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Finding The Right OS

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TonyFordz:
Thank you for all the ideas... This PC will keep windows regardless. I need it for my programs, and games. I will be putting something else on the 2nd I will be building. As for what I am not sure right now.
 
About Redhat, I used a copy of Mandrake one time, and it was a real bitch trying to get it to notice my eithernet cards, and I never did find drivers that supported it, so i gave up, and deleted it. That was a different board then, and to be honest I think I would be better off with something like Free BSD. Not sure though, as I know nothing at all about it.
 
For the most part I am a lazy bastard when it comes to reading, and research. I want something simple and easy to use. Not something that will challenge me, I get enough of that with the BS of windows. Every time you go to a damn web site some shit is forced into you're PC. It really sucks that companies can get away with that shit, knowing damn well it lags the persons computers down like a mother fucker. I never place spyware in my appz, or programs, and nothing hidden. Free is free, no bullshit added..
 
Take Yahoo messenger for example. They have two check boxes at the beginning of installation. One is asking if you want the stupid toolbar, the other is to make them you're start page. Ok you say no to both, and as soon as you open IE that fucking toolbar is right there. Now that shit aught to be illegal. I notice that with a lot of programs. You say no, and you end up with it anyway.
 
Half the damn anti spyware appz put shit on you're PC while taking others off. Whats the damn point of having them. And wtf is with windows update? All you are doing is installing & replacing old errors with new ones. What has Microsoft ever done right other then Win98. They don't give a rats ass about the user, its all about the money. And half the shit they come out with is ripped off someone else.
 
Again thank you for the ideas, although I have no clue what most of you are on about.. But then I did just wake up..
 
I would go back to Mac, but it has been so dam long since I have used one, and the prices are outrageous compared to PCs. Though in many ways a Mac will smoke a PC any day.

Aloone_Jonez:
FreeBSD is harder to use than most Linux distros, I recommend either Ubuntu or Vector Linux because they've both worked well enough for me. Seriously though you sound like the kind of person who'd prefer a Mac, I haven't used one for any great length of time but I'm told it's the best option if you want something easy to use, stable and secure.

Oh and don't use Internet Explorer use Opera or Firefox, don't use Outlook use thunderbird.

Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: ReggieMicheals ---Just work your way up the UNIX ladder - starting with Ubuntu, and ending with something somewhat more complex - such as I dunno, Fedora? I haven't tried many Linux Distros.
--- End quote ---

Kevin,
This post illustrates how little you know about the various distributions of Linux  Fedora and Ununtu are both fairly easy to use an example of a more hardcore distro might be Slackware.

How many distros have you actually tried?
Not many going by this post, so don't you think you've been a bit quick to judge Linux?

cymon:
I've worked with Debian, it's quite nice actually.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Jenda ---I started with Mandrake - which I can honestly NOT recommend :)
--- End quote ---
Why's that?

It's interesting to know why different people dislike different GNU/Linux distributions. It seems like it wouldn't be possible for about half a billion people to each be happy with a single GNU/Linux distribution, and it wouldn't. Windows has about half a billion users, but they're definetly not all completely happy with the way things are done (not muzzy. Not Aloone_Jonez. (RE: default settings, and probably other stuff. Infact, probably noone bar some offline users, can be completely happy with the way things are done on Windows.)). The same half a billion users, using different GNU/Linux distributions based on whatever the hell they want, will be miles happier with the way things are done, because they have all the different distributions and tools to chose from, and their source code, and everything they'd need to make their own system (read: the inappropriately-named "Linux From Scratch").

It's beautiful, and it's called freedom. And it's why worker201 doesn't and probably won't ever have much of a problem to worry about.

With enough effort, there is little doubt that Tony, you couldn't "Find The Right OS" in a GNU/Linux distribution (either an already-existant one with or without a few customizations or one you create yourself).

I am now going to post an overly large picture that has previously been posted by skyman:


Have a good day.

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