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advice for linux newbie
toadlife:
IN case your wondering, on my machine, top shows X being run as my "paulb" account for some reason. KDE's sysguard shows it as being run as root - which is technically correct. I have no idea why top and KDE's sysguard show different owners. The BSD version of top might be programmed differently to recognize these types of special processes.
Aloone_Jonez:
Well all of your distros suck of you've installed lots of shit because my Vector Linux installation uses fuck all memory, it's light and fast.
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I only have 256MB of ram and 32MB is used for the graphics, so that's just 224MB for the system. The swap file is seldom used and when it is I'm running low on memory as far as I'm concerned, this is how all operating systems should be.
Hero999:
Linux can suck and it can be good, but I still prefur Windows for most things (because it's the only OS that lets me run all the software I use) even though I hate MS!
Lord C:
--- Quote from: Hero999 ---Linux can suck and it can be good, but I still prefur Windows for most things (because it's the only OS that lets me run all the software I use) even though I hate MS!
--- End quote ---
I think you're looking at it from a weird perspective.
Open your mind a little.
I could have started with a Acorn running ReactOS, and say "I prefer ReactOS to Windows/Linux/MacOSX because it's the only OS that runs the software I use".
Well, maybe it's the only OS that will run the software you use on that OS - but I'm very sure it isn't the only OS that will run the type of software you use.
Maybe Windows is the only OS that could run Microsoft Word (I know it isn't, but im talking hyperphetically), but most other OS' can run Word Processors!
See my point?
Give us a list of software you need/use, and I'm sure we can find out what works, and what alternatives there are for those that don't work, in other Operating Systems.
Welcome to the site - feel free to sign up ;)
BobTheHob:
I would have to recommend Ubuntu, Ubuntu has proved to be a very good distro for new users with minimal configuration, most of the time it works right off the bat. I have actually ordered 100 x86, and 30 PPC Ubuntu cd's to give to people at my college to use instead of winblows. I have successfully converted most of my less "techy" friends to linux (and i havent even recieived the CD's yet, just think of the possibilities, lol)
ps. no offense to you uber leet ubuntu users, its great for you guys too, lol, great for anyone really, billi Hates is prob using it as his main desktop OS and just not telling anybody, that bastard knows windoze will never match up to anything *NIX, and that includes OS X, which is BSD based me tinks.
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