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I've heard about Linux on Tech TV and was wanting to know why would you want to use Linux over Windows?
Freedom to do what you want with the OS. And not be bound to what ever rule that bill g comes up with this week. I am going to linux hopefully by years end. Good luck on your transformation as well
Ron
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1.Stability.
I have been using Linux for 11 months and have not had even one hard shutdown.
2.Security.
Linux does not come with spyware installed and irremovable.
Linux has few viruses.
Bugs are fixed FAST, not covered up or ignored.3.Mine.
Linux allows me to be in charge of my PC. I do not need anyones permission to install it, reinstall it or use it.
I don't have to beg permission over a phone to reinstall if I upgrade my motherboard.
I do not have to give someone else permission to add or remove software from my machine through some draconian EULA.
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Currently, Linux gives the "non-pro" desktop GUI user inferior content and function -- and many more headaches compared to M$. Windows is simply a better value now. I earn a living on WinME and respect it. But now is NOT tomorrow, and M$ & pals are squeezing down on the users desktop/Web both in real cost and in options to do as you please with your own equipment. This is noted in previous posts above. Meanwhile, Linux improves ... more useful, more powerful for JOE_"Lusr". Two years down-the-pike Linux may be the better value for all but the TV/braindead crowd. So best to start learning : BTW: prolly Mandrake is your best bet for starts. Have modest expectations, months worth of unhurried patience and drink good bourbon.
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The difference between the headaches that Windows and Linux give "Non pro" users, is that the Linux headaches can be avoided by learning something new, whereas with Windows, you can only learn to put up with them.
Computing with Linux is fun, something that can't be said for Windows.
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My first installation of Linux started out with RedHat 5.1. Switched back to Windoze, and now I'm back again with RedHat 7.3.
I've run dualboot for quite som time, but now I only run Linux. For me the greatest advantage of running Linux is that the user learns about computers in a different way... Surely I have to admit that there is som difficulty in the beginning to leran Linux, but tha number of forums on the net are not just this one...
Since I deleted my Win-installation I've discovered only two drawbacks. PhotoShop and Visio can't easily be run in Linux. Sure, there's Gimp but it doesn't have the same powers of PhotoShop, and Visio... well there are, I know, a couple alternative to Visio but still I find Visio better.
Someone said: "If you can't do it in Linux it's either impossible to create such a program or you really don't need such program."
If you want to test Linux there are different ways of doing this without removing your Win-installation:
1) Dualboot - means that you will have two operating systems physically on your disk/s. Advantages with this is that it is possible to get the files from your Win-disk to the Linux-disk. Drawback: The other way isn't as simple.
2) VMWare - a program you install inside your Win-installation and you will get a virtual machine in which you can install almost any OS. Positive with this solution is that you can at any time just delete the file containing the guest-OS. Drawbacks: Speed of the PC and Win doesn't do too well, but you can use this just fo trying Linux.That's my essay =)
//Jonas
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Everybody is saying linux is free but believe me once everybody switches to linux i am sure it will be L$ coming in mind. Nothing is free in life especially in business world... if given free there is always an intention....
I am using windows XP, mdk, redhat & suse in one HDD and system. Windoze got it own advantages and disadvantages and it goes to same for linux. I am not against linux neither windows. I enjoy both worlds or :) OS. I am master of both operating system so i dont damn choose with is better but which is easy to get and crack....all microsoft oses or softwares is free.. so enjoy it rather than condemn it and someday linux starts to charges ... it goes the same..someone will accidently start another new OS...maybe ME .... :)
Sorry guys .. (am i right???)
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wth,
Bgate, you silly crack head ;)
that’s the lamest thing I have ever heard..
There is no way that somebody would charge for linux, CUZ
1) the kernel was made under the free software license, and that fact can't be changed :P
2) linux, and all its softwareZ isn't made by one person(s) or company, its made by a whole community of ppl and.... companies?
L-I-N-U-X--I-S--F-R-E-E--F-O-R-E-V-E-R
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I love Linux, but have one *big* gripe.
Why can't you cut/paste between applications? This is a serious flaw, and something Micro$oft OSs are quite good at. If I receive an article for my newsletter in an e-mail's text I'd like to be able to copy it rather than re-type.
Wouldn't recommend it to non-techies with little time to learn things either... recomping a kernel in order to install a Modem driver is something that even I (after 15 years working in IT) find daunting.
Sean
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@
Sean Millerwhy cant u copy/paste between apps? dont u have a mouse? *hrhr*
i guess u mean files huh?
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Just to elaborate on what Archangel wrote, there's also another way to try out Linux.
There are several Live CD distributions out there my favourite being Knoppix (see: Google). With a live cd the os boots/runs off of the cd with no installation to your hard drive (w/appropriate BIOS settings). Knoppix runs great w/128+ MB of ram. Also makes a great rescue cd.
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Sean,
It is easy to cut/paste between applications. In
the first application and highlight what you want.
Go to the second application and hit the center
mouse button. If you only have a 2 button
mouse press both button at the same time.
This emulates the 3rd button.
That act of high lighting the text automatically
puts it into the clip board. Clicking the center
mouse button pastes it.
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I shall try that when I get home. I only have two mouse buttons -- didn't realise you needed three... will be chuffed to bits to be able to cut/paste.
Do mice normally have three buttons? My PC isn't that old...
Sean
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You can use klipper to cut and paste with kde
it also remembers what you have copied useful
for going back to an old copy that you did earlier
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Many people who shelled out $200 to $300 for Windows XP were shocked when they wiped out everything on their hard drive, installed XP, then found out they no longer had a word processing program to use. MS Works often comes preinstalled on a new computer, but it's not included with a bare operating system. A Linux installation often includes an entire office suite, so you can start working on it without worrying about what to install next.
I wouldn't be without Windows on my PC, because of all the software I already own and enjoy, but Linux gets better every year, while Microsoft's licensing gets more and more restrictive.
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If you don't have 3 mouse buttons the 3rd
button can usually be emulated by pressing
both button at the same time.
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