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QUOTE(Galahad @ Apr 10 2008, 06:58 PM) Well, the stuff I hear about wine were not quite true, possibly because of DirectX... I attempted to play 3 games, a logical ones, that probably use DX, and wound up with nothing... So, until I try to install DX on wine, and then try those games, I guess it's a bust... The lates version of wine, the one I installed, supposedly has support for nat... read more.
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What Made You Switch To Linux?

iibbssee
I first tried Linux a few years ago, not because I was completely against Windows or anything like that, but just because I had some free time on my hands. I started off with Mandrake 9.0 which was very user friendly and Windows-like. After reading through a bunch of message boards and learning which distros are good for what, I soon realized my current distro was great for Linux noobs. So then I decided to try something a little more advanced like Slackware which I knew had a steep learning curve.

Since then I've been using Slackware as my main OS and couldn't be happier. Of course somethings are a pain in the *bottom* to configure, but that;s Slack for you. If it ain't hard, then you won't learn anything from it.

That's my story, I basically started to learn Linux because I was bored.

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rvalkass
Two of the four computers in my house run Linux. The first was my laptop, which I put Kubuntu on. I switched mainly because I wanted to see what Linux was all about, and I liked the idea of everything being free, in both senses of the word. I pretty much stuck with Kubuntu until 7.10 came out, which failed miserably to upgrade, so I replaced it with the KDE version of Linux Mint. It's based on Ubuntu, but has some different packages available and a few bugfixes.

The second computer is an ancient desktop (around 8 years old now) that recently had the hard disc die. As I didn't have a Windows CD to hand, and didn't feel like buying one, I put Kubuntu on there. That computer is used mainly by my parents, and they say that it is much easier to use than XP, runs much faster, looks much better, and the software is a lot more stable. They are not computer-literate at all. Things they wouldn't have had a hope of doing in XP (ripping audio CDs, downloading updates, even installing new software) they can now do with ease.

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babyboomer
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it is much easier to use than XP, runs much faster, looks much better, and the software is a lot more stable


Do we really need any other reason to switch to linux smile.gif

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dre
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Do we really need any other reason to switch to linux

Games would be nice. Well, more of them, at least.

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iGuest
Replying to dre

I agree that games would be nice in Linux. Games like Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell would be nice on Linux.

-reply by Devon Day a.K.A. Madkid

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Galahad
I too kind of started playing with linux out of boredom and sheer curiosity... I started years back, with Red Hat 6.0, then 7.2, then made a little pause in linuxes laugh.gif I then tried Ubuntu 5.04, then another pause, then 6.06, and now I'm a happy user of Ubuntu 7.10... Since most of what I do is programming, linux is a great OS for me, stable, and has everything you need on your hands... If you know how to find it smile.gif

In reply to games... There are a ton of games for linux, mostly FPS, based on Unreal engine, and some others... Linux was more of a pro user OS, and as such, doesn't have a great variety of games to choose from, but the list is rather big... I just finished downloading Americas Army game for linux, and will try it on... There are also RPG's, Strategies, and other games... What I noticed lacking are driving simulation games, but hey, nothing is perfect.... And there's always wine biggrin.gif I hear that the lates version can run pretty much anything windows you put into it...

 

 

 


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dre
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And there's always wine biggrin.gif I hear that the lates version can run pretty much anything windows you put into it...

BF2 still crashes for me, but I wouldn't mind playing some recent games. I realize there's loads of games that are free for linux out there, but they just don't really fit my style. I tried out Truecombat: Elite the other day, not very noob friendly, got pwnd with a 1-21 or so k/d, but it's one of the few games that I can stand playing more than 15 mins. that's free.

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osknockout
I started to play around with Linux because I was bored one day. So the genius osknockout decided to install Slackware as his n00b distribution. Wasn't the greatest idea in the world and I stopped using Linux again for like two years. Then came across a copy of Knoppix, decided linux was cool again, installed mepis (debian/ubuntu derivative) and gentoo then sabayon (gentoo derivative). Now I have a very modified ubuntu system.

