Man I love linux!


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Mac OSX does a pretty damn good job at making the Unix envirement easy. With OSX you get the best of both worlds. The ease of use of Windows with the security & stability of Unix/BSD.

I couldn't agree with you more :-) Apple has obviously invested a great deal in R&D for Mac OSX, what I specifically like about OSX's UNIX underpinnings is they take what's given, then make it even better, it's a wonderful OS. :blush: However, one thing Apple still hasn't managed to suss is a decent package manager, it really bugs me, a nice %emerge -uav world would be lovely in OSX ;-)

i have used all 3 systems (mac unix/linux and windows) and to tell you the truth windws is for beginers, mac is if you want too switch to *nix, then linux then the mighty unix ... (or so my love with unix started after i figured out one day at my workplace that windows wants to outsmart me ... welll actually was just a lot of free time, quake and payed well)

  • 3 weeks later...

I'm at the stage now where I'm considering formatting my Windows partition.

Using Gentoo, I have everything working and can do everything I did in Windows just as easily.

Full 3d Acceleration using a X800 (glxinfo | grep direct - Direct Rendering: Yes!).

ALSA, Dmix, GStreamer all working perfectly.

Gnome 2.12.

Office Suite? Openoffice 2 (Full suport for MSOffice files)

Photoshop? The Gimp

IM? Gaim (MSN, AOL, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber)

Watching DVD's? VLC

MP3, WMA? XMMS

Torrents? Azureus

Browser? Firefox 1.5 (mplayerplug-in, flash)

Email? Thinderbird 1.5

Games? NATIVE Quake 4, UT2004, Enemy Territory, Neverwinter Nights, Doom 3. MAME, Snes, N64 Emulators.

I can rip CD's, Burn CD/DVD etc

I run two console commands per day to keep my system perfectly up-to-date (emerge --sync, emerge --update --deep world)

The ONLY thing I don't have on Linux that I use Windows for is decent MMORPG's, if there were decent MMORPG's on Linux I'd have no use for Windows at all.

One more Linux fan here

installed Ubuntu 5.10 just 3 days back

and Heck yes those upgrades rock man

most of them are small in size

took me a good 2 hrs installing opera (a complete linux noob here)

just yesterday configured my tuner card and the bluetooth dongle

and ever since then there is no looking back onto windows

(dual boot Ubuntu 5.10 and Win Xp Pro)

havent touched windows since 3 days

all HAil Thy Penguin :punk:

  • 2 weeks later...

I have Mac Osx and windows in addition to those i installed Ubuntu few days back, my previous experience with linux wasn't so good, i couldnt stand to use it and at the end i always going back to windows, i never able to set up things the way i want at that time, but few days back i made the decision and resized one of my partition and installed ubuntu, couldnt been hapier everything works :) well after doing some configuration :p its been 3-4 days and i neither loged in osx nor windows so far so good :)

I'm loving Linux too. I have just today got my Arch Linux set up so it's usable with Gnome etc. There are a few things I need to sort out, like the fonts in web pages looking absolutely crap. I got the hang of Linux pretty quickly. The biggest hurdle I found was grasping how partitions are mounted in Linux but it's pretty easy really.

One of the best things I have found is that I hardly ever need to reboot. I installed the nforce drivers, then x, then the nvidia drivers all without rebooting. That would have needed 3 reboots in windows.

Installing stuff is really easy too. In Arch, I just type pacman -S something into the terminal and it downloads it, installs it and resolves any dependancies.

The ONLY thing I don't have on Linux that I use Windows for is decent MMORPG's, if there were decent MMORPG's on Linux I'd have no use for Windows at all.

MMORPG's eh?? Cedega is your friend :) World of Warcraft works perfectly (or so I hear, I'm not a big gamer) and so does City of Heroes. As I said I'm not a huge gamer but with Cedega plenty of MMORPG's work fine, and I'm sure more will come with time :D

I'm finding myself using linux almost 85% of the time now, even though my windows hardware is much nicer. Oh, the chair at my linux pc is nicer too though :p.

I like it because the operating system doesn't try to hide how things happen from me. It just comes out and tells me whats going on.

Plus the custumization rocks.

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