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Anyone use Linux?

by raynman
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I am thinking about buying a new computer but was thinking about getting one with a Linux OS.

If any of you have used it or are now using it have you found some limitations as far as putting websites together or any other aspect of IM.
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  • Profile picture of the author kazakhan
    I've been using Gentoo as my main desktop for the last 9 years and have been using linux since 1996. If you do not have much experience with linux i suggest installing it on a spare machine and getting to grips with it before making it your main desktop.
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  • Profile picture of the author grumpyjacksa
    see if you feel comfortable with the compatible software.....some of it works differently....

    remember, no .exe works...unless you run a virtual box to simulate windows, which becomes draining on the system

    what you could do is order a copy of ubuntu from canonical...totally free...not even shipping charges.....you can try it out without installing.....just boot up from the cd in a temp session
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  • Profile picture of the author branstyweb
    I use a mixture of Windows and Linux, I have not tried any of the .exe files (personalise a .pdf) in Linux yet, but everything else should be OK.
    Web page viewing use firefox in both Linux and Windows.
    Email thunderbird in both Linux and windows.
    building websites, I have got dreamweaver running on a linux machine (Wine), but tend to use Quanta+ instead.
    Wordprocessing and spreadsheets, I use Openoffice in both Windows and Linux
    There are not very many programs that do not have an equivalent in Linux, there are now so many options (maybe too many), I currently use Opensuse on my laptop, but have an experimental installation of Kubuntu 8.10 which is also simple to use.
    Not trying to start a flame war here but I much prefer the KDE desktop to the gnome desktop, everyone to their own preferences,part of the attraction of Linux. Not bad for a free operating system, everything on the disk from a basic text editor to a full scale web server, and loads in between.
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  • Profile picture of the author tomfra
    Personally, I'd suggest a KDE based distro as well. For a newcomer to Linux I don't think Ubuntu is a good option, even the Kubuntu variant which is KDE based.

    For desktop focused Linux distros, you may try Mandriva: Mandriva Linux or OpenSuse: openSUSE.org . There are many many distros through.

    If you have no experience with Linux on desktop, I'd suggest you first try it under a virtual environment running on a Windows machine.

    That said, switching from Windows to Linux as your main OS is quite a big change and it will take time to get used to it.

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  • Profile picture of the author Lloyd Buchinski
    Most of my time on a computer is just using html, css and text, so I didn't think there was going to be any reason at all not to use Ubuntu. I got the free disk mentioned above and tried it out. After 2 goofy problems getting it going on 2 different very good computers, I stored the disk for extreme emergency use only.

    Dell does have Linux computers and since the system is already installed I'd expect no start up problems with them, and if I ever get to ordering another computer I will seriously consider one of them. But for now it's back to Windows with a big "Thank you Bill Gates." (Just to throw in something you don't hear very often.)
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  • Profile picture of the author branstyweb
    Hi
    Another way of trying linux is to run it from the CD/DVD, All the ubuntu's run from the DVD, Opensuse , Fedora (RedHat), definitely have versions that run from a DVD. these are a good way to try out a different computing experiance.
    John
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