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| Thread ID: 69552 | 2006-06-05 08:38:00 | Which OS do you Prefer? | MTLance (6768) | Press F1 |
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| 460680 | 2006-06-05 10:57:00 | At the moment I use Firefox 1.5.0.3 for web browsing and Evolution 2.6.1 for emails, although I tend to change what I use quite a bit for the sake of experementation. If you're used to outlook, you should find Evolution reasonably easy to use. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 460681 | 2006-06-05 11:08:00 | No, I mean what else do you do in Linux except from browsing web pages and stuff. Did you do office work? Use it to burn CD/DVD's? Watch DVD's in Linux? All kinds of stuff you know;)? I was just wondering if people do the same thing in Linux. I mean since you prefer Linux, you can do all your explainations for new Linux users. Everyone got their reason for choosing one OS. | MTLance (6768) | ||
| 460682 | 2006-06-05 11:20:00 | No, I mean what else do you do in Linux except from browsing web pages and stuff. Did you do office work? Use it to burn CD/DVD's? Watch DVD's in Linux? All kinds of stuff you know;)? I was just wondering if people do the same thing in Linux. I mean since you prefer Linux, you can do all your explainations for new Linux users. Everyone got their reason for choosing one OS. Yes Linux does all of that. Office Productivity: Openoffice, KOffice DVD/CD Burning: K3B for KDE (unsure for gnome gui) DVD playing: cant remember but it works. Music player: cant remember but there are LOTS of audio programs. There are lots of alternative software for Linux that will do most of what you would do in Windows, barring games which is a different cuppa entirely |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 460683 | 2006-06-05 11:26:00 | Yes Linux does all of that. Office Productivity: Openoffice, KOffice DVD/CD Burning: K3B for KDE (unsure for gnome gui) DVD playing: cant remember but it works. Music player: cant remember but there are LOTS of audio programs. There are lots of alternative software for Linux that will do most of what you would do in Windows, barring games which is a different cuppa entirely What OS did you vote? And it is nicer for people who have voted and start explaining why they like this OS and blah blah blah. Linux is weird to me, this is just like going back to my childhood using Windows 3.1 when I was a kid without much knowledge of that OS. |
MTLance (6768) | ||
| 460684 | 2006-06-05 11:32:00 | No, I mean what else do you do in Linux except from browsing web pages and stuff. Did you do office work? Use it to burn CD/DVD's? Watch DVD's in Linux? All kinds of stuff you know;)? I was just wondering if people do the same thing in Linux. I mean since you prefer Linux, you can do all your explainations for new Linux users. Everyone got their reason for choosing one OS. The main reason I use Linux is because I have more to learn. I enjoy learning things, and for the moment Linux fits the bill. Yes, I use it to do things other than web browsing / email. I probably use it for everything you use Windows for, except for playing games - although that's not such a big issue for me as I'm not much of a gamer. I also don't watch DVDs on the PC - I have a set-top DVD player for that, although it certainly is possible (although it can be a bit of a mission to get working). I currently dual boot Windows XP Pro / Ubuntu 6.06 (each has its own HDD). I don't usually use Windows these days though - the only thing I use it for these days is voice recognition. Yes, Linux can burn CDs & DVDs - there are many programs that can do this. I usually use K3B. As you're new to Linux, you may find it easier to use KDE rather than GNOME as your desktop - KDE is laid out in a slightly more "windows-like" fashion, and it may feel more "at home" for you. [edit: install Kubuntu - this is just ubuntu with KDE as the desktop, and it saves you the hassle of installing KDE. Alternatively, install the 'kubuntu-desktop' package - this will achieve the same result.] Do you have any specific activities you would like to be able to do in Linux? This could be a good start to learning about how to use it - take a task you would normally use Windows (or a Windows program) for, and find out how to do the same task in Linux. Don't expect everything to function exactly the same as what you're used to - give it some time, so that you can discover what's different and how to achieve the same end result with a different piece of software. Don't try to go cold turkey and do it all at once - it'll only put you off. Use Windows most of the time (on your other PC), and just use Linux for the task at hand. Once you've mastered how to do that, then add another task. And then another. While you're learning how to to these things, you'll build up a general knowledge of how to use the OS, how things are laid out etc. One thing that may surprise you is how the filesystem is laid out - don't expect to see a 'C:\' drive anywhere! Pick a distro and stick with it - don't try to change while you're learning the basics. It'll only confuse you if you change halfway through. Last of all - good luck! I'm glad to see you're willing to give Linux a try. You may find you still prefer Windows afterwards, but you may also prefer Linux. Just remember that time is the key here, and don't expect to learn it all in a couple of days. There is also a lot of documentation about how to do things online. If that doesn't answer your question, then there's always Press F1 :) Bletch |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 460685 | 2006-06-05 11:49:00 | most linux distros don't come with mp3 & DVD support by default (which is annoying, but it is because of legal issues, so they can't really do anything about it.) I just installed Mplayer rather than installing all the plugins for the other media players. | Greven (91) | ||
| 460686 | 2006-06-05 11:53:00 | Thanks Bletch. It is just that my Linux desktop is so plain and my Windows one is full of stuff on it means easier for me to do work not Linux but I don't have enought time to find competable software for Linux.:( That's the problem but for the timing I'll use Linux for web browsing, emails and word processing. That's all I guess. Windows in there have a lot of work waiting for me I guess. | MTLance (6768) | ||
| 460687 | 2006-06-05 16:13:00 | I actually like the Pet 40-40 or CBM opsys. CBM SHOULDDA got the green light years ago...it was faster, cleaner and ran bench-marks a lot better than MSDOS, but IBM, (commonly called "Big Blue") smoked Commodore by burying them in litigation and just out-monied them. Don't forget that most of the graphics on the original Star-Wars was done on an Amiga 2000 too. I worked at a large LA/California hospital that used C>64's to run the air conditioning/heating for the whole building. If one went south and failed, just popped in a new keyboard/processor and got back up and running for minimum $$. I also programmed in Forth-64 and COBOL for a while...with the accent on FORTH-64 which I really liked best. FILO, RPL, stacks and calls...Aha! loved those days. We didn't have any mouses or loaded programs..we had to load each and every program either off a large floppy disc or type it in, line by line. If you didn't know Ascii, CHR$, or figlets......too bad! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 460688 | 2006-06-05 16:16:00 | Just a quick question: I read that I should have FAT32 on XP for Linux to work...and since I have NTFS, is that gonna mess me up? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 460689 | 2006-06-05 21:20:00 | Just a quick question: I read that I should have FAT32 on XP for Linux to work...and since I have NTFS, is that gonna mess me up? Not necessarily. You currently need Fat32 for your Windows partition if you want to write to your Windows partition without problems, otherwise it's no matter. You should still be able to read NTFS. |
Erayd (23) | ||
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