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10 Good Reasons to Use Linux
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25 Feb 2007 Sun 10:50 am |
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Linux is good.
Windows is good too.
Each of them has its advantages and disadvantages.
Windows is easy to use and setup. But gets confused after 1 year. A reformat is generally needed. The most important thing for me is IME (input method editor) the support.
Windows supports it fully. I can input English, Turkish, Korean, Arabic, French with a click of mouse.
I also have Suse 10.2 installed.
I like XGL GUI and its effects. I like the speed that I get from linux environment. Better memory management than windows.
I don't have any problems except some common ACPI problems, that is not very important, because I already have enough support.
But I am not happy with the mouse and IME support in Linux.
I couldn't setup the mouse to support all 10 buttons.
And it is a real pain to change IME for different character sets.
On windows you pay for everything.
On linux you don't need to pay for anything theoretically.
But paying in windows saves your time.
And the being free in Linux saves your money.
The question is which one is most important.
Time or Money?
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25 Feb 2007 Sun 02:55 pm |
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time is money 
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25 Feb 2007 Sun 04:58 pm |
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Quoting SunFlowerSeed:
Windows is easy to use and setup. |
This is where many people make a mistake most. Linux used to be hard to set up, but today it is even easier to set up than Windows -with perfect graffical user interface from the very beginning to the desktop, within less than half an hour time. What is easy or difficult is not Windows or Linux itself, but changing, along with learning new things, our habits concerning using an operating system. Take the feature copy/cut and paste or drag and drop. Let's be honest and remember how much difficult we had in getting used to them when starting to learn Windows at first; how many times we were showed, reminded, and repeated such features till we carried out them by ourselves.
Quoting SunFlowerSeed: Time or Money? |
Both! I, for instance,spent only about 100 hours in total to learn and get used to Linux- that's all. Since starting Linux, I have never restarted my system and it never crashed and thus I wasted no time to fix any problem. Now consider, let alone other time-wasting problems, "just" your wasting your time, in total, with the crashes and restarting Windows within a year.
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26 Feb 2007 Mon 11:06 am |
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Quoting AllTooHuman: Quoting SunFlowerSeed:
Windows is easy to use and setup. |
This is where many people make a mistake most. Linux used to be hard to set up, but today it is even easier to set up than Windows -with perfect graffical user interface from the very beginning to the desktop, within less than half an hour time. What is easy or difficult is not Windows or Linux itself, but changing, along with learning new things, our habits concerning using an operating system. Take the feature copy/cut and paste or drag and drop. Let's be honest and remember how much difficult we had in getting used to them when starting to learn Windows at first; how many times we were showed, reminded, and repeated such features till we carried out them by ourselves.
Quoting SunFlowerSeed: Time or Money? |
Both! I, for instance,spent only about 100 hours in total to learn and get used to Linux- that's all. Since starting Linux, I have never restarted my system and it never crashed and thus I wasted no time to fix any problem. Now consider, let alone other time-wasting problems, "just" your wasting your time, in total, with the crashes and restarting Windows within a year. |
Well, actually my intention is not to start a fight between Linux and Windows.
I already mentioned that I use both.
The problem is not the USERS.
Problem is manufacturers who manufacter with Windows Logo.
And they are soooooo many to fight against.
My computer is a notebook, ASUS by the brand which is carrying the Logo ''Designed for M/S Windows XP''.
I installed SUSE 10 first then I changed to SUSE 10.2
I am also agree that setup GUI for linux is better than Windows. But sometimes it is hard to reach that screen, especially if you don't know what to do.
Like ACPI=OFF.
There are 2 ACPI compilers. One from Intel and the other one from MS. And ACPIs which are compiled by MS compiler is kind of buggy which locks your computer up when you try to start the set up software for linux. So you cannot install linux, after staring at the black screen for some time then you decide that there is something wrong. It is not a fault of Linux of course but the fault of the manufacturer who has some commercial agreements with MS.
I can say that the most of the hardware are manufactured with windows logo. So it is hard to make them work with linux.
Linux is a rapidly growing O/S, finding solutions for those buggy hardwares. But not always. As most of the web-cams mounted in the notebooks by the manufacturer doesn't work with linux.
Some days ago I was amazed to see my SD-Card reader was working. It wasn't working with Suse 10.
But my good-working ACPI was gone when I switched to SUSE 10.2 I had hard and long time to make it work again.
There are many stories to tell for both Linux and Windows.
If the system works flawlessly, there is nothing much to do for a simple user. You can read-type your mail, watch your favorite movie, prepare documents in OO or other simple tasks. It is not different than windows. Also Linux gives you variety of programs to do what you want to do. So you can change to another if you don't like the one you are using. And most of the software comes with your installation DVD free.
But you may not play your favorite game on Linux. There is a project called WINE to help you to run windows programs/games on Linux. And there is one commercial one especially designed for games. You can try and see.
And the other problem is that the computers we bought came with Windows, pre-installed. So you don't need to pay extra money for windows unless you are thinking of an upgrade to the latest one. But you have to pay for MS Office for your documents, Nero etc for your DVD,CDs etc. You can also use OO in windows, or some other free software, like I do, Finalburner for your CD/DVDs etc.
I especially like the turnable desktop(XGL) in Linux that even the latest Vista doesn't give that. It is very good to keep your works on separate desktops. And effects are also nice to see.
Now, I am on Windows. 2 word documents, 1 dictionary software, firefox and msn are open. I am having hard time to reach the window I wanted with a single mouse click. There is Alt-Tab. But I mostly use mouse to drag one window to the side to find the one I wanted. Kind of annoying actually. I can change into desktops with a single mouse movement and enjoy reading or typing in full screen in Linux.
But there is something that I already mentioned in my last post that I need multi-language input in my O/S.
Windows support this fully. And it is hard to get that in Linux especially for far-eastern languages. There is Xim I know, but still couldn't succeed installing it correctly.
BSODs are the most annoying thing on windows. I usually have 1 in 1-2 weeks if I am trying to hassle with windows for some weird reasons especially on hardware. It was my wireless card last time.
But windows is not that bad. They are also professional programmers to do their best as the way they liked. Just there are people thinking and deciding instead of you, and you are paying and thanking them for they are doing those 2 hard things.
There are (-)s and (+)s in each of them.
The list that I was typing can be longer than you thought.
I really support open systems, because everything is open and you know that there is nothing being hid from you.
Well, if you have enough knowledge to inspect the source code though if you wanna do it yourself. There is and there will be another one inspecting those things for you if you have trust with those people.
Conclusion : Well, still nothing.
I'd better start to write my own O/S. 
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