Microsoft vs Linux as your full time OS?
Friday, February 19th, 2010 at
10:01
I like them both I just need a shove in the right direction.
thanks…
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Linux is my full time OS, I’m even considering getting Cedega for games.
I use it for video, audio playing/editing, web-surfing/design, writing and desktop publishing, various games that don’t need Cedega, image editing and, in short, anything else.
There’s a world of freedom available to us through GNU/Linux, why use anything else?
I use Linux as my full time OS, but also have a small windows partition because my brother likes to play games. I don’t bother with Wine.
On Linux, I just do some web browsing, emails, photo editing with gimp, watch movies and play songs, learn to use command line occasionally. That’s all I do and expect from GNU/Linux.
THE ADVANTAGES OF LINUX (The only disadvantage being gaming)
Reliability/Stability
The majority of Linux variants and versions are notoriously reliable and can often run for months and years without needing to be rebooted.
System Requirements
Overall Linux makes better use of system resources.
Gaming
Linux support for gaming is poor.
Security
Linux is very secure.No bloated anti-virus software is necessary.
Hard Drive
On average 10gb is ample.
Hardware Detection
Many Linux distros. are very good at self installing the necessary drivers.
Here are some Linux distros. worth considering
Mandriva 2008.1 Spring http://www.mandriva.com/
SimplyMEPIS 7.0 http://www.mepis.org/
Ubuntu 7.10 http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.10/ (My Preference)
Ubuntu 8.04.1 http://releases.ubuntu.com/hardy/
Linux Mint 4.0 http://www.linuxmint.com/ (My Preference)
Linux Mint 5.0 http://www.linuxmint.com/
All are easy to install and easy to use.
I would perhaps suggest you select Linux Mint 4.0 or 5.0 for starters as it has much of the software you are likely to use preinstalled.
I have only skimmed the surface here. To find out more about Linux check out this link http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/
If you already have a Windows installation. You can install Ubuntu 8.04.1 using Wubi installer. You keep Windows as it is, Wubi http://wubi-installer.org/ only adds an extra option to boot into Ubuntu. Wubi does not require you to modify the partitions of your PC, or to use a different bootloader, and does not install special drivers.
Wubi keeps most of the files in one folder, and if you do not like it, you can simply uninstall it as any other application.
LUg.