SUSE rox my box

[Maturion]

Yes i think openSUSE rox.
its way better than any other linux distro
ubuntu sucks, kubuntu even more...

GET OPENSUSE 11 FROM HTTP://WWW.OPENSUSE.ORG

[Code-Red]

If I ever want to run only a quarter of my programs I need, I'll come over to Linux.

Until then, I'll be on Steam playing HL2, while you'll be playing TuxRacer.

[|darc|]

If I ever want to run only a quarter of my programs I need, I'll come over to Linux.

Until then, I'll be on Steam playing HL2, while you'll be playing TuxRacer.

You can play HL2 easily on Linux.

[Specially Cork]

lol linux.

[melancholy]

I once tried Linux. I burned Ubuntu to a disk and tried to boot from it, but it would crash before even loading the boot screen. I burned three different Ubuntu versions, searched the internet for solutions, and finally found out that my video card wasn't compatible with Ubuntu's boot menu.

That was pretty much my whole Linux experience. Two hours of work and couldn't even load my computer past the post screen.

[Maturion]

Until then, I'll be on Steam playing HL2, while you'll be playing TuxRacer.

I am playing Quake III Arena, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Enemy Territorry Quake Wars.

Vista was so annyoing. Linux is great.

[Code-Red]

If I ever want to run only a quarter of my programs I need, I'll come over to Linux.

Until then, I'll be on Steam playing HL2, while you'll be playing TuxRacer.

You can play HL2 easily on Linux.

On Steam, legally?

[Nico0020]

I play half life 2 deathmatch on linux all the time. I'll be installing office 2007 soon when i go back to school in the fall.

and yes all totally legal, runs seamlessly.

so anyways, I use ubuntu, what advantage is there with suse over ubuntu?

and sorry guys thinking linux cant run anything is an outdated way of thinking, linux is not the utra nerd only OS it used to be.

[Maturion]

SuSE has YaST...

[Specially Cork]

and sorry guys thinking linux cant run anything is an outdated way of thinking

No it isn't. Considering linux is supposedly now a "non-nerd OS" - I will tell you the "non-nerd OS" way of thinking: You double-click on something, and it runs. If something takes more than this to run, it either:
- doesn't run properly
or
- requires "nerd OS skills" to make it run.

No Mr. Casual PC User wants to ever be typing in text commands, downloading how-to documents from community forums, download libraries, running emulators, or anything similar.

[not just souLLy now]

IF LINUX WAS ANY GOOD IT WOULDNT BE FREE IDIOTS LOL

[Specially Cork]

IF LINUX WAS ANY GOOD IT WOULDNT BE FREE IDIOTS LOL

Linux is funded by spyware. They don't have to install some hidden executable on your computer, they just wait for you to join a Linux community forum and post everything about yourself there. This is a true scandal.

[|darc|]

and sorry guys thinking linux cant run anything is an outdated way of thinking

No it isn't. Considering linux is supposedly now a "non-nerd OS" - I will tell you the "non-nerd OS" way of thinking: You double-click on something, and it runs. If something takes more than this to run, it either:
- doesn't run properly
or
- requires "nerd OS skills" to make it run.

No Mr. Casual PC User wants to ever be typing in text commands, downloading how-to documents from community forums, download libraries, running emulators, or anything similar.

Linux is fine for casual users. All the basic apps are there, are preinstalled, and work properly, if you have a decent distro. It's when users want to go beyond the casual realm that things begin to cause trouble.

My dad uses his computer to do a few simple tasks for his business. He needs to read his email, be able to visit websites, type and save documents, and attach these documents to emails for his customers. Sometimes he'll want to print these documents. Occasionally he'll visit YouTube to watch some videos. Oh, and when my sister comes over, she likes to get on my dad's laptop and visit her myspace and show my mom photos.

Linux works fine for these things. I would imagine that most people don't go beyond these simple tasks. Just because Linux doesn't fix your application doesn't mean it doesn't fit in for many applications. It's perfect for very casual users, OS-tinkerers, programmers, and servers. Of course, most of these are experienced users, so I'm not saying that 2009 is the year of Linux on the desktop or that Linux is taking over anytime soon. But plenty of vendors are offering Linux distributions preinstalled now, including Dell. To users who start off using computers with Linux, it is no more difficult than learning Windows. Switching is much harder, but switching to Mac OS X is pretty difficult, too, and most people consider that an "easy" OS to use.

Disclaimer: I use Windows XP on my desktop, Mac OS X on my laptop, and Linux on my server. My dad's laptop has been juggled among XP, Vista, and Linux.

[Specially Cork]

I think I'm bias because the one time I used Linux for any length of time I had to use OpenOffice. It corrupted all my documents with Japanese text in them without warning and I had to rewrite everything again. Fucked me right off.

Plus I have no problems with Windows XP whatsoever.

[|darc|]

I think I'm bias because the one time I used Linux for any length of time I had to use OpenOffice. It corrupted all my documents with Japanese text in them without warning and I had to rewrite everything again. Fucked me right off.

Plus I have no problems with Windows XP whatsoever.

I don't see why you should be biased against Linux because of OpenOffice.org. It's available on Windows, too, and I would imagine most OpenOffice.org users are Windows users. There's more than one mature office suite available for Linux, but OpenOffice.org is the most popular.

[Specially Cork]

I don't see why you should be biased against Linux because of OpenOffice.org

Something very shit happened because I wasn't using what I normally use. It's hard to come back from that.

[not just souLLy now]

IS DAT SOME SRS INTENET BUISNESS GUYS?

[Juan]

SUSE = NAZI

[Roofus]

OS/2 IS THE BEST OS BILL GATES EVER MADE

[Specially Cork]

If Linux wants to be seen as a non-nerd OS it should rename itself to FamilyCenter Lite: Sunshine Edition and should replace TuxRacer with a Cooking Mama rip-off and a free FM/AM Radio-alarm clock.