I Love Linux

Moederloos said:
Yup. Not one ounce of problems.
Even told me the graphics card was different (NVidia), and offered to set it up for me.

Linux has the "drivers" built in - unlike Winblows.
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LOL yeah windows will BSOD while trying to boot up lol.
 
I focking hate Linux. Linux FTL. If Windows blue screens then your hardware is faulty.
 
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Slootvreter said:
I focking hate Linux. Linux FTL. If Windows blue screens then your hardware is faulty.
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Now why do you hate it? Because it gives you the chance to fix an error first or because it don't give you an uber nifty blue screen like windows does?
 
It does not give you a chance to fix it. When Windows Blue Screens, hardware is faulty. Because the drivers Linux uses, it does not utilize the hardware to the same extent as Windows does. That is why you might not get errors in Linux, but the hardware isn't used to its full capability. And secondly, trying to install hardware without a masters degree in machine code is simply ridiculous. For example a network printer/scanner or a USB Wireless Network Adapter....
 
Slootvreter said:
It does not give you a chance to fix it. When Windows Blue Screens, hardware is faulty. Because the drivers Linux uses, it does not utilize the hardware to the same extent as Windows does. That is why you might not get errors in Linux, but the hardware isn't used to its full capability. And secondly, trying to install hardware without a masters degree in machine code is simply ridiculous. For example a network printer/scanner or a USB Wireless Network Adapter....
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You are misinformed.

On a more general linux note for those who use it regularly: have modern distros configured their systems so that that a bash fork bomb no longer cripples the system, forcing a reboot?
 
Slootvreter said:
It does not give you a chance to fix it. When Windows Blue Screens, hardware is faulty. Because the drivers Linux uses, it does not utilize the hardware to the same extent as Windows does. That is why you might not get errors in Linux, but the hardware isn't used to its full capability. And secondly, trying to install hardware without a masters degree in machine code is simply ridiculous. For example a network printer/scanner or a USB Wireless Network Adapter....
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Geez, then my 14yo daughter must be a genius cause she can setup a Suse box almost as fast as her old man

Number #1 problem with new linux users: They might be wizzbang windowsd users and then expect to transfer that expertise to linux. Forget it, you have to start all over again. learn to walk from scratch. That's the most important thing to learn about linux. Sadly most people never bother to learn it then bash the OS
 
I realize that this is not the right forum to post this in. But could your 14yo daughter set up a network printer and a wireless USB adapter? Or a scanner for that matter? The initial install is not the issue. And once you have some variant of Linux running, what can it do that Windows can't? (PS I'm not dissing Linux. use whatever makes you happy! ;) )
 
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not sure about the wireless USB adapter but as for the printer and scanner, yeah she can and has.

What can linux do that windows can't?

gru@troll:~$ uptime
14:37:43 up 41 days, 2:20, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.07, 0.17

On a system that's in daily use playing mp3s/movies, writing dvds, sauerbraten deathmatches, editing with Gimp, file server, mail server etc. My personal machine.

And it does all this with only a measly P4 2.66GHZ processor and 1gb ram. Willing to try that with either XP or Vista?

Oh, did I mention I don't lose any sleep over possible virus or malware infections?

Multiple desktops?

Free software?

I could go on for hours

Boils down to what you prefer as user.
 
Thats what I'm doing on XP, but a P4 2.8 with 512Mb RAM. (yeah yeah a bit old!!) But not Sauerbraten, cos that Linux only. You have a point with the viruses and spyware, but you can do all that in Windows you listed above. Anyway, I agree on that it boils down to what you prefer, and I WAS NOT TRYING TO INSULT LINUX USERS!!! :D
 
What exactly is causing you headaches with a USB wireless adaptor?

It is as easy a inserting the correct driver into the kernel and you are set.

Done it, been there and already burned the t-shirt.

Network printer? Like a dedicated network printer that has it's own IP? Why can't CUPS solve this mystery?

http://localhost:631/

Try that.

The biggest mistake people make is to not restart CUPS once they have made a mayor change, Gnome-Cups-Manager and KDE-print does this automagically, but if you do it with the above link and once you are sure everything is set up properly, just:

/etc/init.d/cupsd restart
 
ive been using linux for 2 years i hate it with a passion i'm still posting this message in my konqueror browser but still i hate it with a passion, i hate it for the sleepless nights for my kde4.1 that i just messed up and i'm busy doing reinstalling, i hate it for the green line in kaffeine ,i hate it cause i cant get pulseaudio too work properly in kde, i hate it cause viewport switcher in compiz only woks when the buttons are pressed , i hate it cause i cant figure out how too use kdevelop to build simple c++ programs and have to resort too compiling using terminal or worse dev C++ in windows , i hate it cause i cant find acidrip for opensuse11 . damn what am i still doing on this box
 
I used xfce for a while on my old Hardy installation was fast and all but a number of things were annoying me: e.g No network browsing support for example(using thunar).
 
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