Which distribution do you use?

Soon, you will realise that the XP partition is useless (and of course the OS), and you will get the unstoppable urge to get rid of it, and put the space into the Linux one.

In fact, I never went through a dual-booting phase, so it won't be long now for you...

 

really? ive been dual-booting between xp and ubuntu since 5.04 >_>

 

It took me 12 months to completely ditch Windows.

I've now moved onto Ubuntu 6.10, and am happy with my Beryl-ness, mpd, and Counter-Strike.

 

I would switch completely, but there are a few applications I cant get to run with wine. And I'm way too cheep to buy Cadega.

 

Same WRT Cedega, when the rest of the OS costs $0, It just seems so steep to pay $5/month.

 

Sorry to hear. What took you so long?

Let me guess - you are like me and use Web Design/Photo-Editing/Graphic Design progs, such as Adobe's/Macromedia's Studio 8 and InDesign ? Those run under Wine, albeit tweaked Wine...and between ReactOS and WINE, all the bases are pretty much covered for free.

 

LOL, you were editing the first post as I was trying to quote you.

And, it took that long to get over video gaming, really. I used to be a complete sucker for FEAR and ArmA, and those newer games never ran on WINE. Now that I don't go for frivolous graphics, and stick with the classics, everything I do can be done on Linux.

 

Sorry. I was merging my double post.

Oh that's reasonable. Right on. I had my weaning period, too, right before going to college.

 

My weaning period traversed right through my first year of university. Only at the end of last year was I really comfortable without games. Besides, I'm sure this development can only help my social and study lives.

No regrets here!

 

No regrets here, either...but I am a bit embarrassed because I weaned myself off PC games, but could afford a PSP now that I am in college. Luckily the PSP doesn't stop me from going to classes, it just makes me ignore boring lecturers!

 

I'm exactly the same! The day I gave up PC games was very near to the day I bought my PSP. I just play FF7 now if I'm bored in lectures.

 

I'm about ready to finally drop Windows to be honest with you. PC gaming is good and all, and I plan on holding out for Crysis. But other than that... meh. I now have an Xbox 360, Wii, and PSP; this satisfies my gaming needs fully at this point. All the games I have on PC I can now get on Xbox 360, and Quake 4 is Linux compatible, so I won't even have to lose that one.

Therefore, my plans are as follows: When Feisty comes out, I'm reformatting my hard drive, setting about 70GB aside for it, the rest will go to Windows for my Engineering apps. Later on down the year after Santa Rosa and after I get a new car, I'm going to look at getting a new Mac laptop that will not run Windows at all. Betwixt the Mac and Feisty, I feel like my Windows usage will drop dramatically, and I'm not sad at all about that.

 

Sounds like a good plan!

 

I want to venture into Linux eventually, soon enough.

 

Good! We'll be around to help you make the transition.

 

+1. We're always looking forward to new users.

Do you think we could create some kind of NBR Linux group? Something like the ATi Overclocking group? That might be cool, or maybe I'm just a huge nerd...

 

This is a nice idea. Let's get on it! I'm starting a new thread for it.

 

I used Fedora Core 4 and 5 from June 2005 up through the fall of last year. I got sick of normal system updates hosing the system and switched to Kubuntu 6.06 (now 6.10), which is what I voted for.

I find I like Kubuntu a lot more than I ever liked Fedora, mainly because of how well things worked out of the box, I much prefer the DEB packaging system, and I like how much software is beginning to come pre-packaged for it.

- Trip

 

i use ubuntu edgy 6.10 on my inspiron 8600.

 

I've found that I love Scorched3D, as well as sudoku games. You might also try kq on Linux. Try those out if you get bored of FF7