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Or... You can have both. I satisfied my lust for power AND entertainment...

What's my secret? Simple: Two machines... I am a crafty one because I dual boot on my laptop. Lay back and be the God of BSD, or get pwned in RTCW...

We were all n00bs at one point.

I like both, and I used to have a dual boot system but my hard drive space is not enough now to have two operating systems on my computer . If I buy a new hard drive I would definitely make a dual boot system again

Well, the reason why I like *nix is the community around different distros, microsoft can't really offer anything like that. Too bad I'm still forced to use windows because of some applications (photoshop for example), but well, I don't really have anything against windows/microsoft either, just that in my opinion *nix is a better choice if you have even some kind of knowledge of computers and you do other stuff than just play with your computer :S.

I'm using gentoo myself. It's got true power. Beats out any other linux distro in my book.

I use Windows and Linux.
Windows is an OS for the people who just use computers for gameing and multimedia. 80% of the programs are compatible whit it, but there are many bugs and security holes. Windows had approximately 90% of the client operating system market.
Linux is the best OS for programming and surffing because there are not so many threats for Linux then for windows. Program compatibility is a problem at Linux but you can find a solution for all if you know where to look for it. But the biggest problem for me is that many games don't run under Linux ( so for this reason I have windows installed too.
PS Linux is FREE so you can use it and no one will knock on your door and say: Can I see you Windows license

accolade> Have you tried the GIMP ?

ultramancool> What do you call true power ???

bat wrote:Now, the problem I have with links, elinks, and lynx is that though they are text based, Microsoft inept exploder and jaws for windows (the primary windows based screen reader) work very well together in the way that jaws will read the HTML coding right from IE and I can hit one shortcut key to be zapped to the next elements on any given page like buttons, frames, form fields and so on. Any of the text based browsers take alot more scrolling and take longer to use in my opinion. Furthermore, I still haven't found a text based browser that supports java and most don't even support headings or frames which makes it a pain to read long doccuments. Anyway, I hope I got at least some of what I was trying to say across. But all this is why I still use winblows, even if it's just a virtual machine in a linux box.

Dear bat. I reckon I didn't know about jaws. I just had a (partly) visually impaired neighbor who used a kinda Braille keyboard/reader (treminal braille ?) attached to the normal keyboard and an all text browser was a very good solution then. Some time later, I was about to work for a french NGO called FIDEV working for the 'Training and Integration for the visually impaired' and knowing what FOSS programs were already able to do back then, I gave them some infos about them. Unfortunately, life didn't make it this way (I didn't work with them) but that's another story.

As for the java support, I disable it by default on Firefox. I enable it only when needed. Anyway, most of times applets are visual apps so I suppose it's not so much use unfortunately to blind people ?

Now, for speech/voice synthetizer interfaces in *nix, the parts are already here and there, for example the festival project. I think we're not very far from a full-fledged working free (as in freedom and beer) environment for visually impaired people. Have also a look at what's already done on MacOsX .. but then it's not as free as one wishes.

Bat, as a last note, if you don't know these links already, I'll point you to :

http://larswiki.atrc.utoronto.ca/wiki and the links therein, especially the Gnome and KDE Accessibility projects.

You can even improve these softwares by testing/reviewing them. See here :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Testing
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap ... suite.html

ultramancool wrote:I'm using gentoo myself. It's got true power. Beats out any other linux distro in my book.

I use gentoo too and I love it, but it's not the best for everything. Ebuilds rock, and there's awesome support in the forums and such, but some things stink. I still haven't figured out how to get my ipw2200 wireless card to work and several other things that have taken a long time to become stable on gentoo.

I use WinXP for gaming and linux for working. As many people =)

I prefer Windows. it`s cool

harshuck wrote:I haven't tried using linux yet, but they say when it comes to stability, linux is more stable than windows.

I'm using windows now, and I'm not only using it for gaming :D :roll:

I dont like windows or linux. Try BSD. I prefer OpenBSD but you might wanna start out with FreeBSD. Dont go for NetBSD cause that will take you back to the issues of linux.

harshuck wrote:I haven't tried using linux yet, but they say when it comes to stability, linux is more stable than windows.

I'm using windows now, and I'm not only using it for gaming

Give a try and have a look, after a whille ull see the difference, thats what i think.many ppl many oppinions, ull get your own soon)

Windows is my main OS - because im a gamer, but my server runs linux (ubuntu) - its really good because i can ssh into it from uni and do all my c++ work remotely (and also irc )

Windows is bad, very BAD operating system Some peoples says i love windows, but i dont understand whay they love windows ? what good u can find on windows, nothink. Just explorer.exe crash, hal.dll missing...staff like that. But linux is diferent story i love linux and KDE user interface
With windows, companys must every year buy new licence. Isnt easyer to install linux on all machines and connect to network ?