Comments on: Five good reasons to switch to Linux

By: DaNang

DaNang — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:26:35 +0000

[] There’s LINUX… but then there is UBUNTU
I played around with alot of LINUX distros. Some were nightmares. I landed into UBUNTU 9.04 JAUNTY JACKELOPE recently and that did the trick.
WINDOWS is now my second choice.
[] UBUNTU 9.04 is a snap to install…
[] UBUNTU 9.04 is a snap to back up (Clone) my entire Hard Drive using “ddrescue” while the laptop is actually running: from a terminal just type in:
sudo ddrescue -v /dev/sda /dev/sdb
[] Free sotware, “Hipo” for my IPod… so much more.
[] Using Firefox is a snap, using all there Add-on’s who needs any extra WINDOWS extra software?
[] NO Virus’ just run UBUNTU and life is a pleasure.
[] I Waited for UBUNTU to come to prime time, and UBUNTU 9.04 Jaunty is the answer. I Bailed out on WINDOW$ this year when UBUNTU 9.04 was released, I use WINDOWS XP only for a backup.
[] IF you played around with LINUX before, return back and USE UBUNTU 9.04 Jaunty. You’ll love it!!
[] “Friends don’t let friends use WINDOW$”

Enjoy… I am:
UBUNTU 9.04 Jaunty Jackelope! Love it!!!!!

By: dna

dna — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:18:29 +0000

Don’t forget performance. I dual boot vista and Ubuntu (jaunty) and vista is already using over 1GB of RAM immediately after booting. Ubuntu is using a little over 300MB immediately after booting. Even after killing a bunch of unnecessary processes in vista (which I never wanted anyway) I can’t get vista close to what Ubuntu does.

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By: autumnlover

autumnlover — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:58:44 +0000

Some reasons not to switch:

- reliable CD/DVD/BR recording software – I mean Nero, Infrarecorder or CDBurnerXP. No matter what mainboard/recorder I try to use with k3b it has problems with starting recording and/or verification. Same goes to Brasero.

- speed! Try XP/Vista on Celeron 1700 with 1GB RAM and Nvidia 6200 video card. And then try one of current distros – Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora. KDE/GNOME/XFCE runs much slower on same hardware than XP and even Vista. “lightweight” environments? No thanks, I do not want to go back to Windows 3.0 level of functionality

- games!

- GNU/Linux is more stable than XP/Vista? Maybe before starting an X server :)

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By: RG

RG — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:10:00 +0000

Very difficult to argue that user experience is better with Linux. 2 and 3 help but are nowhere near the benefits the average user sees in Windows. Not forgetting that answers are easier to find and actually carry out for Windows. For average users and below Linux is not even half of Windows is.

By: Fabian

Fabian — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:27:59 +0000

I have tried different Linux Distributions and I find them very ..very interesting. I have heard, however, that some hardware do not work properly with Linux. Any comments..Thank you!

By: davethebald

davethebald — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:42:31 +0000

Linux is simply more fun, although you have to like this idea of fun. It is not as user friendly if you don’t want to dig into it a little, but it is way more fun than M$.

I use Ubuntu now, as my first step into Linux, but I already don’t like it, in the sense that it has too much stuff in it. I am looking into Gentoo, because I want a minimal system to do what I want and nothing more. We all know that the PC can do way more than we will ever need. Other than gaming and video, which I do not do, I don’t need all this power. I paid too much for a Dell XPS M1330 with Ubunto. Next time, I will get a little Netbook with a minimal system. But even though I spent too much on the hardware, I did not spend > 350$ for the software. Learning Ubuntu is a snap.

Linux is the way to go because of the choices, but you have to love tinkering.

By: Genisis

Genisis — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:01:05 +0000

I like the new Linux distros…Im using Ubuntu and now playing around with LinuxMint. I think LinuxMint is a variant of the original Ubuntu, but, in any case I actually like the layout a little better than Ubuntu.
I admit that I still dual boot with 2 XP pro boxes and dual boot with Vista on my laptop. The ONLY time I will boot to any of the MS OS’s anymore is if I want to waist a little time on a game. Thats it! I have no other use for Windows any longer….just for a little gaming. There is nothing that I cant do on a Linux box, that Windows can do OTHER THAN playing games from large game companies. I know that they make some games for Linux, but, when the day comes that you can play a games on Linux like you can on a Windows box….I will be a 100% Linux user…PERIOD!
I look forward to the day that Linux will bring the giant of MS crashing to the ground. It will happen…..someday.

