windows vs. Linux Debian Ubuntu, DSL etc etc?
simple questions. Can you use linux the same way you use windows? does it use a point and click interface? Do you have to know a lot about command line and do you have to build your operating system? or can you just pop in a live cd like windows and everything more or less is done for you? I’m sick of Windows Linux users could you give me some feedback?
Thanks
What I’m looking for is a version that has a gui like you said your grandmother is using Ubuntu. I need something that will support a virtual PBX like FreePBX or something and hopefully install it for me. Maybe CentOS? Ideas?
I’m also operating under the assumption that command line is like command prompt in windows. Correct? I have had some experience with that. It’s just that there are so many flavors. I tried a dual boot with an Ubuntu ISO and got 187 instances(basically systemic) of keylogger .com It could’ve just com from the mirror but I was on the Official Ubuntu site. Also why do you say that Debian is slower? That was my first choice considering I’m running HP AMD64
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Yup. Linux can do all that. Check it out with Knoppix or Ubuntu live. Install Ubuntu and start playing with it. I use Windows at work and Linux at home. At work, i mostly miss having compilers, scripting languages and such, and at home, i mostly miss… uhm, i can’t think of anything.
Simple answers:
yes
yes
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yes but you have to think a bit
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http://www.google.com "yourquestion yourlinuxdistro" is for more complex questions
Depends on what you use. Linux is technically just the kernel, which is all command line, but most of the distributions have graphical user interfaces just like Windows. Something like Ubuntu is pretty much easier to install than Windows to be honest, and really requires no knowledge of command line to run day to day. To give you an idea, my mother, who is completely computer illiterate is using Ubuntu. Granted, I installed and set it up for her, but she uses it without issue.
You are hard pressed to find one that doesn’t have a GUI. Sooner or later, you will most likely run into some kind of issue that requires command line, but it is pretty easy to find the solution on the corresponding distribution forums. The command line is similar to DOS, or should I say the other way around, since DOS was branched off from Unix. Commands are a little different, but make sense once you get used to them. Usually the faster the distro, the harder it is to use, install and run. Gentoo is pretty much considered one of the fastest by far, but it takes some work to get it running, and portage is surely not for beginners. I would stick with one of the majors, Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora or Mandriva, these have great support, and are very user friendly.
Yes, Ubuntu is a Live CD, you can just pop it in and play around with it without having to install it.
You will need to know some basic command line codes. If you’re ever stuck, there’s hundreds of community forums and sites to help you.
Why not have both? You can do a dual boot between Windows and Linux.
I wish I could say that Linux is "ready for prime-time," but I can’t honestly say so. There are still "issues" that demand a greater degree of sophistication as a user than Windoze requires. That said, I’m still trying to migrate Linux-ward. I have two XP boxes on my home network and one Linux (Fedora) box. I hope to migrate entirely to Fedora before support for XP entirely drops off the map, but I WAY recognize that it won’t be a trivial migration.
I’ve used Slackware, Red Hat, Mandrake (pre-Madriva), and Fedora. I Mandrake was the easiest, but I like the relatively cutting-edge aspects of Fedora (I’m a geek and can do command-line stuff when required).
Debian and Ubuntu are touted to be "friendlier," more Windoze-y models, but I suspect they’re no better than Madriva and NOT as Windoze-y as Windoze.
If you’re willing to undertake the additional challenges, Linux offers a variety of alternatives (free!), but it is not as easy for Windoze users as the M$ offerings.