| Quote (noclobber @ Oct. 28 2004,13:16) |
| Right now, my main OS is Windows 2000 Pro. "Favorite" might be too strong a word to describe it, though. It happens to be the platform that runs all the apps I use on a daily basis and is reasonably stable & useable once it's customized with enough 3rd-party sw to replace Micro$oft's half-fast "solutions". Tried RH, SuSE & Mandrake a few times. They shore do look purdy, but they just seem too big/slow/bloated for me to understand. Learning all those cryptic *nix console commands, I think, has been the primary barrier to my jumping into Linux altogether. I think DSL is the best distro for Linux newbies -- running it's a breeze, it's useful right "out of the box", and it's small enough to learn at a hacker's level. I like the Fluxbox UI. Who says Linux has to look like Windows anyway? If I can get to the point where I can do everything in Linux that I currently do in Windows, I'll be happy, and -- I'll probably make a permanent switchover |
) but everything else is more powerful, faster, and cheaper!!| Quote (Guest @ Oct. 29 2004,09:05) |
| My experience with Linux is limited to Knoppix & DSL, but I've used Win2k a lot. So far I think what will limit Linux's expansion as a desktop system is the look and feel of the workhorse Office programs. Unfortunately, MSWord etc just looks and feels a lot better on the screen. The screen fonts look sharper. This is important if you use word processing all day, which many people do. Both Abiword and OpenOffice suffer from a slightly furry look on the screen to me, whereas MSWord is sharp and crystal clear. |
| Quote (AwPhuch @ Oct. 29 2004,10:21) |
| You can do anything that M$ does with linux....it just takes a bit of work!!! |