Linux FTW?

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Having had such a great experience with Kubuntu 8.04, I've this urge to make it my primary OS, instead of XP (vista is my current secondary).
Will play around with it some more though.

When did you decide to use Linux as your primary OS?
 
I use Linux on every PC I work on that isn't my main home PC. I enjoy playing too many games to be able to switch to Linux. I looked into dual-booting, but I come home every afternoon and want to play something, so it is just too much effort to dual-boot when I can just use Windows.

However, on my laptop and work pc I currently run Kubuntu 7.10 (although I am contemplating switching my laptop to Gentoo), and have Gentoo running on my home server.
 
Praeses said:
Having had such a great experience with Kubuntu 8.04, I've this urge to make it my primary OS, instead of XP (vista is my current secondary).
Will play around with it some more though.

When did you decide to use Linux as your primary OS?
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When I got sick and tired of formatting
 
Been only using linux now for about 2 mnths, but I use Mandriva 2008.1 personal choice not Kubuntu 8.04
 
in the process of making ubuntu 8.04 my primary os, too. i mean my desktop pc. my laptop has been on linux for almost a year now.

it is an interesting feeling to have xp as a toy now. used infrequently. specific purposes only.
 
When I got a taste of Ubuntu 7.04 and was further impressed by 7.10. I've been fiddling around for years with various distros, but Ubuntu works well for me. Would love to earn a meaningful income from Linux dev.

I dual-boot with XP for gaming, but that too should change in time
 
Praeses said:
Having had such a great experience with Kubuntu 8.04, I've this urge to make it my primary OS, instead of XP (vista is my current secondary).
Will play around with it some more though.

When did you decide to use Linux as your primary OS?
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When I got tired of being treated like a criminal by Microsoft even though I had bought their software legitimately. And when I found there were open source equivalents for all the software I paid so dearly for. And when I got tired of being screwed by copy protection on software I paid for and was using legitimately.........

Basically when I understood that the only people inconvenienced by copy protection are paying customers - pirates use cracked software that doesn't have any of that s**t.

Using Ubuntu, Gentoo and 64 Studio
 
I finally lost the last bit of love for M$ in March and stopped dual-booting. Now I only run Kubuntu 8.04. It is so raping Vista. I decided to install Gnome and play around in it. One thing I love about that is that it only uses ~200MB RAM. Really little when compared to KDE(3)'s 600-odd Megs required and really little when compared to Vista's 1GB when Aero is running. If I have all my other apps running, ie Skype, Pidgin, Compiz, etc, I use around 300MB RAM on idle. Really not a lot.
 
I showed Hardy to my colleague and boasted about how little swap-space Ubuntu uses: I opened 5 or 6 copies of FF, each with a dozen tabs or so, started up a movie in the Movie Player, fired up an MP3 (but the audio device was locked, damn), started up OOO Editor and Spreadsheet, ran Synaptic, IDLE, Anjuta (both IDE's), all scattered over 4 sides of my desktop cube and was still only using 380MB's of RAM with zero swapfile usage. My CPU cores were going slightly wild, but nothing stuttered noticeably. He was pretty impressed.

Oh, and the joy of putting all of that into Hibernation mode when I finish for the day... I switch the PC on and am working again in less than 1 minute.

Way. to. go!
 
Interesting replies. It would be awesome if Linux became the main gaming OS. Then microsoft is in for some trouble :p
Doubt it will happen though, PC gaming isn't was it used to be as it is now (with consoles having less piracy etc). I LOVE gaming, but only certain games. Don't have anything to play currently (although I might consider Assassin's Creed once I have enough time). That's the only reason why I'd continue dual booting. Currently I love linux for everything else :D
Multitasking in Linux is really impressive...
 
I switched when I bought a laptop "designed for Vista" that wasn't. Had been using various linuxes for a couple of years but never on my main computer. Put ubuntu on it, and it just flew. Wopn't be going back. :)
 
Made the switch last Friday, both office and home on Ubuntu 8.04. I had installed Vista at work 3 weeks ago, but the amount of crap it produced made switching to Ubuntu a no-brainer.
My next project is to get most of my old games working in Linux, which should be a nice learning curve!
 
flarkit said:
I showed Hardy to my colleague and boasted about how little swap-space Ubuntu uses: I opened 5 or 6 copies of FF, each with a dozen tabs or so, started up a movie in the Movie Player, fired up an MP3 (but the audio device was locked, damn), started up OOO Editor and Spreadsheet, ran Synaptic, IDLE, Anjuta (both IDE's), all scattered over 4 sides of my desktop cube and was still only using 380MB's of RAM with zero swapfile usage. My CPU cores were going slightly wild, but nothing stuttered noticeably. He was pretty impressed.

Oh, and the joy of putting all of that into Hibernation mode when I finish for the day... I switch the PC on and am working again in less than 1 minute.

Way. to. go!
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I tried that too just now. Couldn't get my RAM to budge above 450, even with all my startup apps, 6 copies of FF with 8 tabs each, amarok playing music, compiz on maximum specs. I would rotate the cube like mad and it would spin like mad. when i closed FF it closed faster than a single tab would close in windows! haha. FF still used (with 6 copies) only 45MB RAM. In windows it goes up and over 150MB. Skype refused to use more than 30MB RAM. This memory optimisation in Ubuntu is wonderful!
 
Yeah how ubuntu uses my hardware is amazingly too... i installed vista and the amount of ram is uses (with aero) is just stupid. Ubuntu uses a fraction of that with compiz, with better bling...

Ubuntu definitely FTW... just gotta get games to run on it
 
Why don't you gamers try cedega? It's a branch of the wine project. It lets you run windows games on linux. Haven't tried it myself as i hardly play games. Someone reported betta frame rates in doom3 in linux than in windows...
 
Swift-wp said:
Why don't you gamers try cedega? It's a branch of the wine project. It lets you run windows games on linux. Haven't tried it myself as i hardly play games. Someone reported betta frame rates in doom3 in linux than in windows...
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On some games it turns into a class A system hog... NFS Carbon for example
 
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