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acutally I use linux for everything except gaming and it is more comfortable because of the really nice shell.
You have for everything what you want to do the choice between a lot of programs which are all for free!
It has a lot of advantages

daddy2k wrote:acutally I use linux for everything except gaming and it is more comfortable because of the really nice shell.
You have for everything what you want to do the choice between a lot of programs which are all for free!
It has a lot of advantages

Here Here. Though another thing you can do if you have the knowhow is to run VMWare on top of your linux distro. I am totally blind and windows is still the more blind accessible for things like web browsing. However, I hate running windows as a rule and am pissed off that I have to use it at all. So, I came up with a workable sollution. I am running debian on what used to be my main windows box. So, to use windows, I installed VMware workstation, made an XP virtual machine, installed my screen reader and now I can use windows but with a linux base. Thus, all windows traffic goes through double nat before it can get in or out to the net thus making it more secure, and I can always switch to another virtual console to do everything else but web browsing This also has the added benafit of the box being up all the time, and you never have to reboot, just hit the restart button in VMWaare to reboot windows. Only drawback is that you need a serious beast to run a fully functional VM, especially when it comes to gaming Also, you should look at wine/cedega which is a program in linux that allows you to play many windows based games by emulating a microsoft environment. Before I learned how to use VI, I was using wine to run MS Office.

right now, Windows XP Pro is my main OS on all of my systems.

I've also got FreeBSD on my file server and as a alternate OS on my main machine, i have Debian

Well guys I gotta say I just installed linux a few days ago,
So for those newbies outhere I can tell you it looks awesome.
The version I installed is ubuntu; some friend received a bunch of installation cds from that... comminity. This Ubuntu as far as I know gets a new version every six months, and you get support and actualizations from them all the time. (You can get actualization from them for 18 months)

It has everything integrated, you have the good opposite of the whole windows office, firefox web browser, gaim(msn, yahoo, icq, etc in one single app =) ), also bittorrent, x-irc, and more, I'm just exploring and learning more about it.
Once again its awesome and off course free =) oh and the installation, if I did it, man, it's easy =) any questions I could help you =)

oscuro wrote:It has everything integrated, you have the good opposite of the whole windows office, firefox web browser, gaim(msn, yahoo, icq, etc in one single app =) ), also bittorrent, x-irc, and more, I'm just exploring and learning more about it.
Once again its awesome and off course free =) oh and the installation, if I did it, man, it's easy =) any questions I could help you =)

i know you're a bit of a Linux newbie, but MOST distributions do come with all that stuff and some come with a lot more (enough stuff to fit on a DVD), i really like Debian because there's something called Apt-Get that, if you want a program, you don't have to Google for it and do command line stuff to extract/install it, all you do is run the "package manager" search for the program you want or browse for it by category, mark it for installation, and it runs a batch installer and it's all very easy

For me, the answer is both. Right now I'm dualbooting Windows XP and then Fedora 5. In my case, I needed to compile certain things and have the compatibility that linux offers, and plus, its free. Windows is also insecure as sin, but oh well.

I dualboot with Ubuntu (running XFCE4) and Windows XP. I use Windows only for games, or for burning Dreamcast backups. Linux is used for everything else. Since I am not a hardcore PC gamer, I'm almost always using Linux.
I recommend that people give Linux a chance if they have the time. It's not so hard to use, once you learn how to use it. The command line is very friendly compared to Windows's ugly command prompt or MSDOS, if you are using a non-NT based OS.
And yes, Linux has many free programs you can enjoy. No pirating required. Completely free.
Just go try it out!

jdhore wrote:

oscuro wrote:It has everything integrated, you have the good opposite of the whole windows office, firefox web browser, gaim(msn, yahoo, icq, etc in one single app =) ), also bittorrent, x-irc, and more, I'm just exploring and learning more about it.
Once again its awesome and off course free =) oh and the installation, if I did it, man, it's easy =) any questions I could help you =)

i know you're a bit of a Linux newbie, but MOST distributions do come with all that stuff and some come with a lot more (enough stuff to fit on a DVD), i really like Debian because there's something called Apt-Get that, if you want a program, you don't have to Google for it and do command line stuff to extract/install it, all you do is run the "package manager" search for the program you want or browse for it by category, mark it for installation, and it runs a batch installer and it's all very easy

At this point, I feel I should point out that debian and ubuntu are basically the same. This means that apt is part of ubuntu as well as debian and maybe kubuntu as well, but then it might be based off knoppix as well.

You're wrong when you say they are "the same".

Ubuntu may be based on Debian, but it is meant more for Desktop users. This is reflected in the updated repositories, the use of X.org rather than XFree86, and the use of more packages installed by default than Debian to set a new user up with a bunch of programs. You cannot say they are the same. Debian's repositories are old and outdated. You'd have to go to the unstable repositories to get the new stuff. Ubuntu's stable repositories are updated more often. Also, Debian uses XFree86, while Ubuntu uses X.org (although X.org is available for Debian in the unstable repositories).

If you are a home user and you want an easy to use Linux distribution, Ubuntu is a way better choice over regular Debian.

I love *nix. I'll never use Windows.

DjDarkman wrote:This is what I hate ,everybody is scared of that big dark thing called the command line enviorment (CLI) ,but why?why are people who know the alphabet scared of writing a few words and numbers?

I`ll never understand these thing ,why are people afraid to learn something.

It's not fear, it's lazyness.

Since i'm more of a consule gamer, i don't have the need for windows any where...
When it comes to stability, i would prefer BSD.
For general use, i love Gentoo, but it's nor really a distro for a first try...
I would say ubuntu is the best choice here, though linspire is grate for a start, but then you'll get stuck on that start... can't really learn a lot from it...
Redhat, CentOS, WhiteBox, Fedora... i don't know... i just don't like them...
And Mandriva is way to heavy for constant usage... almost as heavy as XP...

Windows is user friendly but sometimes annoying.. nice graphics... linux is hard to learn but is more stable

Since when is linux hard to learn?

Prefer using Linux ...
tho harder to use than windoze but its stable and OPEN SOURCE!

I post found a year ago from some forum:
"Linux is for noobs and Windows is for l337"