I use Linux

[magical_trevor]

Fair enough- but there's no need to mention it all the time.

 

btw your signature - developerment doesn't make sense it's developement. - Luke.

He is Svip, he can speak how he likes.

[Svip]

Fair enough- but there's no need to mention it all the time.

 

btw your signature - developerment doesn't make sense it's developement. - Luke.

Sorry, it was spelt wrong. But your version is wrong too.

[Luke2004]

Fair enough- but there's no need to mention it all the time.

 

btw your signature - developerment doesn't make sense it's developement. - Luke.

Sorry, it was spelt wrong. But your version is wrong too.

Sorry, my mistake.

 

@Magical Trevor, maybe he can to you but to me it's annoying. - Luke.

[OzzySM12]

Linux is just another operating system people choose. Although you make out it's better than anything else. - Luke.

No?

 

I am just not speaking of it's disadvantages.

 

And lastly, I am just saying it's better than Windows.

it is better for stability than windows.. but for compatiability wiht applications and periferals it is not as good as windwws will work with almost anything you throw at it...

[Svip]

If it wasn't for all the crashing, ozzysm12, then I guess it would be lovely.

 

But I got all the applications I need for Linux. So why bother? It's not like there is none applications for Linux...

[segosa]

Fair enough- but there's no need to mention it all the time.

 

btw your signature - developerment doesn't make sense it's developement. - Luke.

Sorry, it was spelt wrong. But your version is wrong too.

Sorry, my mistake.

 

@Magical Trevor, maybe he can to you but to me it's annoying. - Luke.

It's also annoying when people correct other people's English when they can't speak it themselves.

[Luke2004]

I'm sorry. - Luke.

[the_travis_s]

If it wasn't for all the crashing, ozzysm12, then I guess it would be lovely.

 

But I got all the applications I need for Linux. So why bother? It's not like there is none applications for Linux...

If your Winderz is crashing, then sorry, you're doing something wrong.

 

This is NOT me saying Windows is better. I truly do thing that stability in Linux is MUCH better then in Windows.

But seriously... If you're running Windows XP and you see a crash more then 4 times a year, you're doing something wrong.

[OzzySM12]

 

If it wasn't for all the crashing, ozzysm12, then I guess it would be lovely.

 

But I got all the applications I need for Linux. So why bother? It's not like there is none applications for Linux...

I know there are applications for linux... but none with the quality like Microsoft Word, etc... even though Microsoft dont have a great OS there games and applications are of great quality... plus likem I said above Windows XP Pro with the updates installed runs like a dream...

 

I know linux is more stable than windwos but like I said above windwos has much more to offer...

 

@the_travis_s, exactly... windwos 9x based OS's using the FAT32 file system were terriable for crashing... with windows XP being built on NT technology using the NTFS file system it is almost 100% stable, since the whole NT thing is designed for web server which really do have to be very stable...

[Svip]

None quality?

 

That is not true.

 

If you're thinking Microsoft Office. Then try OpenOffice.org for a bit.

 

It even comes when you install Linux!

 

I get Xchat, great IRC client. I get Firefox, Mozilla and Lynx installed from start.

 

And if I want any applications, I just get them through a single command;

 

 

# apt-get install <name of application>

 

 

There are great alternatives to your so called "quality applications".

[Dirty Sanchez]

I hope someone kidnaps you and forces you to use Microsoft products someday.

[Luke]

I use both Linux and Windows, I've used a variety of different distributions and I strongly believe Linux is no good for workstations. Software developers develop software normally for Windows, it's where they make money, so obviously that's where they target, and for that reason you simply can't get the same software, games in particular on linux. Sure there's alternatives, there's a few games for linux and then there's WINE, but it's so much of a pain in the arse you might as well just use windows if you want to play games. I used to run linux on my laptop but realised that all of the immense amounts of trouble and problems I had with my Wireless network, other hardware being incompatible and me not being able to finetune it just as much (even though some system files may need altering in windows to get it perfect) meant that I didn't think Linux was right in the end for me. All the servers I use (3 IRC Servers, 2 HTTP Servers) are all running on *nix, and for running servers and using with an SSH text-based interface, then it's great, it really is. But when I want to do some programming in a language such as Visual Basic, when I want to play some Vice City, when I want to use MSN Messenger, when I want to install something and I have to go into the prompt to do it -- it's more trouble than it's worth, or it's just not possible. Linux is developping, it's getting better, but it's nowhere near good enough for 99.9% of the world to be using it regularly. I've even seen perfectly decent servers running on Windows, an Windows can achieve great uptimes, ask TwoZero sometime, he had his old computer running for absolutely ages.

 

XChat compared to mIRC is nowhere near, mIRC is far superior and I believe always will. IRSSI is nice, I use it through SSH, but if I've got a monitor in front of me for the computer I want to use I'd like to see something with a nice proper GUI. OpenOffice is also nowhere near as powerful as Microsoft Office in the long run, great idea, and I like them for trying it, but it's still not going to replace me using MS Word when I want to write something up.

 

The world is trained on Windows machines nowadays, Linux is all very well if you've got all the time in the world or you've had a hell of a lot of experience, but most people in the world don't have time to f*ck around with it too much, I certainly don't.

 

Linux is more stable, but it's not perfect, my laptop used to freeze up on PCMCIA insert or removal, and that was pretty major. You have to kind of mix and match your drivers for linux, if you're lucky enough to have hardware which even has drivers for linux. There's also the slight issue of Linux becoming increasingly bulky when it shouldn't be. You'll find plenty of servers that are running FreeBSD because Linux isn't really as good, so it's debateable as to the direction linux's development is heading in.

[Svip]

Perhaps, but your ideas of OpenOffice.org are not absolutely correct.

 

I have read many articles about OOo myself, and the conclusion is clear, OOo is already superior on most parts than Microsoft Office.

 

I could start mentioning a lot of things, such as OOo allows you to open old Microsoft Word doc files, which even MSO 2003 ( or whatever it's number is ) has problems with.

 

For MSN use, I just want a clean chat client so I can chat with people, I don't want all sorts of annoying thing I can use for sh*t. Gaim gives me that, plus it also connects to other IM protocols.

 

As for Xchat versus mIRC. They are on the same level, except mIRC has a far friendlier scripting language, and a lot of useless features.

 

Xchat delievers it's use. And that is what I want.

 

Perhaps you like playing games, Smithers, but I don't. I don't want to program in VB, I don't want to have all sorts of useless features flying around my desktop.

 

I want something clean and something I can trust.

 

I am just trying to defend myself towards your post, Smithers.