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I'm an amateur in computers. I gained an computer this year and it comes with WINDOWS XP. But my friend told me that the Linux is better than Windows. Is it true?? |
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What do you mean by "better"? If you want to learn and not install Linux, I would recommend getting any of the live CD's. Knoppix is good, SuSE has a live CD, Mepix, etc. There are quite a few live cd distros. Then, you can decide for yourself which is "better", what ever that means.
I'm an amateur in computers. I gained an computer this year and it comes with WINDOWS XP. But my friend told me that the Linux is better than Windows. Is it true??
I agree with SweetLou-- try out a livecd (Knoppix is nice) and see if it suits you. My home servers all run Debian right now, I might try Gentoo sometime. My main computer, though, has XP on it because of compatibility (my wireless card isn't supported in Linux), support, and my family would get mad when trying to use my computer if they were lost. I'm thinking of using Mepis or similar some time when I don't have wireless internet on this computer.
linux is more for experienced users, it's not easy to use, install software is a little bit difficult... but it's safer though....
while windows... every body knows how to use it.... as a good learning curve... and so on... i prefer xp....
Hey, you can also try the Ubuntu live n installation cds (the live cds will let you try linux without installing anything.)
i am currently using windows only for games and a program or two i could get to work with wine (windows emulator)..... if you want to have just a desktop machine, try mandrake. its easy to install n maintain. good also for entry level users.... good luck
I'm using Windows XP and SuSE 9.2 Linux
Dual booting because games dont run on linux... there is a program called cedega that claims to run them on linux... Linux rules dudes, and if you havent tried it, its time to. Its a real OS... Come on game companies, get with it and produce games for linux and i will be happy... that way i will leave xp to burn :twisted: Latest Entries
I've used both windows and linux based operating systems. Windows is more user friendly but it has a lot of troubles. In other words windows can be quite a headache. While Linux is a bit more dificult to adjust to, its safer and does not backfire like windows does... but most of todays aplications are design for windows.
QUOTE(Wired2k7 @ Dec 4 2007, 07:35 PM)  It depends on your level of computer experience. Windows looks better than some linux distributions, but can be a major resource hog, and usually comes pre-installed with a load of shareware rubbish that takes up way too much space. It has a nice GUI (Graphical User Interface), but with all those images takes up more memory than the simple Windows Classic theme. Windows is by far the most compatible platform, and most things are designed for windows, but, unfortunately, this includes viruses. Windows has an incredible amount of viruses available, and they are so easy to get its untrue. Linux is for more experienced computer users, and can be a lot harder to set up than Windows. When I tried to set up linux running by side with my XP, I accidentally erased all of my C Drive, including all of the factory settings, only to find out that I was meant to set up a separate hard drive partition for linux to work. And then Ubuntu (the linux distro that I chose) didn't recognise any of my wireless drivers, so I didn't have the internet. Luckily my laptop came with a Windows XP install CD, so I could fresh install that, but it didn't include any drivers or programs, so I had to find all of the drivers on an application CD with the worst folder tree ever... the names gave no clue as to what was inside, and there were multiple drivers for the same thing, so choosing it was a chore. If you aren't on a budget, then I would recommend getting a mac, it runs of the linux kernel, but is also optimized so that it can run Mac OS and Windows side by side, so imo that would be your best bet if you can afford it. Yeah, that's truth. But the Linux based systems or distributions (cause the OS is not Linux, only the core's name is Linux, but most people are saying "The OS Linux") are more stable for server purposes. Also for PC you use only for writing applications, documents, using the Internet for basic intentions, you would be happier to use some Linux-distribution like Ubuntu or SuSE. But if your main goal is gaming... Then I could recommend Windows XP  Although there are many ways to run Win aps under Linux distro (like Wine) you will get the most of their performance on Windows.
It depends on your level of computer experience.
Windows looks better than some linux distributions, but can be a major resource hog, and usually comes pre-installed with a load of shareware rubbish that takes up way too much space. It has a nice GUI (Graphical User Interface), but with all those images takes up more memory than the simple Windows Classic theme. Windows is by far the most compatible platform, and most things are designed for windows, but, unfortunately, this includes viruses. Windows has an incredible amount of viruses available, and they are so easy to get its untrue. Linux is for more experienced computer users, and can be a lot harder to set up than Windows. When I tried to set up linux running by side with my XP, I accidentally erased all of my C Drive, including all of the factory settings, only to find out that I was meant to set up a separate hard drive partition for linux to work. And then Ubuntu (the linux distro that I chose) didn't recognise any of my wireless drivers, so I didn't have the internet. Luckily my laptop came with a Windows XP install CD, so I could fresh install that, but it didn't include any drivers or programs, so I had to find all of the drivers on an application CD with the worst folder tree ever... the names gave no clue as to what was inside, and there were multiple drivers for the same thing, so choosing it was a chore. If you aren't on a budget, then I would recommend getting a mac, it runs of the linux kernel, but is also optimized so that it can run Mac OS and Windows side by side, so imo that would be your best bet if you can afford it.
i prefer windows xp over every other operating system and the reason why is because
i have used it for all of my life and i don't know how to install any other operating systems my friends tell me that linux is good though
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