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Calum:
i just installed red hat 7 a couple of weeks ago...
no broadband so will need to wait to get a newer one (mandrake 8.2 i hope)
it's a huge bunch of stuff that i will take a long time to learn. How long did it take to put linux together? no wonder it takes so long to put it to work!
unlike windows, it allows you to change everything and use all its features to do what you want, so it is much less intuitive than windows. For a few years now though, people have been working on the interface problem and it's coming along nicely i reckon, and by hell it's much more stable than windows.
I do reckon that X, GNOME and KDE could do with cleaning up their act a bit though, they will give linux a bad name in the GUI based exodus from windows that will be happening in thge next few years...
X needs to be more stable and GNOME and KDE need to be more customisable. They have both dumbed it down too much, and they still aren't totally compatible with each other...
just my thoughts on my own new OS!

Centurian:
Hey,

 
quote:Originally posted by Mike:

So I'd like to hear other people that have recently became non-M$ owned and their reasons why.  

Mike
Fuck the Big Brother M$
--- End quote ---


When I first came here it was under the nick of Alpha. You can get my story/reasons from this post.
Another thread on this forum

Master of Reality:
well... i started off on win 3.11, that was  a long time ago. Then i got upgraded to win95 and then 98.
I heard about Linux while i was using win 95. My brother had it on his computer, it didn't "look" as good as win95 and it loked confusing when he whizzed through commands, so i hadnt given it very much thought, till about a year later (about 2 or 3 years ago)

Win98 was boring, i wanted something that i could customize and do whatever i wanted on.
     So i got myself a copy of Linux-Mandrake 7.1 (i think) and installed it. Well, it pissed me off, because it didnt like some of my hardware, particularly my monitor. I ended up installing KDE and GNOME. I set the resolution (in the install) to the max, 1040X700 or whatevevr, and it showed up on my GUI as huge. It looked like it was 320X200.
So i re-installed linux a couple times and changed things in the install. Then it still didnt work, so i formated my linux partition and kept going with win98.

The past couple months i have been noticing just how bad windows is. I found it slow, un-customizable... I have to learn registry editing and hex-editing (for explorer.exe) to customize anything!

The other day i got pissed off desided to re-install win98 and wait a week (till i get my new motherboard) to install linux-mandrake 8.1.

But windows didnt want it that way. It wouldnt install, after 3 tries, i decided to give up, format everything (on my OS partition) and put on Linux-Mandrake right then/there.

So now i am using only linux-mandrake 8.1 with KDE as the GUI. It doesnt run at an incredible speed, but definately a lot faster than windoze does on my 200MHZ 80MG RAM machine.
I got a big book of linux which i got from my brother at my last install (see above), the book is a couple years old, but it still aplies to most things here.
Linux is so much easier than windows.

i have found out that:
"microsoft is not the answer,
microsoft is the question,
the answer is NO."
           --quote from someone's signature here.(cant remember whose)

mr6re9:
I remember using win98se and all the time I spent searching for freeware/shareware. From well known sites like download.com /etc. So what if you get a few trojans on the side. Right?

Those days are gone now. It's as simple as opening GnoRPM, and clicking WebFind. You then choose a mirror to suit your distro and voila! Hundreds if not thousands of binaries.

I needed a sniffer, lets call it tcpdump. Within 5 minutes I was capturing packets from the win box on the Linux box. And no reboot! There are some interesting things coming from that win box I'll tell ya. ET phones home at each reboot. The number is windowsupdate.microsoft.com.

Enjoy your new OS.

farmer6re9

preacher:
When XP and product activation were announced, I knew then I would never buy another MS OS.Ive used every Mandrake Linux since version 7.2, and now I have 9.0 installed on 3 computers here at home. What they dont realize is that people will not pay more for less features. I cant change my nic without asking for Microsoft's permission with XP. I dare any Windows XP user on this forum to tell me that they like this feature.

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