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post #1661 of 1697
10/8/12 at 3:35am
I used to run Linux, for the improved performance, slim-lined OS and zero cost.
Ever since SSDs and RT7Lite I no longer have a (personal) reason to run Linux.
Windows 7 will do anything just as fast with less things to worry about.
Those things being; drivers and MSOffice work.
Free alternatives to MSOffice always manage to ruin the layout of a simple Word document.
Drivers; especially AMD or new Nvidia drivers.
I rarely game these days, but I do remember the hassle of making a game run, that runs flawless on Win7.
So yeah... former Linux fan here. smile.gif
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10/8/12 at 3:49am
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I used to run Linux, for the improved performance, slim-lined OS and zero cost.
Ever since SSDs and RT7Lite I no longer have a (personal) reason to run Linux.
Windows 7 will do anything just as fast with less things to worry about.
Those things being; drivers and MSOffice work.
Free alternatives to MSOffice always manage to ruin the layout of a simple Word document.
Drivers; especially AMD or new Nvidia drivers.
I rarely game these days, but I do remember the hassle of making a game run, that runs flawless on Win7.
So yeah... former Linux fan here. smile.gif

Nothing wrong wit that. Windows 7 does any thing i want as well. i can run it fully featured or i can turn off system services and switch to windows classic theme and drop down memory usage to 300mb idle, on Prescott with 1gb ram and Nvidia Ti4200 (yup drivers work too).

I like to play with linux and test stuff one wine for fun, I like to play with OSX x86 from time to time.
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10/8/12 at 3:51am
so i game on windows but do everything else on ubuntu?that concept will never fly.why .most gamer have skype ,facebook etc etc etc WHILE gaming .
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12/11/12 at 10:24pm
I've been building and working on PC's as a personal hobby for over 4 years and I am one of the people who's tried Linux and within minutes have decided "I don't like it" then switch back to Windows. I am just now giving Ubuntu 12.10 a try and so far I am very impressed. I just installed it on my Toshiba Satellite L755-S5246 and i've managed to get Netflix working, the web browsing does more than fine and I can use Libreoffice for my word processing. I am going to test HD content with it by plugging it into my HDTV and if it works I may switch to using Ubuntu on my laptop.

BY the way. Ubuntu 12.10 is absolutely gorgeous. The "App Bar?" works perfectly and the text looks great. I was hoping for better battery life but i'm not really seeing that. No biggie.
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12/11/12 at 10:43pm
Linux is great for programming and learning computers/operating systems. It's the only time I'd really use it.
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I've been building and working on PC's as a personal hobby for over 4 years and I am one of the people who's tried Linux and within minutes have decided "I don't like it" then switch back to Windows. I am just now giving Ubuntu 12.10 a try and so far I am very impressed. I just installed it on my Toshiba Satellite L755-S5246 and i've managed to get Netflix working, the web browsing does more than fine and I can use Libreoffice for my word processing. I am going to test HD content with it by plugging it into my HDTV and if it works I may switch to using Ubuntu on my laptop.

BY the way. Ubuntu 12.10 is absolutely gorgeous. The "App Bar?" works perfectly and the text looks great. I was hoping for better battery life but i'm not really seeing that. No biggie.

battery life is a weak point. there might be some ways to squeeze better out of it though, do you have all the power management settings turn on? do you have the laptop set to suspend when not in use?
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1/19/13 at 9:38am
I love Linux, I really do. It's fun to try it with. But I can't be bothered running two os's, so I stick with Windows.

Why? Because I haven't run into something I can't run on Windows that I need, and games.

There is such a huge back catalog of games, that even if Linux were to get game support in the future, there are still, ton of games missing.

I tried dual booting, but I just ended up going into windows anyways

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1/20/13 at 3:50am
I'm a full time Linux user. Have been for the best part of a decade now. These days I have more problems finding Windows equivalents for Linux programs. laugher.gif
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There is such a huge back catalog of games, that even if Linux were to get game support in the future, there are still, ton of games missing.
The back catalog stuff Linux plays. Or at least all the stuff I've tried has played fine.

In fact I'm just installing one of my old PC games from 1994, which I've not touched in years thumb.gif
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I love Linux, I really do. It's fun to try it with. But I can't be bothered running two os's, so I stick with Windows.

Why? Because I haven't run into something I can't run on Windows that I need, and games.

There is such a huge back catalog of games, that even if Linux were to get game support in the future, there are still, ton of games missing.

I tried dual booting, but I just ended up going into windows anyways

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I'm a full time Linux user. Have been for the best part of a decade now. These days I have more problems finding Windows equivalents for Linux programs. laugher.gif
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There is such a huge back catalog of games, that even if Linux were to get game support in the future, there are still, ton of games missing.
The back catalog stuff Linux plays. Or at least all the stuff I've tried has played fine.

In fact I'm just installing one of my old PC games from 1994, which I've not touched in years thumb.gif

first thing that comes to mind with the first statement above is: why would you need every game? I mean, it's like no I must have game A instead of game B which is almost the same with a slightly different set of weapons. Get over it. Provided you arn't the 'I must have this one game, and no other alternative' type then linux has more then enough now, it will only grow and youcan use an OS which isn't total crap

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1. How is it better for programing? you can write the same code anywhere.
2. Why? it's so much better then windows it's unbelievable. someone who says I use it for learning but nothing else says one thing to me: said person has never really used linux for more then 5 minutes
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first thing that comes to mind with the first statement above is: why would you need every game? I mean, it's like no I must have game A instead of game B which is almost the same with a slightly different set of weapons. Get over it. Provided you arn't the 'I must have this one game, and no other alternative' type then linux has more then enough now, it will only grow and youcan use an OS which isn't total crap

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1. How is it better for programing? you can write the same code anywhere.
2. Why? it's so much better then windows it's unbelievable. someone who says I use it for learning but nothing else says one thing to me: said person has never really used linux for more then 5 minutes

Your one of "those" linux user's....... ohh joy.

I have been gladly dual booting Win7/Mint for a while now. I use linux for learning. I run it on my sig rig and I also run Linux on my home server. I use linux every day.

There is no real answer to this "what's better Linux or windows or apple". In my opinion Windows is better because windows supports everything I personally do. Until Linux has support for netflix and the game's I play then it's a flawed OS for my personal use. I still use it for a lot though.
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