the operating system thread

[Sushubh]

i used to think like that... i had a dual boot machine around 2 years back. the same machine i am using now but with little less RAM.i found linux to be tough to use. but things have changed now. i guess coz my requirements are now limited. i need a web browser, a word processor, some other tools. Linux fulfills all these requirements. it has been rock solid for me. i run it for 2-3 days at one go and it still remains as stable and smooth as it is at boot time. i use it to work, surf around, listen to music, watch movies, download using torrents... everything works fine! my only hassle is when i have to do something which i was more comfortable in paint.net. gimp, krita have been tough to use. but i manage to get simple editing done which is required for my stupid online work. now that i own a copy of vista... i am considering getting a cheap second desktop powerful enough to run vista in aero. but i am sure i would end up using dual boot on that machine too.

 

[vishalrao]

I think 2008 will be a good year for Linux on the desktop. Because it's getting more stable and user-friendly and also because MS will stop selling WinXP and kinda abuse their monopoly once again to kinda force people to get the expensive and "heavy" Vista which will drive people to try Linux.Plus Dell has started preinstalling Ubuntu on some PCs in some markets and it will expand to other countries, and other companies like Lenove, HP etc are also thinking about it

 

[Sushubh]

i just adore the way linux has a centralized update mechanism for each and every application. if you have installed everything the right way, you can be sure that linux would keep on updating itself and everything on it without you having to worry on it. and it technically requires no firewall or antivirus or antispyware...

 

[sam999]

i once had redhat, i dont know the present condition of linux, but it was
madness , all icons appeared same , no much difference, it was total mess,
better leave linux to server level. i am thinking of fedora for graphics.

 

[vishalrao]

@sushubh:yea, im waiting for the next round of Linux releases coming in Oct/Nov. If I can get torrent downloads to work stably (and not stall) overnight and for 2-3 days at a stretch, then I will become a full-time Linux (prolly Ubuntu) user.I don't do gaming or graphics/video editing etc so Windows' advantage in that area means nothing to me. Although I too am thinking of gettign a new PC in a few months to run some DirectX 10.1 game demos (like Crysis) just casually @sam999: There will be new releases of Fedora, Ubuntu and openSuse coming out in Oct/Nov. You can try them. I'm willing to bet you will be pleasatnly surprised as I was with Ubuntu (if you like GNOME). Try openSuse if you prefer KDE. I found kubuntu to be not so polished with KDE.@sushubh: you need at least a firewall runnign in Linux! it can be very dangerous, unless you specifically disable all remote access points. and i'm sure pretty soon people will need to run antivirus and antispyware on Linux too, once it gets more popular

 

[Sushubh]

try using ktorrent for torrents.i have firestarter installed on my machine. but i am more used to zonealarm style of firewall... so it makes no sense to me... and as long as linux user base remains mediocre... there is few reasons for me to worry about getting viruses on this machine. i still follow the same practices. i dont visit weird sites, download and run weird files... i did not usually get a virus on my windows machine so i guess linux is doing fine.

 

[kindofblue]

I think 2008 will be a good year for Linux on the desktop. Because it's getting more stable and user-friendly and also because MS will stop selling WinXP and kinda abuse their monopoly once again to kinda force people to get the expensive and "heavy" Vista
which will drive people to try Linux.

Plus Dell has started preinstalling Ubuntu on some PCs in some markets and it will expand to other countries, and other companies like Lenove, HP etc are also thinking about it

Absolutely! I think the linux desktop has really come of age in the past 2 years; plus given the demands vista has on the hardware, it could actually lead to mass linux adoption.

 

[Sushubh]

umm in case you have not noticed... people are still using windows 95 on their old hardware... in fact people are still on dos where they are only using a computer to run an accounting package like tally. as long as piracy is rampant... linux adoption is likely to remain slow.get people to buy legit software and they would start looking at linux as an alternative.

 

[abtom]

hey guyz,which distro is the best for Linux?i mean with wine installed or we can install wine on that distro without hassles.And which is the best bittorrent client for linux?or ubuntu?can we use linux without distros?

 

[power]

abtom dont bother much with wine . If you think that u can run all windows programs within wine then just drop this idea . Programs under wine runs slow and are not as good as native linux programs . There are better linux alternatives for almost any windows based applications nowadays . Usually people starting with linux keep on experimenting till they hit a good distro they like . There are many flavours in linux . I will prefer that you start with ubuntu as its very newbie friendly and has huge package repository ( including wine ! ) so you wont have to compile anything urself .@topic: This type of topics are bound to reach 20-30 pages in any forum and still discussion ends nowhere .We are lucky to not have many freebsd fans here or this topic would have become linux vs bsd in no time .