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Re: Hello Everyone
« Reply #25 on: January 14, 2011, 05:00:44 PM »


No, not yet, but I agree.  Put Ubuntu in front of a youngster and they'll use it.  But we need to get it into schools, and that's an uphill battle too, mostly because Microsoft has spent an entire generation indoctrinating school IT staff into thinking that Windows is the only way to go, and that that's what these kids will need to know when they get into the workplace, so that's what you should teach them.

You and I both know that's complete bullshit -- it's about making those kids think that Windows IS the computer, and the ONLY way.  But that's how MS operates.  They can't compete on merit, and only rarely have they ever been able to.  So that's how they compete.


From Wikipedia: The XO laptop project of One Laptop Per Child is creating a new and potentially much larger Linux community which is planned to reach millions of schoolchildren and their families in the developing world.  Major supporters of the project include Google, Red Hat, and eBay.  Although the XO will have a Windows option, it will be primarily deployed with Fedora Linux while using Sugar as the desktop environment.

The revolution may happen elsewhere, and spread to here.

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Considering that Apple is even more of a closed silo and anticompetitive and belligerently hostile to the very concept of open source, I don't know.  I'm not much of a fan of Apple, frankly.  And I find Mac OS X to be so counterintuitive as to be unusable.  I'm a flailing idiot when it comes to that interface, and it doesn't matter how much time I spend on it.

Me too. It's horrible. The Windows UI was an improvement, and I think if it weren't for Windows, Mac would've naturally progressed in that direction. But as it is, they are stuck with their kludgy UI because they can't be like Windows.

Although it does appear I may be a future iPhone user.
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Re: Hello Everyone
« Reply #26 on: January 14, 2011, 05:01:59 PM »

No fucking way.

I might just try that.

The last Linux install I tried was some "hat" or other 10 years ago, and I couldn't get through the end without getting fatal exceptions. I'm sure it was my fault, or a faulty box, but I just threw my hands up.

But this sounds promising.


That's what I've been saying.  Before you even do that, log onto Facebook and look at my "screenshots" photo album.

If you like eye-candy and you're into that sort of thing, it's got that too. 
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Re: Hello Everyone
« Reply #27 on: January 14, 2011, 05:06:30 PM »

For all the other unwashed masses.  Screenshots of stuff I've been playing with lately on my Linux Mint 10 laptop.

Click 1
Click 2
Click 3
Click 4
Click 5
Click 6

Granted, screenthots 3 through 6 are of an experimental interface (called "Gnome-shell") that's still in testing and isn't in widespread use yet, but that's the kind of stuff that's coming.  And it's all easy to use and wicked cool on top of it.
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Re: Hello Everyone
« Reply #28 on: January 14, 2011, 05:17:06 PM »

also, just who in the great googly moogly is Pepe?

What is this world coming to?  First some clown on facebook posts an article entitled "Near-Record High See Religion Losing Influence in America" and now THIS?
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Re: Hello Everyone
« Reply #29 on: January 14, 2011, 05:27:21 PM »

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Re: Hello Everyone
« Reply #30 on: January 14, 2011, 07:32:38 PM »

I don't use Linux because it doesn't allow me to easily blame my computer problems on other people.

and I love blaming other people.

Also this is my post number 223, which is a prime number
223 is the fourth Carol number and the third to be prime.
223 is the sum of three consecutive primes (71 + 73 + 79), the sum of seven consecutive primes (19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43), and the smallest number requiring 37 fifth powers for Waring representation
This post is brought to you by the number 223
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Re: Hello Everyone
« Reply #31 on: January 14, 2011, 08:06:42 PM »

One last thing on this topic,

it is amazing how much windows costs- for one license for home use is 100s of dollars for an enterprise solution the company must spend 1000s of dollars on an os and then spend 1000s of dollars on an office program

I am just unwilling to waste my money like that when there are better free alternatives out there
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Re: Hello Everyone
« Reply #32 on: January 14, 2011, 08:34:26 PM »

One last thing on this topic,

it is amazing how much windows costs- for one license for home use is 100s of dollars for an enterprise solution the company must spend 1000s of dollars on an os and then spend 1000s of dollars on an office program

I am just unwilling to waste my money like that when there are better free alternatives out there

You know, I've been using windows for years. Here in Australia we're very involved with our piracy. I've never spent a cent on a program that was not a video game, and that's just because I want to support the industry.
So if you look at windows as a free program, you can't bitch too loudly.
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Re: Hello Everyone
« Reply #33 on: January 14, 2011, 11:22:28 PM »

Well that's another reason to use Linux.  It's easier to avoid software piracy if the OS you're using is free as in beer, and free as in speech.  :)
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Re: Hello Everyone
« Reply #34 on: January 15, 2011, 04:05:06 AM »

I don't know. Beer speech has gotten me into trouble.
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Re: Hello Everyone
« Reply #35 on: January 16, 2011, 03:41:19 PM »

