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Your avatar = Win.
I prefer windows because I'm a contrarian fuck.
Open Office is a bit crap. As a user of Linux for all my uni work, I find it often slower to run. Also, most of my software is windows only.
It also asks too many questions, sometimes I don't care about file structures. :-)
However, I can see it's benefit and do use Linux every day.
We need a FNF BZFlag Linux only edition.
When every single good PC game works on Linux, I will consider switching. Until then, no dice.
id use linux if only I could figure out how to get wine to work lol, I dont have the time to read that shit for hours and go through a bunch of trial and error ;x.
and if I could get photoshop to run on it as well.
Linux is free if you're time is worthless. I used to tinker quite a bit. It's a hobby in itself really.
<--old Debian loyalist.
Games, linux does not have them.
GTFO
Note bumper sticker on my last car. I miss that car..
Linux: it works, but you have to tinker. Tinker Tinker TINKER. Fuck that. I'd rather deal with windows than work with linux. That and no video games. :(
Windows is easier than Linux, that is a fact. point and click is exponentially easier than anything that requires using any sort of command prompt. The average user would get confused quickly with Linux.
@ all the skeptics
I here Ubuntu Linux is pretty easy to use and Cedega will run most games on it.
Anybody have Linux on their PS3? I was thinking about it, but have no idea how it would work.
thank you liquid yeah there are various ways to run games and other apps on linux, which is the only reason im even talking about it. if i couldnt use it for certain apps and games i wouldn't use it.
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/748/748255p1.html
this is for timtheterrible..
also to anyone who thinks linux has nothing to do with games. If linux can be put on a ps3 I'm pretty sure that's relevant to the gaming community.
Linux ftw!
I still can't get scrolling in Firefox under Ubuntu to flow as smoothly as it does in Windows.
Meh. I still have Ubuntu on my other partition, but I only ever load it up when I forget about the GRUB and it autoboots to it instead of XP.
It's nice in theory, but I don't like having to mess with the raw guts of an OS unless I can avoid it. Also, Cedega pisses me off to no end. The only way to decently run most games on an open source platform is via a closed source program with subscription fee. Awesome.
mac is the shit, everything else is just slow and outdated.
Linux is bootleg.
to all the haters:
the reasonning behind free(as in freedom not as in free beer) software such as *BSD and linux distributions is to guaranty you freedom that most software vendors deny you.
just look at the crappy console DRMs
also you can install linux on a butt cheek
I love Ubuntu after using it for a few months, but I ultimately came back to Windows.
I still think Ubuntu is awesome, though. It looks pretty, it's fairly easy to get set up for general use even without any knowledge of Linux, and I rarely had issues with it.
It ran very smoothly on my computer and never randomly crapped out on me like Windows does. The way I see it, the only time anything ever goes wrong in Ubuntu is when I didn't do something right. Every issue I had was self-inflicted and could easily be fixed by looking up the problem on the internet (or asking about it on forums).
The only reason I really came back to Windows is because of the lack of support for games and other Windows programs. I messed with Cedega, but not everything ran as well as it would in Windows. I don't play PC games that much, but the small things I couldn't use (my DS's USB Wi-Fi Adapter, my 360 controller adapter, some other random programs) really built up over time.
I love Ubuntu and I had fun learning how to use it, but I'll probably stick with Windows on this hard drive. I would like to get another hard drive in the future so I can dual boot.
I use Linux exclusively at home. At work, I am forced to deal with Windows and its shortcomings. I don't play PC games because I'm old-school and my roots are in consoles and arcades.
Another reason why Linux rocks:
Eee PC ultra portable, 7" laptop. $300.
Linux = *snore*
If I did more programming and such at home I might be bothered to install Linux, as it worked great for my programming needs in my last job.
My home computer is really just used for gaming, web browsing [s]and porn[/s], which Windows does for me with less hassle. The gaming is the deal breaker of course, as running them on Linux requires more work than I frankly care to put in. Windows does it all at least well enough, which is good enough for what I want. :p
I can't speak about Linux as a whole as my first-hand knowledge of it is about fifteen minutes accumulative spent behind my brother's shoulder as he uses it, but number seven makes me laugh as.... it took him a week and several heart attacks to make it compatible with his
I think Linux v. Windows may be a matter of preference. And I have a lot of respect for Linux, even though I use Windows, because a) it's free without pirating, and b) while pretending to be all independent and hardcore and such, like Apple, it, unlike apple, actually is independent and hardcore.
*his wireless card.
I have a virtual machine of Ubuntu running on my win XP machine thanks to VMWare.
Thatīs probably the onyl way to make it work well with my system components, because VMWare gives Ubuntu the drivers... most of the times the problems you will find installing Linux are driver related.
I have tried SuSe which is probably the most powerfull Linux distribution, but most of the times as a Virtual machine.
It doesnt make any sense in an office enviroment, not yet, people just wants to make a Power Point and users are familiar with the Windows enviroment. And as they have said: Open Office sucks.
Fuck you boxy