antitrust 0 Report post Posted December 9, 2004 Actually I'm finding the right linux operating system for me... I can recommend you one, it's called Bayanihan Linux (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/) or Peanut Linux (search it at google) I'm sure that your going to love the two... Those are very friendly Linux versions for a Windows user like you who would like to switch to Linux... If you still don't like the two, use Mandrake Linux... you can search their website at google also... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
icedragn 0 Report post Posted December 9, 2004 You've allready found the anwser : You're using KDE, which is heavy and slow. Use a better desktop manager, and you'll see that it's faster than WindowsIf for you the registry isn't hard, then a 4-years-old child can use all linux commands...No : only few win32-softwares are supported with things like Wine and Cross-over. There are much more native softwares that doesn't exist on win32. That's why there si more choice of softwares for GNU/Linux... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Didnt you read my whole post? ive used GNU as well, even gentoo and running apps they just dont seem faster, and quite frankely i preffer windows, lightyears aheead in games/app speed. And of course drivers. Sure Windows is the standard but therefore it is more supported and better, no version of linux have i see run faster on my system then a copy of windows. Sorry, but it just hasnt been that way for me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taupe 0 Report post Posted December 9, 2004 Didnt you read my whole post?Yes, and it shows that you missed many important things. And this post confirms itive used GNU as wellThat doesn't mean anything. GNU is a project, a concept, a philosophy.It's frigthening that you could ignore it... even gentooGentoo is a distribution.One again, you talk about things you don't understand... Linux is faster than Windows?, everybody admit it. If it was slower for you, it's because you use a slow DM, KDE. If you've allready used anything else, name it. Maybe there is an even heavier DM than KDE... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alperuzi 0 Report post Posted December 12, 2004 Security is definetly better, nVIDIA is extremely popular, and it runs faster generally, except for Gentoo, that's guarenteed to run faster. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> dude what on earth are you talking about? nVidia is a graphics card company, not a linux distrbution??!? how does it have anything to do with better security? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
osknockout 0 Report post Posted December 22, 2004 dude what on earth are you talking about? nVidia is a graphics card company, not a linux distrbution??!? how does it have anything to do with better security? Yeah, I know I posted a bit late... Those were a string of indirectly relateditems. I knw nVidia is a graphics card company. It has nothing to do with bettersecurity. What has to do with better security is the root level priveleges and such... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ThoughtVoid 0 Report post Posted December 28, 2004 Well, I must say thank you to this topic. I just spent the last week switching to Linux. It took many distros, but I've finally found one that I like. I started with Mandrake, Peanut, Knoppix, SimplyMepis, Mandrake again, Fedora Core, Novell evaluation, then I ended up on Suse (since I like Novell, I D/L free version of Suse). I can honestly say I love it. Stable, fast, easy to manipulate. Suse is known for being feature packed...true, it has the option to add the most packages out of any distro I downloaded. However, it was just that - an option. I can add what I want, remove what I want, all when I want extremely easily. I almost tried Gentoo for that reason...but the setup seemed to lengthy for me to just try another distro. There are only two complaints:Suse makes it very hard to obtain a free version. They allow it, but almost hide the instructions and mirrors to do so. Granted, I'll probibly donate because I like their software...but still. I can not seem to configure the firewall to allow me to connect to my network. Not a huge problem...just disable when I need to print or share files. But still an inconvience for me (and many others as I've noticed by doing a google for a fix).Over all...way better then windows. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
splehati 0 Report post Posted December 28, 2004 Yeah but maybe not Knoopix (as you where saying before) its quite diffcult to set up and even then it runs slowly. Maybe i just set Knoppix up wrong though Incidently i'm downloading Peanut Linux now,looks good <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hehe, knopix, or warlinux for wardriving with wireless Like i said before on some other topic, MACOS X, users don't know and i think most of them will never know switch to shell, or to set networking by hand on MACOS X.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bureX 0 Report post Posted January 6, 2005 One great advantage that Linux has over Windows is the fact that Windows just keeps getting slower and slower as the time passes by!Information keeps piling up in the registry, and temp files keep piling up on the HDD, and eventually, you will wonder why is my machine running so fu****g slow!?And also: Linux supported multitasking and more users on a same PC from the very beggining!If you are an advanced user, you should at least try Linux.I recommend Mandrake Linux for beginners... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
