
| rabbit #399082 11 months ago |
Decided to finish off the series with the big 3. Yes I know there are plenty of other Linux distros out there, I just picked Ubuntu since it is the one with the most popularity in the end consumer market. |
| Pegasi #399101 11 months ago |
Why do I have the sudden urge to install ubuntu? |
| Turin_Aramaia #399103 11 months ago |
The one thing I don't like about Linux is that it's too easy to mess it up. However it's a free alternative to Windows. Before the hard drive arrived for the used HP Mini 1116 I got, I put Ubuntu Netbook Edition onto an 8 GB SD card and booted from that. I had to reinstall a couple of times when I decided to tinker with some system files. When I got the hard drive, I installed Windows XP. |
| Anonymous #399117 11 months ago |
Linux is free, so this means that you have to get your hands dirty to use it. Although I must say that distros like Ubuntu became ridiculously easy to install.
If you don't want to think than buy Windows and use it: that's why it costs money. I personally use both. However, I must say that although professionally Linux is a lot better, for common usage Windows is simpler. |
| Anonymous #399122 11 months ago |
Linux lacks commercial, properly supported programs. If it had Microsoft Office and/or Adobe programs running natively in it, it'd gain a significant market share. |
| rabbit #399136 11 months ago |
I personally use Arch Linux. I find it better than Windows due to the amount of power I have over everything on the computer. Not saying Windows is a bad OS, it just doesn't have all the capabilities that I like.
As for Mac/OSX, I haven't used a Mac since elementary school, so any opinion I have on that is invalid. I should install OSX into a VM and explore around a bit, just to see what it is like now. Lastly, the alst one I want to try is BSD, but I haven't gotten around to it. I'll probably put openBSD on a firewall box I'm setting up. |
| pervotron2000 #399144 11 months ago |
And from the thumbnail I thought she was playing a later level of Eversion.
Must... replay... Eversion. |
| Anonymous #399152 11 months ago |
@rabbit, FreeNAS is based on BSD, and is already configured. You can use it as a firewall and/or a NAS. |
| rabbit #399190 11 months ago |
@399152: I would rather set it up myself from tutorials to get a good understanding of the system. Sure it will take longer, but I am not doing this to be quick, I'm doing it to learn. |
| Kyurel #399518 11 months ago |
Nooooooo ubuntu is okay :( |
| Anonymous #399604 11 months ago |
The lack of Linux market share isn't due to a lack of supported programs.
Companies don't want to buy into Linux because they have nobody to call and bitch at when things go wrong. This is why the companies that do use it use things like Red Hat Enterprise Linux: when something doesn't work, they can pick up the phone and yell at somebody. You can't yell at people who work for free. At any rate...I've been using Gentoo for probably 7 years now, and I'll never have another work machine running Windows. It's just too damned obtuse once you get used to a real environment. |
| GoBologna #399791 11 months ago |
My problem with Linux is that I couldn't play my favorite games on it. |
| Martingale #399808 11 months ago |
Should've gone with Mandriva.
It has quite bad reputation among Linux users. |
| Anonymous #400767 11 months ago |
Anon604: actually, aruond 70% of systems you see (more just counting servers) are linux powered, because it's simple and it works. it's also more reliable in many cases than windows or Mac OS. |
| Anonymous #401361 11 months ago |
OK, I gotta say I agree with this...when my media PC croaked I tried putting ubuntu on...it mostly worked, but could I get file sharing to work? Could I hell. Tried everything. Weeded through the godawful contradictory documentation and spent a whole week before giving up and just fixing Windows again. It was actually easier to get XP working than get a fresh Ubuntu install to basically function.
As to the previous comment, actually Mac OS is built off of BSD, a very mature *nix derivative, so it's every bit as reliable as any other unix, and I daresay rather more than linux and its variants. |
| rabbit #401462 11 months ago |
GoBologna: I haven't found a game I couldn't run on my linux box. Most recent one I played was Witcher 2, so fairly recent.
Anon 401361: Did you read the man page(man smb.conf)? I'm going to take a guess and say no. When in doubt, read the manuals! They really are very informative. |
| WingbeatPony #401516 11 months ago |
Ubuntu user checking in.
Just thought I'd mention I wrote a shell script today to help with my pony project...even though I've only had a week's experience in a Linux environment at all. So in general, unless you are crazy like me and like - no, revel in - using your computer as a tool and not a magic box, go ahead and stand by things you have to purchase. |