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Rigit   04-24-2009 at 07:42:13 PM

Well I finally did it. I installed Ubunto Linux. I chose that because it's free and it seemed to be relatively well done. It's SOOO much different from windows. I'm not near qualified yet to bench test it, but it seems to be a lot faster. I also like the way you could just install it on a machine which already has windows on it. Getting use to task bars at the top and bottom is tricky. I have to test other things like music and video and stuff, but in the end I might even convince my wife to switch. The only draw back there is finding all of the popular programs written for linux. One other thing that's worth mentioning, I installed it on a gateway box fresh out of the crate so to speak. No mods have ever been done.(other that replacing the HD with a 500GB Hard Drive.) well I'm off to test the music and video now. Mark :na:

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Bronze Linux badge linux_0   04-24-2009 at 11:41:15 PM
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Welcome aboard :)

I hope you installed Ubuntu desktop 9.04. It was released yesterday and was well received from what I hear.

I'd suggest sticking to the apt-get repositories.

VLC and MPlayer usually do a great job with video and music.

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randomizer   04-25-2009 at 04:45:37 AM
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I discovered yesterday that you can remove the taskbar at the top and add items to the lower one to make it more Windows-like.

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Bronze Linux badge linux_0   04-25-2009 at 08:49:31 AM
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You can also use kde. :)

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randomizer   04-25-2009 at 08:54:03 AM
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I'm not a fan of the Plasma desktop in KDE 4.x, it's too unconventional for my tastes. I like to think that my whole desktop is my desktop, not a part of it ;)

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sub mesa   04-27-2009 at 02:33:16 PM
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I suggest you install wine per instructions here:

It should be able to run most of your windows apps while you switch to linux. If apps don't run in Wine, (photoshop cs4 still has some issues) you can use Virtualbox to run windows XP inside linux, like a fallback solution. The funny thing is there's also 3D support coming for Virtualbox, so soon you could be playing Windows games on Windows while having Linux as host operating system. :P

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sub mesa   04-27-2009 at 02:33:56 PM
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Here i meant: http://www.winehq.org/download/deb

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randomizer   04-28-2009 at 03:03:04 AM
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I doubt 3D support for VB will be good enough for even semi-recent games though. VMWare Workstation already has 3D support but isn't much good for games. Oddly, I can run the FEAR benchmark quite well on max settings but get 2FPS on the lowest settings in a realtime map.

Wine really needs better support for Steam too (the app itself, not the games). It's far too unstable.

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Zorak   04-28-2009 at 10:54:20 PM
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randomizer wrote :

I discovered yesterday that you can remove the taskbar at the top and add items to the lower one to make it more Windows-like.



Yeah, it's really nice to be able to customize the interface to the way you want it, is it not? As for my desktop, I rather enjoy removing EVERYTHING except the system tray, getting rid of most or all desktop icons so that I just have a nice clean desktop, and binding the windows button to opening a terminal. Works great for me, and since I alt-tab between windows 99%+ of the time, I find I don't really lose anything by not having the window list available. Then again, I am probably not your typical computer user by this point.

As for steam, we may not have to worry about WINE's support for it much longer if we are lucky. Supposedly, Postal 3 comes out this year, and since it is slated to support Linux and it uses the Source engine... Anyways, cross your fingers!

-Zorak

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Rigit   04-30-2009 at 04:31:39 AM
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linux_0 wrote :

Welcome aboard :)

I hope you installed Ubuntu desktop 9.04. It was released yesterday and was well received from what I hear.

I'd suggest sticking to the apt-get repositories.

VLC and MPlayer usually do a great job with video and music.

:)


Actually no I downloaded 2 days too soon. But I have already upgraded. Nice. They accomplish what MS tried to do with superiority. Easy on resources, fast, smooth, supports everything printer video etc. I really like it.

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Bronze Linux badge linux_0   04-30-2009 at 04:01:57 PM
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Sweeeeet :)

If you have any questions fire away.

Good luck :)

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randomizer   04-30-2009 at 04:19:03 PM
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I have a question. Have you checked your PMs lately? :kaola: The new interface is missing the flashing PM notification icon so you never know until you scroll to the bottom of the root forum page.

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Bronze Linux badge linux_0   04-30-2009 at 07:40:07 PM
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I'm sorry randomizer I had no idea I had any PMs :(

In fact I didn't even know how to check my PMs using the new interface until about 10 seconds ago.

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randomizer   04-30-2009 at 11:11:22 PM
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Haha, yea it is pretty bad with the PMs. I'll see if I can get them to come up with a better.

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