By: drakshug

drakshug — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:45:05 +0000

Dan TE :
Errrr. Have you tried Linux in the past 10 years?
KDE – so usable you can even make it look like the windows box or MAC you left, and with copy to, move to in the right click menus by default. You can have all the useful eye candy you want.
Gnome – not my favourite but nice and minimalist but everything to hand. No cluttered desktop.
XFCE, ICE, all the rest of the window managers, with their usability built in.
Add in multiple desktops, Mac type task bars, widgets and gadgets, compiz…………….
The average Linux user uses the CLI as much as they used the command line in xp or vista, ie as a last resort. It is Gui, d to the max.
Add in repositories and you have it all.
Dan, if you don’t want to load up a live disk then I suggest you watch some linux distro vids on You tube and you’ll realise that Linux is up their with Mac. Vista and Win 7 is playing catch up to Linux. Oh, by the way, Mac and Linux are Unix type OS. Mac isn’t a Linux variant. Get it right before you spout.

By: Votre

Votre — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:35:42 +0000

You left out reason #6: It’s fun!

By: DanTe

DanTe — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:08:39 +0000

The main problem with Linux is the lack of a user friendly graphical interface. Windows and Mac OS (which is just merely another Linux variant) has better packaging.

Now if the Linux crowd can convince some ergonomics expert to help them code without shouting out the experts with techie speak, Linux would have a shot at the title.

By: mrogi

mrogi — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:53:34 +0000

Vista Ultimate is the Lamb of God. All ya gotta do is disable UAC, Aero eye candy and the extra bloated services ya dont need. Linux is requires too much manual intervention for my taste. That sudo crap is annoying. I’m sick and tired going into Synaptic every five minutes to look for drivers & applications. And enough with the Samba config crap. Windows Explorer sees all the machines on my LAN and shares all the files automatically. And WMP 11 kicks the dogcrap out of all the Linux media players.

By: Hollywood ParkRacing

Hollywood ParkRacing — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:17:10 +0000

The biggest issue I have with Linux is the drivers, after that is fixed, I will use linux in a dual boor system.

By: Womble

Womble — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:06:35 +0000

With Points 1 and 5 we agree.

Reliability : This is simply a fallacy. XP never blue screens unless my hardware/drivers are bad or I try something that with hindsight is plain dumb. Windows is viewed as being less reliable because the average user has zero operating system level skills and it’s far easier to blame the OS than yourself.

Security : Although I agree Linux is more secure unfortunately this boils down to the userbase and retarded dev’s who STILL don’t get the multi-user concept. Take UAC, although they would never admit it this is effectively MS’s answer to sudo, guess what the biggest complaint with Vista was? I never heard of a Linux user who complained about providing a pass to use synaptic, yet a Windows user will complain about being asked for a password to make system level changes.

Freedom : For once I will associate myself with Joe User and say, Who cares?

I would agree that in many ways Linux is streets ahead of Windows unfortunately I could drum up as many reasons why it still feels like Windows 95. Despite the wrinkles XP is still the best Home OS out there for me, the vista architecture sucks and Windows 7 is just Vista marketed properly.

So there you go I don’t like Windows anymore, don’t like Linux enough either. On a positive note, the weather is now good enough so that I can now get out more and start enjoying the things in life that actually matter :D

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:40:15 +0000

While I use linux for fun, the main reason I can’t entirely switch is because I need Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint, as well as Mathcad and Matlab for school.

OpenOffice isn’t nearly compatible enough for what I need for group projects, long reports, etc. and doesn’t have VBA support whic I use with Excel. Octave is fairly compatible with Matlab and actually saved me when my peronal copy of Matlab didn’t have the control system toolbox that I needed for homework (unfortunately I had to strip out all of my figure and graph formatting for GnuPlot to work). Then Mathcad is an example of software that is Windows only. I also have to use other CAD and modeling software at school on the computer lab computers (SolidEdge and Patran).

In addition I enjoy using many portable apps and such that I can run on Windows computers allowing me to carry my software with me and use it within windows on public computers. If I do that with Linux, I have to boot Linux on a neighboring computer and share files through Dropbox or similar.

The compatibility just isn’t there between Office 2003, Office 2007, Open Office, Gnumeric, Abiword and whatever other apps are out there. I have never been able to open up a decent sized file that I made in Windows and not find something wrong or incompatible in OpenOffice.

I’m about to be out of school and working for the summer so I think I’ll be using Linux (as I am right now) until I want to play some games. Sadly I play Open Arena on Windows because it runs much smoother. My computer happens to have integrated graphics instead of Nvidia or ATI. If gaming and office compatibility become OS-independent, then Linux will be THE choice.