Try Linux

Originally posted by Bowmann
You know nothing.


Proof:

'hassle'
'marginal difference'


And I don't get invited to those sort of parties 😠

Oh? We have a great time. We sing songs such as 'Grub Lilo Grub Lilo Lah lah lah lah'. Also we play games such as 'Guess the run level' and 'Pass the dependencies'.

Originally posted by jimslyp69
Oh? We have a great time. We sing songs such as 'Grub Lilo Grub Lilo Lah lah lah lah'. Also we play games such as 'Guess the run level' and 'Pass the dependencies'.

This sounds like a special school for autistics.

Originally posted by Bowmann
You know nothing.


Proof:

'hassle'
'marginal difference'


And I don't get invited to those sort of parties 😠

Read again, B.

Originally posted by Palynka
Read again, B.

I did at least twice, P., and still can't believe it.

Originally posted by catfoodtim
Nonsense.

I've installed Suse previously and at last weekend just installed Ubuntu.

Ubuntu shocked me at how easy the install was. I had to input my Timezone, and Language - It autodetected everything from my graphics card to my mouse. I was online within half an hour.

I don't want to be forced into upgrading to Windows Vista, or to have a 64 ...[text shortened]... everything in Linux I can in XP. I'm encouraged to learn more rather than be molly-coddled.

Do I need a partition?

Originally posted by Palynka
Do I need a partition?

You need something.

Originally posted by Bowmann
You need something.

Why?

Originally posted by Palynka
Do I need a partition?

Yes you need another partitiion on your hard drive to install it. That's if you want to dual boot it with windows. I think that's what you were asking?

Originally posted by Palynka
Do I need a partition?

You already have a partition.

Originally posted by jimslyp69
Yes you need another partitiion on your hard drive to install it. That's if you want to dual boot it with windows. I think that's what you were asking?

No, that's what I said I didn't want to do. That's why I was calling it an hassle.

Originally posted by Wheely
You already have a partition.

I already have an OS. Your point?

Originally posted by catfoodtim
Nonsense.

I've installed Suse previously and at last weekend just installed Ubuntu.


I don't want to be forced into upgrading to Windows Vista, or to have a 64bit processor, nor constantly forced to authenticate my OS by MS. I can do everything in Linux I can in XP. I'm encouraged to learn more rather than be molly-coddled.

Why is it that you guys keep changing the whatever theyre called names? Cant you be happy with the one you use? It seems to me that you all just tend to change your distro`s more than use the computer 😀


And if you dont want to be forced into constantly (which is false unless you change your m/board and cpu every week) into authenticating your OS by MS. Get a Mac

Im happy to drive my car. I dont want to be a mechanic. I think Linux users are a bit of a bunch of mechanics (in the nicest way 😉) Y`all want to dig a little bit deeper into the workings and not just use the damn thing.

Originally posted by Paulie
Why is it that you guys keep changing the whatever theyre called names? Cant you be happy with the one you use? It seems to me that you all just tend to change your distro`s more than use the computer.

This is a good question actually. Since GNU/Linux is so customisable, it used to be that one put together different distros for different purposes. [Edited due to wrong point - it's not really about which programs you install but how things work and appear in the background - how you want to work with the system]

It still is, but there's this market for clientside computers trying to fit every niche, and that's where all these similar distros come from. They all want to be the first distro of choice for everyone. There are differences between them, and that's why it's fun to try them out (and since installation became so easy on most distros it's really not a big hassle). I have my handmade installation built on top of linuxfromscratch, and another one built on slackware. The rest is just for fun. 😀

Originally posted by stocken
This is a good question actually. Since GNU/Linux is so customisable, it used to be that one put together different distros for different purposes. [Edited due to wrong point - it's not really about which programs you install but how things work and appear in the background - how you want to work with the system]

It still is, but there's this market for c ...[text shortened]... top of linuxfromscratch, and another one built on slackware. The rest is just for fun. 😀

Thanks for that very informative (non bashing) answer 🙂


So in the future, do you see linux getting so big it will have to merge into one OS, and not a bunch of slightly different OS`s (if thats the right way to put it)?