Moving from windows to linux

Typically in windows if a app freezes the screen you have to reset the machine, in linux you just switch to a text terminal and kill the offending process from there, I do tend to find the exceptionally hard to fix freezes though...
 
Linux is awesome. Yea sure, 10 years ago maybe you would need a degree of some kind to get it going, but these days? Pffff, easy.

with the drivers available, my wireless gets a 30% boost (yes, 30%) by just using linux as supposed to windoze. lol

My next PC upgrade I'm going to make sure I can do GPU-passthrough, then I'll get rid of my physical windows install as well.

Oh, btw, you can install Linux on a separate drive, make it your boot drive, and GNU will still detect and ask you if you want to boot up into windows. pretty awesome
 
What trips people up the most with Linux is this:

In Windows you can read/write a folder as you please, without regard. It has taken Microsoft literally a decade to catch up to a similar level.

In Linux, the situation is VERY different... if you haven't got permissions and ownership to that folder you can forget it.
Many books, and online people don't explain the concepts properly.

At the very lowest level, Linux and Windows are the same, they are both pre-emptive kernels, they have similar concepts. As you go further along, the differences become stark...

The file system in Linux is also more complex, and there is no "task manager" as such. The real powerful stuff is hidden in the terminal under commands. The GUI runs as an "application" if we can call it that
 
Koosi said:
More often than not, the GUI tools don't work properly or don't work optimally.
Then the bash (or terminal) is your friend. I prefer to work in that, get things done, and I often just leave the GUI there as a waste of space. But that is for when I am building servers. Desktop is a different animal, and again, you often need the terminal to sort issues out.
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anyone running a GUI on a server should be shot. bash is the way to go and anyone with a bit of Dos experience would also prefer it.
 
envo said:
Linux is awesome. Yea sure, 10 years ago maybe you would need a degree of some kind to get it going, but these days? Pffff, easy.

with the drivers available, my wireless gets a 30% boost (yes, 30%) by just using linux as supposed to windoze. lol

My next PC upgrade I'm going to make sure I can do GPU-passthrough, then I'll get rid of my physical windows install as well.

Oh, btw, you can install Linux on a separate drive, make it your boot drive, and GNU will still detect and ask you if you want to boot up into windows. pretty awesome
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I've left Linux on the shelf and come back to it every 5 years or so. It astounds me how they don't make it much easier to install or use. The improvement graph is very shallow. Perhaps too many cooks spoiling it since it's crowd sourced at some levels.

Apple produced a grand UNIX (OS) because they had a vision and stuck to it.

Remind me to try Linux again in 2020.;)
 
AntiGanda said:
I've left Linux on the shelf and come back to it every 5 years or so. It astounds me how they don't make it much easier to install or use. The improvement graph is very shallow. Perhaps too many cooks spoiling it since it's crowd sourced at some levels.

Apple produced a grand UNIX (OS) because they had a vision and stuck to it.

Remind me to try Linux again in 2020.;)
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Haha... Easier... How much easy do you want?
 
battletoad said:
Finally got it (sort of) working? Well done man!
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Yea man!! Was easy on the Intel laptops, it's the amd pc that doesn't want to budge might also be the nvidia gtx580
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I just gave up on that dream.

Got a new decent SSD on the main pc so my windows at least runs blistering fast now.
 
Don't dual boot.
If you do, make sure everything on the pc is backed up.
Some windows installations go pear shaped if you try and dual boot with linux.
Virtualbox is the safes option, if you have to keep the windows.
else
Format ... install Linux :D

oh, Mint is meh ... I'll stick to ubuntu in the future.
 
I still don't understand why Linux is so difficult for some...
 
spiderz said:
Don't dual boot.
If you do, make sure everything on the pc is backed up.
Some windows installations go pear shaped if you try and dual boot with linux.
Virtualbox is the safes option, if you have to keep the windows.
else
Format ... install Linux :D

oh, Mint is meh ... I'll stick to ubuntu in the future.
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Arch Linux makes these distros look like sht.
 
DarkSpectre said:
Arch Linux makes these distros look like sht.
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Arch is powerful, lightweight, fast.
HOWEVER
It requires you to prepare your drives and filesystems manually, and install your bootloader manually.
It takes a lot of work... whereas lubuntu, for example, automates all of that.
 
Koosi said:
Arch is powerful, lightweight, fast.
HOWEVER
It requires you to prepare your drives and filesystems manually, and install your bootloader manually.
It takes a lot of work... whereas lubuntu, for example, automates all of that.
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Arch was actually easier before, they use to have nice/simple ncurses installer that took care of things, no need to chroot etc.
 
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