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Hot Stott Bot
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| Tough call between Gentoo and Ubuntu in my opinion... they both are nice in their own ways... |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:21 am |
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| Yes of course it is supposed to be that slow! |
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Hot Stott Bot
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| Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:24 am |
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Guys, I really like how I roll.
I run XP with a fancily setup Cygwin install and have another computer running Linux that I just remain constantly SSHed into and stuff.
I would not really want to run Linux as my main desktop solution, personally, but pretty much anything I would want to run on Linux that doesn't have an equivelant in windows I can just install on my other machine and run over SSH... or often times I can compile it in Cygwin and run it locally, even!
I mean this wouldn't work that great for running big applications like web browsing or watching movies, but hey, firefox and vlc are damn fine windows software if you ask me. |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:08 pm |
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Right, right, my point is that all the "biggest and best" software is cross-platform these days, and linux is so well architectured that all the little things that aren't cross-platform can either be emulated or run remotely!
Admittedly, I'm speaking purely in terms of compatability... you really lose out on hardware resources and cost like that, and getting the security setup properly was a bitch-and-a-half.
I guess I'm just saying I can't live without either, so I just run both Linux and Windows all the time... essentially. |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:21 am |
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| Talbain wrote: |
| Overall, it is not the OS that I have a problem with, but the access barriers to using the OS are so high that unless you're a programmer, I would still seriously not recommend using Xubuntu or Ubuntu... or any Linux distro really. |
Well, I am of the opinion that Linux is essentially an OS for programmers.
I mean, I must have written thousands and thousands of lines of code on any Linux machine I've ever had just as part of my environment. |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:16 pm |
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I mean honestly, XP was really just another iteration of Windows NT philosophy.
Think about how long it took for that platform to become the standard!
Vista is kind of a new philosophy, so I expect that it will be another OS or two before that becomes the standard.
Then again, Vista is a lot closer to NT/2k/XP than 98 was...
So...
Uuh...
Yeah.
Anyways, Linux and games:
Really, it just isn't designed for games. X11's architecture is not good at high throughput. Same thing for the way audio streams work.
I mean, part of the reason Linux makes for good security is that everything is so compartmentalized, so it doesn't like to grant programs tons of control over resources... which games kind of need to run decently. |
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