[poll] Dual Booting?


  

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  1. 1. [poll] Dual Booting?

    • 100% Linux, baby!
      16
    • 90% Linux, 10% Microsoft
      14
    • 50% Linux, 50% Microsoft
      18
    • 10% Linux, 90% Microsoft
      24
    • 100% Microsoft (must have gotten lost in the wrong forum) ;)
      24


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I have been 100% Linux at home for just a bit over a year, and have not looked back!

Just wondering where everyone else here stands... :D

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For regular applications such as image editing/word/web browsing/etc, Linux does fine. But I'm a big PC gamer and I also use Rhapsody, and I doubt wine supports it (I'll probably try soon).

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I was 100% a while ago, but now I'm 50/50 because my university has me use some stuff that only works on Windows, and also my DiNovo keyboard had me in 100% Windows for a while, but now if I can figure out how to get it in bluetooth mode in Linux I'll be set on that (although I do have it in USB mode right now) and maybe during the summer I'll be 100% Linux again (although I did buy Visual Studio .NET so I'll have to tinker with that, but might get a laptop so I'll be 100% on one or the other :) ).

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Dual booting with SuSE 9.0 and Windows XP Professional. I would use Linux A LOT more but my Centrino needs some linux drivers :(. I know there are some tools (ndiswrapper, driver loader) but I'm too much of a noob to figure them out.

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About 90% linux. I still use windows not because I have to but because I want to. But Most time spent in windows is done with bb4win shell or Litestep :woot: .

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will install linux this weekend. i'll use it for programming mainly. my major concern is dvd authoring (don't think you can do that easily in linux) and drawing (using tablet, not sure if i can even use it). but i would expect 80-90% of time i'll be in linux.

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Glad to see that the highest poll is the last one ;)

LOL

The world is, after all, around 90% Windows on the desktop! ;)

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Question, I am bored tonight so I may install linux on a spare drive that I have...

Which linux OS offers the best installing of apps? Like those that download everything whenever it is needed by an app or something like that...? I'm a n00b at linux so I have no idea lol :p

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Question, I am bored tonight so I may install linux on a spare drive that I have...

Which linux OS offers the best installing of apps? Like those that download everything whenever it is needed by an app or something like that...? I'm a n00b at linux so I have no idea lol :p

Well, if you use Gentoo or Debian system, those are effortless to install and update new software.

If you use Fedora (formerly RedHat Linux), you are good to go, if you stick ot the RPMs packaged for Fedora.

Same with other versions.

There is also Ximian Red Carpet that is a great service to keep up to date without a lot of effort.

There will be TONS of apps on the CDs. The biggest area where Linux is currently lacking is games, so if you are a gamer, you will probably find yourself booting into Windows for those.

The biggest challenge in learning Linux is unlearning Windows. It is really true! But, once you get past that point, it really grows on you. :yes:

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Yeah, I don't want to use red hat or mandrake, was a pain trying get apps to work because x and y dependency was needed and they were hard to find online..

I'll look into it more though, I think I need some blank cd-r's first as I may be out of those :(

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Yeah, I don't want to use red hat or mandrake, was a pain trying get apps to work because x and y dependency was needed and they were hard to find online..

I'll look into it more though, I think I need some blank cd-r's first as I may be out of those :(

You don't need to burn CDRs to install Linux. At least for several versions of Linux, anyhow.

You just save the .iso images to a ext3 (Linux) or a FAT (Windows) partition, and you can point your Linux installer to your images on your hard drive! :cool:

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Yeah, I don't want to use red hat or mandrake, was a pain trying get apps to work because x and y dependency was needed and they were hard to find online..

yum and urpmi help that now, it's not what it used to be.

I'm in Linux 10%, Windows 90%. Just too much software to replace with a 56k modem so I stick to what I already have.

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yum and urpmi help that now, it's not what it used to be.

I'm in Linux 10%, Windows 90%. Just too much software to replace with a 56k modem so I stick to what I already have.

don't forget the apt-get and synaptic combo...worked flawlessly for me for a LONG while (till I installed a different distro...cuz I like to do that once in a while)

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I've been 100% Linux on my desktop for about 9 months now. I still have my Win2K partition, but I haven't booted it in that time. The only app I can't run on Linux that I really need is Macromedia Director. Flash and Photoshop run great under Wine. I have a Dell WinXP Laptop that I use now for anything I need to do in Director or Flash, but I do all my Photoshop work in Linux.

The only games I play are RtCW and RtCW:ET, both of which have native Linux versions :D .

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What's this Windows you speak of?

I have not used Windows on my computer since of last winter when I switched to Gentoo. Hmm...I guess I used it for about a week when I got broadband, just to test somethings, but that doesn't count, does it?

I love all the apps for Linux and I have an Xbox for games.

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