Linux

    I'm interested in trying out ubuntu, just for kicks. But your right linux is not for everyday use.

    And I guess I should of added "indifferent" to the poll

    I have just tried it quickly, so i can't relly give my opinion tough. It seams like they have come pretty far tough, there are some nice desktops out there and some are even easy to install these days.

    Everything i use is made for windows tough, the only use i guess would be for a server or something.

    One thing i don't like about linux tough is how it handles and shows the harddrives, it makes me crazy. Maby there is one that shows them like windows does?

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    Maby there is one that shows them like windows does?

    How do you think "show"? You mean, automount? Hotplugging is included in mostly all modern distribution tough. Or you mean the Firmware controle? Well, the Firmare controle (those /dev/hda1 thingies ) is made to handle very large amounts of space and harddisks. Also, linux partitions arent partitions like in Windows. Where you can only install windows on one partition, in Linux, you can make a partition for root /, /home (the home data), /usr (the program data and binaries), /opt (games and stuff), /usr/local (the program data itself), /boot (the boot data like Grub and Kernel stuff), /etc (configurationfiles) etc. So, for example. Youve got a root / and a /home partition. All stuff, who dont belongs in /home go's to the root partition, all /home stuff go's to the /home partition.

    Wfr, Sindwiller

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    When i say show i mean like every partition or drive gets it's own letter like C, D etc.

    Like ive said, there are first the firmware controles (/dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, /dev/hdb2 etc.) and then the mounting points. Ive got my windows partition mounted automatically on boot. Also, ive gived the partition the mounting point /media/windows (or /mnt/windows on older distris) so the gnome-volume-manager (the little program who is responsible that external partitions mounted in /media or /mnt were displayed on the desktop, only in GNOME tough) gives the link of the partition-icon on the desktop the name "Windows". Thats neat

    Wfr, Sindwiller

    Linux and Windows are usually so similar these days anways. If anyone haven't tried linux yet, then you should grab some distro right away. A good starter choice is the ones with support for live cd's, where you don't have to install anything to test it.

    I've used it and it rocks.

    I would use it again if the support would be better for stuff i use like certain games and apps, also when i used it it sucked at adsl and gfx cards and so on. But its the best OS out there IMO.

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    Linux and Windows are usually so similar these days anways.

    not even close. the both have some of the same UI elements, but that's about it.

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    Linux and Windows are usually so similar these days anways.

    They are never similiar. Even GNOME and KDE who use to be kind of "Windows-clone" arent very similiar to the Windows Desktop. Their more concise, faster, more customisable (without 3rd party sofware) and using also a more safe architecture than Windows, because Windows is a Microkernel and has his GUI and all other stuff in the Kernel. In Linux, the Window-System and the Desktops or Window-Managers are external.

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    I just hate ATI for sucking at it, but support is progressively getting better every few months.

    Full ack. Good that i dont buyed a ATI 2 years before. And now, im gonna buy a nVidia again

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    If anyone haven't tried linux yet, then you should grab some distro right away

    I can recommend Ubuntu but since Dapper, it started to get unstable. I loved Breezy and Hoary, but Dapper, meh, it sucks. Ive used Gentoo a short time and it rocks. I'll install it on my new machine. In fact, Gentoo isnt something for you if you arent suited for some hardcore compiling action and you dont have a good machine. :roll:

    Wfr, Sindwiller

    i've used redhat gentoo mandrake and some other kind that I can't remember the name of but runs off of a CD. edit: (knoppix?)

    linux is only interesting cause it's something new to learn...once you understand the basic idea and know how to do stuff it's like "ok thats great...now I can't do anything but play tux racer and surf the internet." unless you're running a server or are some kind of elite hacker I think it's just a bragging tool

    oh and getting wireless to work on a laptop is annoying.

    I used to use it along side Windows in a dual boot setup. It was pretty cool, and I found that I could do all the same things with it I could do with Windows, with the exception of hassle free gaming. You can play games, and I'm sure many of the more recent distros are much more compatible with games (Wine comes to mind), but because I'm so much more used to how Windows works, it's just much easier for me to stick with that instead.

    I'd only really ever use some form of linux on a secondary machine for experimenting with or running some type of web server or router.

    I liked Linux (I think Mandrake8 was what I was using at the time), but when absolutely everything else out there that I interface with is Windows based, I basically have to be Windows also.

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    "ok thats great...now I can't do anything but play tux racer and surf the internet."

    What? Hello, there are hell much open source games for Linux (Wesnoth, Warsow, Nexuiz, Transfusion, Tremulous, Globulation2, Battle for Survival) and there are also very much titles who have been developed or later ported to Linux. All Quake games and Doom3/Prey were developed on Linux too. Additionaly, ET:QW will be also for Linux available. There are also much companies who port Windows games to Linux. Like LIFLG, MLG or Loki (RIP...). A month before, X2: The Treath was ported to Linux. X3: Reunion Port is in the works. You can also wrap (NOT EMULATE) games and windows application through wine or cedega. Tough, there is much stuff who does not work (DeleD, Silo, MS3D, holy shit, i need dualboot; i have it^^). But its a start. Steam works very fine. Ive also tried HL1/CS:CZ trough Cedega. Not bad (for my damn machine). HL2/CSS works also OK. But only OK

    Wfr, Sindwiller

    EDIT: Some Links if you wanna try

    http://wesnoth.org

    http://warsow.net

    http://nexuiz.com

    http://tremulous.net

    http://sauerbraten.org/

    http://cheapy.deathmask.net <--- 4 leile OpenArena btw

    http://icculus.org/quake3 <-- IQ3 works fine on Linux, Tremulous is built on the top of it tough

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