Operating Systems > Linux and UNIX
OK *nix heads, what should I do?
billy_gates:
I highly suggest BeOS. Its a wonderful OS. Its fast and easy. Its very much like OS 9 and X. It is far easier than Linux. And the GUI won't crash on you like X11 does every 5 minutes. I use OSX, and on my PC I use BeOS and windows. I trashed my slackware installation cus I hated it. Linux with its archaic file structures and building code and using apt-get and ancient X11 which crashes like no other. Combined with its lack of response and visual cues as to when something is happening. All work together to make every distro of Linux THE least appealing OS that I have ever used.
Go with BeOS if you want to use the computer
Linux is good, combined with webmin, for a server. Webmin makes it so you never have to touch that archaic OS. Instead you can manage everything from any browser on any system.
I highly suggest BeOS. Try it first. Its small, and quick and easy to install. So then if you don't like it you don't lose much time. Then if you don't like BeOS you can spend hours playing around with the installation of some bloated 3 disc linux distro. I KNOW you won't like that. So at that point its time to use MS or just salvage the PC for RAM, optical drives, and Hard Drives.
Good Luck, I wish you good PC'in.... although it can't be that good if your a mac user. I hate using my PC no matter what OS is on it.
Laukev7:
quote: Then if you don't like BeOS you can spend hours playing around with the installation of some bloated 3 disc linux distro. I KNOW you won't like that.
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I second that. For nearly three years I've been toying aimlessly and switching between various Linux distros, trying to escape the Microsoft monopoly. I tried to like Linux, but none of the distros ever satisfied me completely; all that time I lost tinkering my Linux distro(s) to my taste, all that time lost installing package after package to get the features I need, without ever knowing what to install, and ending up with a huge maze of similar applications, few of which I actually used. Even with apt I had problems. All that for distros that look too much like the OS I wanted to escape in the first place.
Eventually I got SICK of Linux, and decided to revert to Windows and BeOS until I get the money to buy a Mac, which I should have done in the first place, as it was what I really wanted for a long time. Fortunalely, as I entered college, I have the chance to use Mac OS X at school, and I use it as much as possible.
hm_murdock:
Linux is not a desktop system.
'nuff said.
it's great for servers, but forget it on the desktop
Laukev7:
quote:Originally posted by Darth Jimmy James:
Linux is not a desktop system.
'nuff said.
it's great for servers, but forget it on the desktop
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Exactly my op
hm_murdock:
IM me sometime, Laukev, if ya got an AIM client
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