Greg_M
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building a PC, and looking at operating systems.
is it worth changing to linux? any denifits?
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MikeLamb
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price, stability
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Greg_M
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what do you mean stability?
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CCA
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Ive worked with both at work and in my personal opinion i prefer working with windows to linux purely for the fact that our linux network tends to fall over alot more than our windows one.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Greg_M
what do you mean stability?
does crash as often, though it will take you longer to set up tbh - especially if you have hardware were you arnt likely to get drivers, so i would check that out first!
app-wise, there are similar stuff out for linux that is out on windows, but you wont get photoshop or anything, unless you want to run wine or a similar emulator to run window apps (which is quite slow).
also if you play games, dont bother, nothing special on linux.
however, if it just for a internet, email, word processing machine then go for it - if you want some serious work (using specific apps, photoshop, 3d work, music etc) then live with the stability of windows.
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Greg_M
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may stick with good old windows then
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Dan B
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quote:
Originally posted by CCA
Ive worked with both at work and in my personal opinion i prefer working with windows to linux purely for the fact that our linux network tends to fall over alot more than our windows one.
No easy way to say this, but if that's the case, then your Linux servers are exceptionally badly set up! 
We have Linux servers in work that have uptimes measured in years! 
Basically, to answer the OP, it all depends on what you require from an operating system......Windows, I will admit, is more user-friendly, most things are easy to configure for the new computer user up to medium-knowledge. Linux tends to be more of a niche market, because unless you want your system to stay standard from the day you installed it, there's a big chance you may have to play around with config-files - and these won't be anything with a graphical interface, you're delving deep into text-files. However, don't take that as a necessarily bad thing - a few months ago, I would have looked strangely at you if you'd asked if I used Linux directly, in work, but now both my laptop and desktop machine run just Linux (debian sarge), I don't directly use Windows at all...
There are some things, however, that Windows is still miles ahead of Linux on (games, to use the reason I still have a Windows desktop-machine at home), but Linux is slowing catching up in that respect (the two game-servers I help to admin in work, they both now have working Linux installs - Enemy Territory & Neverwinter Nights).
At the end of the day, there is no right or wrong answer to the question of "which operating system shall I use?", it really is down to personal preference...
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Russ
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quote:
Originally posted by Dan B
quote:
Originally posted by CCA
Ive worked with both at work and in my personal opinion i prefer working with windows to linux purely for the fact that our linux network tends to fall over alot more than our windows one.
No easy way to say this, but if that's the case, then your Linux servers are exceptionally badly set up!
We have Linux servers in work that have uptimes measured in years!
Basically, to answer the OP, it all depends on what you require from an operating system......Windows, I will admit, is more user-friendly, most things are easy to configure for the new computer user up to medium-knowledge. Linux tends to be more of a niche market, because unless you want your system to stay standard from the day you installed it, there's a big chance you may have to play around with config-files - and these won't be anything with a graphical interface, you're delving deep into text-files. However, don't take that as a necessarily bad thing - a few months ago, I would have looked strangely at you if you'd asked if I used Linux directly, in work, but now both my laptop and desktop machine run just Linux (debian sarge), I don't directly use Windows at all...
There are some things, however, that Windows is still miles ahead of Linux on (games, to use the reason I still have a Windows desktop-machine at home), but Linux is slowing catching up in that respect (the two game-servers I help to admin in work, they both now have working Linux installs - Enemy Territory & Neverwinter Nights).
At the end of the day, there is no right or wrong answer to the question of "which operating system shall I use?", it really is down to personal preference...
u typed all that??
you shud have typed
woman talking about computers = talks shit
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willay
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linux = opensource, free (in most cases), complicated.
windows = closed source, costs money, simple to use.
summary
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Mikorsa16v
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if your building a server go with Linux, CentOS, which is a free version of Linux (very similar to Red Hat 8 Enterprise) is good. I built a CentOS server for work a while ago and it serves its purpose: Running Scripts, Serving Databases for branches/users. Basically sitting there in the character linux shell - played around with the GUI for a while, got bored after 5 mins though - Linux GUI has come on a long way with drivers etc - it recognises devices etc.
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Dan B
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quote:
Originally posted by Russ
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Originally posted by Dan B
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Originally posted by CCA
Ive worked with both at work and in my personal opinion i prefer working with windows to linux purely for the fact that our linux network tends to fall over alot more than our windows one.
No easy way to say this, but if that's the case, then your Linux servers are exceptionally badly set up!
We have Linux servers in work that have uptimes measured in years!
Basically, to answer the OP, it all depends on what you require from an operating system......Windows, I will admit, is more user-friendly, most things are easy to configure for the new computer user up to medium-knowledge. Linux tends to be more of a niche market, because unless you want your system to stay standard from the day you installed it, there's a big chance you may have to play around with config-files - and these won't be anything with a graphical interface, you're delving deep into text-files. However, don't take that as a necessarily bad thing - a few months ago, I would have looked strangely at you if you'd asked if I used Linux directly, in work, but now both my laptop and desktop machine run just Linux (debian sarge), I don't directly use Windows at all...
There are some things, however, that Windows is still miles ahead of Linux on (games, to use the reason I still have a Windows desktop-machine at home), but Linux is slowing catching up in that respect (the two game-servers I help to admin in work, they both now have working Linux installs - Enemy Territory & Neverwinter Nights).
At the end of the day, there is no right or wrong answer to the question of "which operating system shall I use?", it really is down to personal preference...
u typed all that??
you shud have typed
woman talking about computers = talks shit
I was being polite!
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John
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Windows xp is very stable.
The older ones aren't even quite as bad as people think.
Its not actually windows crashing the majority of the time.
Its the programs and drivers written by other people that crash.
In vista they are taking even more measures to insure when a 3rd party piece of code crashes it doesn't take the system down with it.
As for building a pc, I would say windows.
From my brief personal experience of linux I couldnt' be annoyed.
I had to compile a program to install it.
Majority of users would rather download it and double click a link.
Only other deciding factor would be the price of windows, it can add a significant price on top of budget hardware and customers don't understand why 1 little cd costs so much money.
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TNM
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to be honest id say if you have to ask about linux then dont both installing it. If you can work out how to.
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