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RickyRicardo wrote:

pk- wrote:

Not get a virus

that's not strictly true is it?

There are linux viruses, but they are nowhere near as widespread as viruses for windows, nor as potentially dangerous.

i agree with you there, but saying you "won't get a virus" if you run a linux box is not true. it's like saying that firefox is completely secure - there's far less exploits out there written for it, but it's far from the fort fucking knox of browsers

Reason for having it on a home PC? Shit, seriously when I started this I was making a statement about the shitness of Vista but I just love it. The more I learn the more I love it. I've pulled out old dead laptops that couldn't run XP and stuck Xubuntu on them and they make brilliant Internet only machines that were "dead" before. It's the developer community around Linux I love. If you love firefox over IE because of the extensibility then Linux is to Windows what Firefox is to IE.

yes, fair enough, it gives you a powerful GUI-based OS on PCs that can't run XP....but if you've got a semi-decent pc at home, i honestly can't see the point of running any flavour of linux over XP. (XP with up-to-date antivirus software, a decent firewall and a user who isn't a fucking retard, that is).

it does give you far more direct control over your computer, which some people obviously enjoy, but for me the benefits are far outweighed by the user unfriendliness

pk- wrote:it does give you far more direct control over your computer, which some people obviously enjoy, but for me the benefits are far outweighed by the user unfriendliness

I agree with a lot of what you said and up to XP I was happy with my lot. I also think it's been easier for me because Ubuntu is so stupidly easy. It's not as immediately simple as Windows and my "threee year old" comment above was a throwaway comment meant in fun. It's been a hard slog learning my way around but I am fan. I would favour it over Windows now I have done the hard work but it really ends up a matter of personal preference.

i find the user-friendliness of windows quite annoying, after you've become fully acustomed to xp, it'd be nice to be able to streamline it. xp is packed with un-necessary components that bog it down.

whereas say ubuntu, it comes about as streamlined and stripped down as it could be whilst remaining usable, then upgrading it to do specific tasks is quick and easy.

Reading back...I don't want my comments to be perceived as "I use Linux so I'm better than a Windows user" that's not the case, but for anyone curious about Ubuntu I would say it is well worth the effort and I have an Ubuntu Beginners book (can't rememeber exact title) that I'm happy to give away to the first person who asks for it.

Bloody hell. I'm on the Dubstep forum talking Linux. Shoot me.

you love it really

plus we clearly marked this thread "linux", so only the geeky are likely to read it anyways, and we love a good old hob nob about systems

I have a 866MHz computer running kubuntu linux. Works just fine and the GUI it makes it look like it is running a spiffy new OS. Not win98.

I much prefer Ubuntu, Gnome rocks. KDE does my eyes in big time, PCLinuxOS is well nice though.

what about kde does ur eyes in? surely everything is configurable (is that a word?) sooner or later...also endless lists and lines of words in a command line OS would strain your eyes more wouldn't they?

i think i could use an OS without a gui, but when drunk/tired/lazy id make endless mistakes

KDE seems a bit too fiddly to me, gnome's nice and clean!

the command line stuff doesn't bother me at all, i do most things on xp from the start/run box anyway.

i must admit it pisses me off that u can't use sudo command or have like a super-user when ur navigating around kde.

obviously ur meant to use kde mostly via konsole anyways, would still be nice to be able to click a button, password, be super user, then go merrily clicking and changing.

guiwise fluxbox ftw.

I'm a fan of the apt-get package management stuff of deb base systems. i've actually got a dedicated music production distro installed as a dual boot but as it dislikes my sound card, or at least the one I want to use, I've pretty much given up on it despite several hours of mucking about(and it seems the devs did too sometime back). it's kind of annoying that live cd versons like knoppix work with it fine but a proper version with the correct drivers installed and that can't.

^^

out of curiosity....what soundcard are you trying to use?

I have an Audiophile 192, and I'm *just* getting ALSA support. Before, I had to use a rather poorly implemented OSS driver that required me to reinstall it every 3 months...ugh.

it's an m-audio audiphile 2496. I tried both alsa and oss versions and didn't make any headway. it's recognised for midi in & out but I can't get any sound out of it so I decided to give up.

plus I just muck about musically anyway so Live and Audiomulch do me so I'm happy enough on widows with them, though I don't mind flexing my *nix muscles every now & then just to keep all the old commands alive in my brain.

Nazoreth wrote:what about kde does ur eyes in? surely everything is configurable (is that a word?) sooner or later...also endless lists and lines of words in a command line OS would strain your eyes more wouldn't they?

i think i could use an OS without a gui, but when drunk/tired/lazy id make endless mistakes

I forgot to elaborate. What I mean is I get headaches and eye strain looking at KDE, I dunno why it's like my monitors refresh rate is wanked (it isn't) or something. Gnome is a lot more easy on my eyes and I can use it with no headaches.

I prefer the more flat Windows style look any way.

Various incarnatoins of Linux since 1993 over here.
Along with OpenBSD and NetBSD, and a plethora of other "real" UN*Xes over the years - but not at home.

Fuck Linux, any Symbolics users inna house?

Just loaded Ubuntu on my home computer I'm prepared to say goodbye to mister Gates, working slick so far found all of hardware about 20x faster than windows did.

Unempty wrote:Various incarnatoins of Linux since 1993 over here.
Along with OpenBSD and NetBSD, and a plethora of other "real" UN*Xes over the years - but not at home.

Fuck Linux, any Symbolics users inna house?

haha, oh my days.

everything i said in this thread was bollocks. the 'user unfriendliness' was a barrier for all of five minutes

i love ubuntu and i'm never going back

especially as i finally got virtualbox working properly

I'd move to Linux if I could get my routers software for it.. Sucks really being left to use XP just cause of internet.

Virtual Box? Do tell, Looks like i need that.


Like I said This has overtaken my view of windows in 10 minutes so easy, fast, etc