Games in linux.
I see one of three possibilities:
1. Linux gets native Direct X support
2. Some avenging Microsoft ex-programmer puts Direct X support in wine.
3. Everyone finally realizes that Direct X's API is inferior to OpenGL's and starts coding in it.

I don't see any of that happening soon, so I'm going to have to say that the majority of the cool games that use direct x won't be coming too well for linux soon. dry.gif

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dave2win
Switching to linux has many reasons. I first tried Ubuntu Breezy Badger ( that's Ver 5 if I'm not wrong). It was some 3 years back. Now I've both Linux & Win XP on my box. It really suits me. When I need to Network related stuff I switch to Linux & whiler playing games I'm in win. I also hope that Direct X Api s get incorporated soon within wine. Linux gives it's users a great level of Customizability. Also it can run directly from CD in case of Some Live Versions. I think Gaming in Linux will grow in very near future cause many noobs are getting extremely interested in Linux. As a result I hope someo0ne will code the API for Linux as well and we have our vwery old wine which will do Win emulation for us in Linux. Currently I'm using Fedora Core 8. It's great & also runs faster than any other Linux Versions. It also installs very fast on my PC. While Redhat 9 took sopmething around 2 hrs to install the Core 8 installed and was up and running with all settings modified to my needs and with my day to day neeeded softs in just a few over 30 mins.


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Hats Off to Linux

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Galahad
Well, the stuff I hear about wine were not quite true, possibly because of DirectX... I attempted to play 3 games, a logical ones, that probably use DX, and wound up with nothing... So, until I try to install DX on wine, and then try those games, I guess it's a bust... The lates version of wine, the one I installed, supposedly has support for native windows api, meaning you can put a dll in wine's virtual directory, and the software should work... We'll see smile.gif

As for games, I see that FPS's are most dominant for linux... And so, I wound up playing Americas Army, that runs pretty smoothly and nicely with OpenGL... Too bad they halted development for linux...

Hopefully, we won't have wine one day, as windtendo won't exist anymore biggrin.gif

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QUOTE(Galahad @ Apr 10 2008, 06:58 PM) *
Well, the stuff I hear about wine were not quite true, possibly because of DirectX... I attempted to play 3 games, a logical ones, that probably use DX, and wound up with nothing... So, until I try to install DX on wine, and then try those games, I guess it's a bust... The lates version of wine, the one I installed, supposedly has support for native windows api, meaning you can put a dll in wine's virtual directory, and the software should work... We'll see smile.gif

As for games, I see that FPS's are most dominant for linux... And so, I wound up playing Americas Army, that runs pretty smoothly and nicely with OpenGL... Too bad they halted development for linux...

Hopefully, we won't have wine one day, as windtendo won't exist anymore biggrin.gif


I switched to linux because I really wanted to try something different I was getting really tired of windows. I'm not ANTI-windows but Linux just simply offers more variety and customization!

The best thing with linux is that it is FREE!!!


Jesse

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williamm
I like linux for some reasons, such as its free, it has a great outlook. Reminds me a lot of the mac, of the skins they have. Just things like that its pretty nice. Its not so complicated as windows is sometimes. User friendly. Very easy to handle and to install. I think the installing of it is amazing how simple it is. I would recommend it to anyone that wants to you know try other things that windows.

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williamm
QUOTE(Galahad @ Jul 18 2008, 11:01 PM) *
Did anyone mention the ability to completely customize your system? And did I mention I just LOVE Linux?

I just started learning Perl, and already I'm writing insane scripts, that actually work fast, and get the job done... That's right... I wrote a simple email filter for Evolution mail, in Perl, and it works... No learning ability, just simple straightforward filtering, based on rules, black- and white-lists... Also, an email checker... Sometimes I just want to see if I have emails, and who from... Piece of cake, I check all of my accounts, and get a number of new emails, and if I want, sender and subject...

