How many of you would use Linux if you know it does all job you need

[artik]

Interesting question:

How many of you would use Linux if you know it does all job you need?

From what I can see today Linux is not less user friendly then Windows (and I'd said even more).

For someone who dosn't have experience with computers working with linux not harder then with Windows - thanks to good GUI.

Today there are:

• Great Desktop KDE (significantly better then MS one)
• OpenOffice that allows you to create/read documents, presentatios that is allmost compartable with MS one.
• Good mail programs (better then Outlook).
• Good support for multimedia - with good audio players similar to WinAmp and other movie players that playes all vido formats well.
• All things you need are done using GUI.

Form what I can see Linux had significantly changed and can be fully used for home desktop purposes with some restrictions - no AH and lots of other games.

Actually some my friends after they see how it works are trying to move to Linux so........

What if you know that you shouldn't pay Bill for Windows, MS Office, buy antivirus/spyware. But use linux.

Of course you would need to learn something as you did this when you had seen Win98/95/3.1 first time.

Just thoughts...

[FUNKED1]

AutoDesk is releasing stuff for Linux now so it's just games keeping me in Windows.  I guess if consoles take a couple of steps forward I could see myself not needing a Windows box for games.  Then I would consider Linux.

[deSelys]

Already using a dual boot system: Window$ for games and Linux for everything else.

[Nilsen]

I have no problem using linux. Games are the only real reason for me to stick with windows.

[rabbidrabbit]

Have not been closely following the Linux scene too closely recently but use MS for compatibility familiarity reasons.  Whats the best flavor of Linux these days for desktop?  for Servers?

[GtoRA2]

Do you have to wear the geeky striped button down shirt and pocket protector?

do they make you put that linuxgroovin sticker on your car?

[Skydancer]

I thought Linux was a Charllie Brown's mate!:confused:

[artik]

At my old computer - it can't run AH I use Linux only.

It is really-really good system.

The computer that able to run AH is computer for work that I have to use Win there

Whats the best flavor of Linux these days for desktop? for Servers?

Anything you like.

I've used Fedora Core 3 for two-three month then moved to Debian Sarge 3.1 - it works better on my old Pentium II 350MHz PC.

Finally all are good.

[takeda]

I've been using Linux since 95 or so, I manage about 20 different Linux servers for various services right now. I'm the "Linux guy" among a big bunch of local programmers and sys admins.

But somehow I've never been able to get anything done in gnome, kde or whatever,  so my own PC runs XP, but I tend to have just a big bunch of ssh sessions into my servers.

Of course I could do that from Linux itself, but there's something wrong there... maybe the ugly default fonts, the still sometimes flaky vid card support, the cut&paste weirdness among different toolkit applications. I'm just slower using Linux/UNIX GUIs.

Theres a guy here that uses a Sun workstation instead of a PC, and every time I try to get something done there, hilarity ensues...

And on my home PC I mostly play games...  so....

[Saintaw]

Still on MS because of games as well.

[JB73]

Originally posted by artik
How many of you would use Linux if you know it does all job you need?

it doesn't play AH, so it can't do all i need.

other than that, im not going to maintain and run 2 PC's in my house just to play AH.

[Fishu]

Games are pretty much the only reason for me too.
Plus a handful of amateurish softwares which I need in couple of things, but those could be related to the games.

[deSelys]

Originally posted by JB73
it doesn't play AH, so it can't do all i need.

other than that, im not going to maintain and run 2 PC's in my house just to play AH.

dual boot is the answer, silly!

Surfing the net and sending/receiving mails are enough to justify a Linux installation. Firefox, Thunderbird and AVG run nice on Gnome or KDE GUI.

With distributions like MEPIS or Knoppix (based upon Debian) that you can download for free, installation is as easy as Windows XP (graphical with wizards and all the bells and whistles...). It will even install the dual boot menu for you.
As long as you have a free partition (2 is better as there is no swap file in linux but a swap partition instead) you're ready to go.

Or you can do it like a man and dive into the command line wonders....so much more powerful than Windows. A bit of reading beforehand is necessary tho.

Then you'll quickly fall victim to the HUGE offer of free and/or open-source software available.

Then you're a Linux geek before you even realize it.

Linux Powah!

[artik]

First time I've tryed Linux it was very old system...

But what I was interested in was learning some programming... And I had it - powerfull compilers, libraries - anything you need. When I had problem getting same 32bit tools for Win95 for system that will not crash in experiments...

Yes that was long time ago... then I've stopped using Linux because of some other issues...

Few moth ago I've seen how Linux works in university labs....... I was really impressed - it was user friendly powerfull operation system... Then I installed it at home - since I couldn't run AH2 on that computer nothing prevent from me to erace Windows completly.

It just works - works fine. KDE has so powerfull and configurable GUI that you can suit it for any needs - configure it like I like and not MS. Finally I could see normally Power Points presentations, and read DOCs at home (I had not MS Office installed because it is not cheap )... I managed to run TargetWare sim for linux that wasn't able to run on same PC with XP!!!!!

I have one disk space instead of C:, D:, E: disks and manipulating where should I put music, where programs.... Two sparate disks where joined in one file system.

It really works good now...
It worth to try some kind of LiveCD distribution to see how it works - without any installation, and any risk.

I don't need Windows any more....... ok accept for AH2.

[soda72]

I used Red Hat's linux 6.1 a few years ago, it wasn't to bad but it still wasn't as good as windows xp at the time...  It reminded me more of windows 3.1... plus it was a little flaky at times which was suprising to me since I thought linux was suppose to be much more stable operating system..

Also installing on a PC was much more difficult then installing a windows operating system.   There was one situation where you had to pick monitor settings..  I picked the wrong one after that I had to reinstall the whole operating system again...  This may have improved over the last few years but I haven't checked out any of the new releases lately.   Overall, I found that it wasn't worth the trouble..