Also this is my post number 223, which is a prime number
223 is the fourth Carol number and the third to be prime.
223 is the sum of three consecutive primes (71 + 73 + 79), the sum of seven consecutive primes (19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43), and the smallest number requiring 37 fifth powers for Waring representation
This post is brought to you by the number 223

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Re: Hello Everyone
« Reply #36 on: January 16, 2011, 07:21:13 PM »

lol.
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Re: Hello Everyone
« Reply #37 on: January 19, 2011, 12:59:12 PM »

And you don't need to install it to try it.  Download it, burn the ISO to a CD and boot from it.  Voila, a fully functional Linux desktop without so much as moving a hair on Windows' ugly head.  :)

Oh mah god, but where does it save its cache, temporary files, etc. without creating a separate partition? Seems too simple to me. I'm sure you'll say "Don't worry! You're just thinking like a Windows (l)user!" :P
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Re: Hello Everyone
« Reply #38 on: January 19, 2011, 01:28:59 PM »

Heh.

Actually, I'm not 100% sure how that works.  I've never tried it.  I've always assumed it just resizes one of your existing partitions and carves itself out some space to live.


EDIT: Wait, I just realized you were talking about the LiveCD.

It doesn't touch the hard drive.  It loads everything into system memory when you boot from the CD.  It means it's slow to boot, and sluggish to load apps when you launch them, but it's a great way to test it out and make sure all your hardware is recognized/working before you actually take the plunge and install it.
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Re: Hello Everyone
« Reply #39 on: January 19, 2011, 06:04:59 PM »


EDIT: Wait, I just realized you were talking about the LiveCD.

It doesn't touch the hard drive.  It loads everything into system memory when you boot from the CD.  It means it's slow to boot, and sluggish to load apps when you launch them, but it's a great way to test it out and make sure all your hardware is recognized/working before you actually take the plunge and install it.

Yup, then once you do install it runs much faster than it did during live. I've had mandriva run just as fast as Windows during live, and I fully believe it would run much faster when installed but it was not my computer to install it on.........darn my wife and her attachment to windows......
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Re: Hello Everyone
« Reply #40 on: January 31, 2011, 01:18:04 AM »

So what do us gamers do to make the switch? I know that Wine and Play on Linux exist, but do they really work that well? And with an extensive disk library and an ever growing Steam library, I just do not see Linux being a home for gamers.
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Re: Hello Everyone
« Reply #41 on: January 31, 2011, 11:09:27 AM »

So what do us gamers do to make the switch? I know that Wine and Play on Linux exist, but do they really work that well? And with an extensive disk library and an ever growing Steam library, I just do not see Linux being a home for gamers.

It's not much of a home for gamers yet, to be honest.  Until more game companies realize that it's an untapped market, it's an also-ran.

I've had success with WINE on a few titles, but failed miserably with most.  And I'm not much of a PC-based gamer, so you can probably magnify my disappointment by quite a bit if you want to apply it to a serious gamer.
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« Reply #42 on: March 16, 2011, 10:58:45 PM »

It's not much of a home for gamers yet, to be honest.  Until more game companies realize that it's an untapped market, it's an also-ran.

I've had success with WINE on a few titles, but failed miserably with most.  And I'm not much of a PC-based gamer, so you can probably magnify my disappointment by quite a bit if you want to apply it to a serious gamer.

A great website for finding out if a game or program will work is http://www.winehq.org/they have a database that includes almost any title you can think of and it is tested on several distros and they are rated based on performance

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« Reply #43 on: October 13, 2011, 11:14:38 AM »

Good Lord. This is like overhearing a conversation between two drunk people. While you're not. So they sound... incoherent, I guess is what I'm going for here. Yes.

Yes, you are right. Microsoft should have made a conscious decision to make less money -- in fact, it should have deliberately tailored its products so that nobody would buy them. Evil! Evil Microsoft, making something people want to buy. Evil!



They aren't already tailored like that? They cut and pasted and OS together and then put a ridiculous price tag on it.
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« Reply #44 on: October 13, 2011, 01:31:45 PM »

Three questions:

1) What's with the random links in your signature?
b) Did you notice you were replying to an intro thread from January?
three) I don't always use numbered lists?
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Re: Hello Everyone
« Reply #45 on: October 13, 2011, 05:36:59 PM »

Three questions:

1) What's with the random links in your signature?
b) Did you notice you were replying to an intro thread from January?
three) I don't always use numbered lists?
1) Best things I have found since joining this site.
b) Yes, I realised it was an older thread, but someone is still reading it.
three) Maybe? I feel like this is asking me to solve for x.
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« Reply #46 on: October 13, 2011, 05:53:08 PM »

three) Maybe? I feel like this is asking me to solve for x.

I think you were supposed to carry the "Did you notice" from question b.
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