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Help me! I'm spoiled by Win98 but i want Linux!
Lennon:
I saw those shots of Mandrake 8.8 or whatever so I'll install Mandrake. Looks like I cant go wrong. But i'm only concerned about hardware drivers and how to install programs, where to find them in the first place, etc??
Lennon:
3rd post in a row:
And i suppose HD partition is absolutely necesary?
Lennon:
pls read my long post you nice person you;
Oh well thanks but i'm not that lazy ;) i figure as much as I can by myself. So i found that i can install these files by typing:
.RPM - you can install .RPM files by typing into the commandline:
# rpm -Uvh /path/to/something.RPM
I suppose thats true for installing Mozilla too, and i will learn the rest of uesful switches (such as -i --force) as i go along, i suppose it would be asking too much for you to explaing all the possible switches to me.
Now, why doesn't the fuckmicrosoft.com guy put up a special section for us Newbies who decide to install Linux and kick Microsoft in the nuts? It would be useful and i believe once people read about it and see screenshots like i did, they will see that the GUI isnt ThAt bad and the benefits they get are huge (excluding gaming). Would Calum or whoevers the boss around here, consider my suggestion?
Another question: Does Mandrake 9.1 which i'll be downloading for the next 38 hours have an integrated compiler/builder/linker or whatever with which i can directly compile some source code i get over the WWW? So many free programs need to be compiled!
In what language is the programming done in Linux? I'm learning C++ so can I make some of my own stuff?
silentwarrior:
OH MY GOD..i saw linux screenshots that buddy gave...linux is really amazing...but is it used only by coding ...i mean no win type things? i've never used linux ...i 've always been on win...do you think it would be hard for me to understand linux?
slave:
I really am annoyed -- sometimes -- at the perception that Linux is only used for coding, or you have to know how to program to use it. I myself am majoring in Computer Science, but most of the time I use Linux to surf the web, do email, word processing, drawing, and play games (warcraft 3 and counterstrike being my favorite at the moment) Most Windows apps won't work on Linux but many games will with the help of wine. There are certainly "win-type" things in Linux, meaning you can do practically everything you could do in Windows, like file sharing, games, office, etc.
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