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The Big Switch [Windoze to *nix]
Lord C:
I so0o0o0o0o want to format XP and replace it with MDK9.
I have had Mandrake on a partition since 8.2
But i still havnt erased XP because of the below reasons.
Any tips/ideas people?
:: I hate the look of websites with nice windows fonts like Verdana, they turn up all weird like Times New Roman on *nix ( like here )
:: I cant get Wine or WineX to work :/ therefore i can play CS or any other Half-Life mod :/
Im not a big gamer, but i love my HL mods.
:: Installing things is such a hassle.
I have to do all this .configure and .make commands in console - and they always get errors for me :/ anyone know any GUI's for this?
:: Themes. lol as with installing everything i just cant install god darned themes. GTK themes id ownlod, i click install but they are a biatch to get to work :/
:: MSN Messenger. all my mates use it, and i need it to talk with my CS clan, so its the only 'must' M$ product i need to use once XP is gone. I downloaded AMSN but its totally pap. GAIM is ok but not really got the functions of MSN (due to it being for AIM).
I know ive listed a lot of bad things about *nix that i cant get my head around. but i do know that mandrake pwns windoze (i have a few other distros of *nix and every version of windows - call me a collector, lol), but if i can get these things sorted XP is out of my luife for good :D
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Mandrake = Linux
Mandrkake > WinXP
WinXP > WinME
WinME < Everything
[ April 08, 2003: Message edited by: BaDDaSS[Mandrake] ]
B4DD455:
Back on Mandrake :D
Forgot the damn e-mail i registered the above account with :/ rofl
So can anyone help with any of the above?!
emh:
quote:Originally posted by BaDDaSS[Mandrake]:
I so0o0o0o0o want to format XP and replace it with MDK9.
I have had Mandrake on a partition since 8.2
But i still havnt erased XP because of the below reasons.
Any tips/ideas people?
:: I hate the look of websites with nice windows fonts like Verdana, they turn up all weird like Times New Roman on *nix ( like here )
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You can actually install Windows fonts in Mandrake. Just simply pull up Mandrake Control Center, select system on the left side, then select "fonts", then press the "Get Windows fonts" button.
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:: I cant get Wine or WineX to work :/ therefore i can play CS or any other Half-Life mod :/
Im not a big gamer, but i love my HL mods.
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You might want to poke around a bit on http://www.winehq.com for a solution. I've heard that there are issues with glibc 2.3.1 and wine. (glibc 2.3.1 is used in Mandrake 9.1) There are a few workarounds talked about on that site. My gut reaction would be to say to hang in there until they are able to support glibc 2.3.1. If you want it to work now, you might just want to stick with Mandrake 9.0 for the time being. (my apologies if you did try Mandrake 9.0, I was assuming you were using 9.1)
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:: Installing things is such a hassle.
I have to do all this .configure and .make commands in console - and they always get errors for me :/ anyone know any GUI's for this?
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Install all the development packages that are included with the Mandrake CD's. This will fix 90% of compiling errors. To install RPMS with a nice gui, you can use the software installer which is in the Mandrake Control Center. (it's set up at first with your CD's as your sources, but you can add other sources for rpms as well, i.e. web sources. A really good resource for Mandrake users is here: http://www.mandrakeusers.org )
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:: Themes. lol as with installing everything i just cant install god darned themes. GTK themes id ownlod, i click install but they are a biatch to get to work :/
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I'm not sure how to help here. Somebody else might have better information.
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:: MSN Messenger. all my mates use it, and i need it to talk with my CS clan, so its the only 'must' M$ product i need to use once XP is gone. I downloaded AMSN but its totally pap. GAIM is ok but not really got the functions of MSN (due to it being for AIM).
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Try Everybuddy. While it doesn't yet support display names for your buddies, it does support file transfer from and to MSN users. And the GAIM team is working on file transfer for MSN. (personally, I like GAIM a lot better. But I keep Everybuddy on my machine in case a friend wants to send me a file or vice versa via MSN)
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I know ive listed a lot of bad things about *nix that i cant get my head around. but i do know that mandrake pwns windoze (i have a few other distros of *nix and every version of windows - call me a collector, lol), but if i can get these things sorted XP is out of my luife for good :D
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Mandrake = Linux
Mandrkake > WinXP
WinXP > WinME
WinME < Everything
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You haven't listed any bad things, just some things that might seem daunting at first. Once you get the hang of it, you'll wonder how you ever did without. ;)
[ April 07, 2003: Message edited by: emh ]
NekkiBasara:
i am a big gamer and i'm worried about my games not being able to run on alternate OS......from what i read above, it seems Wine HQ is the only thing u need in order to run windows compatible softwares?
Calum:
what the hell is a "swith"?
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