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    How many people solely use linux?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Thomas, Jul 22, 2010.

  1. Ayle

    Ayle Trailblazer

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    Gaming is the only thing still anchoring me to Windows. Everything else I can do on Kubuntu.
     
    Ayle, Feb 7, 2011
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  2. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Except make Kubuntu not be horrible. :p
     
    Thomas, Feb 7, 2011
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  3. cassar

    cassar Notebook Evangelist

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    im enjoying the use of both os's and im not looking forward to switch to linux completely nor to windows completely and im looking forward to buy a mac
     
    cassar, Feb 9, 2011
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  4. Texanman

    Texanman Master of all things Cake

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    Same... if it wasn't for the fact that i play games I would be running some form of Ubuntu on my main computer
     
    Texanman, Feb 9, 2011
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  5. TuxDude

    TuxDude Notebook Deity

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    Yeah I've installed Ubuntu using the alternate install ISO and not the normal ISO since that is the only one which supports installing off directly from the ISO without burning to a disk.... But alternate install gives very basic options and it is pretty vague in the install procedure as well....
     
    TuxDude, Feb 12, 2011
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  6. Ayle

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    What do you have against it? I'm back on 11.04 x64 for the time being.
     
    Ayle, Feb 13, 2011
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  7. Thomas

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    It is near universally known as the worse KDE implementation around, as well as ubuntu's ugly step sister.
     
    Thomas, Feb 13, 2011
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  8. Ayle

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    Heh? Got any official source to backup that claim? Beside the software suite how is ubuntu's KDE any different from Fedora's?
     
    Ayle, Feb 13, 2011
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  9. Thaenatos

    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    This and my xbox media streaming is what is anchoring me to windows too. Honestly Im considering testing out linux and xbox to see how well it works fully convert. I honestly would then only need windows for compiling somthing for windows and thats what virtual machines are for. All in all I havent booted windows up at work or my mobile rig in at least a month, but it still runs on my server at home.
     
    Thaenatos, Feb 18, 2011
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  10. Quackers

    Quackers Notebook Guru

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    Ubuntu only nowadays for me.
     
    Quackers, Feb 18, 2011
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  11. theZoid

    theZoid Notebook Savant

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    Come'on Thomas....tell us what you _really_ think :p :p
     
    theZoid, Feb 21, 2011
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  12. JOSEA

    JOSEA NONE

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    I would change yesterday if I knew that I could get my Asus running properly. I used to use Mandrake, but that was when I had a job and was told ... that can not be done AFA running in a network environment. Maybe that is why I am out of a job ;)
     
    JOSEA, Feb 21, 2011
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  13. Thomas

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    I could write books on it :)
     
    Thomas, Feb 21, 2011
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  14. Thaenatos

    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    Well aside from the server I never touch I primarily use ubuntu (centos at school). I still have my win7 loaded on both the thinkpad and XPS but I never touch them as the cube makes it so much better to do system admin on linux then windows. Now if I only had time to setup my dvd ripping on the server...
     
    Thaenatos, Feb 21, 2011
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    chousho Newbie

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    Sadly, I haven't had too much luck getting all of the games I want to run under wine. So for now, I have a 100GB partition running Win 7 that's strictly for gaming (and Netflix).

    Other than that, Arch handles everything I need. Even Ventrilo (Mangler) is somewhat okay under GNU/Linux. Firefox for Web, Pidgin for chat, Skype, etc. all have binary packages available that work great.

    Once Steam games become available natively to *nix, I'm dumping any traces of Windows.
     
    chousho, Feb 21, 2011
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  16. RootForce

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    I would but I use windblows for games.
     
    RootForce, Feb 22, 2011
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  17. ral

    ral Notebook Evangelist

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    I use Unix based operating systems exclusively :)

    Ubuntu Linux 10.10
    Mac OSX 10.6.6
    Android 2.2
     
    ral, Feb 25, 2011
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  18. Thomas

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    Unix-like :)
     
    Thomas, Feb 27, 2011
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  19. urlwolf

    urlwolf Notebook Enthusiast

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    I use sabayon and love it. Better than ubuntu by far.
     
    urlwolf, Mar 1, 2011
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