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considering linux

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TomCat44 said:
ok so what is a good reason to stay away from linux?

you won't find one because your obviously a fanboy

by the way, you know, my first post was the reason. not because i dont like it
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I'm not a fanboy. I use all three major OS's and am comfortable to do so. It is the case that I prefer using Linux when possible as I find it the most responsive and pleasant environment of the three. I would advise gamers to steer clear, but for virtually all others to at least give Linux a few weeks of trial. There are massive monetary savings to be had in using Linux across a network, and for most tasks productivity is just as good if not better under the less hardware-intensive environment.
 
Good points - FREE -fanboy supported

Bad Points - No Raid- need 2 weeks of solid reading to learn how to install drivers-

Other thoughts- You get what you pay for
 
+1 on you get what u pay for.
 
allen337 said:
Good points - FREE -fanboy supported

Bad Points - No Raid- need 2 weeks of solid reading to learn how to install drivers-

Other thoughts- You get what you pay for
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it is free and there is a lot of support for it and a lot of updates and a lot of free software. there is raid support, it is called dmraid and it isnt very difficult to setup. and i dont understand how you can say 'you get what you pay for' in this situation.
 
"Good points - FREE -fanboy supported" Well, this supports V-ZERO
 
TomCat44 said:
"Good points - FREE -fanboy supported" Well, this supports V-ZERO
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What is your problem? Just because I'm not so closed minded as you I'm immediately tarred as a fanboy. I like Windows, I like OSX, I like Linux and lean towards it overall - where's the single minded fanboyism?
 
your posts show your fanboyism.

windows>mac>linux

thats my order of best to shit.

one last thing, for the OP, stay on Windows, and you'll be better off.

v-zero, your an asshole. You called me an idiot ,and i was only trying to make a point.
 
TomCat44 said:
your posts show your fanboyism.

windows>mac>linux

thats my order of best to shit.

one last thing, for the OP, stay on Windows, and you'll be better off.

v-zero, your an asshole. You called me an idiot ,and i was only trying to make a point.
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No, you made a statement backed up with no personal experience, knowledge or proof - ergo you're an idiotic moron who can help nobody. You're a shithead, leave.
 
you both need to stop......now
 
You both stopped helping the OP after your 2nd posts, and have just turned into a couple of immature people who just keep trying to 1 up each other. You both should leave.
 
Despite the fact that I backed up my arguments? Don't tell me to leave when I can and have supplied useful information and explanations of my personal experience with Linux. I came here to help, but I cannot abide by trolls - if people hate Linux they should stay out of the Linux forum!?
 
seriously though this isnt appropriate at all you tell the op why you wouldnt if another member asked y not and it turns out you have no experiance or w/e than the OP will take that into consideration now you just scared him off and made this forum look like a bunch of 13 year old girls who just had an epiphany. Their is room for fun and debate in this forum and no one said anything about rules being to strickt but i and many others have taken it as general consensus to make this as professional a place as possible at which point neither one of you are being very professional nor informative. their may be good points in your posts but if i need to read through a paragraph of hissy fits to get it id give up after line 1.
 
v-zero said:
No, you made a statement backed up with no personal experience, knowledge or proof - ergo you're an idiotic moron who can help nobody. You're a shithead, leave.
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How do u know I have no experience? I have no knowledge, because I tried it once, and it sucks. How would I have proof?
 
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this is becoming a mistake really quicklly calm down..i dont have anything against either of you but i wont hesistate to clean this up.
 
Easy Rhino said:
it is free and there is a lot of support for it and a lot of updates and a lot of free software. there is raid support, it is called dmraid and it isnt very difficult to setup. and i dont understand how you can say 'you get what you pay for' in this situation.
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Ive tried the raid on every intel mobo ive had back to 875p, along with linux not supporting my raid it dont support-Lan-cdrom/dvdrom-wireless. When you have to edit the install to get it to see a cdrom somethings wrong. Then you edit it to make it see your raid and it dont have any options in setup for raid just choose a drive it doesnt raid them just puts the seperate. Now after 4 hours of editing everything to get linux installed guess what- no drivers now you can spend another 4 hours on each driver you want to see if you can figure out how to get it to install.Oh thats on another machine also because no internet on linux remember no lan or wireless support. But after that you have a windows 95 install thats taking up space and doesnt do anything, wait, I like win 95 better I had internet. ALLEN
 
ok I'll start over..

OP, I don't think that you should switch to linux, because it's a pain to navigate, and there are way to many versions. Also, drivers aren't easy- at all to work with (in my personal experience). These are based on ubuntu 7.something. but I would assume all the driver handling would be the same, as it's (afaik) based on one core part.
 
TomCat44 said:
I tried it once, and it sucks. How the fuck would I have proof?
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There you go, you tried it once and weren't immediately taken in by it - which distro was this and when? Linux has come a long way in the last two years.
 
v-zero said:
There you go, you tried it once and weren't immediately taken in by it - which distro was this and when? Linux has come a long way in the last two years.
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whatever this one is:
http://www.ubuntu.com/

I don't like it at all. The GUI isn't so great. But, maybe with that link on the other page, it's maybe better? I'll have to give it a try! :toast:

Hmm.. I'll have to consider re-trying linux, and maybe I can come to liking it! :)
 
i agree tom when i first started i went back to wndows because i tried ubuntu years ago..its a feature rich distro now adays but a couple years ago it was a heavy OS to elarn to use. if you ever want to try again in the future sometime on like a secondary rig or something in dual boot mode..id try suse or fedora suse before fedora though i find both equally as good suse is a little more user friendly to people who are starting.
 
Hmm..what one is the Sabayon based on? I may try that out, but I'm a linux n00b and dont know anything about it
 
haha Sabayon is its own distro....like suse fedora ubuntu gentoo...however the bare code of every sistro is called a kernal and their are only a couple of those .most distros are built off of the debian or kanoppix code base
 
TomCat44 said:
ok I'll start over..

OP, I don't think that you should switch to linux, because it's a pain to navigate, and there are way to many versions. Also, drivers aren't easy- at all to work with (in my personal experience). These are based on ubuntu 7.something. but I would assume all the driver handling would be the same, as it's (afaik) based on one core part.
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I don't know why you find it a pain to navigate, the window navigation system is very similar to Windows - I accept that the file system layout is a little less intuitive in terms of folder naming, but it's quick to pickup if you do some figuring. Admittedly drivers are less easily configured (you need to get used to command prompts (known as Terminal)), and their hard-wiring into the Kernel is difficult at times, however it is done for a good reason. The branching of drivers under Windows causes instability where in Linux the drivers have direct access to the Kernel, which in turn makes them more difficult to design but also more stable and highly efficient. What's more the now more common availability of drivers for Linux made by the manufacturers is adding to the stability and usability of the driver structure.

I apologize for being rude in my earlier posts Tom, I'm an easily irritated person and wasn't in a particularly good mood - I do stand by my right to defend my position though.
 
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