Yeah, you could do that on Wintendo too, but it would cost you much more, and would take much more time... One just has to love the command line smile.gif

Khm... What? blink.gif What's a lot? Any company that wants to increase their profit, switch from Wintendo to one of Linux distros... When you know Linux, you're a guru, when you know Wintendo, you're a user... See the difference? And I wouldn't call Wintendo universal - I'd call it... Hmm... No, I wouldn't call it at all... And that gaming thing? Well, believe it or not, the world doesn't revolve around games...
Wintendo is hard for newbies too... Because you are used to Wintendo, you claim Linux is hard... Yeah, right... I thought that too... Until I tried... And guess what, Linux actually makes a lot of things EASIER than in Wintendo...

Gnome or KDE or other WMs are also straightforward... And explained... Perhaps even better than Wintendo... Synaptic (for example) enables one to install/uninstall EVERY piece of software there is... And no registry to be broken...
I'll agree with rvalkass on this one... I didn't have the need for drivers for any of my hardware - not my TV/FM card, my SBLive, network card,USB external hard drives, card readers, monitor, graphics cards, and the rest... All worked after installation... Only drivers I had to download were generic drivers for USB webcams... And it took me like 3 minutes...

Yeah, wobbly windows are dumb... But what about a rotating desktop? Isn't it coooool... xd.gif Ok, let's get serious... Wintendo doesn't give you 100% liberty to cusomize... Gnome and KDE do... And if you install Beryl or some other effects engine... It get's even better... Wintendo will NEVER be able to have rotating desktop cube, running on 1GB RAM machine, with 64MB GFX card... I can bet on it...
Yeah, Wintendo doesn't load bunch of fonts into RAM memory, it doesn't have registry to fill up a little more of RAM, and also doesn't have unneccessary services running in the backround, and doesn't allocate 20% of resources to spy on you... Oh, wait, that's not right, that's Linux wink.gif
I'm still trying to get my head around this one - and I can't... Wow... Windows is so cool... Yeah you have to pay for it, and have to pay for much of its software, but you get cool freebies - viruses... Jeez... You like viruses? I'll send you a few, to play around for a while xd.gif... Seriousely, dude, this is not an argument, this is... I don't know what this is... As someone above said, prevention is better than a cure... It's like you said "There's a cool fancy restaurant, that charges $15 for a glass of water, but I just have to watch for the germs on the glasses, They've got a bunch of them, some of them nasty. But even if I catch a germ, I get to pay another $15, and they cure me. Sure there is some chance I'll lose an arm, but hey, it's a fancy restaurant. I just have to be smart, and avoid really nasty bugs, like AIDS and stuff. I could buy a microscope and check for those bugs - that would be top smart"...

Again, I'm not on a mission to convert anyone, but when I see a list like this, that is not based on real experience, but more on heresay, it ticks me off... Dude, if you're happy with Wintendo, keep using it, and good luck with it...


Hey can you tell me where is a good place for me to learn Perl?

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xpress
Just To Test Which Is Best. I am a Windows XP user for 4 years and still using it.
And running Ubuntu Linux and XP in dual booting mode. Some of the reasons for
using linux include its free availability, its open source community, and free of
viruses. Plus a large amount of applications are available for free of charge on
Linux like Gimp image editing tool, Open Office etc... and are built in in linux.

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curtis07
In academy, my physics teacher was also the IT administrator for the school. He was always into open source stuff, and had some advanced server stuff goin' on with Linux. We had Windows NT 4.0 (I think) and he wanted to try something new he'd been researching for years. He built a rather nice server and put Mandrake Linux (before Mandriva, back when Mandrake was better than many alternitives) on it. He made all the computers on campus into thinclients and waited to see our reaction. Most people were quite noob-like and asked what was wrong with the computers. I heard wonderfully hilarious comments like, "you deleted the Internet!!!" The more nerdy types (myself included) found the Firefox icon and the OpenOffice suite and set to schoolwork immediately. Then we'd go through the KDE games. I thought it was awesome to have such a nice-looking desktop environment. I was very impressionable and open to new operating systems, and Linux just reached out and grabbed me. I still use Windows XP for many things (too much software that I need). I also have a Mac, which is also quite nice. I rarely use Linux, but only because both my computers have weird incompatible hardware. My next build will feature Linux, though.

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