyesight is, but i can not read any of that. Seems like a horrible way to arrange a menu though, far too many options in one place.

If there's something you want to do then you can ask about that and we can try to help you, but you can't just come up with this vague criticism that really means absolutely nothing and expect to be taken seriously.

Yeah my overall point was the windows GUI is more fully featured than linux GUI's which surprised me based on what i had heard about linux.

MaxP779 · 6 Nov 2012 at 19:20

Dunks said:
Linux doesn't really have a GUI the same way windows does though. Especially when it comes to system configuration.

There's various desktop environments, a multitude of window managers and decorators.

Also, to somewhat reply to one of your problems in your OP.

hdparm -S240 /dev/sda

This would spin your drive down after 20mins of inactivity.

Thanks

Im really looking to get into linux atm, i want to move away from windows completely but gaming keeps me from doing that. xen + vt-d and using the VGA passthrough looks very promising but its configuration is beyond me at the moment.

I suppose there are advantages to using the command line, write the commands to set up everything in a text file, save text file, copy/paste next time i need to reinstall or set up something else.

My only point to this thread was that i thought there would be a GUI option for everything that there is in windows, it surprised me to see there wasnt. Maybe in time the GUI will become fuller or ill just get used to the command line and it will become a non-issue